Practical Counting House: Or, Calculation and Accountantship Illustrated in All the Cases that Can Occur in Trade, Domestic Or Foreign, Proper Or Company ... To which is Added an Appendix, Containing Precedents of Writing, English and Scots ... and a Book of Rates, Exhibiting, at One View, the Duty and Drawback Upon Every Commodity the British Merchant Exports Or Imports, with a Summary of the Laws Respecting the SameJ. Duncan, 1777 - 530 pages |
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