Stereotype edition of Rowlett's tables of discount, or interest : showing at sight the interest on each and every dollar, from unit, or one, to two thousand : on every ten dollars, from two thousand to three thousand : on every fifty, from three thousand to five thousand : and on every five hundred, from five thousand to ten thousand : for each and every day, from one to sixty-four days, inclusive : also for every month, from one to twelve, and for eighteen months, and two years : besides a complete cent table, the whole computed at six per cent, according to the equitable principles of the banks, and as practised between individuals throughout the United States, in conformity to statute law : together with directions at the end of the introduction for finding, almost at sight (by aid of the tables), the exact bank interest for any number of days, from sixty-four to one hundred and twenty-four days, &c. : likewise examples contained in the introduction showing in what manner (by means of the tables) to ascertain the interest at five, seven and at eight per cent : and a note under the first page of the figure work explaining the usual mode of computing interest on cents, and fractions, &c. &c. / by John Rowlett.

Author/creator Rowlett, John
Format Electronic
Edition5th ed.
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed for the author by C. Sherman & Co., 1836 [c1830]
Description[1], 24, [13]-220, [4] p. ; 29 cm.
Supplemental ContentGale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
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Portion of title Rowlett's tables of discount, or interest
Portion of title Tables of discount, or interest
Running title Tables of discount, or interest, at six percent
SeriesSabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
Local noteFinance.
Local note2011AF42100.
General notePreceded by "A practical banking time table : without an error : showing quickly by a single addition or subtraction the number of days from any one period to any other, either in the same year or the next preceding or following : and the day of the month on which a draft or note falls due, at any given number of days after the date : with minute directions. Philadelphia : J. Rowlett, c1833."--[1] p., 1st count.
General note"Advertisement. Useful and interesting information, respecting the two lawful modes of calculating interest, will be found in the preface ... A premium of two hundred and fifty dollars, is now again offered for the detection of an error of a cent in the interest calculations, as more particularly described in the preface."--Pasted on flyleaf.
General note"Laws &c. concerning bank interest and these tables, arranged according to date."--P. 1-[4], 2nd count.
General note"Subscribers from 1799-1802."--p. [193]-211.
General note"Purchasers in the western states; from north to south."--p. 212-218.
General noteReproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
General noteSabin no. 73598.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, 2012. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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