The young man's new universal companion [electronic resource] : 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.
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The young man's new universal companion [electronic resource] : 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.
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Fenning, Daniel.
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London : printed for S. Crowder, Pater-Noster-Row. - 1788.
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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iv,[8],432p.,plate ; 12⁰.
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Price from imprint: price Two Shillings and Sixpence.
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Alston, III.383
English Short Title Catalog, T52888.
English Short Title Catalog, T52888.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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Malham, John, 1747-1821.
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