Ready-reckoners - Early works to 1800
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The twentieth edition of the ready reckoner; or Trader's sure guide . Containing tables ready cast up, adapted to the use of all who deal by wholesale or retail; inhibiting, at one view, the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandize, from one up to ..., at the various prices, from one farthing to one pound. To which are prefixed, I. A table, directing how to buy and sell by the hundred; and, II. Tables of the amount of expences, &c. by the day, week, month, and year. And at the end are added. I. Table of interest, at five per cent. per annum, from one pound of five hundred pounds, and from one to three hundred and sixty-five days. II. Tables of commission, or brokerage, from one eighth to one pound per cent. on any sum, from one shilling to ten thousand pounds. III. A table, shewing the number of days, from any day in one month to the same day in any other. By William Leybourne.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1791- E-books
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Tables of interest , at 3, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From £.1 to £.10,000, and from 1 to 365 days, in a regular progression of single days. With tables, at all the above rates, from 1 to 12 months, and from 1 to 10 years Also, Tables, Shewing the Exchange on Bills, or Commission on Goods, &c. from ? to 5 per Cent. And Tables, shewing the Amount of any Salary, Income, Expence, &c. by the Day, Week, Month, or Year; and a new Table, ascertaining what Time a Sum of Money takes to double itself, (or the Interest to become equal to the Principal), at all the different Rates of Interest. To Which are Prefixed; A Table of Discount on Bills, at a certain number of Days or Months; and a Table shewing the exact number of Days from any Day throughout the Year to 31st December, the usual Period to which Interest is calculated. The sixth edition, with additions. By John Thomson, Accountant in Edinburgh, Author of the Universal Calculator, And Tables for Calculating the Prices of Grain.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- E-books
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The Young gentleman's agreeable companion Containing an excellent and genteel collection of songs, selected from the most popular productions of the day. Among which are favourite songs sung this season, at the most celebrated places of amusement; particularly Vauxhall, Sadler's-wells, Royal-Grove, Anacreontic Society, Beef-Steak Club, Theatre-Royal, &c. Including the songs in the pirates, Just in time, Hartford-Bridge, Prisoner, at large, &c. Accompanied with some humourous stories; and a judicious collection of toasts and sentiments, intended as an entertaining repository. To which is added, the mental accountant. A work of great benefit to young gentlemen. merchants, and tradesmen, as an assistant to conduct Business, without a pen. A work well recommended by the monthly and other reviewers and further to amuse and instruct, a collection of witty and ingenious Enigmas, charades, &c. with their answers.
Date: 1793- E-books
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The Federal or new ready reckoner, and traders useful assistant; in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail adapted to the federal money shewing at one view the amount or value of any number of quantity of goods or merchandise, from half cent to one dollar and upwards either by weight or measure, together with interest tables &c. in so plain and easy a manner that persons quite unacquainted with arithmetic, may hereby ascertain the value in federal money, of any quantity of goods in weight or measure, at any price whatever.
Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- E-books
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Tables of interest , at 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From 1 to 365 days, from 1 to 12 Months, and from 1 to 10 Years. Which, by directions given, answer for all other rates from 1 to 10 per Cent. Also, Tables, shewing the Exchange on Bills, or Commission on Goods, from ? to 3 per Cent. To which is prefixed, A Table, shewing the Exchange allowed by the purchaser of a bill payable at a certain number of days or months. The second edition, with additions. By John Thomson, Accomptant, Edinburgh.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]