The merchant's magazine
Subtitle: or, Trades-man's treasury ... : accomodated chiefly to the practice of merchants and tradesmen, but is likewise useful for schools, bankers, diversion of gentlemen, business of mechanicks, and officers of the Queen's custom and excise ...
By: by E. Hatton ...
Edition: The sixth impression, corrected and improved.
Publisher: Printed by J.H. for Chr. Coningsby ..., and Dan. Midwinter ...
Published: 1712
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Business; Early works to 1800; Accounting; Commerce
Other titles: Trades man's treasury.
Notes: Signatures: [A]⁴ a⁴ b1 B-2M⁴

Includes index (prelim. p. [13]-[18]).

Errors in paging: p. 137-278 misnumbered 129-270.

-- VII. A merchant or trader's dictionary, explaining the most difficult terms used in trade -- VIII. Precedents of merchants writings, as, bills of lading, invoyces, bills of exchange, letters of credit, charter-parties, [etc.], with many other things not extant before, as by the table of contents appears.

NUC pre-1956 234:468
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. Arithmetick in whole numbers and fractions, vulgar and decimal, with the reason and demonstration of each rule, adorn'd with curious copper-cuts of the chief tables and titles; title: II. Merchants accompts, or a most concise way of casting up the value of merchandize, tare and trett, interest of coin, rules of barter, loss and gain, fellowship, equation of payment, and several matters relating to exchange, never before made publick; title: III. Book-keeping, after a plain, easie, and natural method, shewing how to enter, post, close and ballance an accompt, [etc.]; title: IV. Maxims concerning bills of exchange, factors and factorage, the law concerning brokers, [etc.]; title: V. The port [sic] of letters to and from foreign countries, and the days when mails are sent to, and due from those countries; title: VI. An account of the commodities produced by all countries, their chief towns of trade, and bigness of the country compared with England.