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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First and only recorded edition. 12mo in sixes (approx. 6.25" x 4"). vi,[2], 138, [2 - publisher's ads] pp. Typographic diagrams throughout text.Contemporary marbled calf over boards, re-backed and re-cornered inmodern brown calf, gilt-stamped spine rules, endpapers retained. Edgesdarkened and chipped, faint rubbing to gilt rules, offsetting to ffepfrom removed bookplate; some soiling and chipping at extremities of titleleaf, toning at edges, occasional minor foxing/staining to text. A Good,nicely repaired copy of this uncommon primer on fractions and decimals,written by an otherwise obscure British excise officer and intended as ahandbook for those entering similar careers. ESTC N18541.

12mo in sixes, pp. vi, [ii], 138, [2] advertisements; title page remargined, but complete; solidly bound in contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt. Sole edition of this very rare book of arithmetic, and the only book by this author. Richard Ramsbottom, who was presumably originally from Lancashire, describes himself on the title page as 'an Officer in the Excise', and he was keen to make his treatise useful to other officers. Much of the text is to do with decimal arithmetic, but there is an explanation of duodecimals (useful for a currency based on twelve pennies to the shilling, and a measuring system based on twelve inches to the foot) on pp. 93-107. ESTC locates five copies in the UK (BL, Jesus Cambridge, ICA in London, and two in Oxford), and just three in the USA (Columbia, Clark and Buffalo & Erie county PL).

12mo, vi, (ii), 138, (2, advert.) pp., a little light waterstaining, worming in the upper margins, confined to a single hole through about half the book, but extending to multiple holes elsewhere, text unaffected, contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked. First edition. Richard Ramsbottom, "officer in the Excise," of Barnsley. Uncommon; eight copies located in the ESTC.

First Edition. also, rules to young officers of excise, for the examination of their own books, and rectifying errors.Sm. Slim 8vo. vi, [1] 138pp [1 adverts] half nineteenth century leather over marbled boards. marbled end-papers, Baronial Book-Plate. This appears to be the only edition printed. ESTC records 8 copies only. Fine Copy Rare Title.

First edition of this guide to calculating sums involving fractions, intended for the use of young excise officers. The author seems to have left little trace, and they published no other known books. Uncommon, with ESTC locating eight copies in British and American institutional holdings. ESTC N18541. Duodecimo (165 x 96 mm). Twentieth-century marbled boards. Refurbished with front joint and head of spine repaired; loose leaves re-inserted. A very good copy.