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  The country-survey-book: or Land-meters vade-mecum Wherein the principles and practical rules for surveying of land, are so plainly (though briefly) delivered, that any one of ordinary parts (understanding how to add, substract, multiply and divide,) may by the help of this small treatise alone and a few cheap instruments easy to be procured, measure a parcel of land, and with judgment and expedition plot it, and give up the content thereof. With an appendix, containing twelve problems touching compound interest and annuities; and a method to contract the work of fellowship and alligation alternate, very considerably in many cases. Illustrated with copper plates. By Adam Martindale, a friend to mathematical learning.
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Martindale, Adam, 1623-1686. ; Collins, John, 1625-1683.
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  "An appendix containing XII. problems touching compound interest & annuities" has separate title page with imprint: London, printed in the year 1692. Register and pagination are continuous. Errata on p. [12]. "To the reader" ...
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  The doctrine decimal arithmetick, simple interest, &c. as also of compound interest and annuities generally performed for any time of payment or rate of interest by help of a particular table of forbearance of 1l principal, with enlarged rules, formerly abridged for portability in a letter case / by John Collins ; and since his death, both made publick by J.D.
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  Collins, John, 1625-1683.
  Description:
  Note in manuscript: p. [103] Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.
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  A curious collection of law-books, ancient and modern, consisting of the libraries of John Collins, Esq. ... and of another fam'd practicer of the law with additions of the best and latest law-books hitherto extant : as also an appendix of a considerable number of books of the civil & canon-law : will be exposed to sale by way of auction, on Munday the 2d day of July, 1683, at the first house on the left-hand in Flying-Horse Court in Fleetstreet, near the Kings-Head Tavern at Chancery Lane end, by Edward Millington, bookseller.
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

  Author(s):

  Collins, John, 1625-1683. ; Millington, Edward, d. 1703.
  Description:
  Advertisement: p. [2]. Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.
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  A plea for the bringing in of Irish cattel, and keeping out of fish caught by foreigners together with an humble address to the honourable members of Parliament of the countries of Cornwal and Devon, about the advancement of tin, fishery, and divers manufactures / by John Collins.
  Date of publication:
  1680
  

  Author(s):

  Collins, John, 1625-1683.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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  To the reader
  Date of publication:
  1675
  

  Author(s):

  Collins, John, 1625-1683.
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  Caption title. Headpiece; initial letter. Signed at end: John Collins. The preface and first page of instruction to: An introduction to merchants-accompts / John Collins. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of the original ...
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