The American instructor: or, Young man's best companion : Containing, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick, 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 indentures ... releases, &c. : Also merchants accounts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping. : Together with a method of measuring carpenters ... and painters work ... : Likewise the practical gauger made easy ... and some general observations for gardening every month in the year. : With instructions how to pickle and preserve; to make divers sorts of wine; and many excellent plasters and medicines, necessary in all families. : A compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy. Also some useful interest-tables. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 20709. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | Erroneously attributed to Ann Fisher Slack in Halkett & Laing. Textually and typographically identical, except for the title page, with the issue with title: The instructor, or Young man's best companion ... Burlington: Printed by Isaac Collins, M,DCC,LXXV [i.e. 1787]. Errors in paging: pages 353, 354 misnumbered 253, 254. Frontispiece engraved by James Thackara. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 372 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 17 cm. (duodecimo) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |