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  The scales of commerce and trade: ballancing betwixt the buyer and seller, artificer and manufacture, debitor and creditor, the most general questions, artificiall rules, and usefull conclusions incident to traffique: comprehended in two books. The first states the ponderates to equity and custome, all usuall rules, legall bargains and contracts, in wholesale ot [sic] retaile, with factorage, returnes, and exchanges of forraign coyn, of interest-money, both simple and compounded, with solutions from naturall and artificiall arithmetick. The second book treats of geometricall problems and arithmeticall solutions, in dimensions of lines, superficies and bodies, both solid and concave, viz. land, wainscot, hangings, board, timber, stone, gaging of casks, military propositions, merchants accounts by debitor and creditor; architectonice, or the art of building. / By Thomas Willsford Gent.
  Date of publication:
  1660
  

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  Willsford, Thomas.
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  "The debitor and creditor: or A perfect method for keeping merchants accounts, after the Italian manner" has separate dated title page. Pagination and register are continuous. "Architectonice" (Thomason E.1748[2]) has ...
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  Natures secrets. Or, The admirable and wonderfull history of the generation of meteors. Particularly describing, the temperatures and qualities of the four elements, the heights, magnitudes, and influences of the fixt and wandring stars: the efficient and finall causes of comets, earthquakes, deluges, epidemicall diseases, and prodigies of precedent times; registred by the students of nature. Their conjecturall presages of the weather, from the planets mutuall aspects, and sublunary bodies: with the proportions and observations on the weather-glass, with philosophicall paraphrases rendred explicitely, usefull at sea and land. / By the industry and observations of Thomas Willsford, Gent.
  Date of publication:
  1658
  

  Author(s):

  Willsford, Thomas. and Vaughan, Robert, engraver.
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  The portrait of the author is signed: Ro: Vaughan fecit. Final [9] p. = [1] page of errata and [8] pages of advertisement for Nath. Brook. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug:". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  Willsfords arithmetick, naturall, and artificiall: or, decimalls. Containing the science of numbers, digested in three books. Made compendious and facile for all ingenious capacities, viz: merchants, citizens, sea-men, accomptants, &c. Together with the theorie and practice united in a sympathetical proportion betwixt lines and numbers, in their quantitites and qualities, as in respect of form, figure, magnitude and affection: demonstrated by geometrie, illustrated by calculations, and confirmed with variety of examples in every species. / By Thomas Willsford, Gent.
  Date of publication:
  1656
  

  Author(s):

  Willsford, Thomas. and Vaughan, Robert, engraver.
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  The portrait is signed: Ro: Vaughan sculp:. "The second book shewing the extracting of square & cubique roots, &c." and "Artificiall arithmetick: or, numbers divided into sections, and these in chapters" each have separate ...
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