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The American instructor: or, Young man's best companion. Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick, in an easier way than any yet published; and how to qualify any person for business, without the help of a master. Instructions to write variety of hands ... How to write letters on business or friendship. Forms of indentures ... releases, &c. Also merchants' accompts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping; with a description of the several American colonies. Together with the carpenter's plain and exact rule: shewing how to measure carpenters ... and painters work ... Likewise the practical gauger made easy ... To which is added, The poor planter's physician ... And also prudent advice to young tradesmen and dealers. The whole better adapted to these American colonies, than any other book of the like kind. By George Fisher, accomptant.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1748 Fis Api 748
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, George, accomptant. 20384
- Fisher, A. (Anne), 1719?-1778 21338, Author.
- Standardized Title:
- Instructor
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women former owners.
- Women--82663.
- Women.
- Local Subjects:
- Women former owners.
- Women--82663.
- Physical Description:
- v,[1],378p., [5]leaves of plates (1folded) : ill. ; 12⁰.
- Edition:
- The ninth edition revised and corrected.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, at the new-printing-office, in Market-Street, 1748.
- Notes:
- Erroneously attributed to Ann Fisher Slack in Halkett & Laing.
- American editors' preface signed: Vale & Fruere.
- Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of Gale, 2003. 1 reel ; 35 mm. Unit 386. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 13490, no. 02).
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Library copy has bookplate of Jonathan Jones, Wynne Wood, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; and inscription: Deborah Morris her book 1756 [?].
- Cited in:
- Evans, 6238
- Alston, IV.364
- Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1062
- Miller, C.W. Franklin, 439
- Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 31
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