LEE, Chauncey. The American Accomptant, being a plain, practical and systematic compendium of federal arithmetic, Lansingburgh: by William W. Wands, 1797, 12°, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece by A. Reed (with fairly short, clean tear, browned and stained throughout), contemporary calf (very rubbed), modern cloth box. [Evans 32366; Honeyman 1957; Howes L196; Karpinski, p. 118]
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LEE, Chauncey. The American Accomptant, being a plain, practical and systematic compendium of federal arithmetic, Lansingburgh: by William W. Wands, 1797, 12°, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece by A. Reed (with fairly short, clean tear, browned and stained throughout), contemporary calf (very rubbed), modern cloth box. [Evans 32366; Honeyman 1957; Howes L196; Karpinski, p. 118]
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