Commercial Arithmetic -- Manuscript exercise book, in English, written in red and black with calligraphic ornaments, with title 'Henry Shelley, December ye XIX, 1711', and signed in four places: 'Henry Shelley, 1710', 4to, 38 leaves, with two calligraphic drawings (tables for numeration and multiplication) pasted in at front, contemporary speckled calf (rebacked).

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Commercial Arithmetic -- Manuscript exercise book, in English, written in red and black with calligraphic ornaments, with title 'Henry Shelley, December ye XIX, 1711', and signed in four places: 'Henry Shelley, 1710', 4to, 38 leaves, with two calligraphic drawings (tables for numeration and multiplication) pasted in at front, contemporary speckled calf (rebacked).

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Contains sections on: Addition of money. Tables of Weights and Measures. Cloth Measures. Linen drapery bought and sold. Multiplication tables. Division. Reduction. Tables of English weights and measures (for cloth, fish, wool, wine, beer and ale, land measure, etc.). Interest. Practical examples are given for the rules.

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