The Ready Reckoner; or Trader's most useful Assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of Commodities either wholesale or Retail … The eighth Edition. With Additions on Board and Timber Measure, Brick-work, and gauging by the Pen and Slip-rule. Carefully revised and corrected by Joseph Moon, Mathematician, Salisbury.

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8vo, pp. [2], xii , [264], with an initial advertisement and 'certificate' leaf with a facsimile signature of the editor; a good copy in contemporary buckram, somewhat rubbed and soiled.First edition thus, edited by the mathematician and almanac-maker Joseph Moon of Salisbury. Fenning (1714/15-1767) was the author of many textbooks covering spelling, grammar, geography, and practical mathematics. His Ready Reckoner was first published in 1757 and much reprinted like many of his books, it had wide currency in America, where it also several printings in German. Joseph Moon (d. 1817) published a Salisbury-printed almanac from the late 1770s. Here he claims to have 'bestowed extraordinary labour on correcting this useful book', recalculating every sum. Five copies only in ESTC: BL (wanting the first leaf), Leeds; American Antiquarian Society, Wesleyan, and Yale. Language: English. N° de ref. del artículo E6255

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