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Webb's useful compendium : Tables of servants' wages, marketing, expenses, annuities, interest, holidays, and dividends. Rates of hackney coaches, postage, waterman, porters, and cartage. Duties on houses, windows, servants &c. Commercial stamps, arithmetical tables, weights & measures, with the recent alterations, and other miscellaneous information

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [ca1823]
Call number: 428429
Dimensions: 15 cm
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Rates of fare to be taken by, or paid to the owners or drivers of Hackney Coaches of Carriages, in the city of New-York : together with a table of distances, and extracts from the law regulation public porters' fees
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The experienc'd secretary: or, Citizen and country-man's companion. : In two parts. Part I. Containing the most curious art of inditing familiar letters, ... relating to business in merchandize, trade, correspondency, familiarity, friendship, and on all occasions; ... The prizes of in-land and out-land letters by way of postage, ... Likewise a short vocabulary or dictionary, explaining hard English words. Part II. Containing the nature of writings obligatory, &c. with examples or precedents of bonds, bills, letters of attorne[y], ... and other writings made by scriveners, notaries, &c. The prizes of stamps on paper, &c. A continued table of terms, and their returns. Tables of interest and annuity, &c. The Latin names of men, women, countries, cities, trades, sums of money, date of the months, years, reigns, &c. in the proper Latin cases
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Cocker's decimal arithmetick, : wherein is shewed the nature and use of decimal fractions, in the usual rules of arithmetick, and the mensuration of plains and solids. Together with tables of interest and rebate for the valuation of leases and annuities, present, or, in reversion, and rules for calculating those tables. Whereunto is added his Artificial arithmetick, shewing the genesis or fabrick of the logarithms, and their use in the extraction of roots, the solving of questions in anatocism, and in other arithmetical rules in a method not usually practised. Also his Algebraical arithmetick, containing the doctrine of composing and resolving an equation; with all other rules requisite for the understanding of that mysterious art, according to the method used by Mr. John Kersey in his incomparable treatise of algebra. Composed by Edward Cocker, late practitioner in the arts of writing, arithmetick and engraving. Perused, corrected, and published by John Hawkins
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Cocker's decimal arithmetick: : wherein is shewed the nature and use of decimal fractions, in the usual rules of arithmetick, and in the mensuration of planes and solids. Together with tables of interest, and rebate for the valuation of leases and annuities, present, or in reversion, and rules for calculating of those tables. Whereunto is added his Artificial arithmetick, shewing the genesis or fabrick of the logarithmes, and their use in the extraction of roots, the solving of questions in anatocisme, and in other arithmetical rules in a method not usually practised. Also his Algebraical arithmetick, containing the doctrine of composing and resolving an equation; with all other rules requisite for the understanding of that mysterious art, according to the method used by Mr. John Kerley in his incomparable treatise of algebra. Composed by Edward Cocker, late practitioner in the arts of writing, arithmetick, and engraving. Perused, corrected, and published by John Hawkins
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Vade mecum, or The necessary companion. : Containing, 1. Sir S. Morland's Perpetual almanack, in copper plates, with many useful tables proper thereto. 2. The computation of years, comparing the years of each king's reign from the Conquest with the years of Christ. 3. The reduction of weights and measures. 4. The ready casting up any number of farthings, half-pence, pence, shillings, nobles and marks; with Sir Samuel Morland's New table for guinneys. 5. The interest, and rebate of money, the forbearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities, at 6 per cent. 6. The rates of post-letters, both inland and outland, with the times for sending or receiving them; also the post-stages, shewing the length of each stage, and the distance of each post-town from London. 7. The rates or fares of coach-men, carr-men, and water men
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Stereometry made easie: or, The description and use of a new gauging-rod or sliding-rule: : by which the content of any tun, copper, cask or other vessel, may be readily found, either the whole or any part thereof: the area's of circles in gallons and barrels being found by inspection only. Also, the extraction of the square and cube-root, questions concerning interest and annuities, and many other arithmetical problems are hereby resolved without pen or compasses. To which is added an appendix, containing the description and use of another new rule, very useful in gauging of worts, and resolving questions in the mensuration of solids and superficies. With a table of the area's of circles and contents of cylinders in ale gallons: calculated to every tenth part of an inch, from 12 to 156 inches diameter
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Rates of fare to be taken by, or paid to the owners or drivers of Hackney Coaches of Carriages, in the city of New-York : together with a table of distances, and extracts from the law regulation public porters' fees