Album of commercial arithmetic exercises
- Manuscript / Paper Collectible
- Used



Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United KingdomBlackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA
AbeBooks seller since July 8, 1998
Condition: Used
US$ 715.65
Quantity: 1 available
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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.
Seller Inventory # 60037
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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