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' 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, shewing how to measure carpenters['] ... and painters['] work ... 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. / by George Fisher.
Author/creator |
Fisher, George, accomptant |
Format | Electronic and Book |
Edition | 9th ed., rev. and corr. |
Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1748. |
Description | v, 378 p., [5] leaves of plates (1 fold.) : ill. ; 17 cm. |
Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
Subject(s) |
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Portion of title | Young man's best companion |
Caption title | Instructions for youth |
Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED |
Local note | Library's copy imperfect: heavily foxed throughout, obscuring some text. |
Local note | Library's copy imperfect: heavily foxed throughout, obscuring some text. |
Local note | Library's copy imperfect: heavily foxed throughout, obscuring some text. |
Local note | Library's copy imperfect: heavily foxed throughout, obscuring some text. |
General note | Reproduction of original from Huntington Library. |
General note | Sabin no. 24459. |
References | RLIN, CTRG03-B1127 |
Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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