57pp, folio (330 x 200 mm). Written in cursive in black and brown ink, with decorative headings and borders. (A few leaves excised at end.) Contemporary linen over newspaper waste (manuscript annotations on lower cover). Provenance: Edward W. Scott (signatures).

 

Includes exercises and examples of simple and compound addition, federal money, troy weights, averdupois, apothecary weights, cloth measurements, land measurements, compound multiplication and division, dry and liquid measurements, single and double rules of 3, practice tables, insurance commission and brokerage, and the purchasing of stocks.