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Bibliographic information
| Title | Treatise on Book-keeping: A Common Sense Guide to a Common-sense Mind. In Two Parts... |
| Author | Lyman Preston |
| Publisher | Collins, brother & Company, 1845 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
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