The merchant's magazine: or, Trades-man's treasury : 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 of mercha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hatton, Edward, 1664?-

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arithmetic--Early works to 1800.

Arithmetic.

Bookkeeping--Early works to 1800.

Bookkeeping.

International trade--Early works to 1800.

International trade.

Business--Forms--Early works to 1800.

Business.

Genre:

Blank forms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 unnumbered pages, 172, 3, 3 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 194-258 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, plates) : illustrations (tables)

Other Title:

Merchant's magazine

Trades-man's treasury.

Place of Publication:

London : printed by J. Heptinstall, for Chr. Coningsby, at the Golden Turk's Head against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleetstreet, 1697.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

With a final advertisment leaf.

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

Pages between pages 172 and pages 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1926:8) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition) H1148.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.