Stereotype edition of Rowlett's tables of discount or interest : showing at sight, the interest on each and every dollar, from unit, or one to two thousand, on every ten dollars, from two thousand to three thousand, on every fifty, from three thousand to five thousand, and on every five hundred, from five thousand to ten thousand, for each and every day, from one to sixty-four days, inclusive : also, for every month, from one to twelve, and for eighteen months and two years : besides a complete cent table, the whole computed at six per cent, according to the equitable principles of the banks, and as practised between individuals throughout the United States in conformity to statute law : together with directions at the end of the introduction for finding, almost at sight (by aid of the tables) the exact bank interest for any number of days, from sixty-four to one hundred and twenty-four days, &c. : likewise examples contained in the introduction, showing in what manner (by means of the tables) to ascertain the interest, at five, seven and at eight per cent., and a note under the first page of the figure work, explaining the usual mode of computing interest on cents and fractions, &c., &c. / by John Rowlett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowlett, John.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interest--Tables.

Interest.

Interest rates--Tables.

Interest rates.

Usury--Tables.

Usury.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (20, [1], 14-216 p. )

Edition:

4th ed.

Other Title:

Stereotype edition of Rowlett's tables of discount or interest

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed for the author by C. Sherman & Co., 1833 [c1828]

Notes:

"Advertisement. Useful and interesting information, respecting the two lawful modes of calculating interest, will be found in the preface ... a premium of two hundred and fifty dollars is now offered for the detection of an error of a cent in the interest calculations, as more particularly described in the preface."--printed on yellow paper and pasted to front flyleaf.

"Laws, &c. concerning bank interest."--P. [1-2].

"Subscribers from 1799-1802."--P. [193]-209.

"Purchasers in the western states; from north to south."--P. 210-216.

"Caution."--printed on yellow paper and pasted to rear pastedown.

Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 73598.

OCLC:

11