The Scholar's Arithmetic; Or, Federal Accountant:: Containing, I. Common Arithmetic, the Rules and Illustrations. II. Examples and Answers, with Blank Spaces ... III. To Each Rule a Supplement ... IV. Federal Money, with Rules for All the Various Operations in it ... V. Interest Cast in Federal Money ... VI. Demonstrations by Engravings of the Reason and Nature of Various Steps in the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots ... VII. Forms of Notes, Deeds, Bonds and Other Instruments of Writing. : The Whole in a Form and Method Altogether New, for the Ease of the Master and the Greater Progress of the ScholarJohn Prentiss, (proprietor of the copy right.) Sold at his bookstore, and by the principal booksellers in the New-England states and New-York.--1817. Price 10 dollars per dozen, 1 dollar single., 1817 - Arithmetic - 209 pages |
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| Title | The Scholar's Arithmetic; Or, Federal Accountant:: Containing, I. Common Arithmetic, the Rules and Illustrations. II. Examples and Answers, with Blank Spaces ... III. To Each Rule a Supplement ... IV. Federal Money, with Rules for All the Various Operations in it ... V. Interest Cast in Federal ... Issue 39918 of Early American imprints |
| Author | Daniel Adams |
| Publisher | John Prentiss, (proprietor of the copy right.) Sold at his bookstore, and by the principal booksellers in the New-England states and New-York.--1817. Price 10 dollars per dozen, 1 dollar single., 1817 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 26 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 209 pages |
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