An Introduction to Merchandise: containing the theory and practice of arithmetic; algebra, with the doctrine of annuities; and commerce, including treatises on monies, weights, measures, exchanges, and book-keeping, with an appendix, containing tables of logarithms, compound interest, and annuities; an explanation of commercial terms; and answers to the exercises proposed in the work. The whole new-modelled, and adapted to the improved methods and information of the present time, by Elias Johnston, Teacher of Mathematics in Edinburgh.

HAMILTON, Robert.

Published by Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., Fairburn & Anderson, A. Brown & Co., G. Clark, Aberdeen, and Hurst, Robinson & Co., London, 1820

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First edition thus. "In 1820 a new edition of Hamilton appeared, edited by Elias Johnston, who states that the text had been revised with the advice and approbation of the author. Johnstone rewrote the whole book and based his chapter on book-keeping on a short summary - although with extensive model accounts - of Cronhelm's Double Entry by Single which had appeared in 1818." Bywater and Yamey p. 188. ICAEW, p. 141. See Bywater & Yamey, p. 188. Octavo (214 x 130 mm), pp. xiv, 563, [1]. Contemporary tree sheep, flat spine ruled gilt, red morocco label. Spine chipped at foot, front joint cracked at extremities, but still strong. Small wormtrack to lower margin of last 20 leaves, just touching text; a very good copy.

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• Title: An Introduction to Merchandise: containing the theory and practice of arithmetic; algebra, with the doctrine of annuities; and commerce, including treatises on monies, weights, measures, exchanges, and book-keeping, with an appendix, containing tables of logarithms, compound interest, and annuities; an explanation of commercial terms; and answers to the exercises proposed in the work. The whole new-modelled, and adapted to the improved methods and information of the present time, by Elias ...
• Publisher: Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., Fairburn & Anderson, A. Brown & Co., G. Clark, Aberdeen, and Hurst, Robinson & Co., London, 1820
• Edition: 1st Edition