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The gentleman accomptant : or, An essay to unfold the mystery of accompts. By way of debitor and creditor, commonly called merchants accompts
North, Roger (1653-1734)
1715
A person of honour = Roger North. Title within double line border.
An essay to make a compleat accomptant. In two parts... to which is added, A short specimen of book-keeping in factory, or the method made use of in the West Indies, by factors there
Roose, Richard
[1760]
List of subscribers: p. ix-xx. Contents (from title-page): I. A treatise of book-keeping according to the true Italian method... [etc.].--II. The solutions of eighteen questions accompts ... first ....
Accounting and book-keeping rules and exercises, by William Herring
Herring, William
1833
Comprises brief notes on international banking practices, exchange rates, and book-keeping methods, including single and double entry accounts, with illustrative exercises
The gentleman accomptant, or, An essay to unfold the mystery of accompts : by way of debtor and creditor, commonly called merchants accompts, and applying the same to the concerns of the nobility and gentry of England
North, Roger (1653-1734)
1714
Advertisement: p. [1], 1st group. Attributed to North in a Curll advertisement of 1721, according to Straus. "A short and easy vocabulary of... accompting" [34 pp.] follows p. 263. Folding table...
The tutor's assistant : being a compendium of arithmetic, and a complete question-book, containing... : to which are added a new and very short method of extracting the cube-root, and a general table for the ready calculating the interest of any sum of money, at any rate per cent. likewise rents, salaries, &c. : the whole being adapted either as a question-book for the use of schools, or as a remembrancer and instructor to such as have some knowledge therein
Walkingame, Francis (1723-1783); Crosby, T; Wilson, Spence, and Mawman
Anno 17[99]
"This work having been perused by several eminent mathematicians and accomptants, is recommended as the best compendium hitherto published for the use of schools, or for private persons." Advertisem...
The path-way to knowledge; : containing the whole art of arithmeticke, both in whole numbers and fractions; with the extraction of roots; as also a briefe introduction or entrance into the art of Cossicke numbers, with many pleasant questions wrought thereby. Digested into a plaine and easie methode by way of dialogue, for the better understanding of the learners thereof. Wherewith is also adioyned a briefe order for the keeping of Marchants bookes of accompts, by way of debitor and creditor
Tapp, John (fl. 1596-1615); Tartaglia, Niccolò (1557); Mennhir, Valentin
An. 1613
Epistle dedicatorie signed: Iohn Tap. Partly based on Guillaume Gosselin's French translation of Niccolò Tartaglia, and partly translated from Valentin Mennher. Section on Cossicke numbers has c...
Consuetudo, vel, Lex mercatoria : or, The antient law-merchant, divided into three parts, according to the essentiall parts of trafficke
Malynes, Gerard (fl. 1586-1641); Dafforne, Richard
1636
The "Consuetudo..." has the imprint "printed by Adam Islip, and sold by Nicolas Bourne"; the "Merchants Mirrour" has "printed by R. Young for Nicolas Bourne". The merchants mirror has special t.p. w...
Elements of book-keeping : in a series of short examples for the use of schools
Carlile, James (1784-1854); Tronson, John; Ireland. Commissioners of National Education
1850
Compiled by Rev. James Carlile, assisted by John Tronson, and first printed Dublin 1839 (information from 1870 Royal Commission on primary education).