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A new and complete system of arithmetic : Composed for the use of the citizens of the United States / By Nicolas Pike.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QA101 P67 1797
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pike, Nicolas, 1743-1819.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.
- Arithmetic.
- Algebra.
- Penn Provenance:
- Block, Gordon (donor)
- Barker, H.E. (Harry Ellsworth), 1862-1943 (bookseller).
- Physical Description:
- 516 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- Second edition, enlarged / revised and corrected, by Ebenezer Adams.
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : At the press of Isaiah Thomas, by Leonard Worcester, for said Thomas. Sold by Thomas, Son & Thomas, in Worcester; by Thomas and Andrews, D. West, E. Larkin, S. Hall, J. White, and J. West, in Boston, and by all the booksellers in the United States., 1797.
- Notes:
- "Preface to this edition" signed: Isaiah Thomas. Worcester, February, 1797.
- Signatures: [A] B-3S 3T .
- Errors in paging: p. 213 and 359 misnumbered 113 and 355.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy purchased by Gordon Block from Harry E. Barker, a dealer in Lincoln artifacts. Included is a note by Barker providing evidence for Lincoln having read this title, possibly in this edition (though not this particular copy).
- Cited in:
- Evans 32692
- OCLC:
- 187452188
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