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The Federal or new ready reckoner, and traders useful assistant; in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail adapted to the federal money; shewing at one view the amount or value of any number of quantity of goods or merchandise, from half cent to one dollar and upwards either by weight or measure, together with interest tables &c. in so plain and easy a manner that persons quite unacquainted with arithmetic, may hereby ascertain the value in federal money, of any quantity of goods in weight or measure, at any price whatever.
Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- 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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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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Comes commercii: or, the trader's companion. ... To which is added, a supplement concerning simple and compound interest, ... The third edition. By Edw. Hatton, gent.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1716- Books
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The distiller's vade-mecum: being a complete set of tables, exhibiting at one view the exact weight of spirituous liquors; From the lowest Quality to Alcohol, for any Number of Gallons, from 50 to 252, or One Ton. Together with Some useful Rules for calculating the different Strengths of Spirits, In the most simple and correct Manner, by the Pen. Adapted to Clarke's Hydrometer. To which is Added, a Table, shewing the Weight of Vinecar. Also, A very useful Table, shewing the Value of One Gallon of Spirits of any proposed Strength; corresponding with the comparative Value of One Gallon of any other Strength. By Joseph Atlay.
Atlay, Joseph.Date: 1792- Books
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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1785. Containing Fifty-Two Ruled Pages for Receipts and Payments; also Spaces for Memorandums for every Day in the Year. Term Table A Table of Day and Night The two Houses of Parliament, with their Officers. Circuits of the Judges Abstracts of the New Window Act, and several other additional Taxes, which are now taking Place; viz. the Game, Horse, Hackney Coach, Pawnbrokers, Postage, Hats, Candles, Bricks and Tiles, Teas, and Linens and Cottons. To which is added a List of the Stamps, brought down to the present Time. Simple Interest from 1 to 1000l. for any Period, at 5 per Cent. Tables for Buying and Selling. Tables of daily and yearly Expence. Table of the Valuation of Annuities on single or joint Lives, at various Rates, from the London Bills of Mortality. Tables of Wages. An exact Account of the Days and Hours for buying and accepting, or selling and transferring, the several Stocks, or Government Securities, and receiving the Interest or Dividends due thereon, at the Bank, India House, and South Sea House. List of Persons who have returned successful from the East Indies. List of Bankers. Method of recovering Persons apparently drowned. Revenues of the different States of Europe. The Sovereigns of Europe. And a Variety of other Articles, equally useful, which are mentioned in the Table of Contents.
Kearsley, George, -1790.Date: [1785]- Books
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The new ready reckoner; or trader's sure guide in buying & selling all sorts of goods, wholesale & retail, to any amount. To which are added, several curious & useful tables. By Francis Walkingame.
Walkingame, Francis, 1723-1783.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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Kearsly's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1781: Containing A much greater number of useful articles than any other annual publication; particularly, Fifty-Two ruled pages for Accounts. A Term Table, with the Returns. A table of wages and expences by the day, week, month, and year. A table for computing daily expences, servants wages, rent, annuities, &c. for any time. Tables for buying and selling by weight. Tables of Interest. Bankers in London. Various useful tables of weights, measures, time, &c. &c. An exact account of the days and hours for buying and accepting or selling and transferring the several stocks, or government securities, and receiving the interest or dividends due thereon, at the Bank, India-House, and South-Sea-House. List of public offices, with their hours of doing business A plain and easy method of measuring any piece of timber, or brick-work; also how to guage any cask, or measure a piece of ground. The distances from the various ports both on the English and French coasts, drawn out in leagues as near as can be ascertained Military instructions, highly interesting at this juncture, when the whole kingdom seems changing its civil into a martial appearance. A succinct account of the heathen gods and goddesses, heroes, heroines, &c. forming a complete pocket Pantheon. The house of Peers in alphabetical order. Sixteen Peers of Scotland. Clerks and officers of both houses of Parliament. A complete list of Members returned for the new Parliament. List of Members of the last Parliament who are not in the present. List of the new Peers created last summer, &c. &c. For the whole Contents, see the two next pages.
Kearsley, George, -1790.Date: [1781]- 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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The graziers ready reckoner, Or, A useful guide for buying and selling cattle, being a complete set of tables, distinctly pointing out the weight of black-cattle, sheep, or swine, from three to one hundred and thirty stones, by measurement; together with directions, shewing the particular parts where the cattle are to be measured. By George Renton, Berwickshire farmer.
Renton, George.Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]- 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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Britannicus estimator: or, The trader's complete guide. In two parts. Part I. Contains, a correct, full, and useful table, shewing the value or price of any quantity of goods or merchandizes, from one pound, yard, &c. to 100, 1000, or 10,000, at all the various prices, increasing progressively from a farthing to a pound sterling.-With a practical table of all the cases in the rule of practice prefixed to it, in order to prove the same. Part II. Consists of sundry mercantile tables, viz. I. A table of the value of Portugal pieces in English money. II.-How to buy and sell by the [hand]. Weight to advantage. III.-Simple interest at 3 per cent. for days, months, &c. IV.-Commission or brokage. V.-The number of days from any day in one month to the same day in any other month. VI.-Of annuities for lives. VII.-The dominical letters ot the year 1800. VIII. A perpetual diary, shewing the day of the week corresponding to the day of the month in any year: and the day of the week that begins any month for ever. IX. Table of the gold and silver coins assayed in the Mint, and rated as [billion]. X.-Value of gold and silver. XII.-The agreement which the court measures, and other weights and measures have with each other, in all the principal places in Europe. XIII.-The weights and measures used in England. XIV.-English money equated in Irish, and Irish in English. XV. Tide table for all the sea[ports] in Great-Britain and the channel, &c. &c. By Thomas, merchant. Author of the British negociator, or Foreign exchange made easy.
Slack, Thomas, 1718 or 1719-1784.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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The federal calculator, and American ready reckoner. Containing, federal arithmetic, the value of any number of yards, pounds, &c. from 1 to 1000, and from 1 mill to 1 dollar, tables of interest, value of cents in the currencies of the different states, value of gold, as now established by law in the United States, &c. By William Wilkinson, A.M.
Wilkinson, William, 1760-1852.Date: 1795- 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 twenty-first edition of the ready reckoner; or, Trader's sure guide. Containing tables ready cast up, adapted to the use of all who deal by wholesale or retail; exhibiting, at one view, the amount or value of any number of quantity of goods or merchandize, from one up to ten thousand, at the various prices, from one farthing to one pound. To which are prefixed, I. A table, directing how to buy and sell by the hundred; and, II. Tables of the amount of expences, &c. by the day, week, month, and year. And at the end are added, I. Tables of interest, at five per cent. per annum, from one pound to five hundred pounds, and from one to three hundred and sixty-five days. II. Tables of commission, or brokerage, from one eighth to one pound per cent. on any sum, from one shilling to ten thousand pounds. III. A table, shewing the number of days, from any day in one month to the same day in any other. By William Leybourne.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1798- Books
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Fenning's complete 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 Merchandize, 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 are added, I. A table of Portugal money, from One to One Thousand. II. A table of expences or wages, by the Day, Week, Month, or Year. III. Tables of interest, at 4, 41/2, and 5 per Cent. from one Day to a Year.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: 1793- Books
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The British calculator, or, trader's sure guide: adapted to the use of all persons who buy or sell any sort of commodities either in Wholesale or Retail. Shewing at One View, by exact tables ready cast up, the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandise, from one farthing to Twenty Shillings, either ... Ounce, pound, Yard, Ell, Hundred, Half Hundred, or Quanter, &c. &c. To which are added, several useful tables, calculated with the greatest accuracy.
Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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Vade mecum, or, The necessary companion : containing.
Playford, John, 1623-1686?Date: 1688- Books
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The Young gentleman's agreeable companion; Containing an excellent and genteel collection of songs, selected from the most popular productions of the day. Among which are favourite songs sung this season, at the most celebrated places of amusement; particularly Vauxhall, Sadler's-wells, Royal-Grove, Anacreontic Society, Beef-Steak Club, Theatre-Royal, &c. Including the songs in the pirates, Just in time, Hartford-Bridge, Prisoner, at large, &c. Accompanied with some humourous stories; and a judicious collection of toasts and sentiments, intended as an entertaining repository. To which is added, the mental accountant. A work of great benefit to young gentlemen. merchants, and tradesmen, as an assistant to conduct Business, without a pen. A work well recommended by the monthly and other reviewers and further to amuse and instruct, a collection of witty and ingenious Enigmas, charades, &c. with their answers.
Date: 1793- Books
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The twentieth edition of the ready reckoner; or Trader's sure guide. Containing tables ready cast up, adapted to the use of all who deal by wholesale or retail; inhibiting, at one view, the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandize, from one up to ..., at the various prices, from one farthing to one pound. To which are prefixed, I. A table, directing how to buy and sell by the hundred; and, II. Tables of the amount of expences, &c. by the day, week, month, and year. And at the end are added. I. Table of interest, at five per cent. per annum, from one pound of five hundred pounds, and from one to three hundred and sixty-five days. II. Tables of commission, or brokerage, from one eighth to one pound per cent. on any sum, from one shilling to ten thousand pounds. III. A table, shewing the number of days, from any day in one month to the same day in any other. By William Leybourne.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1791- 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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Memorial verses on the ecclesiastical and civil calender : with an epitome of the heavenly motions. By Thomas Streete student in astronomy and mathematicks. Imprimatur, ex Ædibus Lamb. Jul. 16. 1666. Tho. Cooke, reverendissimo in Christo patri & D. Gilberto Archiepiscopo cant. sacellanus domesticus.
Streete, ThomasDate: 1667