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The ready calculator: or, trader's certain guide, in computing the price, or amount of any quantity of goods and Merchandizes. With a practical table of all the Cases in the Rule of Practice prefixed to it, in order to prove the same. Containing I. A correct large Table of the Value of any Quantity of Goods, from 1 Pound, Yard, &c. to 100, 1000, or 10,000, at all the various Prices, increasing progressively from a Farthing to a Pound. II. Simple Interest at 5 per Cent. for Days, Months, &c. III. -Commission or Brokerage. IV. -How to buy and sell by the Hundred Weight to Advantage. V. Rules to find the Changes of the Moon, &c. VI. -The Dominical Letters to the Year 1800. Vii. Value of Foreign Coins in Sterling Money. Viii. A Perpetual Diary, shewing the Day of the Week that begins any Month for ever. IX. -Value of the principal European Coins in American Currency. X. -Value of Gold and Silver in England. XI. -The Agreement which Weights and Measures have with each other, all over Europe. XII. -The Weights and Measures used in England. XIII. -English Money equated in Irish, and Irish in English. XIV. Of Annuities on Lives. XV. Catalogue of useful Memorandums in Business. The second edition, corrected. By S. Thomas, Merchant. Author of the British Negociator, or, Foreign Exchanges made Easy.
Slack, Thomas, 1718 or 1719-1784.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
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A guide to the lottery; or, the laws of chance laid down in a plain and intelligible manner, wherein is shewn the probabilities arising from any proposed circumstance of play; applied to the Solution of a Variety of curious Questions relating to Cards, Dice, Lotteries, &c. Likewise The whole Business of insuring Tickets in the State Lottery clearly explained, the several Advantages taken by the Office-Keepers pointed out, and an easy Method given, whereby any Person may compute the Probability of his Success upon purchasing or insuring any particular Number of Tickets, with a Table of the Price of Insurance for every Day's drawing in the ensuing Lottery, another Table, containing the Number of Tickets a Person ought to purchase to make it an equal Chance to have any particular Prize; with several other curious Tables. To which is added a companion for the draught-player, Containing Thirty select Games of Draughts, shewing the Manner of moving the Pieces to the best Advantage; together with several critical Situations to win Games, and fine Strokes, never before published: being the Result of the Practice and Observations of some of the first Players. By W. Painter.
Painter, W.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The gentleman's and dealer's Cork almanack For the Year 1778, Being second after leap year, And the eighteenth year of King George III. Reign, Until the Twenty-Fifth of October, containing The Sun's Rising and Setting; Day Break; Eclipses; Moon's Age, Rising, Setting, and Southing; Lunations; Solar Ingresses; Terms; High Water at Cork; Bankers and Custom House Holidays; Several very Useful Tables; New Rates of Coaches and Chaises; A Correct List of the fairs in the Kingdom; Mathematical Questions; Enigmas; and Rebuses, for the Improvement of the Sciences; Calculated for the Meridian of the City of Cork, in Latitude 51- 49- North, and 9- 10- West Longitude, from the Royal Observatory, at Greenwich. By Patrick Aher, Philomath.
Aher, Patrick.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A concise spelling book, for the use of children. In three parts. I. The letters, with tables of words, from one to eight Syllables; and Four Tables of Proper Names. I. Practical Lessons, in Prose and Verse, with Tables interspersed, collected from the Lessons. - Also, A Table of Words having Silent Letters, and other difficulties in reading. II. Some Observations on the Principles of the English Language. - Words changed in Sound and Sense by e final. - A few Contractions explained. - A small Collection of Words, the same in Pronunciation, but different in Spelling and Signification. - Numbers expressed by Letters and Figures. - To which are subjoined, the Old English Characters. By James Gray, Master of the English School of Peebles.
Gray, James, -1810.Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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Nicolson's edition of Craighead's arithmetic: Containing tables of coins, weights, and measures Vulgar and decimal arithmetic Interest and annuities, simple and compound Extraction of roots Mensuration of planes and solids and Notes on the Gregorian kalender. Carefully revised and corrected.
Craighead, William.Date: 1798- Books
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A new and easy introduction to geography, by way of question and answer, Divided Into Lessons. Principally designed for the Use of Schools. Containing A Description of all the Known Countries in the World; Of their respective Situations, Divisions, Mountains, Rivers, Principal Cities and Towns, Forms of Government, Religion, &c. Likewise several useful problems on the terrestrial globe, With An Explanation of the Vicissitudes of the Seasons. To which is now added, a new geographical table. By Richard Gadesby, Private Teacher of Writing, Accounts, Geography, &c.
Gadesby, Richard.Date: [1787]- Books
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A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade. Consisting of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c. With a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product; the best sorts of manure for each; with the art of draining and flooding of lands; as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. the description and structure of instruments for husbandry, and carriages, with the manner of their imrovement; an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures, of woods, cordage, and metals; of building and stowage the vegetation of plants, &c. with many other useful particulars, communicated by several eminent members of the Royal Society, to the collector, John Houghton, F.R.S. Now revised, corrected, and published, with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley, F.R.S. and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. In three volumes.
Houghton, John, 1640-1705.Date: M,DCC,XXVII. [i.e. 1727 - 1728]- Books
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Tables for accurately ascertaining, by weight or measure, the strength of spirituous liquors, from 300 to 85o of temperature. With an introduction, describing the principles of the tables by a variety of examples. By John Wilson. Entered in stationers hall.
Wilson, John, active 1799.Date: 1796- Books
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The universal calculator; or the merchant's, tradesman's, and family's assistant. Being an entire, new, and complete set of tables, adapted for dealers in every branch of trade, by wholesale or retail, and all families, Shewing, at one View, The Amount or Value of any Number or Quantity of Goods or Merchandise, from One to Ten Thousand, at all the various Prices, from One Farthing, in regular progression, to Twenty Shillings. With I. Tables of Interest, from 1 Day to 30, and from 1 Month to 12-2. A Table, shewing the Number of Days from any Day in one Month to the same Day in any other. - 3. Tables of Commission or Brokerage, from 1/8 to 5 per Cent. To which are prefixed, I. A Table, shewing the Amount of any Salary, Income, &c. by the Day, Week, Month, or Year. - 2. A Table, for reducing English Bushels and Quarters to the Edinburgh Standard Corn Measure. - 3. An Entire New Set of Tables of the Different Weights and Measures, English and Scots, and such other Things as are necessary to be known in Different Branches of Business. A new edition. By John Thomson, Accomplant in Edinburgh, Author of the Tables of Interest, and Tables for Calculating the Price of Grain.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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Practical navigation, or an introduction to the whole art, containing many useful geometrical definitions and problems; The Doctrine of Plain and Spherical Triangles; Plain, Mercator, and Great-Circle Sailing; Sundry useful Problems in Astronomy; The Use of Instruments; The Azimuth-Compass and Ring - Dial. The Fore-Staff, Quadrant, and Nocturnal; The Plain - Scale, Gunter's - Scale, Plain - Chart, Mercator's-Chart, both Globes, and Virtues of the Loadstone. Useful Tables of the Moon's Age, of the Tides, of the Sun's Place, Declination and Right Ascension; of the Star's Right-Ascension and Declination; The Latitude and Longitude of Places, and a Table of Meridional Parts; Likewise a new Traverse - Table, and the Use thereof in keeping a Reckoning at Sea: Also a Table of 10000 Logarithms, and of the Logarithm - Sines, Tangents, and Secants. All carefully Corrected with many useful Additions. By John Seller, Hydrographer to the King
Seller, John, active 1658-1698.Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- 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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An introduction. to the English tongue; designed for a spelling book suited to all ages and capacities of children: (adorned with cuts) Containing A great Number of instructive Lessons, from the most easy possible, to the hardest; disposed in a Way so facilitating, that Children learn with Pleasure, and are excellently sirted for the Testament, or any other Book. - Large Tables of Words. - Fables. - Extracts from History. - Tables of Arithmetic. - Exercising Questions in Verse. - The Church Catechism. - Scripture Institutes and Examples. - Rules for Good Behaviour. - And other useful Instructions. The fifth edition. With additions and improvements. By the Rev. C. Marshall, Vicar of Brixworth, Northamptonshire.
Marshall, Charles, -1818.Date: [1780?]- Books
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An authentick account of all the different coins, (both real and imaginary) by which accompts in the East Indies are kept. Together with a general account of all the weights, measures, exchanges, customs, port-charges, and duties, at the following places: viz. Madras, Suratt, Pegu, Salangore, Combay, Bengal, Minilla, Goa, Saiam, Carwar, Bombay, Mocha, Cochin, Tocopa, Achin, Combroon, Canton, Tonquin, Malacca, Rusorah, Batavia, Calcutta, Muscat, Anjengo, Tellicherry. To which are added a variety of examples and tables, reducing Troy-Weight into Canton-Weight, and Canton-Weight into Troy-Weight, with the greatest Exactness.
Brooks, Thomas (Accountant)Date: M.DCC.LXIII. [1763]- Books
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The usher. Comprising arithmetic in whole numbers; federal money; decimal and vulgar fractions; a description and use of Coggeshall's sliding rule; some uses of Gunter's scale; superficial and solid measuring; geometrical definitions and problems; surveying; the surveyor's pocket companion, or trigonometry made easy; a table of sines; a table of tangents; miscellany; tables of the weight and value of gold coins. Calculated and designed for youth. By Ezekiel Little, A.M. Published agreeably to act of Congress. [Two lines of verse]
Little, Ezekiel, 1762-1840.Date: 1799- Books
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An authentick account of all the different coins, (both Real and Imaginary) by which Accompts in the East Indies are kept. Together with a general account of all the weights, measures, exchanges, customs, port-charges, and duties, at the following Places: Viz. Madras, Suratt, Pegu, Salangore, Combay Bengal, Minilla, Goa, Saiam, Carwar, Bombay, Mocha, Cochin, Tocopa, Achin, Combroon, Canton, Tonquin, Malacca, Rusorah, Batavia, Calcutta, Muscat, Anjengo, Tellicherry. To which are added, A Variety of examples and tables, Reducing Troy-Weight into Canton-Weight, and Canton-Weight into Troy-Weight, with the greatest Exactness.
Brooks, Thomas (Accountant)Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
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Geography for children: or, a short and easy method of teaching and learning geography: designed principally for the use of schools. Whereby Even Children may in a short Time know the Use of the Terrestrial Globe and Geographical Maps, and all the considerable Countries in the World; their Situation, Boundaries, Extent, Divisions, Islands, Rivers, Lakes, Chief Cities, Government and Religion. Divided into Lessons, in the Form of Question and Answer: With a new general map of the world, the spheres, and also a list of maps necessary for children. Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the Whole. To which is prefixed, A Method of Learning Geography without a Master, for the Use of such grown Persons as have neglected this useful Study in their Youth. And A Table of the Latitude and Longitude of the most remarkable Places mentioned in this Work.
Lenglet Dufresnoy, Nicolas, 1674-1755.Date: 1791- Books
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A treatise upon money, coins, and exchange, in regard both to theory and practice: giving a full and particular account of the nature and origin of that most useful and intricate part of commerce. With Forms of Bills mostly in Use; and the Custom of Merchants relating thereto, in an Easy and Familiar Method. As also Tables relating to the Conformity of different Weights and Measures. By Mr. John Hewitt, Accountant.
Hewitt, John.Date: 1755- Books
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A treatise upon money, coins, and exchange, in regard both to theory and practice: giving a full and particular account of the nature and origin of that most useful and intricate part of commerce. With Forms of Bills mostly in Use; and the Custom of Merchants relating thereto, in an Easy and Familiar Method. As also Tables relating to the Conformity of different Weights and Measures. By Mr. John Hewitt.
Hewitt, John.Date: M.DCC.XL. [1740]- Books
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Arithmetic, in all its parts vulgar and decimal: as also, tables of coins, weights and measures used in different countries. With interest and annuities, simple and compound. Extraction of roots, mensuration of planes and solids, and notes on the Gregorian kalendar. All digested in the plainest, and most familiar methods. By William Craighead schoolmaster at Monefieth.
Craighead, William.Date: M.DCC.LVII. [1757]- Books
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An introduction to arithmetic, consisting of printed examples in the first four rules, with Approved Tables of Weights and Measures, designed To facilitate the Progress of young Beginners, and to diminish the Labor of the Tutor. By William Butler.
Butler, William, 1748-1822.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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(Just published, price 5s in boards,) and sold by J. Gillies, bookseller, Perth. The farmer and corn-dealer's assistant; or, the knowledge of weights and measures made easy, by a variety of tables. ... By Alexander Bald, Alloa.
Gillies, John, 1712-1796.Date: 1780- Books
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Englands golden treasury: or, The true vade mecum : Being the most necessary and useful pocket-companion ever published; for the use and advantage of gentlemen, tradesmen, and others: furnished with variety of tables of accompt, trade, merchandize, merchants goods, weights and measures of all kinds, measuring timber, stone, building, acres of land, miles, &c. in all their circumstances. A table of constant tide in the havens of England, Scotland, Ireland, and adjacent parts. An exact table of the moveable terms and feasts for twelve years to come. Tables of interest, annuity, wages and expences: reducing pounds into pence, shillings, farthings, &c. with many rarities of divers natures. An exact catalogue of the fairs of England and Wales, more perfect than ever: also the market-towns and market-days, with the roads and post-miles; prises of post-letters and post-days: choice precedents of bills, bonds, and all manner of useful writings, with many other things very useful, profitable and necessary.
Date: 1699- Books
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The English chapmans and travellers almanack for the year of Christ, 1697 : Wherein all the post-roads, with their several branches and distances, the marts, fairs, and markets in England and Wales, are alphabetically disposed in every month; so that the place where, and the days on which any of them are kept, is immediately found out. To which is added a table of accounts ready cast up, for the buying or selling of any commodity, by number, weight, or measure, from one farthing to ten pounds: and of any quantity, from one to ten thousand. With a sun-dial and other tables and things, useful for all travellers; traders, or chapmen whatsoever. Also, the rising and setting of the sun and moon, the tides, and whatsoever else is necessary for an annual almanack.
Date: 1697- Books
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The English chapmans and travellers almanack for the year of Christ, 1697 : Wherein all the post-roads, with their several branches and distances, the marts, fairs, and markets in England and Wales, are alphabetically disposed in every month; so that the place where, and the days on which any of them are kept, is immediately found out. To which is added a table of accounts ready cast up, for the buying or selling of any commodity, by number, weight, or measure, from one farthing to ten pounds: and of any quantity, from one to ten thousand. With a sun-dial and other tables and things, useful for all travellers; traders, or chapmen whatsoever. Also, the rising and setting of the sun and moon, the tides, and whatsoever else is necessary for an annual almanack.
Date: 1697- Books
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Geography for children; or, a short and easy method of teaching and learning geography: designed principally for the use of schools. Whereby Even Children may in a short Time know the Use of the Terrestrial Globe and Geographical Maps, and all the considerable Countries in the World; their Situation, Boundaries, Extent, Divisions, Islands, Rivers, Lakes, Chief Cities, Government and Religion. Divided into Lessons, by Way of Question and Answer: with a new general map of the world, and also a list of maps necessary for children. Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the Whole. The fifteenth edition. To which is prefixed, a method of learning geography without a master, for the Use of such grown Persons as have neglected this useful Study in their Youth. and a table of the latitude and longitude of the most remarkable places mentioned in this work. As also a Print of the Orrery.
Lenglet Dufresnoy, Nicolas, 1674-1755.Date: [1787]