A New and Complete System of Book-Keeping, by an improved method of double entry: adapted to retail, domestic and foreign trade:

Philadelphia: Bioren & Maden, 1796.

exhibiting a variety of transactions which usually occur in business...To which is added, a table of the duties payable on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States of America. The whole in dollars and cents. pages 6-454. 8vo, contemporary calf, leather label, spine and edges of covers worn, covers lightly worn, front hinge cracked, but holding, scattered light foxing, light dampstain to pages 415-454. Philadelphia: Bioren & Maden, 1796. First Edition

This copy lacks pages 1-5 of the introduction. The top right corner of the title page is torn with the loss of letter "M" in the word "System." Pages 231 and 255 are repeated in the pagination as in all published copies. This book is divided into three parts. The third part is the bookkeeping systems in use in 1796 which can be used as a comparison to the new method shown in the first and second parts of this work. Evans 30802.

Edition: First
Language: English

Price: $1,200.00

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