The Scholar's Guide to Arithmetic: Being a Collection of the Most Useful Rules ... to which is Added, a Short Treatise on Mensuration of Planes and Solids; with a Sufficient Number of Practical Questions at the End of Each Rule. Designed for the Use of Schools |
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| Title | The Scholar's Guide to Arithmetic: Being a Collection of the Most Useful Rules ... to which is Added, a Short Treatise on Mensuration of Planes and Solids; with a Sufficient Number of Practical Questions at the End of Each Rule. Designed for the Use of Schools |
| Author | Phinehas Merrill |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Jesse Varney, 1819 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2007 |
| ISBN | 0608411108, 9780608411101 |
| Length | 99 pages |
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