Title: Livre d'arithmetique / Nismes, France,
Authors: Beaucaire, Jean Antoine de.; Leiutier,
Year: 1738
Subjects: Weights and measures France; Commercial products France; Wages France; Prices France; Business mathematics France; Arithmetic Early works to 1900; Arithmetic Study and teaching France
Abstract: Commercial arithmetic book in manuscript, accomplished by a student under the guidance of a writing master-surveyor in the town of Nismes, in the Languedoc region of southern France. The volume consists of the principles of basic arithmetic applied to weights and measures, rebates, exchange of commodities, sale and auction, factors, interest, wages and prices. Folios 67-78 deal specifically with joint ventures, companies and associations. The exercises use as examples such commodities as wine, spices, indigo, grain, textiles, paper, sugar, rice, gold, coal and cod fish; such trades as printing, baking, tailoring, masonry, milling and various other merchant activities. The volume also contains sections on military provisions and wills and testaments. In a fine clerical hand, with calligraphic ornamentation throughout and a handcolored drawing of a peacock on the title page.