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An Introduction to the counting house; or, A short specimen of mercantile precedents, adapted to the present situation of the trade and commerce of the United States of America. For the use of schools and private education. By Thomas Sarjeant. Intended as a supplement to the Elementary principles of arithmetic.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am1789 Sar Dj.87
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 52 p. ; 8°.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by Dobson and Lang for the editor; and sold by T. Dobson and W. Poyntell in Second Street; and W. Pritchard, T. Seddon, and Rice & Co. in Market Street, MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]
- Notes:
- "The editor lays no claim to originality. --Considerable parts of the treatise were selected .. from those authors which were best adapted .."--p. [3].
- Issued with: Elementary principles of arithmetic .. Philadelphia, 1788 (Evans 21445). Recorded separately by Evans (Evans 22127), but perhaps issued only with Elementary principles of arithmetic.
- Errata notes correcting both An Introduction to the counting house and Elementary principles, together with a bookseller's advertisement, p. 52.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Evans 21445; Evans 22127
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