The American instructor: or, Young man's best companion : Containing spelling, reading, writing and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published; and how to qualify any person for business, without the help of a master. : Instructions to write variety of hands ... How to write letters on business or friendship. Forms of indenture ... releases, &c. : Also merchants accompts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping; with a description of the several American colonies. : Together with the carpenter's plain and exact rule ... : Likewise the practical gauger made easy ... : To which is added, the poor planter's physician ... and also, prudent advice to young tradesmen and dealers. The whole better adapted to these American colonies, than any other book of the like kind. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The fifteenth edition, revised and corrected. |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 11859. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | Erroneously attributed to Ann Fisher Slack in Halkett & Laing. American editors' preface signed: Vale & Fruere. A re-issue, with cancelled title page, of the fourteenth edition, "Printed and sold by H. Gaine, at the Bible and Crown, in Hanover-Square, M,DCC,LXX." Gaine's advertisement on page 390 is retained. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 unnumbered pages, v, 1 unnumbered page, 390 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm. (duodecimo) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- New York -- New York. United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |