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Biscoe’s merchant’s magazine.
1815 Catalogue, page 94. no. 344, as above, 8vo.
BISCOE,
Robert.
The Merchant’s Magazine; or, Factor’s Guide. Containing, great variety of plain and easy tables for the speedy casting up
of all sorts of merchandize, sold either by number, weight, or measure; and for reducing sterling money into currency at sundry
rates; with tables of interest and rebate, and of the value of gold and silver in Virginia: Also tables shewing the amount
of any quantity of goods at almost any per cent. Advance on the prime cost, and for finding the nett duties on tobacco from
one pound to fifty thousand pounds. To which is added, some tables of per cents. on transfer notes, the whole applied throughout
to trade and merchandise. By Robert Biscoe, of Lancaster County.
Williamsburg: Printed by
William Parks,
m.dcc.xliii
. [1743.]
HF5697 .B6
4to. Measures 7⅝ by 3 inches; 138 leaves: A-Z
4, Aa-Ll
4, Mm
2; contains six sections, each with a half-title.
Not in Sabin.
Not in Evans.
Not in Clayton-Torrence.
Wroth 121.
Not in Arents.
Sheepskin. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I
2 and T.
The Preface is dated from Virginia, Lancaster County, July 8, 1742. Section I deals with Sundry Tables, Shewing the Price
of Tobacco.
With the autoraph signature of John Wayles on the title-page.
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Hoppus’s measuring.
1815 Catalogue, page 98. no. 345, as above, 8vo.
HOPPUS, E.
Practical Measuring made easy to the meanest capacity, by a new set of tables . . . With a Preface; shewing the excellence
of this new method of measuring, and demonstrating, that whoever ventures to rely upon those obsolete tables and directions
published by Isaac Keay, is liable to be deceived (in common Cases) 10 s. in the pound. By E. Hoppus, Surveyor to the Corporation of the London Assurance. The
sixth edition. Greatly improved, by the following Additions; I. New Tables shewing at sight the value of any piece or quantity
of timber, stone, &c. at any price, per foot cube. II. Mr. Hoppus’s table of solid measure applied to the freighting of ships. III. Some very curious observations concerning the measuring
of timber by several dimensions, communicated By one of his Majesty’s Purveyors.
London: printed, by Assignment from the Trustees of
E. Wicksteed, for Mess.
Hitch and
Hawes;
J. Rivington;
J. Hinton;
S. Crowder, and Co.
T. Caslon; and
J. Coote.
1761.
HF5716 .L8 H76
4to., measures 7½ by 2¾ in. 140 leaves, including the half-title, publishers’ advertisements on i
3 verso; authentication signed by
J. Coote, on the back of the title-page.
Rebound in ruby buckram by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. On the half-title is the signature of John Hylton and the price
2/6.
The authentication states that Mr. Hoppus was dead at the time of the publication of this edition.
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