Document guaranteeing the payment of a specific amount of money, either on demand, or at a set time
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A clerk named Boniface bows and presents a financial document. Etching by R. Brichet, ca. 1783, after J. F. de Göz.
Joseph Franz von GoezDate: [1783?]Reference: 2954096i- E-books
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A new introduction to trade and business very useful for young gentlemen and young ladies. Wherein is contained great variety of receipts for money, &c. Promissory Notes, Bills Of Exchange, Bills Of Parcels, And Bills ON Book-Debts. With ample instructions how to Form Them. Interspersed with Several Instructive Exercises, Week's Expences, Disbursements, Goods bought at Sales, &c. To which are added, I. A List of the most common Abbreviations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. II. Proper Forms of Address to Persons of High Rank, and those in Public Offices, &c. III. Arithmetical Tables of Weights and Measures. IV. A new Set of Questions to exercise the Learner in several of the Rules of Arithmetic, by Way of Amusement, as well as Improvement. V. A Mercantile Dictionary. VI The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece or Perpetual Almanac. Designed for the use of schools, and Youth in General.
Hudson, PeterDate: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- E-books
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A new introduction to trade and business , very useful for youth of both sexes. Wherein is contained a great Variety of receipts for money, goods, &c. promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of parcels, and bills on book debts. With ample Instructions how to Form them. Also Several Instructive exercises, disbursements, week's expences, goods bought at sales, &c. to which are added, I. Commercial and Epistolary Correspondence, exemplified in various Forms of Business, and Familiar Letters. II. A List of the most common Abbreviations of Words for the Dispatch of Business. III. Arithmetical Tables, of Weights and Measures. IV. A new Set of Questions to exercise the Learner in several of the Rules of Arithmetic, by Way of Amusement, as well as Improvement. V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece, or Perpetual Almanac. The seventh edition, corrected and improved. With Copper Plates neatly Engraved. By Peter Hudson, Author of `the French Scholar's Guide,' &c. And other Schoolmasters. Designed for the Use of Schools, and Youth in General.
Hudson, PeterDate: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]