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| Title | A Complete System of Practical Book-keeping: In Six Sets of Books ... Also a Series of Concise Rules for Performing Various Computations in Business ... |
| Author | Nicholas Harris |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Brown and Parsons, 1841 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 20 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 230 pages |
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