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The banker's sure guide, or, Monied man's assistant : in three parts, viz., containing, I. Tables of interest for any sum at the current prices of 2, 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent from 1 to 90 and 300 days, and from 1 month to a year, II. Tables of discount, for any sum at 5 per cent, from 1 to 60 and 300 days, and from 1 month to a year, also at all the different rates from 1 to 20 per cent, for a year, III. Sundry tables, shewing the value of annuities certain, and annuities on lives, founded on the most rational probabilities, with rules and examples to find the value of two or more lives, joint lives, reversions of estates, advowsons, presentations, &c. in the most plain, easy and intelligible manner : to which is prefixed, by way of introduction, a new and comprehensive treatise on decimals, and an explanation of the several parts of the book, a table of commission is annexed to the whole / by S. Thomas, author of The British Negociator.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slack, Thomas, 1718 or 1719-1784.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interest--Tables.
- Interest.
- Discount--Tables.
- Discount.
- Annuities--Tables.
- Annuities.
- Genre:
- Tables.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, xxvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 334, that is, 335 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 12 cm (24mo)
- Other Title:
- Monied man's assistant.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Richardson ..., 1762.
- Notes:
- Errors in pagination: one unnumbered page between p. 327 and 328.
- Advertisements on last page.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: p. xxi-xxiv of introduction incorrectly bound between t. p. and preface.
- OCLC:
- 16114276
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