The negociator's magazine, or, The most authentic account yet published of the monies, weights and measures of the principal places of trade in the known world / by Richard Hayes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.

Contributor:

Webb, Benjamin.

Series:

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

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Credit--Early works to 1800.

Credit.

Foreign exchange--Early works to 1800.

Foreign exchange.

Weights and measures--Early works to 1800.

Weights and measures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([14], 467, [37] p., [2] leaves of plates (fold.) )

Edition:

9th ed. rev., methodized, and improved / With the addition of several new and useful tables by Benjamin Webb.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for G. Keith, 1764.

Notes:

"Also an account of the European exchanges in general; the laws and customs of bills of exchange, promissory notes, &c. with the method of computing exchanges; also the nature and use of simple and compound arbitrations. To which are added, curious calculations of great use in the West-Indian and American trades, and tables shewing the intrinsick value of any foreign gold or silver coin. All of great use to merchants and traders; and entirely necessary to those, who would understand merchants accounts."

"Lately published and sold by G. Keith, T. Field, C. Henderson and T. Hope."--p. [468].

"A table for the ready finding the value of any goods, merchandizes, &c. at any given price (not less than the 1/8 of a penny) per hundred, pound, ounce, yard, ell, piece, &c."--p. [469-481].

"Tables for reducing gold and silver into standard, of a greater and less degree of fineness than the same by inspection, without the help of any previous multiplication."--p. [483-504].

Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.

Sabin no. 31028.

OCLC:

12