Mercatorum, comprehending all the most necessarie and profitable Rules vsed in the Trade of Merchandise . . . Imprinted at
London by
Gabriel Simson,
1600.
First Edition. Sm. 4to.
This book is not checked as having been received in the contemporary working copy of the Library of Congress 1815 Catalogue,
and the entry is omitted from the later catalogues. It is in the manuscript list of missing books made at a latter date, and
was probably never delivered to Congress.
Thomas Hill, fl. 1590, English miscellaneous writer and astrologist.
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3
Cocker’s Arithmetic.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 109, no. 3, as above.
COCKER,
Edward.
Cockers Arithmetick, being a Plain and Familiar Method suitable to the Meanest Capacity for the Full Understanding of that Incomparable
Art, as it is now taught by the ablest School Masters in City and Countrey. Composed by Edward Cocker late Practitioner in the Arts of Writing, Arithmetick, and Engraving. Being that so long since promised to the World. Perused
and published by John Hawkins VVriting-Master near St. Georges Church in Southwark by the Authors correct Copy, and commended to the World by many eminent
Mathematicians and Writing-Masters in and near London. Licensed Sept. 3. 1677. Roger L’Estrange.
London Printed, for
T. Passinger, and
T. Lacy, and are to be sold by
Robert Sollers,
1677.
12mo. No copy of the first issue with date 1677 has been seen for collation. The Library of Congress copy from which the above
title was taken is of the second impression, so described on the title-page, and dated 1678. According to the Library of Congress
catalogues printed after 1815, Jefferson’s copy was of the first impression, with date 1677.
Arber,
Term Catalogues, I, 290 (November 1677).
This issue not in the STC.
Not in Smith.
De Morgan, page 56.
Edward Cocker, 1631-1675, English arithmetician. De Morgan states that he has seen one copy of the issue of 1677. There is no copy in the
British Museum, nor in any of the libraries of the United States.
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4
Pike’s Arithmetic.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 110, no. 4, as above.
PIKE,
Nicholas.
A New and Complete System of Arithmetic. Composed for the use of the Citizens of the United States. By Nicholas Pike, A.M. . . .
Second Edition, enlarged. Revised and corrected, by Ebenezer Adams, A. M. Preceptor of Leicester Academy.
Printed at
Worcester, Massachusetts: at the press of
Isaiah Thomas, by
Leonard Worcester, for said
Thomas. Sold by
Thomas, Son & Thomas, in
Worcester; by
Thomas and Andrews,
D. West,
E. Larkin,
S. Hall,
J. White, and
J. West, in
Boston, and by all the booksellers in the
United States.
1797.
QA101 .P65
8vo. 258 leaves, mathematical diagrams.
Sabin 62830.
Evans 32692.
Karpinski 90.
Greenwod and Martin 806.
Nichols,
Bibliography of Worcester, 342. Nichols,
Isaiah Thomas, 366.
Jefferson bought a copy from
Rapine, Conrad & Co. on January 1, 1803, price $
2.25. He ordered a copy from
