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The instructor, or, American young man's best companion. : Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick ... To which is added, The family's best companion: with instructions for marking on linen: how to pickle and preserve ... Also several very useful tables By George Fisher, accomptant
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Rare Dj 353 F533 1794
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, George.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bookkeeping.
- Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 384 p., [5] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Other Title:
- Instructor.
- American young man's best companion.
- American instructor.
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at Walpole, Newhampshire, : by Isaiah Thomas and David Carlisle, for said Thomas, in Worcester, Massachusetts; said Thomas, and Andrews, D. West and E. Larkin, jun. in Boston. 1794.
- Notes:
- First published in England in 1731. Published also under title: The American instructor; or, Young man's best companion.
- Attributed to Mrs. Slack by Evans, Amer. bibl., no. 27706.
- Has been erroneously ascribed to A. Fisher. Cf. Brit. Mus. Catalogue; Halkett and Laing; Archaeologia aeliana, 3rd ser., v. 3, 17 and 18.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Inscription: Wm. Parker Foulke
- Cited in:
- Karpinski, L.C. Mathematics, p. 62.
- OCLC:
- 13632490
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