Comes commercii: or The trader's companion. Containing I. An exact and useful table, shewing the value of any quantity of goods or wares ready cast up, more adapted to merchants use than any other extant; which is demonstrated by 14 examples relating chiefly to buying and selling. ... VIII. Concerning insuring ships, merchandizes, and houses, and how to make rates and averages in case of loss; wi[t]h the advantages of the practice of insuring in several instances, with respect to foreign and inland trade: and many other things never before made publick. To which is added, a supplement concerning simple and compound interest, with tables thereof, and the use and manner of calculating the same; and to make up accompts of mortgages, where the mortgagee has received rent, &c. The whole adapted to the use of merchants and traders, lawyers, surveyors, and measurers of building, &c. By Edward Hatton, gent.

Date:

1723