Handbook, with many examples, covering basic arithmetic; weights and measures; proportions; insurance on property; partnerships in trade and cropping; simple interest; money exchange; and geometry, for use in school. Examples for "Division of crops" include shares for employers, overseers, and slaves; other examples are based on trade with the West Indies.
74 leaves : paper, illustrations; 322 x 197 mm bound to 324 x 202 mm
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Notes:
Origin: Written in Southampton County, Virginia, 1786 (p. 1) to 1791 (p. 142).; Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Binding: Contemporary leather.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with a second hand written over the first in some places.; Decoration: Illustrated with diagrams and a pen and ink drawing of a tree [back flyleaf].; Pagination: Paper, 74; [iv], 1-134, [135-144]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
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