Vade mecum, or, The necessary pocket companion [electronic resource]
- Bib ID:
- 6066916
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Playford, John, 1623-1686?
- Online Access:
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- Edition:
- The 18th ed., carefully corr., with additions and improvements, to which is added, Interest in epitome, or, Tables in a shorter method than any yet published, from 1 pound to 10 millions, at 3, 4, 5, and 6 per cent.
- Description:
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- London : Printed for R. Ware ... [et al.], 1753
- [4], 268 p. ; 4to.
- Full contents:
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- Containing I. Sir Samuel Moreland's Perpetual almanack ...
- II. Directions relating to the purchasing and measuring of land
- III. Remarkable fairs in England ...
- IV. The years of each King's reign from the Norman conquest to this time ...
- V. Directions for every month in the year ...
- VI. The reduction of weights, measures, and coins ...
- VII. A table wherein any number of farthings, half-pence, pence or shillings, are ready cast up ...
- VIII. The interest and rebate of money, the forbearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities
- IX. The rates of post-letters ...
- X. An account of the penny-post
- XI. The principal roads in England
- XII. The names of the counties, cities, and borough towns in Great-Britain ...
- XIII. The usual and authorized rates or fares of coachmen, carmen, and watermen
- XIV. Tables for casting up nobles, marks, and guineas.
- Notes:
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- Preface signed : John Playford.
- Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
- Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 08772.
- Reproduction:
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web.
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- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1753
- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1753
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