47 results filtered with: Bookkeeping - Early works to 1800
- Books
- Online
No III. (Enlarged and improved, with a plain account of the new stile, according to the late act of Parliament,) of the Daily journal for the year of our Lord 1752, (Being bissextile or leap year, and the 25th reign of King George II. and the first of the new stile used in Great Britain:) or, The gentleman's and tradesman's methodical accompt-book for the pocket; in a form entirely new, and in the order of time throughout the year, so contriv'd as to answer every man's purpose, and to enable him (without any trouble) to keep a regular and exact account, in a small compass, of I. where or with whom he has spent every day of his life. II. Of what money he has receiv'd paid, or expended, every day of the week throughout the year. III. Of what appointments he has made, with a distinct page for such other miscellaneous memorandums or observations, as he may have occasion to make, with which is carried on, ... VI. Some general things proper to be known and remember'd. Account of the general post, with prices of inland and foreign letters rates of carmen, coachmen, watermen, and chairmen. Account of foreign money, and its value sterling, also the weight and value of the current gold coin of this kingdom. VII. A list of the Archbishops and Bishops. Account of insuring houses of goods from fire, and the several offices of insurance, with their premiums. Directions how to address persons of distinction, either in writing of discourse. VIII. The present English peerage or an account of the Dukes, Marquisses, Earls, Viscounts and Barons now living, their names, titles, and country seats, or town residence. IX. Rules relating to the company at Bath. orders of precedence of the nobilty, ranks of the sons and daughters of Peers, and several useful tables, &c. &c.
Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
- Online
Thomas Crosby and John Robinson, At the lower End of Fair-Street, upon Horse-ly-Down, in Southwark, sell all Sorts of Carpenters, Joyners, Painters, and Artificers Rules, Guaging-Rods, Quadrants, forestaffs, Gunters, straight or sliding; plain Scales, Compasses with or without Points, Cases of Instruments neatly fitted up for the Pocket, and all other Mathematical Instruments for Sea or Land. Also Sea Atlas's, English Pilots for the Northern, Southern, Streights, Guinea, West and East-India Navigation; Sea Charts, both Plain and Mercator, for all Parts of the known World; Globes of 3, 9, 12, and 16 Inches Diameter. Likewise all Sorts of Writing-Paper, and Paper Books neatly bound and ruled for Shops or Compting-Houses, fine Cards, Leather Cases, Pocket-Books, Slates, Quills, Pens, the best Ink and Ink-Powder, Leaden and other Standishes, Blacklead-Pencils, Wax, Wafers, and all other Stationary Wares. Also Weather-Glasses carefully fitted up and made portable; and the best Spectacles, Reading-Glasses, Burning-Glasses, Telescopes, Prospects, Microscopes, and other Optic Glasses. Likewise all Sorts of Bibles, Testaments, and Common-Prayers, Psalters, Accidences, Grammars, and other School-Books: And also Books of Divinity, Law, and History, and of any other Subject. N. B. At the same Place Young Gentlemen are boarded and expeditiously taught Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Navigation, Geography, Astronomy, And other Parts of the Mathematicks: Also the Italian Method of Book-Keeping, call[e]d Merchants Accompts, with the other Methods of Book-Keeping, as practised by Merchants, Shop-Keepers, and others.
Thomas Crosby and John Robinson (Mathemtical Instruments Sellers : Southwark, England)Date: 1740?]- Books
- Online
The gentlemans auditor: or a new and easie method for keeping accompts of gentlemens estates as well in relation to their layings-out, as comingsin: With the manner of Anditing and Stating the Accompts of their Cashiers, Stewards, Bailiffs, Rent-Gatherers, and other Servants, through whose Hands any part of their Estate does pass: And transposing them to a Ledger kept after the Italian manner; whereby may at any time be seen what they save or spend, get or lose to a Farthing. Being a Work very useful, both for Gentlemen themselves, and also their Secretaries, Bailiffs, Rent-Gatherers, &c. By T. R.
T. R. (Thomas Richards).Date: 1707- Books
- Online
The merchant's companion; Being a Complete System of Book-Keeping, in two sets, modernized, comprehending All the Varieties of the Art, Both in thoery and practice; with an appendix, containing the form and use of the Principal Books used by Merchants. Also Some Familiar Letters on Business, with Instructions how to pen them; Bills of Exchange, with their Explanation and Laws; Promissory Notes, and Acquittances; Bills of Parcels; the Form of a Bond, with its Condition; Letters of Licence and Attorney; a General Release; a Will; an Apprentice's Indenture, with its Bond; a Lease; a Bill of Sale; a Policy of Assurance of a Ship and Cargo; an Universal Table of all the Coins of the known World, reduced into British and Irish Money; Tables of Weights and Measures; Tables of Exchange, from England to Ireland, and from Ireland to England; a Table, shewing the Gain or Loss on the Exchange between Holland, England and Ireland; a Table shewing into how many Parts a Pound Weight of Silver hath been coined, from the Reign of Edward I. to the present Time. By William Kelly, Teacher of the Mathematics, Cork.
Kelly, William, -1793.Date: M,DCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
- Online
Youth's introduction to trade and business. Containing, I. Tables of the most usual clerk-like contractions of words ... VI. Great variety of questions interspersed ... By M. Clare ...
Clare, M. (Martin), -1751.Date: 1791- Books
- Online
Book-Keeping methodiz'd; or, a methodical treatise of merchant-accompts, according to the Italian form. Wherein the theory of the art is fully explained, and reduced to Practice, by variety of suitable Examples in all the branches of trade. To which is added, a large appendix. Containing 1. Descriptions and specimens of the Subsidiary Books used by merchants. II. Monies and Exchanges, the nature of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Bills of Parcels. III. Precedents of Merchants Writings, peculiar to England, Scotland, and common to both. IV. The Commission, Duty, and Power of Factors. V. A short History of the Trading Companies in Great Britain, with an account of her exports and imports. VI. The produce and Commerce of the Sugar Colonies; with a specimen of the accompts kept by the factors or store-keepers; and an explication of wharf and plantation accompts. Vii. The produce and commerce of the Tobacco Colonies; with a specimen of the accompts usually kept by the storekeepers. Viii. The method of keeping accompts proper for Shopkeepers or Retailers. IX. A dictionary, explaining abstruse words and terms that occur in merchandise. By John Mair, A.M.
Mair, John, 1702 or 1703-1769.Date: 1765- Books
- Online
The exact dealer refined: being a useful companion for all traders. In three parts. Containing I. A Description of the Commodities Coins, Weights and Measures of Great Britain, and its neighbouring Countries. With Useful Directions about Entring and Taking up Goods at the Custom-House: Instructions about Bills of Exchange, and the Keeping of Books of Accompts. The way of Recovering Debts; likewise Exact Tables of Accompts ready cast up. II. Containing a plain Institution of Arithmetick in all its Parts; with an excellent and easie new way of multiplying Foot-Measure in Feet and Inches by Feet and Inches, without Reduction, and applied to the Measuring of Carpenters, Joyners, Painters, Plaisterers Glasiers, and Bricklayers Work, &c. And of Solid Timber, &c. Also the whole Art of Gauging, with several curious Tables. And very necessary Observations relating to the Measuring of Land III. Containing the Travellers Guide through all the Principal Roads in England. An Account of Fairs, Carriers Inns, and Days of going out. Also the Rates of Post-Letters. With other Matters not before made publick. The sixth edition, enlarged. By J.H. author of The secretary's guide.
Hill, John, active 1712.Date: [1706]- Books
- Online
The principles of book-keeping explain'd, Explain'd, With the Chief Cases thereof Stated and Resolved. To which are annexed, two setts of books of fictitious trade, wherein the whole is reduced to practice. By Mr. Alexander Macghie Merchant in Edinburgh.
Macghie, Alexander, -1715.Date: 1718- Books
- Online
An address to bankers, merchants, tradesmen, &c. intended as an introduction to a new system of book-keeping, in which it is impossible for an error of the most trifling amount to be passed unnoticed; And That IS Calculated Effectually To Prevent The Evils attendant on the present Methods BY Single And Double Entry. By Edward Jones, Accomptant.
Jones, Edward Thomas.Date: [1795]- Books
- Online
A supplement to Hutton's arithmetic: containing the solutions, at full length, of the promiscuous collection of questions proposed in that work. By the Author.
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
- Online
Book-Keeping methodiz'd: or, a methodical treatise of merchant-accompts, according to the Italian form. Wherein, the theory of the art is fully explained, and reduced to Practice, by Variety of suitable Examples in all the Branches of Trade. To which is added, a large appendix, Containing, I. Descriptions and Specimens of the Subsidiary Books used by Merchants. II. Monies and Exchanges, the Nature of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Bills of Parcels. III. Precedents of Merchants Writings, peculiar to England, Scotland, and common to both. IV. The Commission, Duty, and Power of Factors. V. A short History of the Trading Companies in Great Britain, with an Account of her Exports and Imports. VI. The Produce and Commerce of the Tobacco Colonies; with a Specimen of the Accompts usually kept by the Storekeepers. Vii. A Dictionary, explaining the abstruse Words and Terms that occur in Merchandize. By John Mair, A.M.
Mair, John, 1702 or 1703-1769.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
- Online
The gentleman accomptant: or, an essay to unfold the mystery of accompts. By way of debtor and creditor, commonly called merchants accompts, and Applying the Same to the Concerns of the Nobility and Gentry of England. Shewing, I. The great Advantage of Gentlemens keeping their own Accompts, with Directions to Persons of Quality and Fortune. II. The Ruin that attends Men of Estates, by neglect of Accompts. III. The Usefulness of the Knowledge of Accompts, to such as are any way employed in the Publick Affairs of the Nation. IV. Of Banks; those of Venice and the Turkey Company. V. Of Stocks, and Stock-Jobbing; the Frauds therein detected. VI. A short and easy Vocabulary of Certain Words, that in the Language of Accompting take a Particular Meaning. Done by a person of honour.
North, Roger, 1653-1734.Date: 1714- Books
- Online
A complete system of book-keeping, by an improved mode of double-entry: Comprising A Regular Series of Transactions, as they have Occurred in Actual Business; Illustrated by a Variety of Precedents, disposed in such a Manner as to remove every Obstacle in stating the most difficult Accounts, either between Individuals or Partners: Together with Approved Forms of all the Subsidiary Books required in Trade; being the Result of Thirty Years Observation and Experience. The whole designed as a Perfect Companion for the Counting-House; with a view of Fixing a Standard for Practical Book-Keeping, Suited to the Merchant and Trader of Every Denomination. To which are added, A New Method of Stating Factorage Accounts, Adapted Particularly to the Trade of the British Colonies: Also, A Concise, but Comprehensive View of the Exchanges between all the principal Trading Cities of Europe; with Examples, shewing the readiest Mode of calculating them, at full Length. By Benjamin Booth, Late of New-York, and now of London, Merchant.
Booth, Benjamin.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
- Online
The exact dealer refined: being a useful companion for all traders. In three parts. Containing I. A Description of the Commodities, Coins, Weights and Measures of Great Britain, and its neighbouring Countries. With Useful Directions about Entring and Taking up Goods at the Custom house: Instructions about Bills of Exchange, and the Keeping of Books of Accompts. The way of Recovering Debts; likewise Exact Tables of Accompts ready cast up II. Containing a plain Institution of Arithmetick in all its Parts; with an excellent and easie new way of multiplying Foot-Measure in Feet and Inches, by Feet and Inches, without Reduction and applied to the Measuring of Carpenters Joyners, Painters, Plaisterers, Glasiers, and Bricklayers Work, &c. And of Solid Timber, &c Also the whole Art of Gauging, with several curious Tables. And very necessary Observations relating to the Measuring of Land. III. Containing the Travellers Guide through all the Principal Roads in England. An Account of Carriers Inns, and Days of going out. Also the Rates of Post-Letters. With other Matter not before made publick The fifth edition, enlarged. By J H. author of The secretary's guide.
Hill, John, active 1712.Date: [1702]- Books
- Online
The complete merchant's clerk: or, British and American Counting-House. In two parts. Part I. Contains a system of book-keeping, according to the Italian form of debtor and creditor, by double entry, as practised at this time by the merchants of Great-Britain, &c. comprehending the useful varieties incident to trade; and the method of balancing rendered familiar to the meanest capacity, by means of an open ledger: illustrated with plain and easy rules for journalizing; and a hint to the judicious on treating company accounts. Part II. Contains book-keeping in factory, as at present used in the sundry factories of America, and the West Indies. The knowledge of which will render any man capable of managing a set of books in any factory with facility and judgement; being found, by long experience, the best and most expeditious method for dispatch of business. Wherein is described the utility and necessity of that counter-part of the ledger, the sales-book, with directions for posting it; together with a summary of book-keeping for a wharf and plantation; calculated for the information of such as have occasion to go to America or the West-Indies in quality of factor, clerk, wharfinger, plantation-clerk, or overseer. The whole in a method founded on, and reducible to practice; by a series of examples made useful to the mercantile trader in the four quarters of the world. By William Weston, Merchant.
Weston, William, schoolmaster.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
- Online
Modern book-keeping: or, the Italian method improved. Containing rules and directions for keeping gentlemens and merchants accompts by double entry. Written originally for the Use of his own Pupils, by Richard Hayes, Accomptant, and Writing Master in Queen-Street, Cheapside; but late of Princes-Street, near the Bank of England.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
- Online
The gentleman's auditor: or, a new and easy method for keeping accompts of gentlemens estates, as well in relation to their layings-out, as comings-in. With the Manner of Auditing and Stating the Accompts of their Cashiers, Stewards, Bayliffs, Rent-Gatherers, and other Servants, through whose Hands any Part of their Estate does pass; and transposing them to a Ledger kept after the Italian Manner; whereby may at any Time be seen what they save or spend, get or lose, to a Farthing. Being a Work very useful, both for Gentlemen themselves, and also their Secretaries, Bayliffs, Rent-Gatherers, &c. By T. R.
T. R. (Thomas Richards).Date: 1709- Books
- Online
A new introduction to trade and business; very useful for the youth of both sexes. Wherein is contained great variety of receipts for money, Goods, &c. promissory notes, bills of exchange, Bills Of AtParcels, And Bills ON Book - Debts. With ample instructions how to Form Them. Also Several Instructive Exercises; Disbursements; Week's Expences, Goods bought at Sales, &c. To which are added, I. Commercial and Epistolary Correspondence, exemplified in various Forms of Business, and Familiar Letters. II. A List of the most common Abbrevations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. III. Arithmetical Tables of Weights and Measures. IV. A new Set of Questions to exercise the Learner in several of the Rules of Arithmetic, by Way of Amusement, as well as Improvdment. V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. A new edition, corrected and improved, With the Addition of Four Copper Plates neatly engraved. By Peter Hudson, Author of The New English Introduction to the Latin Tongue, French Scholar's Guide, &c. And other School Masters. Designed for the use of schools, and Youth in General.
Hudson, Peter.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
- Online
A new treatise of arithmetick and book-keeping. Containing I. Arithmetick: Wherein the Theory and Practice are mixt together after a New Method ... II. Book-Keeping: In which the first Principles, and Fundamental general Notions and Rules of that admirable Method of Accompts by Debtor and Creditor, are fully explained; ... The whole illustrated with Two Set of Books filled with Examples of fictitious Trade, ... By Alexander Malcolm Teacher of the said Arts in Edinburgh. Recommended by the most famed Accomptants in North-Britain.
Malcolm, Alexander, 1685-1763.Date: M.DCC.XVIII [1718]- Books
- Online
The complete measurer, adapted to timber and building, agreeable to the Irish standard: containing, I. The Customs and Prices of the several Artificers Work, relating to Building, such as Carpenters, Bricklayers, Stone-Cutters, Slators, Glaziers, Smiths, Plumbers, Painters, Plasterers, and Stucco-Mens Work; also Paper Hanging Measure; with Paving, and sinking Foundations. II. Proportions of Scantling in small and large Buildings. III. Allowances in Carpentry respecting Wainscot, Doors, and Trimming of Windows. IV. Prices of Scantlings (from 2 to 81/2 Inches) per Running Foot, governed by different Rates per Cube Foot. V. Allowances pointed out requisite for the various Defects which frequently appear in Timber. VI. Practical Measuring of Timber, Plank, and Board, customary in this City. Vii. A copious Set of Tables of Solid and Superficial Measure, shewing, at Sight, the Contents practically needful in this Kingdom, and now extended to 42 Inches in Breadth. Viii. Naval Measuring, or the Method of measuring Ships in Great Britain and Ireland. IX. A Method of finding the Content of a Cask of Liquor. X. Rate of Exchange with France, Spain, Holland, Hamburgh, Portugal, Genoa, and Leghorn. XI. A Table of the Prices of Mens Days-Work, at various Rates per Week of six Days, down to half a Day proportionally. XII. A Table of Guineas and Half Guineas, from 1, 11/2, and so on to 100. With a concise and easy method of keeping accounts by Day-Book and Leger. The Whole struck out in a Satisfactory Manner. By P. Levi Hodgson, Measurer, And a Practitioner in the Business for Thirty Years.
Hodgson, Ph. Levi.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
- Online
A complete system of family book-keeping, With the family book itself, Ready ruled and titled, Which is large enough to contain every Article of Expence that may fall under the heads of Butchers Meat, Bread, Flour, Meal, Malt, &c. Groceries, Merceries, Milanery, Liquids, Fruits, Roots, &c. Cheese, Butter, Milk, Apparel, Furniture, Extraordinaries. All which may be set down distinctly, and referred to easily, as often as it may be necessary to know when, where, or of whom, Goods were bought; the Quantity; and whether for ready Money, or on Credit; and what each Article amounts to by the Month and Year. With a Specimen of a Memorandum-Book, for which a sufficient Number of Pages is allotted. The Whole explained by Rules and Examples, in such a Manner, that any Person, who understands the two first Rules of Arithmetick only, may comprehend and keep this Book. To be continued Annually. By A. Walker, Late Writing-Master to the Free Grammar School at Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 1731-1821.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
- Online
Book-Keeping methodiz'd: or, a methodical treatise of merchant-accompts, according to the Italian form. Wherein the theory of the art is fully explained, and reduced to Practice, by variety of suitable Examples in all the branches of trade. To which is added, a large appendix, Containing I. Descriptions and specimens of the Subsidiary Books used by merchants. II. Monies and Exchanges, the nature of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Bills of Parcels. III. Precedents of Merchants Writings, peculiar to England, Scotland, and common to both. IV. The Commission, Duty, and Power of Factors. V. A short History of the Trading Companies in Great Britain, with an account of her exports and imports. VI. The produce and commerce of the Sugar Colonies; with a specimen of the accompts kept by the factors or storekeepers; and an explication of wharf and plantation accompts. Vii. The produce and commerce of the Tobacco Colonies; with a specimen of the accompts usually kept by the storekeepers. Viii. The method of keeping accompts proper for Shopkeepers or Retailers. IX. A dictionary, explaining abstruse words and terms that occur in merchandise. By John Mair, A.M.
Mair, John, 1702 or 1703-1769.Date: 1760- Books
- Online
Merchants accounts: or, the Italian method of book-keeping. Set forth in so clear a Light, that any Person, of a tolerable Capacity, may easily make himself Master thereof. Exemplified in Thirty-Seven Cases in Domestic Trade, and Nineteen in Foreign, and plann'd By a Waste-Book, Journal, and Ledger; So that any young Merchant or Accountant may, if he's at a Loss how to place any Transaction in Business to Account, by looking amongst the Cases, find one answerable to his own Business at any Time transacted; and, by inspecting the Journal for the same Case, will immediately find by it how that Transaction ought to be placed to Account; there being feldom or ever any Thing happening in Business, but what will be illustrated by some one of the said Cases. Herein are also contained, Sixteen Cases in Company Accounts, Shewing how to place any Thing to Account, whether bought, sold, or barter'd for, &c. in Company. Also gentlemen's accounts, Shewing How to keep their Rentals, their Receipts, and Payments, in every Kind; and also how to draw up a general Balance at any Time, which shall prove their Rentals to have been regularly kept, the Arrears truly made out, and all Receipts and Payments duly entered, or c countra. By Thomas Lazonby, Schoolmaster, Of Burton-Agnes, in Yorkshire; Where young Persons may be bearded and indiuiled in what is bere in rectial, also in any of the most useful Branches in Mathematicks.
Lazonby, Thomas.Date: M.DCC.LVII. [1757]- Books
- Online
The merchant's magazine: or, trades-man's treasury. containing, I. Arithmetick in Whole Numbers and Fractions, Vulgar and Decimal; with the Reason and Demonstration of each Rule: Adorn'd with curious Copper-Cuts of the chief Tables and Titles. II. Merchant's Accompts, or a most concise Way of Casting up the Value of Merchandize, Tare and Trett, Interest of Coin, Rule of Barter, Loss and Gain, Fellowship, Equation of Payments, and several Matters relating to Exchange, never before made Publick. III. Book-Keeping, after a Plain, Easy, and Natural Method, shewing how to Enter, Post, Close and Balance an Accompt, and the whole Ledger, and how to discover from thence if any Error hath been in any one Accompt. IV. Maxims concerning Bills of Exchange, Factors and Factorage: The Law concerning Brokers, their Business, &c. V. The Port of Letters to and from Foreign Countries; and the Days when Mails are sent to, and due from those Countries. VI. An Account of the Commodities produced by all Countries: Their chief Towns of Trade, and Bigness of the Country compared with England. Vii. A Merchant or Trader's Dictionary, explaining the most difficult Terms used in Trade. The Value of Coins, Weights, and Measures. Viii. Precedents of Merchants Writings; as Bills of Lading, Invoices, Bills of Exchange, Letters of Credit, Charter-Parties; &c. With many other Things not extant before, as by the Table of Contents appears. Accomodated chiefly to the Practice of Merchants and Tradesmen: But is likewise useful for Schools, Banks, Diversion of Gentlemen, Business of Mechanicks, and Officers of the King's Custom and Excise. The ninth impression corrected and improved. By E. Hatton, Gent.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]- Books
- Online
An essay to make a compleat accomptant. In two parts. Containing, I. A Treatise of Book-Keeping according to the true Italian Method, wherein are laid down, in a plain and intelligible Manner, all the Rules necessary to be known for a thorough understanding of the Theory of that excellent Art; and the practical Part thereof rendered easy by a great Variety of Examples, introduced in two Sets of Books; together with some Rules for calculating the Exchange with the principal trading Places in Europe and America. II. The Solutions of Eighteen Questions in Company Accompts, comprehending a great Variety of Business in different Branches of Traffick, according to the following Methods: First, The Solution of each Question by a Method entirely new, agreeable to the Laws of Reason, and adapted to the Capacity of all. Secondly, By the Italian or Merchants Method. To which is added, a short specimen of book-keeping in factory, or the method made use of in the West Indies, by factors there. By Richard Roose, Late Accomptant in Chesterfield.
Roose, Richard.Date: [1760]