Book, The Merchant and Seaman's Expeditious Measurer...
date: label: date made
content: 1922
name: label: maker
content: Blunt, Edmund March
notes: label: Description
content: According to the full title, this volume contains "a set of tables which show at one view the solid contentsof all kinds of packages and casks according to their several lengths, breadths, and depths; also rules for determining the contents of all sorts of casks, in wine and beer measure." Finding the volume of casks and packages was of longstanding interest to seamen, merchants, and tax collectors. Edmund March Blunt (1770-1862) first published this volume in 1825. Blunt, a resident of New York, also published on hydrography and navigation. He was a longtime assistant to the U.S. Coast Survey. Later editions of the book were published by A. L. Nash and then, like this one, by Baker & Taylor Company (their last edition dates from 1948).
label: Description
content: This long, thin volume has four sets of twelve tables per set. It includes explanations on use. It was owned by Frank M. Masters, who signed and stamped it.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Mathematical Charts and Tables
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Frank M. Masters, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0509.01
label: accession number
content: 1986.0509
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0509.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.9 cm x 11.3 cm x 25.2 cm; 3/4 in x 4 7/16 in x 9 29/32 in