RECENTLY PUBLISHED,

THE FOLLOWING

HIGHLY APPROVED BOOKS,

WRITTEN BY A. NESBIT.

1. "A TREATISE ON PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC," PART THE FIRST;

IN One Volume, Third Edition, Price Five Shillings, bound; and, containing Numeration, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Reduction, Proportion, Practice, Tare and Tret, Simple Interest, Accounts Current, Commission, Brokerage, Insurance, Discount, Equation of Payments, Compound Interest, Profit and Loss, Barter, Single and Double Fellowship, and Bankruptcies; with NUMEROUS PRACTICAL QUESTIONS, adapted to the different RULES.

THIS WORK, also contains Forms of Receipts, Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange, Bill Books, Invoice Books, Bills of Lading, Sales' Books, Account Current Books, and Commercial Letters. LIKEWISE, a Correct Abstract of the New Act for the better Protection of the Property of Merchants, when consigned to Factors or Agents; the New Imperial Tables of Weights and Measures, with an Abstract of the Act for establishing their Uniformity; an Abridgement of the Statutes and Laws of Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes; Questions for the Examination of Pupils; and, "A CONCISE SYSTEM OF MENTAL ARITHMETIC."

THE WHOLE WORK is Illustrated by Numerous Notes, Remarks, and Observations; and adapted not only for the Use of Schools, but also for Shops, Counting Houses, and Private Students. -The Questions, in every Department, are both numerous and varied, and such as generally occur in Real Life and Business; and, every Question can be solved by such RULES as are given in the WORK. - This is an Advantage that very few Books on Arithmetic possess; for, every Teacher must have found, that a great many of the Works, on this Subject, contain Questions, without the Necessary Rules for obtaining their SOLUTIONS.

THE APPENDIX, which contains the Forms of Receipts, Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange, Bill Books, Invoice Books, Bills of Lading, Sales' Books, Account Current Books, Commercial Letters, &c. &c., has been found of Great Advantage to Young Gentlemen engaged in Mercantile Pursuits; as these subjects are inseparably connected with Real Trade and Business; and, also, form a General Introduction to BOOK KEEPING.

2. "A TREATISE ON PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC,”

PART THE SECOND;

Containing Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, Circulating Decimals, Duodecimals, Involution, Evolution; Square Root, Cube Root, Biquadrate Root, Universal Extraction, or the Method of Extracting any Root of any Power; and Rules and Directions for the GENERAL AND PRACTICAL USE OF LOGARITHMS.

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ALSO, Allegation Medial, Alternate, Partial, and Total; Single Position, Double Position, Arithmetical Progression, Geometrical Progression, Permutation, Combination, and Composition. Simple Interest by Decimals, and Compound Interest by Decimals; Annuities Certain, in Possession and Reversion; Purchasing Freehold Estates; Reversion of Freehold Estates; Purchasing Leases; Reversion of Leases; and the Renewal of Leases; with Remarks on the Advantages of Leases, &c. &c.

LIKEWISE, Life Annuities and Assurances, relating to both Single and Joint Lives; Survivorships, and Reversions; with Remarks on Life Assurance Companies. The Stocks, or Public Funds; including Exchequer Bills, India Bonds; and also Omnium and Scrip. - FOREIGN EXCHANGES: with copious Rules and Directions for Drawing and Remitting Bills of Exchange with Advantage; Simple Arbitration, by Proportion; and, Compound Arbitration, by the CHAIN RULE; and "A CONCISE COMMERCIAL DICTIONARY;" containing Definitions and Explanations of the Principal Commercial Terms; and comprising much MERCANTILE INFORMATION.

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THE WHOLE illustrated by Numerous Notes, Remarks, and Observations: and Exemplified by a Great Variety of Questions for Practice; and adapted not only for the USE OF SCHOOLS; but, also, for COUNTING HOUSES AND PRIVATE STUDENTS. In One Thick Volume; Price Seven Shillings and Sixpence, Bound.

THE PUBLISHERS anticipate, that the FIRST AND SECOND PARTS OF MR. NESBIT'S PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC, with the Two KEYS to these VOLUMES, will be found to form the MOST COMPLETE AND COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF ARITHMETIC, that has ever been offered to the NOTICE OF THE PUBLIC.

3. "A TREATISE ON PRACTICAL MENSURATION;" Containing the most approved Methods of drawing Geometrical Figures; a few of the most Useful Theorems in Euclid's Elements; Mensuration of Superficies; Land Surveying; Mensuration of Solids; the Description and Use of the Carpenter's Rule; Timber Measure, in which are shown the Methods of Measuring and Valuing Standing Timber; and Artificers' Works, illustrated by the Dimensions and Contents of a House. — The Mensuration of Hay Stacks, Drains, Canals, Marl Pits, Ponds, Mill Dams, Embankments, Quarries, and Coal Heaps. — Conic Sections and their Solids, with some of the Principal Properties of the Ellipse, the Parabola, and the Hyperbola. The most Useful Problems in Practical Gauging, including the Gauging and Ullaging of Casks; with the Description and Use of the SLIDING RULE.

PLANE TRIGONOMETRY; with its Application to finding the Heights and Distances of Inaccessible Objects. - The Method of finding the Altitudes of Mountains, by means of the Barometer, and Thermometer; Observations on the Figure and Magnitude of the Earth; the Properties of the Pendulum, &c. &c. which is added, "A Treatise on Levelling."

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"THE BUILDER'S DICTIONARY," containing an Explanation of the most General Terms made Use of in Architecture; and, the Work is concluded by Numerous Questions, for the EXAMINATION OF PUPILS.

THE FOURTEENTH EDITION, illustrated by a Great Number of Practical Examples, Wood Cuts, Miscellaneous Observations, &c. &c.; in One Large Volume, Price 68. Bound.

12mo.

THIS WORK is not only well adapted for the Use of Schools and Private Students; but in consequence of its PRACTICAL UTILITY, it is highly approved by Architects, Ciyil Engineers, and Land Surveyors; and, is in General Use, in their Offices, for the Instruction and Improvement of their ARTICLED PUPILS.