Mayne, John. 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

Folger bibliographic ID: 144167
ESTC number: R217772
Wing number: M1482
Folger call number: M1482
Folger holdings ID: 145462

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

With an engraved frontispiece portrait of John Mayne Epistle dedicatory and the preface signed: John Mayne Title leaf is a cancel 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

Item information about Folger M1482

203797. Lacking paste-downs. Manuscript label ("145") on back inside cover. Provenance: inscription on t.p.: "P Tyrwhite (?)"

Extended title: 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
Alternate titles: Stereometry, Some practical rules & examples for cask-gauging, Short treatise of simple & compound interest, New way of gauging the frustum of a pyramid or conical tunn

Interest Arithmetic

author: Mayne, John, active 1673-1675