The exact dealer : being an useful companion for all traders. In two parts. I. Containing the growth, manufacture, and trade of all the counties of England and Wales in general. The trade of London in particular, in it self and with other nations. A description of weights, measures and coins, with their value, as compared with foreign coins, and to know the true from counterfeit; as also the estimate of sundry commodities. ... II. Containing directions for measuring carpenters, joiners, painters, plasterers, glasiers, bricklayers work, &c. superficial or solid,; as also for surveying land, and measuring stack-wood, or any timber: together with the exact rule of gauging casks, ships, &c. and many other matters, &c. not before made publick. By J.H. author of The secretary's guide.
1688
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Title
The exact dealer : being an useful companion for all traders. In two parts. I. Containing the growth, manufacture, and trade of all the counties of England and Wales in general. The trade of London in particular, in it self and with other nations. A description of weights, measures and coins, with their value, as compared with foreign coins, and to know the true from counterfeit; as also the estimate of sundry commodities. ... II. Containing directions for measuring carpenters, joiners, painters, plasterers, glasiers, bricklayers work, &c. superficial or solid,; as also for surveying land, and measuring stack-wood, or any timber: together with the exact rule of gauging casks, ships, &c. and many other matters, &c. not before made publick. By J.H. author of The secretary's guide.
Created/published
London : Printed for H. Rhodes, next door to the Swan-Tavern, near Bride-Lane in Fleet-street, 1688.
Description
[12], 187, [5] p. : ill. ; (12mo)
Associated name
Note
J.H. = John Hill.
Frontis. = ill.
Frontis. = ill.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), H1989
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R11066
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R11066
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
H1989
Folger-specific note
142535. Manuscript marks, including shelf-mark on armorial bookplate. Lacking frontispiece. Lacking two final leaves. T.p. poorly inked, affecting imprint. H6 trimmed. Armorial bookplate on front inside cover pasted over and obscuring manuscript marks. Provenance: inscription on t.p.: "Robert Lovell."; inscription on G5r: "Lewis James his Booke 1724"; inscription on back inside cover: "Thomas Groves His Book"; signature on A3r and armorial bookplate of Sir Archibald Grant of Monymoske (motto "suum cuique")