Elementary principles of arithmetic
Subtitle: with their application to the trade and commerce of the United States of America. : In eight sections.
By: By Thomas Sarjeant, late master of the mathematical school in the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the city of Philadelphia. ; For the use of schools and private education. ; [One line in Latin from Horace]
Contributors: Sarjeant, Thomas.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 21445.; Early American imprints -- no. 22127.
Publisher: Printed by Dobson and Lang for the editor; and sold by T. Dobson, in Second Street, and by W. Pritchard, in Market Street.
Published: 1789
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.; Arithmetic -- Problems, exercises, etc.; Business mathematics.; Textbooks.
Notes: Half-title: Elementary principles of arithmetic and bookkeeping, etc.

"This work is designed as a first course of instructions ... and is laid before the public as a compilation only."--Preface.

Signatures: [A]² B-N⁴; [A]² B-G⁴.

Title vignette (intaglio).

"An introduction to the counting house; or A short specimen of mercantile precedents ... By Thomas Sarjeant. Intended as a supplement to the Elementary principles of arithmetic. ..."--52 p., last count, with separate title page, dated 1789 (Evans 22127). "The Elementary principles of arithmetic, and the Introduction to the counting house, may be had, bound together, at half a dollar; or on fine paper at 5s."--p. [4], last count.

"The following errata in the Arithmetic, have been discovered since its publication."--p. 52, last count.

Evans 21445.

Evans 22127.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21445; 22127).