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JUST PUBLISHED AND TO BE SOLD BY<br />

James Humphreys,<br />

At <strong>the</strong> N. W. Corner of Walnut <strong>and</strong> Dock-street:.<br />

THE FIRST VOLUME OF<br />

The Commercial Dictionary ;<br />

Conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />

THE PRESENT STATE OF<br />

Mercantile Law, Practice, <strong>and</strong> Cuftom:<br />

BT JOSHUA MONTEFIORE.<br />

WITH VERY CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS RELATIVE TO THE<br />

Laws, Usages,<br />

<strong>and</strong> Practice of <strong>the</strong> United States.<br />

IN THREE VOLUMES.<br />

£3* The fecond Volume will be published next Week*<br />

The Elements of Book-keep<strong>in</strong>g ;<br />

Compris<strong>in</strong>g a System of Merchants' Accounts, founded on Real Bus<strong>in</strong>ess, <strong>and</strong><br />

adapted to Modern Practice, with an Appendix on Exchanges, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>the</strong> recent Alterations <strong>in</strong> France, Holl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Italy. By. P. Kelly, Master<br />

of F<strong>in</strong>sbury- square Academy, London. From <strong>the</strong> Second London Edi-<br />

tion, augmented <strong>and</strong> improved.<br />

Extraff from <strong>the</strong> Preface.<br />

"Though <strong>the</strong> utility <strong>and</strong> importance of Book-keep<strong>in</strong>g be universally understood<br />

<strong>and</strong> acknowledged, <strong>the</strong> use of any new work on ihe subject may<br />

be questioned, when so many fystems have been written already by men of<br />

talents <strong>and</strong> It is<br />

learn<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

a fact, however, well known, though not easily<br />

accounted for, that <strong>the</strong>re is not, <strong>in</strong> this great commercial nation, any Ele-<br />

mentary Treatise that accords with <strong>the</strong> improved practice ol <strong>the</strong> Count<strong>in</strong>ghouse.—The<br />

object, <strong>the</strong>refore, of <strong>the</strong> prefent undertak<strong>in</strong>g is,— to expla<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Pr<strong>in</strong>ciples <strong>and</strong> Modern Improvements of Merchants Accounts— to illustrate<br />

Rules by real Transactions—

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