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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, 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 1 Shilling to 1000 Pounds, and from 1 Day to a 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. The eighth edition. By William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1746- 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 who deal by wholesale, or retail. Also, for carpenters, bricklayers, joyners, glaziers, plaisterers, plummers, and painters; 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 a 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. The eleventh edition. By William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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Arithmetica infinita or the accurate accomptant's best companion contriv'd and calculated by the Reverend George Browne A.M. and printed for the author anno 17 17/18
Brown, George, 1650-1730.Date: 1718]- Books
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The Chapman's companion. Containing, I. A table of accounts cast up, principally intended for the chapman's use in buying or selling any commodity, by the yard, ell, pound, hundred, gallon, &c. II. A table of expence by the year. III. A table of simple interest at 1, 2, and 8 per cent. for a year, or under. To which is added, husbandry and gardening for each month in the year. Also, medicines for several diseases.
Date: 1748- 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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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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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 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]- 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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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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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 ready reckoner, or, Trader's useful assistant, adapted to the use of all who deal by wholesale or retail. Exhibiting at one view, the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandize, from one up to ten thousand, at the various prices from 1 farthing to 1 pound. To which are prefixed, I. A table of interest at six per cent. II. A table of the weight & value of coins, as they pass in the respective states of the Union, with their sterling and federal value. III. A table shewing the amount of cents, &c.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: 1798- Books
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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 Seventeen Examples, relating chiefly to Buying and Selling; with several new Additions and Improvements. II. A Table calculated for Universal Use, which Use is shewn in the Solution of Questions, in Multiplication, Division, Reduction, Merchandizing, and Measuring all Kinds of Superficies and Solids, or Gauging Vessels and Casks; rendered perfect and compleat. III. The Manner of casting up Dimensions in general, whether the same be taken in Inches, Feet and Inches, Yards, Perches, &c. and how to give the Answer by Reduction, Duo-Decimals, or Decimals, plainly and exactly. IV. The several Customs used by Surveyors and Measurers, in measuring Glass, Wainscot, Painting, Plaistering, Flooring, Tyling, Partitioning, Brick, or Stone-Work, &c. and the common Rate of such Work by the Rod, Yard, Foot, &c. V. Instructions for Entering Goods at the Custom-House, Inward, Outward, and by Certificate; with several material Clauses in such Statutes as sclate to Exportation and Importation. VI. Concerning Water-Side Business, and the Constitution of the Key Wharfs, Porters, &c. there: Also the Charge of Whatever Ligliterage, and Porterage, for Landing, Loading, Weighing, and Housing Goods, and coat is usually paid for the Use of the Warehouse at the Water-Side. Vii. Rules concerning Freight, Bills of Lading, Primage, and how the same is paid for, &c. Viii. Concerning Insuring Ships, Merchandizes, and Houses, and how to make Rates and Averages in case of Loss; with 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 at Three, Three and a half, Four, Five, &c. per Cent, 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.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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An entire new system of mercantile calculation, by the use of universal arbiter numbers. Introduced by an elementary description of, and commercial and political reflections on universal trade. Illustrated and Exemplified by the Elements of the Chain Rule of Three, the Nature of the Exchanges, and of all Charges and Contingencies on Goods; Which are also reduced to a Plain and Concise System, Intirely New and Universal. By an old merchant.
Old Merchant.Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]- Books
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The Dealers pocket companion. Containing tables for the ready knowing the amount, or value, of any commodity; either bought, or sold, by the pound, ell, yard, ounce, or any other thing, under what denomination soever, from a farthing to twenty shillings.
Date: 1745- Books
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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 extent; which is demonstrated by 14 Examples relating chiefly to Buving and Selling. II. A Table calculated for Universal Use, which Use is shewn in the Solution of Questions, in Multiplication, Division, Reduction, Merchandising, and Measuring all kind of Superficies and Solids, or Gauging Vessels and Casks. III. The Manner of casting up Dimensions in general, whether the same be taken in Inches, Feet and Inches, Yards, Perches, &c. and how to give the Answer by Reduction, Duo-Decimals, or Decimals. IV. The several Customs used by Surveyors and Measurers, in measuring Glass, Wainscor, Painting, Plaistering, Flooring, Tyling, Partitioning, Brick, or Stone-Work, &c. and the common Rate of such Work by the Rod, Yard, Foot, &c. V. Instructions for Entring Goods at the Customhouse, Inward, Outward, and by Certificate; with several material Clauses in such Statutes as relate to Exportation and Importation. VI. Concerning Water-Side Business, and the Constitution of the Keys, Wharfs, Porters, &c. there: Also the Charge of Wharfage, Lighterage, and Porterage, for Landing, Loading, Weighing, and Housing Goods, and what is usually paid for the Use of the Warehouse at the Water-side. ... 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.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1734- 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. 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, Ganging, 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. The Rates and Fares of Coachmen, Carmen, and Watermen, with their Rules and Restrictions. By John Hewitt, Accomptant: Author of the Tables of Simple Interest, Corn Dealer's Assistant, &c.
Hewitt, John.Date: [1738]- Books
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The ready reckoner, or, The trader's 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 half a farthing to 20s. 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 a person, quite unacquainted with arithmetick, may hereby ascertain the value of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells or yards, &c. at any price whatever.--To the most read in figures it will be equally useful, by casting up what is here correctly done to their hand. To which is added, a table of simple and compound interest. By Daniel Fenning.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: [1794]- Books
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The ready reckoner; or Trader's 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 half a farthing to twenty shilling, 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 or 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, a table of simple and compound interest. By Daniel Fenning,[.]
Fenning, Daniel.Date: [1785?]- 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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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 new universal ready reckoner: or, every trader's infallible guide. Containing new and complete tables, most carefully cast up, exhibiting at one Point of View the Value or Amount of any Quantity of Goods, in Trade or Merchandise, from One Farthing to Twenty Shillings, not only by the Pound, Ounce, Yard, Ell, &c. but also by the long or short Hundred, half Hundred, &c. The Whole so calculated, to assist in Buying and Selling all Kinds of Commodities, both Wholesale and Retail, As to be of the greatest Use even to those who are acquainted with Figures, by saving considerable Time, the various Tables being so accurately executed, that they may with the utmost Safety be relied on: And to those who are entirely unacquainted with Arithmetic, such plain and easy Directions are laid down, as cannot fail of making this useful Book familiar to every Capacity; whereby may be ascertained the exact Amount of any Number of Hundreds, Pounds, Ounces, Ells, Yards, &c. whatever may be the Price. To which are added, a valuable catalogue of weights, measures, &c. also Tables for casting-up Wages by the Day, Week, Month, and Year. Revised, corrected, and improved, by John Bettesworth, Master of the Mathematical and Naval Academy, Chelsea; and Author of the New Tables of Interest, &c.
Bettesworth, John.Date: [1780?]- Books
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The new universal ready reckoner; or Every trader's infallible guide: Containing, new and complete tables, most carefully cast up, and exhibiting at one point of view the value or amount of any quantity of goods in trade or merchandise, from one farthing to twenty shillings, not only by the pound, ounce, yard, ell, &c. but also by the long or short hundred, half hundred, &c. The whole so calculated, to assist in buying and selling all kinds of commodities, both wholesale and retail, as to be of the greatest use even to those who are acquainted with figures by saving considerable time, the various tables being so accurately executed, that they may with the utmost safety be relied on: and to those who are entirely unacquainted with arithmetic, such plain and easy directions are said down, as cannot fail of making this useful book familiar to every capacity; whereby may be ascertained the exact amount of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells, yards, &c. whatever may be the price. To which are added, a valuable catalogue of weights, measures, &c. and tables for casting-up wages, by the day, week, month and year. By John Bettesworth, master of the mathematical and naval Academy, Chelsca; and author of The New tables of interest; English grammar epitomized; arithmetic made easy, &c.
Bettesworth, John.Date: [1778?]- 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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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]