The Tutor's Guide: Being a Complete System of Arithmetic; with Various Branches in the Mathematics ... To which is Added, an Appendix, Containing Different Forms of Acquittances, Bills of Exchange, &c. &c. ... |
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| Title | The Tutor's Guide: Being a Complete System of Arithmetic; with Various Branches in the Mathematics ... To which is Added, an Appendix, Containing Different Forms of Acquittances, Bills of Exchange, &c. &c. ... |
| Author | Charles Vyse |
| Edition | 15 |
| Publisher | G. Wilkie, 1815 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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