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| Title | Preston's Treatise on Book-keeping: Or, Arbitrary Rules Made Plain: In Two Parts ... The First Part Being Designed for the Use of Mechanics of All Classes; the Second ... Showing the Method of Keeping Accounts by Double Entry ... |
| Author | Lyman Preston |
| Publisher | Robinson, Pratt, 1843 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 17 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 213 pages |
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