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The American instructor: or, Young man's best companion. : Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick, in an easier way than any yet published; and how to qualify any person for business, without the help of a master. : Instructions to write variety of hands ... How to write letters on business or friendship. Forms of indentures .. releases, &c. : Also merchants' accompts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping; with a description of the several American colonies. : Together with the carpenter's plain and exact rule: shewing how to measure carpenters ... and painters work ... : Likewise the practical gauger made easy ... To which is added, The poor planter's physician ... And also prudent advice to young tradesmen and dealers. The whole better adapted to these American colonies, than any other book of the like kind. / By George Fisher, accomptant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, George (Accomptant), author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 6238.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business mathematics.
- Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v pages, 1 unnumbered page, 378 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded)) : illustrations
- Edition:
- The ninth edition revised and corrected.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, at the new-printing-office, in Market-Street, 1748.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Erroneously attributed to Ann Fisher Slack in Halkett and Laing.
- American editors' preface signed: Vale and Fruere.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 6238).
- Cited in:
- Evans 6238
- Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1062
- Miller, C.W. Franklin, 439
- Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 31
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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