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Library of Congress
W002676
Half-title: Elementary principles of arithmetic and bookkeeping, etc. "This work is designed as a first course of instructions .. and is laid before the public as a compilation only."--Preface. Title vignette (intaglio). "An introduction to the counting house; or A short specimen of mercantile precedents .. By Thomas Sarjeant. Intended as a supplement to the Elementary principles of arithmetic. .."--52 p., last count, with separate title page, dated 1789 (Evans 22127). "The Elementary principles of arithmetic, and the Introduction to the counting house, may be had, bound together, at half a dollar; or on fine paper at 5s."--p. [4], last count. "The following errata in the Arithmetic, have been discovered since its publication."--p. 52, last count.
Philadelphia: Printed by Dobson and Lang for the editor; and sold by T. Dobson, in Second Street, and by W. Pritchard, in Market Street, M.DCC.LXXXVIII [i.e., 1789]. [4], iv, [1],6-95, [1],52p.; 8°
