Album of commercial arithmetic exercises

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Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United KingdomBlackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA

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neat manuscript in ink on paper, text in brown ink, brackets, occasional underlinings in red, a little staining here and there, 1 leaf with the lower half excised, ff. 47 leaves, 4to, original vellum, owner's name in ink in 3 places on covers, good. Early nineteenth-century exercise book for a course of commercial arithmetic, largely taken up with rates of exchange in the various countries of Europe - the examples all dated 1790. Particularly interesting for 'A Collection of Arithmetical Tables, Printed for and Sold by J. Camp, West-Smithfield', an oblong folio broadside, printed in columns (2, 3, or 4), and apparently unrecorded. This includes weights of staples such as bread, hay, coal and cloth.

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Bibliographic details

Title
Album of commercial arithmetic exercises
Author
(Arithmetic. Commercial.) [Pratt (Richard, owner)]
Publication year
1818
Seller catalogs
Sciences

Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA

Oxford, United Kingdom

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Our premises are in the main Blackwell's bookstore, one of the largest and best known in the world, housing over 200,000 new book titles, covering every subject, disclipline and interest, as well as a large secondhand books department. The bookstore is in the centre of the city, opposite the Bodleian Library, Sheldonian Theatre, and many of the colleges and other university buildings, with on-street parking close by.

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Waterstones Booksellers Ltd trading as Blackwell's Rare Books

203-206 Piccadilly
Westminster, United Kingdom W1J 9HD