Notes: | "Containing I. A description of the commodities, coins, weights, and measures of Great Britain and its neighbouring countries. With useful directions about entring and taking up goods of the custom-house, instructions about bills of exchange and the keeping of books of accompts, the way of recovering debts, likewise exact tables of accompts ready cast-up. II. Containing a plain institution of arithmetick in all its parts, with an excellent and easie new way of multiplying foot-measure in feet and inches, by feet and inches, without reduction, and applied to the measuring of carpenters, joyners, painters, plaisterers, glasiers, and bricklayers work &c., and of solid timber &c., also the whole art of gauging with several curious tables, and very necessary obsevations relating to the measuring of land. III. Containing the travellers guide through all the principal roads in England, an account of carriers inns and days of going out, also the rates of post-letters, with other matters not before made publick." Reproduction of original in the British Library. Wing H1991. Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1983. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1359:19)
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