The negociator's magazine, or, The most authentic account yet published of the monies, weights and measures of the principal places of trade in the known world / by Richard Hayes.

Author/creator Hayes, Richard
Other author Webb, Benjamin.
Format Electronic
Edition9th ed. rev., methodized, and improved / With the addition of several new and useful tables by Benjamin Webb.
Publication InfoLondon : Printed for G. Keith, 1764.
Description[14], 467, [37] p., [2] leaves of plates (fold.) ; 21 cm.
Supplemental ContentGale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
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Portion of title Most authentic account yet published of the monies, weights and measures of the principal places of trade in the known world
SeriesSabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteScanned copy imperfect: Faded print throughout.
Local noteFinance.
Local note2012AG12100.
General note"Also an account of the European exchanges in general; the laws and customs of bills of exchange, promissory notes, &c. with the method of computing exchanges; also the nature and use of simple and compound arbitrations. To which are added, curious calculations of great use in the West-Indian and American trades, and tables shewing the intrinsick value of any foreign gold or silver coin. All of great use to merchants and traders; and entirely necessary to those, who would understand merchants accounts."
General note"Lately published and sold by G. Keith, T. Field, C. Henderson and T. Hope."--p. [468].
General note"A table for the ready finding the value of any goods, merchandizes, &c. at any given price (not less than the 1/8 of a penny) per hundred, pound, ounce, yard, ell, piece, &c."--p. [469-481].
General note"Tables for reducing gold and silver into standard, of a greater and less degree of fineness than the same by inspection, without the help of any previous multiplication."--p. [483-504].
General noteReproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
General noteSabin no. 31028.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2012. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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