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The ready reckoner [electronic resource] : 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 seventh edition, with additions On Board and Timber Measure, Brick-Work, and Gauging by the Pen and Slip-Rule. By Daniel Fenning, Author of The Royal English Dictionary; Young Man's Book of Knowledge; Use of the Glores; The Universal Spelling Book, And, A new Grammar of the English Tongue, And others.
by Fenning, Daniel. Material type:  Book; Language:English; Format:
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 Publisher: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The ready reckoner [electronic resource] : 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 table shewing the number of days from any Day in one Month, to the same Day in any other Month. 2. A Table of the Interest of 100l. from one Day to one Year. 3. A Table of the Value of Annuities at compound Interest. 4. A Table of Commission or Brokerage from 1/2 to 1l. per Cent. 5. Two Tables of the Amount of Expences, Income, &c. 6. A set of tax tables, and an Alphabetical List of the most common Stamp Duties. By Daniel Fenning, Author of the Royal English Dictionary; Young Man's Book of Knowledge; Use of the Globes; the Universal Spelling Book; A New Grammar of the English Tongue; and Others. The ninth edition. With additions on Board and Timber Measure, Brick-Work, and Gauging by the Pen and Slip-Rule. Carefully revised and corrected by Joseph Moon, Mathematician, Salisbury.
by Fenning, Daniel. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The universal calculator [electronic resource] : 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.
by Thomson, John, 1733?-1807. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCXCIII. [1793]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Kearsly's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, [electronic resource] : 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.
by Kearsley, George, d. 1790. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: [1781]Other title: Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger.Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, [electronic resource] : for the year 1783. Containing Fifty-Two Ruled Pages for Receipts and Payments; also Spaces for Memorandums for every Day in the Year. The two Houses of Parliament, with an English Translation of the Mottos of the Peers. Abstracts of several Acts of Parliament passed last Sessions General Hints to Travellers. Stage - Coaches and Diligences of France, with their Hours of Setting out, and the Prices they charge; also the Time you are upon the Road. Price of Post Horses all over Europe. Account of the Money of the different Countries of Europe. General Table of Stamp Duties. Dividend and Transfer Days Instructions for doing Business at the different Offices of the Bank. Instructions for writing a Short-Hand. Term Table, with the Returns. Useful Maxims in Law. Tables of Wages, Salaries, and Incomes. List of Bankers. Tables for Buying and Selling by Weight or Measure. A Catalogue of Useful Things which every Man should be acquainted with. Interest Tables. Annuity Tables. Tables in Arithmetic, upon a new and concise Plan. And sundry other Articles, for which we refer the Reader to the Table of Contents.
by Kearsley, George, d. 1790. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, [electronic resource] : 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.
by Kearsley, George, d. 1790. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: [1785]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The ready reckoner [electronic resource] : 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 numer 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, I. A Table of Portugal Money, from 1 to 1000. II. A Table of Expences or Wages by the Day, Week, Month, or Year. III. Tables of Interest at 4, 4 1-half, and 5 per Cent, from one Day to a Year.
by Fenning, Daniel. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M.DCC.XC. [1790]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Tables of [i]nterest, at 3, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. [electronic resource] : 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.
by Thomson, John, 1733?-1807. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCXCIV. [1794]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 trader's pocket companion [electronic resource] : 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.
by Hewitt, John. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1760Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Panarithmologia [electronic resource] : 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.
by Leybourn, William, 1626-1716. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1727Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The corn dealer's assistant [electronic resource] : 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.
by Hewitt, John. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Comes commercii, [electronic resource] : 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.
by Hatton, Edward, b. 1664?. Edition: The 8th edition, with large additions. Accurately revised, corrected, improved, and augmented, by W. Hume, ..Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: MDCCXLVII. [1747]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The farmer's and corn-buyer's assistant [electronic resource] : containing I. Tables wherein the value of any quantity of corn, from a Bushel to twenty Comb, in what is termed Full, or Bare Measure, (at any Rate per Comb, from Three Shillings, increasing by Three-Halfpence per Comb, to Thirty Shillings) may be had in less than a quarter of a minute. II. Tables for Malt-Retailers; in which is shewn the Value of any Quantity of Malt, from a Comb to a Quarter of a Peck, and from Sixteen Shillings per Comb, decreasing by the most usual Prices, to Four Shillings. III. Tables wherein is shown the value of any number of yards or pounds, (from One to One Hundred) from One Farthing per Yard or Pound to Three Shillings, increasing at One Farthing per Yard or Pound. The Whole calculated and examined- by Richard Harvey, School-Master, in Bungay.
by Harvey, Richard, school-master. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: 1764Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Comes commercii, [electronic resource] : or, the trader's companion. Containing I. An exact and useful table, shewing the value of any quantity of goods ... ready cast up, ... VIII. Concerning insuring ships, ... To which is added, a supplement concerning simple and compound interest, ... By Edward Hatton, gent.
by Hatton, Edward, b. 1664?. Edition: The 12th edition, with large additions accurately revised, corrected, improved, and augmented, by W. Hume, philomath.Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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The irish comes commercii, [electronic resource] : or trader's - companion. Containing I. Exact and useful tables, shewing the Value of any Quantity of Goods or Wares ready cast up, more adapted to Merchants Use, than any other extant. Calculated by Edward Hatton, gent. And carefully corrected by Nicholas Grant, Philomath. II. The tables of exchange and coin calculated, and tables of interest corrected by John Watson, bookseller.
by Hatton, Edward, b. 1664?. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: M,DCC,XXXIX. [1739]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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The new universal ready reckoner [electronic resource] : 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.
by Bettesworth, John. Material type: Book; Language:English; Format:
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Publisher: [1780?]Online access: Full text online Availability: No items available
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Interest at one view, [electronic resource] : calculated to a farthing: At 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 per Cent. For 1000�. to 1 �. for 1 Day to 96 Days; and for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 Months. With Rules and Examples to cast up Interest at any Rate, by the said Tables. With a curious Table, whereby Standard Gold and Silver, in Bars, is compared with the Courses of Exchange between Amsterdam and London. Also Tables for reducing the most common Gold Coins to Pounds, and the Contrary: Being very useful in receiving and paying Monies. The tenth edition, with additions. Carefully calculated and examined from the press, by Richard Hayes. To which is added, a concise table, whereby to cast up Salaries and Wages speedily. and others of great Use in-receiving and paying of Money.
by Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master. 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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