Vade mecum, or, The necessary pocket companion.

Author/creator Playford, John
Format Electronic
EditionThe 18th ed., carefully corr., with additions and improvements, to which is added, Interest in epitome, or, Tables in a shorter method than any yet published, from 1 pound to 10 millions, at 3, 4, 5, and 6 per cent.
Publication InfoLondon : Printed for R. Ware ... [et al.], 1753.
Description4 unnumbered pages, 268 pages ; 4to.
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Contents Containing I. Sir Samuel Moreland's Perpetual almanack ... -- II. Directions relating to the purchasing and measuring of land -- III. Remarkable fairs in England ... -- IV. The years of each King's reign from the Norman conquest to this time ... -- V. Directions for every month in the year ... -- VI. The reduction of weights, measures, and coins ... -- VII. A table wherein any number of farthings, half-pence, pence or shillings, are ready cast up ... --VIII. The interest and rebate of money, the forbearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities -- IX. The rates of post-letters ... -- X. An account of the penny-post -- XI. The principal roads in England -- XII. The names of the counties, cities, and borough towns in Great-Britain ... -- XIII. The usual and authorized rates or fares of coachmen, carmen, and watermen -- XIV. Tables for casting up nobles, marks, and guineas.
General notePreface signed : John Playford.
General noteReproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
General noteGoldsmiths'-Kress no. 08772.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements.
Other titleVade mecum.
Other titleNecessary pocket companion.
LCCNnuc87681233

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