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Panarithmologia: or, the trader's sure guide. Containing exact and useful tables, ready Cast up, Adapted to the Use of Merchants, Mercers, Bankers, Drapers, Goldsmiths, Grocers, Brewers, Weavers, and Haberdashers. And Those who Deal by Wholesale, or Retail. Also for Carpenters, Bricklayers, Joyners, Glaziers, Plaisterers, Plummers, Corn-Dealers, Painters, &c. &c. And All other Mechanicks: As, Likewise For all Purchasers of Houses or Lands: Shewing the Interest of Money, at 3, 3 and 1/2, 4, and 5 Pounds per Cent. - From One Shilling to 1000 Pounds: And from One Day to One Year. To which is Added, A Table of Commission, or Brokage, for 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 6/8, 3/4, 7/8 and 1 per Cent. With Tables Directing how to Buy and Sell by the Hundred: And to Cast up Expences by the Day, Week, Month, and Year. With a Calculation of Portugal Coin. Fifteenth edition. By William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: [1769]- Books
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Tables of interest, at 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From 1 to 365 days, from 1 to 12 months, and from 1 to 10 years. Also, tables of exchange and commission, from 1/8 to 3 per cent. By John Thomson, Edinburgh.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Tables of [i]nterest, at 3, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From ?.1 to ?.10,000, and from 1 to 365 days, in a regular progression of single days. With tables, at all the above rates, [f]rom 1 to 12 months, and from 1 to 10 years. Also, Tables, Shewing the Exchange on Bills, or Commission on Goods, &c. from ? to 5 per Cent. And Tables, shewing the Amount of any Salary, Income, Expence, &c. by the Day, Week, Month, or Year; and a new Table, ascertaining what Time a Sum of Money takes to double itself (or the Interest to become equal to the Principal), at all the different Rates of Interest. To Which Are Prefixed, A Table of Discount on Bills, at a certain number of Days or Months; and a Table shewing the exact number of Days from any Day throughout the Year to 31st December, the usual Period to which Interest on open Accounts is calculated. The sixth edition, with additions. By John Thomson, Accountant in Edinburgh, Author of the Universal Calculator, And Tables for Calculating the Prices of Grain.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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Panarithmologia: or, the trader's sure guide. Containing, exact, and useful tables ready cast up, adapted to the use of merchants, Bankers, Grocers, Weavers, and Haberdashers: And all that deal by Wholesale or Retale. Also, for Carpenters, Bricklayers, Joyners, Glaziers, Plasterers, Plummers, and Painters, And all other Mechanicks. As also, For all Purchasers of Houses or Lands: Shewing the Interest of Money, and Discount on prompt Payment. By William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1709- Books
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The trader's pocket companion: containing, correct tables, ready calculated, of universal use to merchants, shopkeepers, mechanicks, and to all other persons in any kind of business, viz. A Table calculated to shew, at one View, the Value of any Quantity of Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, at any Price, adapted to all Capacities; and its particular, general, and extensive Use, shewn by many and various Examples. A Table of universal Use, demonstrated by the Solution of various Questions in Multiplication, Division, Reduction, Merchandising, measuring Superficies and Solids, Gauging, Surveying, &c. Twenty-Five Geometrical Problems, with their assigned Figures, applied to Measuring, Gauging, Surveying, &c. A Table calculated to discover, at one View, the different Discompts upon any of the Branches of the Customs, upon imported Goods, from one Farthing upwards. A Table for the more easy reckoning Salaries or Wages, by discovering, at one View, what any yearly Salary, Wages, or Estate, amounts to by the Month, Week, or Day; and, contrary, what any daily Salary amounts to by the Week, Month, or Year. A Table for casting up Interest at any Rate, for any Number of Days. By John Hewitt, Accomptant, Author of the Tables of Simple Interest, Corn-Dealer's Assistant, &c.
Hewitt, John.Date: 1760- Books
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Tables of interest, at 3, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From £.1 to £.10,000, and from 1 to 365 days, in a regular progression of single days. With tables, at all the above rates, from 1 to 12 months, and from 1 to 10 years Also, Tables, Shewing the Exchange on Bills, or Commission on Goods, &c. from ? to 5 per Cent. And Tables, shewing the Amount of any Salary, Income, Expence, &c. by the Day, Week, Month, or Year; and a new Table, ascertaining what Time a Sum of Money takes to double itself, (or the Interest to become equal to the Principal), at all the different Rates of Interest. To Which are Prefixed; A Table of Discount on Bills, at a certain number of Days or Months; and a Table shewing the exact number of Days from any Day throughout the Year to 31st December, the usual Period to which Interest is calculated. The sixth edition, with additions. By John Thomson, Accountant in Edinburgh, Author of the Universal Calculator, And Tables for Calculating the Prices of Grain.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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The corn-Dealer's companion being new tables shewing exactly the price of any quantity of corn or grain, from One Quarter to Five Hundred Quarters, from Twelve Shillings to Twenty Five Shillings the Quarter, advancing by Three Pences. Most particularly useful for those that deal in Malt, as Brewers, Distillers, Maltsters, and Malt-Factors, shewing by Inspection what allowance is to be made for the want of any number of Quarts per Quarter at the abovesaid Prices. By R. B. Gent.
Blackwell, Robert, gent.Date: 1707- Books
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Tables of interest, at 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From 1 to 365 days, from 1 to 12 Months, and from 1 to 10 Years. Which, by directions given, answer for all other rates from 1 to 10 per Cent. Also, Tables, shewing the Exchange on Bills, or Commission on Goods, from ? to 3 per Cent. To which is prefixed, A Table, shewing the Exchange allowed by the purchaser of a bill payable at a certain number of days or months. The second edition, with additions. By John Thomson, Accomptant, Edinburgh.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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The corn-dealer's companion, being new tables shewing exactly the price of any quantity of corn or grain, ... By R. B. Gent.
Blackwell, Robert, gent.Date: 1726- Books
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Tables of simple interest at 6 per cent, from one day to 365; and from thence to 16 Years and ?. Rebate or Discompt at 6 per Cent Simple Interest, from one Month to 36: also, tables of compound-interest, whereby the Amount, or present Value of any Sum of Money, or any Annuity, or Lease, either in Possession, or Reversion, from one Year to 61, at 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. and 10 per Cent, is exactly Calculated to the Hundredth part of a Penny. To which is added, general rules in estimating the true value of free-hold estates, Annuities and Insurance for Lives. By Thomas Langham of London Broker.
Langham, Thomas, Broker.Date: [1710?]- Books
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Panarithmologia: or, The trader's sure guide. Containing exact and useful tables, ready cast up, adapted to the use of merchants, mercers, bankers, drapers, goldsmiths, grocers, brewers, weavers, and haberdashers. And those who deal by wholesale, or retail. Also for carpenters, bricklayers, joyners, glaziers, plaisterers, plummers, corn-dealers, painters, &c. &c. And all other mechanics: as, likewise for all purchasers of houses or lands: shewing the interest of money, at 3, 3 and 1/2, 4, and 5 pounds per cent.-From one shilling to 1000 pounds:-and from one day to one year. To which is added, a table of commission, or brokage, for 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, 7/8, and 1 per cent. With tables directing how to buy and sell by the hundred: and to cast up expences by the day, week, month, and year. With a calculation of Portugal coin. A new edition, carefully corrected and enlarged. By William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1776- Books
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Tables of interest. For the use of bankers and others. By Thomas Smith, accomptant in Edinburgh.
Smith, Thomas, accomptant in Edinburgh.Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Interest at one view, calculated to a farthing: At 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 per Cent. For 1000£. to 1 £. for 1 Day to 96 Days; and for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 Months. With Rules and Examples to cast up Interest at any Rate, by the said Tables. With a curious Table, whereby Standard Gold and Silver, in Bars, is compared with the Courses of Exchange between Amsterdam and London. Also Tables for reducing the most common Gold Coins to Pounds, and the Contrary: Being very useful in receiving and paying Monies. The tenth edition, with additions. Carefully calculated and examined from the press, by Richard Hayes. To which is added, a concise table, whereby to cast up Salaries and Wages speedily. and others of great Use in-receiving and paying of Money.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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The Irish comes commercii, or trader's-companion. ... Calculated mostly by Edward Hatton, ... and the whole work corrected at the press, by John Watson, ...
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1765- Books
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The irish comes commercii, or trader's - companion. Containing I. Exact and useful tables, shewing the Value of any Quantity of Goods or Wares ready cast up, more adapted to Merchants Use, than any other extant. Calculated by Edward Hatton, gent. And carefully corrected by Nicholas Grant, Philomath. II. The tables of exchange and coin calculated, and tables of interest corrected by John Watson, bookseller.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: M,DCC,XXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The farmer's and corn-buyer's assistant; containing I. Tables wherein the value of any quantity of corn, from a Bushel to twenty Comb, in what is termed Full, or Bare Measure, (at any Rate per Comb, from Three Shillings, increasing by Three-Halfpence per Comb, to Thirty Shillings) may be had in less than a quarter of a minute. II. Tables for Malt-Retailers; in which is shewn the Value of any Quantity of Malt, from a Comb to a Quarter of a Peck, and from Sixteen Shillings per Comb, decreasing by the most usual Prices, to Four Shillings. III. Tables wherein is shown the value of any number of yards or pounds, (from One to One Hundred) from One Farthing per Yard or Pound to Three Shillings, increasing at One Farthing per Yard or Pound. The Whole calculated and examined- by Richard Harvey, School-Master, in Bungay.
Harvey, Richard, school-master.Date: 1764- Books
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The irish comes commercii, or trader's-companion. Containing Exact and Useful Tables, shewing the Value of any Quantity of Goods or Wares ready cast up, more adapted to Merchants Use, than any other extant. Calculated mostly by Edward Hatton, Gent. To which are prefixed, The New Table of Coin, as the same was made current by the Lords Justices Proclamation, since the 8th Day of July, 1751: And a Table of the Number of Yards in the several Scores of Linen, from 1 to 150. These last Calculated originally, and the whole book cast up in manuscript, and corrected at the press, by John Watson, Bookseller.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1765- Books
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Practical measuring made easy to the meanest capacity, by a new set of tables; Which shew at Sight, The Solid or Superficial Content (and consequently the Value) of any Piece or Quantity of squared or round Timber, be it Standing or Felled, also of Stone, Board, Glass, &c. made Use of in the Erecting or Repairing of any Building, &c. Contrived to answer all the Occasions of Gentlemen and Artificers, far beyond any Thing yet extant: The Contents being given in Feet, Inches, and Twelfth Parts of an Inch. With a preface; shewing the excellence of this new method of measuring, and Demonstrating, that whoever ventures to rely upon those Obsolete Tables and Directions Published by Isaac Keay, is liable to be deceived (in common Cases) 10 s. in the Pound. By E. Hoppus, Surveyor to the Corporation of the London Assurance. Greatly improved, by the following additions; I. New tables shewing at Sight the Value of any Piece or Quantity of Timber, Stone, &c. at Any Price, per Foot Cube. II. Mr. Hoppus's table of solid measure applied to the Freighting of Ships. III. Some very curious observations concerning the Measuring of Timber by Several Dimentions, communicated by one of his Majesty's purveyors.
Hoppus, E. (Edward), -1739.Date: 1759- Books
The ready reckoner; or, trader's most useful assistant ... / [Daniel Fenning].
Fenning, DanielDate: 1792- Archives and manuscripts
Mortimers Waistcoat Pocket Ready Reckoner used by J. R. Rose from 1934
Date: 1934Reference: WF/M/H/03/10Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The trader's pocket companion: Containing, correct tables, ready calculated, of universal use to merchants, shopkeepers, mechanicks, and to all other persons in any kind of business. A table calculated, to shew at one view, the value of any quantity of goods, wares, or merchandise, at any price, adapted to all capacities: and its particular, general, and extensive use, shewn by many, and various examples. A table of universal use, demonstrated, by the solution of various questions in multiplication, division, reduction, merchandising, measuring superficies and solids, gauging, surveying, &c. Twenty-five geometrical problems, with their assigned figures, applied to measuring, gauging, surveying, &c. A table calculated, to discover at one view, the different discompts upon any of the branches of the customs, upon imported goods, from one farthing upwards. A table for the more easy reckoning salaries or wages, by discovering, at one view, what any yearly salary, wages, or estate, amounts to, by the mouth, week, or day: and contrary, what any daily salary amounts to by the week, month, or year. A table for casting up interest any rate, for any number of days. The rates and fares of coachmen, carmen, and watermen, with their rules and restrictions. By John Hewitt, accomptant, author of the tables of simple interest, corn dealer's assisiant, &c.
Hewitt, John.Date: 1760- Books
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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1796. containing One Hundred and Four ruled Pages for Receipts and Payments; with Spaces for Memorandums for every Day in the Year. Term Table. Holidays in 1796. Bankers of London. Hours of Transfer of Stock and receiving Interest thereon. Tables of Wages, Rent, Annuities, Expences, Interest, Buying and Selling, &c. &c. Rules for finding the Moveable Feasts and Holidays. American States, Local Description of, &c. Table shewing the Latitude and Longitude of the principal Towns in the United States and their Vicinity. London Agents for the Purchase of American Lands. American Banks. Consumption and Supply of Provisions in England. A Table of the Proportions, the Value of the different Funds bear each other. A new Table for the Time of High Water at a mean Rate. Abstracts of the most important Acts of Parliament which have passed in the 35th Year of the reign of Goerge III. viz. Hair-Powder. - Sweets. - Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa Nuts. - Wine. - Receipts-Benefit Societies. - Franking. - --Insurance. --Soldiers' Quarters. - Weights. Directions for the Management of Sheep. Of the Nature, Use and Choice of Swine. List of the Sovereigns of France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, and Prussia. Hackney-Coach Fares. An Alphabetical List of the House of Peers. An Alphabetical List of the House of Commons. And many other Articles equally useful, for which the Reader is referred to the Table of Contents.
Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813.Date: [1796]- Books
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Collection of tables; Designed not only for the use of the officers of His Majesty's revenue of excise, but for all other traders, who are liable to excise duties. Upon a different plan from any before extant. Also tables of 5l. and 15l. per cent. with several other useful and necessary tables; by William Taylor, teacher of the mathematics, and land surveyor.
Taylor, William, teacher of the mathematics.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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An explanation for keeping a ship's traverse at sea, by the columbian ready reckoner. By John Fitch.
Fitch, John, 1743-1798.Date: 1793- Books
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Panarithmologia: or, the trader's sure guide. Containing exact and useful tables, ready Cast up, Adapted to the Use of Merchants, Mercers, Bankers, Drapers, Goldsmiths, Grocers, Brewers, Weavers, And Haberdashers. And Those who Deal by Wholesale, or Retail. Also, for Carpenters, Bricklayers, Joyners, Glaziers, Plaisterers, Plummers, And Painters; And All other Mechanicks. As, Likewise For all Purchasers of Houses or Lands: Shewing the Interest of Money, at 3, 3 and 1/2, 4, and 5 Pounds per Cent. From One Shilling to 1000 Pounds, and from One Day to a Year. To which is added, a table of commission, or brokage, for 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, 7/8 and 1 per Cent. Thirteenth edition. By William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: [1762]