| Author | Fisher, George.
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| Title | The instructor, or American young man's best companion, improved; containing instructions for reading, writing, (including the English grammar;) arithmetic, merchants' accounts, mensuration, gauging according to the most modern and approved practice, and the art of dialling. Also a compendium of the sciences of geography and astronomy; a short description of steam engines, and a table of specific gravities of bodies, with rules for ascertaining the same. To which is added the rudiments of drawing, with several very useful tables, &c.
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| Published | Philadelphia, J. Bioren, 1812.
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| Description | xi, [13]-300 p. illus., tables, diagrs. 19 cm.
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| General Note | Copyright, 1810.
Published also under title: The American instructor; or Young man's best companion.
Has been erroneously ascribed to Mrs. Slack (i.e. Ann Fisher Slack) who wrote under the name, A. Fisher. Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat.; Halkett & Laing; Archaeologia aeliana of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 3d ser., v. 3, 17 and 18; L. C. Karpinski, "The elusive George Fisher, accomptant," 1935.
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| Subjects | Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.
Imprints, Early -- American -- To 1820.
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| Related Titles | American young man's best companion.
The American instructor.
Young man's best companion.
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| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: AG 104 F5 1812
mq70712: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 44129] |
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