95 leaves, folio (324 x 197 mm). Written in cursive in black ink. (Some spotting and staining.) Bound in contemporary paper covers (stained and with a few annotations, one quire unglued from covers). Provenance: Charles Peters (signature and title-page). 

 

Charles Peters attended Oyster Bay Academy, where he kept this book, likely a copy of his teacher’s exercises. Including information about the calculation of interest, calculation of American duties, equation of payment, loss and gain, “Reducing the Current money of Holland into Bank money,” the Double Rule of Three, and annuities.