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  Arithmetick vulgar, decimal, & algebraical. In a most plain and facile method for common capacities. Together with a treatise of simple and compound interest and rebate; with two tables for the calculation of the value of leases and annuities, payable quarterly; the one for simple, the other for compound interest, at 6. per cent. per annum; with rules for making the like for any other rate. To which is added a new, and most practical way of gauging of tunns. As also the art of cask-gauging, for the use of His Majesties Officers of the Excise.
  Date of publication:
  1675
  

  Author(s):

  Mayne, John, fl. 1673-1675.
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  With an engraved frontispiece portrait of John Mayne. Epistle dedicatory and the preface signed: John Mayne. With a table of contents. "A short treatise of simple & compound interest" and "Stereometry" have separate title ...
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  Socius mercatoris: or The merchant's companion: in three parts. The first, being a plain and easie introduction to arithmetick, vulgur and decimal, the extraction of the square and cube roots, with a table of 200 square roots, and their use in the resolution of square equations. The second, a treatise of simple and compound interest and rebate, with two tables for the calculation of the value of leases or annuities, payable quarterly, the one for simple, the other compound interest, at 6 per cent. per annum, with rules for making the like for any other rate. The third, a new and exact way of measuring solids in the form of a prismoid and cylindroid, with the frustums of pyramids and of a cone: whereunto is added, some practical rules and examples for cask-gauging. By John Mayne, philo-accomptant.
  Date of publication:
  1674
  

  Author(s):

  Mayne, John, fl. 1673-1675.
  Description:
  "A short treatise of simple & compound interest" and "Stereometry" have separate title pages dated 1673; "A new way of gauging the frustum of a pyramid or conical tunn" and "Some practical rules & examples for cask-gauging" ...
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  The practical gauger, being a plain and easie method of gauging all sorts of brewing vessels whereunto is added, a short synopsis of the laws of excise / by John Mayne.
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Mayne, John, fl. 1673-1675.
  Description:
  "A short synopsis or index of the laws of excise" has special t.p. Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.
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  Vade mecum, or The necessary companion Containing, 1. Sir S. Morland's Perpetual almanack, in copper plates, with many useful tables proper thereto. 2. Christian and regal years compar'd from the Norman conquest. 3. The reduction of weights, measures. 4. The ready casting up any number of farthings, half-pence, pence, shillings, nobles, marks, and guinneys. 5. The interest, and rebate of money, the forebearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities. 6. The rates of post-letters, both inland and outland, with the post-stages. 7. The usual and authorized rates or fares for coach-men, carr-men, and water-men.
  Date of publication:
  1680
  

  Author(s):

  Playford, John, ca. 1655-1685 or 6. ; Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625-1695. ; Mayne, John, fl. 1673-1675.
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  Epistle signed by John Playford. With initial table of contents. In seven parts, each with a divisional title page; "A companion for excise-men, .." has a separate dated title page, pagination, and register; the first 5 ...
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