The ready reckoner, or, the trader's useful assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of commodities

by Daniel Fenning

$250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt, 1794. Eleventh edition, tall 16mo, pp. 158; original full calf; boards rubbed and bumped, bottom of spine chipped; contemporary owners' signatures and notations on endpapers and flyleaves, including a list of bank accounts. One of the many pocket calculators published throughout the US in the 19th century. Little is known of Fenning. He was a compiler of several school texts, including an arithmetic, a geography, and a speller,

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