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The Scholar's Arithmetic: or Federal Accountant
by Daniel Adams
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Mixed
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
This early American textbook has a quarter leather binding, with the spine in leather and heavy paper boards. The boards show considerable wear, with the marbled paper cover stripped away in places and heavily worn in others. However, both boards are firmly attached to the spine and the binding is still tight with all pages intact. The pages are heavy textured paper, some staining, but in amazingly good condition, considering the age of this obviously much-used volume. Except for some long-hand division on the inside of the back board, the book is unmarked. The best feature of the text is its content--besides all sorts of mathematic information, problems and measurements, it also has instructions/examples of all sorts of things mathematical--eg. the correct way to design a graph, calculations for different forms of weight, motion. measures of all kinds and an entire section of the appropriate forms of notes, deeds, bonds, receipts and wills--all in the erudite, charming language of the age. This is a fine copy of a 200+ year-old example of the most popular mathematical textbook of the early United States--a rare find indeed!
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- Bookseller
- Medium to Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37
- Title
- The Scholar's Arithmetic
- Author
- Daniel Adams
- Format/Binding
- Boards fair to poor, binding tight, pages good-very good
- Book Condition
- Used - Mixed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Salmon Wilder
- Place of Publication
- Leominster, MA
- Date Published
- 1805
- Pages
- 216
- Size
- 5.25"x8.25"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Early American textbook, mathematical text
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About the Seller
Medium to Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
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- Spine
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- Marbled Paper
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