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Proposals for publishing, by subscription or order, in one volume, royal octavo, price half a guinea in boards, to be paid on delivery, or on subscription-at pleasure, an original work; never having been before attempted; of the most general use, viz. The estimate-book of rents, interests, and dividends Of profits, losses, charges, allowances, discounts, duties, drawbacks, and bounties; covering insurance, and average losses; dividends on bankrupt-estates; exchanges, and arbitration of exchanges; differences in weights and measures of all kinds, in all countries, &c. &c. the universal tables, for buying, selling, and speculations, in lands, houses, the public funds, and the stocks of the public companies; and in every article of produce, manufacture, merchandize, &c. the per-cent-book. To which will be added, tables of annuities certain, annuities on lives, and assurances on lives. For the use of every person of property; gentlemen of the law, and every person acting in turst for others; every proprietor in the public funds, or in the stocks of the public companies, and such as may wish to become properitors; every banker; and every agent, and broker: and of every person in trade. viz. merchant, factor, wholesale-dealer, manufacturer, &c. &c. of every denomination. With an introduction, containing familiar examples of the application of the tables, by inspection, to their extensive and various uses; to render the same perfectly easy to any person. By George Black. Among many other respectable gentlemen, and men of business, to whom the manuscript has been shewn, and whose approbation and recommendation the work has received, are the following: the Rev. Richrad Price, D.D.F.R.S. &c. William Morgan, Esq. actuary of the equitable assurance society. Thomas Coutts, Esq. and Co. bankers. Meses. R.H.G. & A.B....
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Indo-Iranian studies : being commemorative papers contributed by European, American and Indian scholars.
Table of Contents: “…Dewhurst -- Palace ruins and Cyrus relief pasargadµ / Herbert Cushing Tolman -- The Indo-Iranians and their neighbours / Edward Joseph Thomas -- An allusion to Manichµism and Zoroastrianism in the Armenian writer Eznig of Goghp / Vahan H. …”
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