THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL BOOK-KEEPING, ADAPTED TO THE COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES, IN ITS DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN RELATIONS
by Bennet, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Collins, Brother & Co, 1842. Comprehending all of the modern improvements in the practice of the art, and exemplified in one set of books kept by double entry, embracing five different methods of keeping a journal. Designed for the use of schools. To which are added forms of the most approved auxiliary books. With a copperplate engraving, exhibiting at one view the final balance of the leger. Large fold-out balance chart exhibiting a complete a complete and final Balance of the Accounts in a Merchant's Leger kept by Double or Single Entry. Brown cloth covers in Fair condition with bumped corners with boards exposed, marks on front and back, ex-lib. sticker on front top corner. Spine has gilt lettering but is very worn with tears, rubbed, boards exposed on top and bottom edges, 1.25 inch of spine missing on bottom, and 1/2 inch portion of top spine is ripped. Ex. library bookplate on front inside cover, library identification numbers on front free endpaper and on back of foldout chart. Broken front and back hinges. Foxing and browning throughout interior and on chart. Book in Good+ condition.. Twenty-First Edition. Cloth. Good+. Illus. by Fold Out Chart. Size: Approx. 6 3/4" x 10". Accounting.
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- Seller
- Bee Creek Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 005692
- Title
- THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL BOOK-KEEPING, ADAPTED TO THE COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES, IN ITS DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN RELATIONS
- Author
- Bennet, James
- Illustrator
- Fold Out Chart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- Twenty-First Edition
- Publisher
- Collins, Brother & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1842
- Keywords
- Accounting, Bookkeeping, Commerce, Foreign Relations
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business/Economics; Banking;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 6 3/4" x 10"
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About the Seller
Bee Creek Books
Biblio member since 2010
Princeton, New Jersey
About Bee Creek Books
Welcome to Bee Creek Books! We specialize in rare and out of print books in a variety of subjects (fiction to fishing, the arts to agriculture), old government documents, rare periodicals, vintage journals, no longer printed reports and quarterlies, classic maps and charts, photos, and much more!
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Good+
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Bookplate
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- Fair
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