The scales of commerce and trade: : ballancing betwixt the buyer and seller, artificer and manufacture, debitor and creditor, the most general questions, artificiall rules, and usefull conclusions incident to traffique: comprehended in two books. The first states the ponderates to equity and custome, all usuall rules, legall bargains and contracts, in wholesale ot [sic] retaile, with factorage, returnes, and exchanges of forraign coyn, of interest-money, both simple and compounded, with solutions from naturall and artificiall arithmetick. The second book treats of geometricall problems and arithmeticall solutions, in dimensions of lines, superficies and bodies, both solid and concave, viz. land, wainscot, hangings, board, timber, stone, gaging of casks, military propositions, merchants accounts by debitor and creditor; architectonice, or the art of building. / By Thomas Willsford Gent.
| Author/creator | Willsford, Thomas |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London, : Printed by J.G. for Nath: Brook, at the angel in Cornhill., 1660. |
| Description | [24], 217, [3], 11, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, [3], 33, [5] p. |
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| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | "The debitor and creditor: or A perfect method for keeping merchants accounts, after the Italian manner" has separate dated title page. Pagination and register are continuous. |
| General note | "Architectonice" (Thomason E.1748[2]) has separate title page dated 1659, and separate pagination; register is continuous. |
| General note | On signatures Q7-R8, opposite pages bear duplicate numbering. |
| General note | Signatures P4-R8 bear tables and ledgers. |
| General note | Annotation on Thomason copy: "Febr 1659"; the last two numbers of imprint date are crossed out. |
| General note | Text is continuous despite pagination. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
| References | Thomason E.1748[1]. |
| References | Thomason E.1748[2]. |
| References | Wing (2nd ed.) W2876. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 218:E1748[1] and 218:E1748[2]) |
| Other title | Architectonice. |
| Other title | Debitor and creditor: or A perfect method for keeping merchants accounts, after the Italian manner. |
| Stock number | CL0051000008 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |
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