Practical Commercial Arithmetic Designed Use, Used (7 results)

Cloth. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Not Illustrated (illustrator). .: Williams & Rogers. G/No Dustjacket. 1888. . Cloth. Sm 4to., 272 pp., cover rubbed, bumped, frayed, page toning, writing of ffe .

[2], 180 pages. Hardcover: H 19.5cm x L 12cm. Quarter leather binding; leather spine chipped and worn; front and rear boards are detached; boards' printed paper stained and worn with some peeling; slender loss at front board's upper right. Relatively modern name-address label on front pastedown; antiquarian ink and pencil writing on initial leaves; some early leaves with edge-wear; interior foxing with a few stains. Several quires slightly pulled but text block remains reasonably firm. Book now presented in a trimmed clear Dura-Lar (polyester film) sheet forming a dj which aids in securing the boards and modestly enhances the book's shelf presence. "Stewart's New Edition" (as stated at top of title page and at top of front board). Title page features New York-Stewart imprint for 1849 and specifies "Twentieth Edition" but front board has Hagerstown, MD Stewart 1852 imprint and notes "Thirtieth Edition;" page 180 and rear board feature advertisement for bookseller-publisher-stationer William Stewart of Hagerstown. Presumably William Stewart moved his printing business from New York to Hagerstown and utilized New York printed sheets for this Hagerstown, Maryland edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 288p quarto, text foxed, fraying at 2 corners. A good copy, but does not qualify for very good. Original brown cloth.

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 318 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 318 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 12mo. xlii, 297 pages, [2] pages appendix, [1] page errata, [12] pages of subscriber names. Lacks the frontispiece engraving by A. Reed of coins in current usage in the U.S. Brown calf leather binding with leather title label on the spine. The Rear cover is detached. Front cover is near detached. Front hinge and front outer joint cracked. Light to moderate toning to the text. Several old ink notes and numbers on the end sheets, title page, introduction page, last subscriber page, and rear end sheets. These ink notes include math work, names, dates, and letters. This copy was formerly owned by "Silas Titus F.D. Water. Born 23rd April 1789." On the last subscriber page is the note - "Oysterbay Township.at? Bethpage 1810 Sept. 20." Howes L 196 - "First book to adopt the dollar sign." Sabin 39719.

Original full leather, lacking spine label, front board detached. Lacks frontispiece plate (supplied in photocopy) and front endpaper. [i-][xlii; [43-]110; [111-]182;l [183-]297; [298-300], [12] pp. First edition. Possibly the first printed use of the U.S. $ symbol. Experts disagree about whether the first printed use of the U.S. dollar sign (see p.56) appears in this work, or not, but there is consensus that the copper-plate engraving of the 1795 U. S. Eagle is "the earliest known illustration of a United States coin" - Eric P. Newman. Numerous myths for the origin of the dollar sign exist. As Florian Cajori (1925, pp. 16â"29), Eric P. Newman (1993), and scholars in between have argued, Lee listed symbols for the cent, dime, dollar, and eagle on page 56, but the symbol he gave for the dollar is not the "S" with two vertical lines through it that became standard after 1800 and that already existed in North and South American manuscripts. (See, for example, page 87 of the 1807 4th edition of Daniel Adams's Scholar's Arithmetic.) His scheme of multiple symbols was not adopted by any other authors. Rather, Newman places the first appearance in print of the conventional dollar sign in Philadelphia in 1799 and provides examples of several forms of handwritten symbols. Newman added, however, "Granted he was the first to develop a symbol for the dollar in type form rather than spelling out 'dollar' or employing an abbreviation." Overall, a fair to good copy of a very important book in the history of American currency and accounting. Evans 32366, Howes L196, Karpinski, p. 118, Sabin 39719.