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• The new universal ready reckoner; or, Every trader's infallible guide : containing new and complete tables, most carefully cast up, and exhibiting at one point of view the value or amount of any quantity of goods in trade or merchandise, from one farthing to twenty shillings, not only by the pound, ounce, yard, ell, &c. but also by the long or short hundred, half hundred, &c.
  by: Bettesworth, John
  Published: (1780)
• The carpenters rule made easie : Or, The art of measuring superficies and solids: also a second way being the ground-work for measuring timber, stone, board, glass, &c. With a table of account, much enlarged performing multiplication and division, in arithmetick and geometry, by inspiction into the golden rule, and rule reverse. It being of excellent use for carpenters, joyners, masons, glasiers, painters, sawyers, or any that shall have occasion to buy or sell, perform'd by tables for that purpose. By John Darling
  by: Darling, John
  Published: (1709)
• Practical measuring made easy to the meanest capacity : by a new set of tables; Which shew at Sight, The Solid or Superficial Content (and consequently the Value) of any Piece or Quantity of squared or round Timber, be it Standing or Felled, also of Stone, Board, Glass, &c. made Use of in the Erecting or Repairing of any Building, &c. Contrived to answer all the Occasions of Gentlemen and Artificers, far beyond any Thing yet extant: The Contents being given in Feet, Inches, and Twelfth Parts of an Inch. With a preface; shewing the excellence of this new method of measuring, and Demonstrating, that whoever ventures to rely upon those Obsolete Tables and Directions Published by Isaac Keay, is liable to be deceived (in common Cases) 10 s. in the Pound. By E. Hoppus, Surveyor to the Corporation of the London Assurance. Greatly improved, by the following additions; I. New tables shewing at Sight the Value of any Piece or Quantity of Timber, Stone, &c. at Any Price, per Foot Cube. II. Mr. Hoppus's table of solid measure applied to the Freighting of Ships. III. Some very curious observations concerning the Measuring of Timber by Several Dimentions, communicated by one of his Majesty's purveyors
  by: Hoppus, Edward
  Published: (1759)
• Practical measuring made easy to the meanest capacity, by a new set of tables : which shew at sight, the solid or superficial content (and consequently the value) of any piece or quantity of squared or round timber ... with a preface, shewing the excellence of this new method of measuring
  by: Hoppus, Edward
  Published: (1771)
• Practical measuring made easy to the meanest capacity by a new set of tables : which shew at sight, the solid or superficial content ... of any piece or quantity of squared or round timber ... with a preface
  by: Hoppus, Edward
  Published: (1784)