Shelfmark
Gc.5.02
Author
Title
A new and accurate book of interest in tables, calculated to a farthing; at 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 per cent. From £ 1000 to £ 1 for 1 day to 96 days, and for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 months. With easy directions to cast up interest at any other rate by the said tables; at the end of which, are placed two tables, one shewing the number of days from any day in one month, to the same day in any other month the other discovering the several sorts of gold-coins with their weight, and value in sterling mony: And tables whereby standard gold and silver in bars, are compared with the courses of exchange between Amsterdam and London, shewing how much per cent. is gained or lost on the intrinsick value of gold and silver in bars, at the usual rates of exchange: Also some other tables, very useful in receiving and paying of monies. The fourth edition. By Samuel Stonehouse, author of the Treatise of arithmetic, by way of question and answer. To which are annex'd, tables shewing what any salary, from one million per annum, to one pound per annum, comes to per day; and what interest is made per cent. per annum of any purchase..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed and sold by Henry Kent, at the Printing-Office in Finch-Lane, near the Royal-Exchange., MDCCXLVII. [1747]
Physical description
350 p. ; 12 cm. (16mo)
Note
Previous ed.: 1745.
Note
Signatures: A-Y⁸.
Note
Final leaf Y8 may be blank (lacking in ECL copy); other editions have 350 or 352 p., or a final advertisement leaf.
Citation/references note
ESTC, N507612
Provenance
Booklabel of Nicholas Mann recording bequest to Eton College in 1754.
Provenance
Inscription at head of title: Nic. Mann.
Binding
Contemporary sheep binding; border of gilt double fillets; gilt double fillets in compartments formed by four raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dd.8.12.
Copy-specific note
Curatorial note in pencil on front endpaper.
Subject
Interest Tables Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Kent, Henry, fl. 1732 - 1771 printer.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B49080