The American Accomptant [Chauncey, Lee] 1797 SOLD
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FIRST BOOK TO ADOPT THE DOLLAR SIGN
LEE, Chauncey. The American Accomptant; Being a Plain, Practical and Systematic Compedium of Federal Arithmetic; in Three Parts: Designed for the Use of Schools and Specially Calculated for the commercial Meridian of the United States of America. Lansingburgh: William W. Wands, 1797.
Frontispiece engraving of coins in current usage in the U.S. by A. Reed including what Eric P. Newman has called the first published illustration of a United States coin.
This book is the first to adopt the dollar sign (Howes) and provides one of the earliest explanations of the nation's novel decimal system, specifying how to compute the exchange of Federal money for state and foreign currencies which freely circulated at the time. Howes L196. Sabin 39719. Evans 32366. NUC 0196251.
12mo, full contemporary brown calf cover. 297 pp. The cover is somewhat worn and scuffed; the frontispiece is all there, torn but easily repaired. Some age toning throughout but minimal. Detailed early ownership inscriptions.
LEE, Chauncey. The American Accomptant; Being a Plain, Practical and Systematic Compedium of Federal Arithmetic; in Three Parts: Designed for the Use of Schools and Specially Calculated for the commercial Meridian of the United States of America. Lansingburgh: William W. Wands, 1797.
Frontispiece engraving of coins in current usage in the U.S. by A. Reed including what Eric P. Newman has called the first published illustration of a United States coin.
This book is the first to adopt the dollar sign (Howes) and provides one of the earliest explanations of the nation's novel decimal system, specifying how to compute the exchange of Federal money for state and foreign currencies which freely circulated at the time. Howes L196. Sabin 39719. Evans 32366. NUC 0196251.
12mo, full contemporary brown calf cover. 297 pp. The cover is somewhat worn and scuffed; the frontispiece is all there, torn but easily repaired. Some age toning throughout but minimal. Detailed early ownership inscriptions.
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