The merchant's magazine: or, Trades-man's treasury. Containing vulgar arithmetick in whole numbers, with the reason and demonstration of each rule, adorn'd with curious copper cutts of the chief tables and titles: also vulgar and decimal fractions, after a new, easie and practical method. Merchants accompts, or rules of practice; shewing how to cast up the value of merchandize, and to make allowance for Tare and Trett, more compendiously than hath hitherto been made publick; with tables of foreign coin in sterling, and a large table for reducing the one to the other: also foreign weight and measure compar'd with the English, and the weight and value of the currant gold of this kingdom: likewise, rules of barter, loss and gain, rules of fellowship, and equating time of payment. Also how to find the simple or compound interest of any summ for any time, and a table of simple interest (for one day or upward) at any rate of interest; usefull for those concerned in the Bank of England. Book-kee

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  • The merchant's magazine: or, Trades-man's treasury. Containing vulgar arithmetick in whole numbers, with the reason and demonstration of each rule, adorn'd with curious copper cutts of the chief tables and titles: also vulgar and decimal fractions, after a new, easie and practical method. Merchants accompts, or rules of practice; shewing how to cast up the value of merchandize, and to make allowance for Tare and Trett, more compendiously than hath hitherto been made publick; with tables of foreign coin in sterling, and a large table for reducing the one to the other: also foreign weight and measure compar'd with the English, and the weight and value of the currant gold of this kingdom: likewise, rules of barter, loss and gain, rules of fellowship, and equating time of payment. Also how to find the simple or compound interest of any summ for any time, and a table of simple interest (for one day or upward) at any rate of interest; usefull for those concerned in the Bank of England. Book-kee
  • Merchant's magazine; Trades-man's treasury
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Imprint
London : printed for, and sold by Chr. Coningsby, at the Golden Turks-Head, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street, 1695.
Publication year
1695
ESTC No.
R9711
Grub Street ID
129765
Description
[8], 158, 3, 3, [1], 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 170-178 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 4°.
Note
Title within double ruled border

Pages 4, 16, 22, 28 are blank

In the part entitled "The ledger", opposite pages bear duplicate numbering

Text is continuous despite pagination

Signatures: A-Z]4] 2A]2.