The scales of commerce and trade: ballancing betwixt the buyer and seller, artificer and manufacture, debitor and creditor, the most general questions, artificiall rules, and usefull conclusions incident to traffique: comprehended in two books. The first states the ponderates to equity and custome, all usuall rules, legall bargains and contracts, in wholesale ot [sic] retaile, with factorage, returnes, and exchanges of forraign coyn, of interest-money, both simple and compounded, with solutions from naturall and artificiall arithmetick. The second book treats of geometricall problems and arithmeticall solutions, in dimensions of lines, superficies and bodies, both solid and concave, viz. land, wainscot, hangings, board, timber, stone, gaging of casks, military propositions, merchants accounts by debitor and creditor; architectonice, or the art of building. / By Thomas Willsford Gent.

Abstract

"The debitor and creditor: or A perfect method for keeping merchants accounts, after the Italian manner" has separate dated title page. Pagination and register are continuous. "Architectonice" (Thomason E.1748[2]) has separate title page dated 1659, and separate pagination; register is continuous. On signatures Q7-R8, opposite pages bear duplicate numbering. Signatures P4-R8 bear tables and ledgers. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Febr 1659"; the last two numbers of imprint date are crossed out. Text is continuous despite pagination. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.