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The American accountant; or, Schoolmasters' new assistant . Comprised in four books. Book I. Containing arithmetic of whole numbers,--divers denominations, and the common rules, to the end of the double rule of three. Book II. Fractions, vulgar and decimal. Book III. Mercantile arithmetic; or all the rules necessary for forming a complete accountant; methodically arranged and largely exemplified. Book IV. Extractions, progressions, &c. being the higher rules of arithmetic. And including all the questions in the Philadelphian edition of Gough, with many others. The rules are either new, or those of that treatise so far compendized as to be both brief and perfectly applicable. The whole adapted to the commerce of the United States; and comprehending every thing necessary to a complete practical knowledge of the science of arithmetic. By Benjamin Workman, A.M.
Workman, BenjaminDate: M,DCC,LXXX,IX. [1789]
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The young gentleman and lady's assistant partly original, but chiefly compiled from the works of the most celebrated modern authors; calculated to instruct youth in the priciples of useful knowledge: in five parts, viz. geography, natural-history, elocution, poetry, --and miscellany. To which is annexed --a short system of practical arithmetic; wherein every example is wrought at large, and the whole, including the money of the United States, rendered easy to the meanest capacity. This work, is divided into small sections for the convenience of schools. By Donald Fraser, school-master, New-York.
Fraser, Donald, 1755?-1820.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]
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The federal arithmetician, or, The science of numbers, improved . By Thomas Sarjeant.
Sarjeant, ThomasDate: 1793. (Price one dollar)
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Arithmetick vulgar and decimal with the application thereof, to a variety of cases in trade, and commerce.
Greenwood, Isaac, 1702-1745.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]
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Elementary principles of arithmetic with their application to the trade and commerce of the United States of America. In eight sections. By Thomas Sarjeant, late master of the mathematical school in the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the city of Philadelphia. For the use of schools and private education. [One line in Latin from Horace].
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII [i.e., 1789]