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Economics.- W[arre] (J[ames]) The Merchants Hand-Maide
Economics.- W[arre] (J[ames]) The Merchants Hand-Maide: or, A Booke containing verie necessarie and compendious Tables, for the speedie casting up, and true valuing of any Commoditie whatsoever, first edition, initial blank leaf present, woodcut ornament on title, woodcut head-piece and initials, cropped affecting some side-notes, headlines, signatures and occasional parts of tables, lower corner of final leaf defective affecting 4 boxes of table, water-stain throughout, modern blind-stamped calf, [STC 24908; Goldsmiths' 525], 4to, Printed by William Jones, 1622.
⁂ A trimmed example of a very rare work. ESTC locates only the Harvard copy in America plus 6 copies in British Isles. No copy at auction since this one last appeared in 1968 at Sotheby's as part of the H. C. Drayton collection of books by Defoe and Swift and relating to the City of London, Trade and Economics (then attributed to ?John Wheeler). The tables, "very behoovefull for merchants, gentle-men, trades-men, and all such as buy, sell, or deale in any manner of accounts", aid multiplication and long division in the complex English money system.
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Economics.- W[arre] (J[ames]) The Merchants Hand-Maide: or, A Booke containing verie necessarie and compendious Tables, for the speedie casting up, and true valuing of any Commoditie whatsoever, first edition, initial blank leaf present, woodcut ornament on title, woodcut head-piece and initials, cropped affecting some side-notes, headlines, signatures and occasional parts of tables, lower corner of final leaf defective affecting 4 boxes of table, water-stain throughout, modern blind-stamped calf, [STC 24908; Goldsmiths' 525], 4to, Printed by William Jones, 1622.
⁂ A trimmed example of a very rare work. ESTC locates only the Harvard copy in America plus 6 copies in British Isles. No copy at auction since this one last appeared in 1968 at Sotheby's as part of the H. C. Drayton collection of books by Defoe and Swift and relating to the City of London, Trade and Economics (then attributed to ?John Wheeler). The tables, "very behoovefull for merchants, gentle-men, trades-men, and all such as buy, sell, or deale in any manner of accounts", aid multiplication and long division in the complex English money system.
