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Elementary principles of arithmetic : with their application to the trade and commerce of the United States of America. In eight sections. By Thomas Sarjeant, late master of the mathematical school in the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the city of Philadelphia. For the use of schools and private education. [One line in Latin from Horace].

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Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed by Dobson and Lang for the editor; and sold by T. Dobson, in Second Street, and by W. Pritchard, in Market Street, M.DCC.LXXXVIII [i.e., 1789]
Description4 unnumbered pages, iv, 1 unnumbered page, 6-95, 1 unnumbered page, 52 pages ; 8⁰.
Supplemental Content Full text online
Subject(s)
Arithmetic.
Arithmetic--Problems, exercises, etc.
Business mathematics.
Other author/creatorSarjeant, Thomas, compiler.
Other author/creatorSarjeant, Thomas, publisher.
Other author/creatorDobson, Thomas, 1751-1823 printer.
Other author/creatorLang, Thomas, 1763?-1793, printer.
Other author/creatorPrichard, William, -1815, bookseller.
General noteHalf-title: Elementary principles of arithmetic and bookkeeping, etc.
General note"This work is designed as a first course of instructions .. and is laid before the public as a compilation only."--Preface.
General noteTitle vignette (intaglio).
General note"An introduction to the counting house; or A short specimen of mercantile precedents .. By Thomas Sarjeant. Intended as a supplement to the Elementary principles of arithmetic. .."--52 p., last count, with separate title page, dated 1789 (Evans 22127). "The Elementary principles of arithmetic, and the Introduction to the counting house, may be had, bound together, at half a dollar; or on fine paper at 5s."--p. [4], last count.
General note"The following errata in the Arithmetic, have been discovered since its publication."--p. 52, last count.
General noteReproduction of original from Library of Congress.
References Evans, 21445
References Evans, 22127
References English Short Title Catalog, W2676.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Genre/formTextbooks.

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