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Youth's introduction to trade and business [electronic resource] : containing, I. Tables of the most usual clerk-like contractions of words; with proper Directions how to Address Persons of Elevated Rank, and those in Office. II. Acquittances and promissory notes diversified, and adapted to such Circumstances as occur in Real Business. III. Variety of Bills of Parcels, and Bills on Book-Debts, to enter the Learner in the Manner and Methods of Commerce, and to make him ready at Computation. IV. Bills of Exchange, with necessary Directions for the right Understanding and Management of Remittances; several Orders for Goods, Letters of Credit, Invoices, and other Merchant-Like Examples. V. Authentic Forms of such Law-Precedents, as are most frequently met with in the Course of Traffick. VI. Small Collections of Questions interspersed, to exercise the Learner in the Common Rules of Arithmetic, to use him to Calculation, and to bring him acquainted with the Use, the Properties and Excellency of Numbers, by way of Recreation. The fifth edition, corrected, augmented, and considerably improved. By M. Clare, Master of the Academy in Soho-Square, London. Where Youth are Boarded, Educated, and Qualified either for the University, the Compting-House, or the Publick Offices.
by Clare, M. (Martin), d. 1751. Material type:  Book; Language:English; Format:
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 Publisher: MDCCXLI. [1741]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Arithmetick [electronic resource] : made easie for the use and benefit of trades-men. Wherein the Nature and Use of Fractions, both Vulgar and Decimal, are Taught by a New and Exact Method. Also The Mensuration of Solids and Superficies. The twelfth edition, corrected and amended. By J. Ayres, late Writing-Master in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London. To which is added, A short and easy method; after which Shop-Keepers may State, Post, and Balance their Books of accompts. By Charles Snell, Writing-Master, and Accomptant, in Foster-Lane, London.
by Ayres, John, fl. 1680-1700 | Snell, Charles, 1667-1733. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1714Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The accountant's companion [electronic resource] : or, schoolmaster's new assistant to practical arithmetic. Wherein The Rudiments of Common Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, are delivered in a new and more concise Method than hitherto published. Whereby The vulgar Error of confounding Principles together, and the diversifying them into several Rules when they are built on the same Reason, is carefully avoided. With a sufficient variety of examples, Operated in the neatest and most approved Methods. Also the Extraction and Use of the square and cube roots, &c. With their Application to various Branches of the Mathematics. Duodecimals proved by practice, &c. And applied to Work performed by Joiners, Painters, Glaziers, Paviours, &c. To which is added, a course of book-keeping by single entry; Very necessary in facilitating the Acquisition of the Italian Method, and extremely useful for many Kinds of Business in which the latter is not materially wanted. The Whole adapted to the Use of Merchants, wholesale and retail Dealers in every Branch of Business. By J. Seally, Author of the Universal Tutor; or, New English Spelling-Book and Expositor, &c. and late Master of the Academy in Bridgewater-Square, Barbican, London.
by Seally, John, ca. 1747-1795. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Plan of the General Accommodation Office, [electronic resource] : in Fleet Street, London, instituted 1793, for the convenience of all persons wishing to lett or to take houses, shops, Warehouses, Chambers in the Inns of Court, and Lodgings in General; as well as of those who wish to buy or sell estates by private contract. By David Morice, of the General Post Office, London.
by Morice, David. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1793Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The merchant's magazine [electronic resource] : 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.
by Hatton, Edward, b. 1664?. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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A new introduction to trade and business [electronic resource] : very useful for young gentlemen and young ladies. Wherein is contained great variety of receipts for money, &c. Promissory Notes, Bills Of Exchange, Bills Of Parcels, And Bills ON Book-Debts. With ample instructions how to Form Them. Interspersed with Several Instructive Exercises, Week's Expences, Disbursements, Goods bought at Sales, &c. To which are added, I. A List of the most common Abbreviations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. II. Proper Forms of Address to Persons of High Rank, and those in Public Offices, &c. 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 Improvement. V. A Mercantile Dictionary. VI The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. Designed for the use of schools, and Youth in General.
by Hudson, Peter. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCLVIII. [1758]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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A new and universal practice of mercantile arithmetick [electronic resource] : in which, what has hitherto appear'd obscure, is explain'd by such easie and familiar Rules, that the Learner may, without any other Help, arrive to a perfect Understanding of every thing that is necessary to be known in Trade: And particularly all the different Methods used in England, France and Holland. All which being perform'd without the Help of the Aliquot Parts, the Operations are thereby much Abridg'd. The whole applied to the Exchanges, Weights and Measures of all the Considerable Towns of Trade in Europe, by many Curious and Useful Operations and Calculations. In two parts. Written in French by the Sieur Monier de Claire-Combe, and done into English with his approbation.
by Monier de Clairecombe, Jean. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1707Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The merchant's companion, and tradesman's vade mecum [electronic resource] : or, practical arithmetick, both vulgar and decimal, Rendered more clear, short, and easy, than ever before. In Which Most of the Rules of Arithmetick are altered to Advantage, and New Methods laid down, whereby the young Scholar may, with Ease, become a Proficient in a short time. Together with an appendix for those who are advanced in accompts, Containing Mensuration, both Superficial and Solid; as also many Contractions, tho' none that are meerly curious, but such as may be serviceably applied to Trade and Merchandise. The whole necessary for all men of business, teachers of accompts, and their scholars. By John Saxton, Writing-Master and Accomptant in Manchester.
by Saxton, John. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The expeditious accountant; or, cyphering rendered so short, that half the trouble attending the common methods is saved, in most occurrences; and so easy, that a Person of moderate Capacity may learn with very little Assistance from a Master; the Rules given being plain, the Examples properly illustrated, and Numbers of Questions, with their Answers, being annexed to them, to exercise the Learner. A Very Curious Work, Totally different from all that have preceded it. In five parts. By Nicholas Salmon, Master of the Academy, Red-Lion-Street, Clerkenwell; And Author of The French Teacher's Assistant, and of The Rules for the French Genders [electronic resource].
by Salmon, Nicholas. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Thomas Evans, taylor, from Paris, returns thanks to the nobility, gentry, and his customers in general, and desires to inform them, that his improved trade has occasioned him to remove from his late house in Bell-Lane, into King's-Mead-Square, ... [electronic resource].
by Evans, Thomas, taylor. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: [1790?]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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