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The ready reckoner, or Trader's most useful assistant: in buying and selling all sorts of commodities either wholesale and retale. Shewing at one view the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandise from one farthing to twenty shillings, either by the long or short hundred, half hundred or quarter, pound or ounce, ell or yard, &c. &c. In so plain and easy a manner, that persons quite unacquainted with arithmetic may hereby ascertain the value of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells or yards, &c. at any price whatever: and to the most ready in figures, it will be equally useful by saving much time in casting up what is here correctly done to their hand. To which is added, 1. A double table of Portugal money, from 1 to 1000. 2. A table of expences or wages by the day, week, month or year 3. A table of annuities and commission or brokerage from one to one eighth per cent. The third edition, with additions on board and timber measure, brickwork, and gauging by the pen and slip-rule. By Daniel Fenning, (author of the Royal English dictionary, the schoolmaster's most useful companion and scholar's best instructor, young man's book of knowledge, use of the globes and the universal spelling books) and others.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: M.DCC.LXV. [1765]- Books
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The vade mecum for America: or A companion for traders and travellers: containing I. An exact and useful table, shewing the value of any quantity of any commodity, ready cast up, from one yard or pound to ten thousand. II. A table of simple and compound interest. III. Th names of the towns, and counties in the several provinces and colonies of New-England, New-York, and the Jersies; as also the several counties in Pensilvania [sic], Maryland and Virginia: together with the time of the setting of their courts. IV. The time of the general meetings of the Baptists an Quakers. V. A description of the principal roads from the mouth of Kennebeck-River in the north-east of New England, to James-River in Virginia. VI. A correct table of the kings and queens of England, from Egbert the 1st King of England to His Present Majesty King George II. Together with several other instructive tables in arithmetick, geography &c. To which is added, the names of the streets in Boston. Collected & composed with great care & accuracy.
Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- 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 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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Vade-mecum: or, The dealers pocket companion. Containing tables for the ready knowing the amount or value of any commodity, either bought or sold, by the pound, ounce, or yard, or any other thing, under what denomination soever, from a farthing to twenty shillings.
Date: 1772- 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
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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 all that deal by Wholesale or Retale Also, for Carpenters, Bricklayers, Joyners, Glaziers, Plaisterers, 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. The fourth edition. By William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1727- Books
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The corn dealer's assistant: consisting of tables ready calculated, to shew at one view, the amount of any quantity of grain, from one quarter to 500, and so on; at all the various prices, from 5 Shillings to 4 l. per Quarter, advancing by 3 d. to which is added, one Table to shew what any Quantity of Grain amounts to, from 1 Quarter to 500, from one Halfpenny to two Pence Halfpenny, very useful for Farmers, Corn Factors, Brewers, Distillers, Malsters &c. Calculated and Re-Examined from the Press, by John Hewitt, Profess'd Accomptant, Author of the Tables upon Simple Interest, &c.
Hewitt, John.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- 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: 1780- Books
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The ready reckoner; or Trader's most useful assistant, In buying and selling all sorts of commodities either wholesale or retail. Shewing at one view the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandise from one farthing to twenty shillings, either by the long or short hundred, half hundred or quarter, pound or ounce, ell or yard, &c. &c. In so plain and easy a manner, that persons quite unacquainted with arithmetic may hereby ascertain the value of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells or yards, &c at any price whatever: and to the most ready in figures, it will be equally useful by saving much time in casting up what is here correctly done to their hand. To which is added, 1. A double table of Portugal money, from 1 to 1000. 2. A table of expences or wages by the day, week, month or year. 3. A table of annuities and commission or brokerage from one to one eighth per cent. The sixth edition, with additions on board and timber measure, brickwork, and gauging by the pen and slip-rule. By Daniel Fenning, (author of the Royal English dictionary, the young measurer's complete guide, young man's book of knowledge. Use of the globes, universal spelling-book, and a new grammar of the English tongue) and others.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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The ready calculator, or universal directory and complete pocket-assistant for merchants, masters of ships, mates, and all persons concerned in ships or shipping of goods. Comprehending an accurate set of tables, exhibiting, at one view, the solid contents of all kinds o packages. By J. Goodfellow, Teacher of the Mathematics, and Others.
Goodfellow, J. (James).Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]