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Ready-reckoners

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    Mortimer's waistcoat pocket ready reckoner : with special tables for stationers, printers, bookbinders, box makers and booksellers.

    Edward Mortimer Ltd. | Date: 1954
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    The readiest reckoner ever invented, : for assisting the tradesman, the merchant, the gentleman, &c. in finding the amount, at any given price, of any number from one to ten thousand. ... The whole constructed, and separately calculated, / by Stephen Simpson and Edward Wise, accountants.

    Simpson, Ludi, 1953- | Date: 1811
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    A mathematical compendium; or, useful practices in arithmetick, geometry, and astronomy, geography and navigation, embattelling, and quartering of armies, fortification and gunnery, gauging and dyalling, etc. Explaining the logarithms, with new indices; Nepair's rods or bones; making of movements, and the application of pendulums; with the projections of the sphere for an universal dyal, &c / [Sir Jonas Moore].

    Moore, Jonas, Sir, 1617-1679. | Date: 1705
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    Vade mecum, or, The necessary companion : containing.

    Playford, John, 1623-1686? | Date: 1688
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    Memorial verses on the ecclesiastical and civil calender : with an epitome of the heavenly motions. By Thomas Streete student in astronomy and mathematicks. Imprimatur, ex Ædibus Lamb. Jul. 16. 1666. Tho. Cooke, reverendissimo in Christo patri & D. Gilberto Archiepiscopo cant. sacellanus domesticus.

    Streete, Thomas | Date: 1667
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