The accountant's companion; or, schoolmaster's new assistant to practical arithmetic. Wherein The Rudiments of Common Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, are delivered in a new and more concise Method than hitherto published. Whereby The vulgar Error of confounding Principles together, and the diversifying them into several Rules when they are built on the same Reason is carefully avoided. With A Sufficient Variety of Examples, Operated in the neatest and most approved Methods. Also the Extraction and Use of the Square and Cube Roots, &c. With their Application to various branches of the Mathematics. Duodecimals proved by Practice, &c. And applied to Work performed by joiners, painters, glaz[iers] paviours &c. To which is added, A course of book-keeping by single entry; Very necessary in facilitating the acq[ui]tion of the Italian Method, and is extremely useful for many Kinds of Business in which-the latter is not materially wanted. The whole adapted to the Use of Merchants, wholes

People / Organizations

• John Seally (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for J. Roson, No 54, in St. Martins-le-Grand, near St. Paul's, MDCCLXX. [1770]

Publication year

1770

ESTC No.

T119668

Grub Street ID

171051

Description

vii,[1],192,[2]p. ; 12°.

Note

'A course of book-keeping' has a separate titlepage bearing the imprint "London: printed in the year MDCCLXIX"; the register and pagination are continuous

With a final advertisement leaf.