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by George Accomptant Fisher (Created by)
Title: The American instructor, or, Young man's best companion: containing spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetick in an easier way than any yet published: and how to qualify any person for business, without the help of a master: instructions to write variety of hands ...: how to write letters on business or friendship: forms of indentures ... releases, &c.: also, merchants' accompts and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping: with a description of the several American colonies: together with the carpenter's plain and exact rule, shewing how to measure carpenters '] ... and painters '] work ... likewise the practical gauger made easy ...: to which is added the poor planter's physician ... and also prudent advice to young tradesmen and dealers: the whole better adapted to these American colonies than any other book of the like kind.Author: Fisher, George, accomptant.Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04595800CollectionID: CTRG03-B1127PublicationDate: 17480101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: v, 378 p., 5] leaves of plates (1 fold.): ill.; 17 cm
