The ready calculator: or, Trader's sure guide, : in computing the price or amount of any quantity of goods or merchandizes. Containing, I. A correct large table of the value of any quantity of goods, from I Pound, yard &c. to 100, 1000, or 10,000 at all the various prices, increasing progressively from a Farthing to a Pound. II. Simple interest at 5 per cent. for days, months, &c. III. Large table of commission, or brokerage. IV. How to buy and sell by the hundred weight to advantage. V. Rules to find the changes of the moon, &c. VI. The dominical letters to the year 1800. VII. Value of foreign coins in Sterling money. VIII. A perpetual diary, shewing the day of the week that begins any month for ever. IX. Value of the principal European coins in American currency. X. Value of gold and silver in England. XI. The agreement which weights and measures have with each other, all over the Europe. XII. The weights and measures used in England. XIII. English money equated in irish, and Irish in English. XIV. Of annuities on lives. XV. A catalogue of useful memorandums in business. The fifth edition, corrected. /
Slack, Thomas,1719?-1784.
Chatto, Alexander,former owner.StEdNL
St. Anthony's Pottery (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England),former owner.StEdNL
London: : Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, no 25, in Paternoster Row; and S. Hodgson, in Newcastle.,
1789..
First published as 'Britannicus estimator', London, 1764.
S. Thomas = Thomas Slack.
On the title page the words "I. A correct large table of the value of any quantity of goods, from 1 pound, yard, &c. to 100, 1000, or 10,000, at all the various prices, increasing progressively rom a farthing to a pound. ... XV. A catalogue of useful memorandums in business." are divided by a vertical line.
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Manuscript inscriptions on the recto of the front free endpaper "Owners of St. Anthony's Pottery [Newcastle]. 1789. Inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper "A. Chatto Esqr. Newcastle".
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