The manual mercantile, second book: concerning decimal arithmetick containing a copious series of tables & tariffes, for universal mercantile computations: Fit for Use in all Countries of the World, Which do Exhibit and Shew. The amount Product, and Quotient, For any Quantity ad Infinitum: at all Rates and prices, of Merchandizes & publick Stocks &c. Moneys and Exchanges. Sums &c with so much ----- pct. advance. Sums &c by so much-------- pct. discount. Net Interest, Commission &c at---- pct. Net Discount & Rebate at---- pct. Compound Interest for sums annuities & Year Purchase Builion of Gold and Silver And Most of all other Objects of Trade and Comerce. The whole engravd on copper plates & exactly corrected, by Mr James Lostau, merchant in London.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lostau, James, d. 1735.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arithmetic--Early works to 1800.

Arithmetic.

Genre:

Manuals (Handbooks).

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],257,[1],261-341,341-342,342-434,441-448,443-446p. )

Other Title:

Manual mercantile,

Place of Publication:

[London] : Publd: according to Act of Parliamt. July, 1735.

Notes:

In this issue the first three words are "The manual mercantile".

Engraved throughout.

The leaf between pp. [258] and 261 (present in some copies) is blank.

Engraved by I. Clark (signed on the final p. 446).

With a frontispiece serving as a half-title.

Text is continuous despite erratic pagination.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T119947.

OCLC:

642321791