The merchant's magazine: or, Trades-man's treasury
Subtitle: Containing I. Arithmetick in whole numbers and fractions, vulgar and decimal; with the reason and demonstration of each rule: adorn'd with curious copper-cutts of the chief tables and titles. 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. III.Book-keeping, after a plain, easie, and natural method; shewing how to enter, post, close, and ballance an accompt, &c. The second edition. To which is added in this impression (besides many additions in the former work) five whole chapters: viz. I. Maxims concerning bills of exchange, ... II. The post of letters to and from foreign countries; and the days when mails are sent ... III. An account of the commodities produced by all countries; their chief towns for trade, ... IV. A merchant or trader's dictionary, ... V. Presidents [sic] of mercha
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1926:8
Publisher: printed by J. Heptinstall, for Chr. Coningsby, at the Golden Turk's Head against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleetstreet
Published: 1697
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Arithmetic -- Early works to 1800; Bookkeeping -- Early works to 1800; International trade -- Early works to 1800; Business -- Forms -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800; Forms
Other titles: Merchant's magazine; Trades-man's treasury
Notes: With a final advertisment leaf

Some sections of text are preceded by an engraved plate describing the section which follows

Pages between p. 172 and p. 194 are examples of business forms with parenthetical repeated numbers for each group of forms; of the [11] pages, the first five are numbered "(1)", followed by pairs on the verso and recto of successive leaves numbered "(2)" "(3)" and "(4)" respectively; the register is continuous

Frontispiece = plate = portrait

Reproduction of the original in the Goldsmith's Company Library at the University of London

Wing (2nd ed.) H1148

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1989. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1926:8).