Clavis commercii: or, the key of commerce. : Containing an exact, and most concise method of merchants accompts, after the Italian manner, in one hundred propositions; being the most material cases in proper, factorage, and company-accompts, both domestick and foreign: with an example annexed to each proposition. Also a practical waste-book, journal, and ledger, with directions how to ballance the ledger, and transferr the ballance thereof, as an inventory, into a new ledger. Fitted for the use of schools, the contemplation of gentlemen, and the practice of merchants, or others, who desire to be accomplished with the famous art of book-keeping. /
Hawkins, John,active 17th century.
London, : Printed for Sarah Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge,,
1689..
The 42 pages at end are like-numbered on facing pages.
The journal or day-book of me would be rich enough containing all my dealings from the first of January, 1685 has its own title page.
ESTC
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996)
Accounting
Bookkeeping
Also available on microfilm. New Haven, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1974. Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature ; reel 178, no. 2742.2.