Arithmetick vulgar, decimal, & algebraical. In a most plain and facile method for common capacities. Together with a treatise of simple and compound interest and rebate; with two tables for the calculation of the value of leases and annuities, payable quarterly; the one for simple, the other for compound interest, at 6. per cent. per annum; with rules for making the like for any other rate. To which is added a new, and most practical way of gauging of tunns. As also the art of cask-gauging, for the use of His Majesties Officers of the Excise.

Abstract

With an engraved frontispiece portrait of John Mayne. Epistle dedicatory and the preface signed: John Mayne. With a table of contents. "A short treatise of simple & compound interest" and "Stereometry" have separate title pages dated 1673; pagination and register are continuous. "A new way of gauging the frustum of a pyramid or conical tunn" and "Some practical rules & examples for cask-gauging" have divisional titles; pagination and register are continuous. With a final leaf of errata and a notice advertising John Mayne as a teacher of mathematics. The words "vulger .. algebraical." are bracketed together on the title page. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.