The young man's new universal companion; or, gentleman's pocket intelligencer. Containing, I The Principles of the English Language; Directions for Writing; Specimens of Letters; Forms of Address; and Rules for Penmanship. II Forms of Wills and Deeds; Notes, Receipts, Bills of Parcels and Book Debts, with many other Mercantile Matters, as Shipping, Invoices, and the Nature of Exports and Imports. III. Arithmetic in general; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; Extraction of Roots, and their Uses; Duodecimals and their Application to Artificers' Works; Board and Timber Measure. IV. Chronology and Geometry, with some of their most useful Problems; Plain Trigonometry; the Geography of Maps; Navigation and Astronomy, including a full Account of the Georgium Sidus, or New Planet. Dialling, with the newly invented Pocket Card-Dial. The colouring of Dial-Boards, and preparing Colours for beautifying Maps, &c. V. The Mensuration of superficial and solid Bodies. Easy Methods of surveying Land-Cask Gau

People / Organizations

• G.G.& J. ("printed for")
• Daniel Fenning (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for G.G.& J. Robinson; W. Fenning; G. Wilkie; J. Scatcherd; C. Law; T. N. Longman & O. Rees; Crosby & Letterman; & H. Lowndes; By J. Abraham, Clement's-Lane, 1800.

Publication year

1800-1800

ESTC No.

T52889

Grub Street ID

279888

Description

[8],375,[1]p.,plate ; 12⁰