A general introduction to trade and business, or, The young merchant's and tradesman's magazine : being an assistant to youths, on their leaving school, and entring apprenticeship : design'd to prevent their losing the learning they have acquired, and calculated for a general instruction, progressively through the various branches of trade and merchandise / by William Markham.

Author/creator Markham, William
Format Electronic
EditionThe 2nd ed., with additions and improvements.
Publication InfoLondon : Printed for A. Bettesworth, C. Hitch and J. Hodges, 1739.
Description4 unnumbered pages, 378 pages, 2 unnumbered pages
Supplemental ContentAvailable to subscribing institutions
Subjects
Business mathematics--Early works to 1800.

Variant title Young merchant's and tradesman's magazine
Contents Under the following heads: I. The principles of grammar explain'd; whereby the reading and writing true English are render'd very easy -- II. The use of the pen made easy; on the best instructions to attain a masterly manner of writing ... -- III. Arithmetick in all its parts ... -- IV. The usual contractions of words and titles ... -- V. Examples of bills of parcels, and exchange ... -- VI. Forms of law precedents, both relating to trade and conveyancing; as bills, bonds, leases, articles, &c. -- VIII. Directions for entring goods at the custom-house, inward, outward, and by certificate ... --IX. Merchants accompts, with a collection of arthimetical questions, to divert youth -- X. Tables of interest from 1 to 100 £. calculated in the most exact manner, to the thousandth part of a farthing.
General noteReproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
General noteGoldsmiths'-Kress no. 07630.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements.

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