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1794 Ready Reckoner or Trader's Useful Assistant, Newburyport MA, Coin Chart

$ 89.75

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Condition: Good, Front Cover Detached, Back Cover is partially attached, All pages are Sharp and Undamaged
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Certification: Ready Reckoner
  • Year: 1794
  • Circulated/Uncirculated: Ready Reckoner
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

    Description

    1794 The Ready Reckoner, or, the trader's useful assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of commodities
    By Daniel Fenning, Printed in Newburyport MA by Edmund M. Blunt
    Eleventh edition, 158 Pages, Original full calf boards, M
    ost of this edition is a calculator of the total value of a given quantity of items at a specified price.  The English system of Pounds, Shillings and Pence is used.  The pages in the back provide more content, including a table of conversions between the currencies of the different states, another providing the proper weights and values of a number of different foreign gold coins (Coin Chart), and a third giving the weights of English, Portuguese, French and Spanish gold coins expressed in dollars, cents and mills. .60 added as special Handling is for USPS Insurance.
    A true piece of Americana. An an indispensable tool used by American Colonial Merchants.
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