@article{586886,
      note = {Braces in title.},
      author = {Fenning, Daniel. and Malham, John,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/586886},
      title = {The young man's new universal companion or, gentleman's  pocket intelligencer. Containing, I. The Principles of the  English Language; Directions for Writing; Specimens of  Letters; Forms of Address; and Rules for Penmanship. II.  Forms of Wills and Deeds; Notes, Receipts, Bills of Parcels  and Book Debts, with many other mercantile Matters, as  Shipping, Invoices, and the Nature of Exports and Imports.  III. Arithmetic in general; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions;  Extraction of Roots, and their Uses; Duodecimals and their  Application to Artificers' Works; Board and Timber Measure.  IV. Chronology and Geometry, with some of their most useful  Problems; Plain Trigonometry; the Geography of Maps;  Navigation and Astronomy, including a full Account of the  Georgium Sidus, or New Planet. Dialling, with the newly  invented Pocket Card-Dial. The colouring of Dial-Boards,  and preparing Colours for beautifying Maps, &c. V. The  Mensuration of superficial and solid Bodies. Easy Methods  of surveying Land-Cask Gauging. Information to  Custom-House, Military, and Engineer Officers. VI. Several  valuable and approved Receipts in Physic and Surgery.  Method of avoiding infectious Diseases; of Consumptions of  the Lungs. Fly-Fishing and Angling. Directions for  Swimming. Recovery of drowned Persons. On the Barometer,  Thermometer, and Hygrometer; the Aurora Borealis. To  estimate the Value of Life and Leasehold Estates upon two  or three Lives, &c. &c. Begun by the late Mr. D.  Fenning, Author of the Royal English Dictionary, Universal  Spelling Book, Ready Reckoner, Young Man's Book of  Knowledge, New Grammar of the English Tongue, &c. and  continued by the Rev. J. Malham. Author of the Scholar's  Plain and Familiar Guide to the Knowledge of Vulgar and  Decimal Arithmetic, Pocket Card-Dial, &c. [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {printed for S. Crowder, Pater-Noster-Row. -},
      recid = {586886},
      pages = {iv,[8],432p.,plate ;},
      address = {London :},
      year = {1788},
}