Dilworth's Assistant, Adapted to the Commerce of the Citizens of the United States: Being a Compendium of Arithmetic Both Practical and Theoretical
New York: R. McDermut and E. Dykinck, 1810. Hardcover. Full leather with gilt on spine bands; (4) 229 (4) pp. Good(front and back covers and spine are intact, but leather is chipped and peeling throughout; corner of front cover at head end and spine at foot end is completely cracked off; edges of covers are worn; hinges at the 40 pp. are cracked; inside of front cover is signed by a previous owner in ink; title page is signed; pages 11-15 appear to have a burn hole at head end that does not obstruct text; pages are damp stained throughout, with some minor staining and foxing throughout; there is moderate age toning, as expected; small number of pages are ragged at front of the text block, toward foot end; page 5 is torn; page 21 is torn near hinge; page 23 is close torn; pages 137 is torn with a small piece missing; page 139 is close torn; some pages at the beginning of the text block are torn at the edges toward the foot end;). Item #191289
In five parts; This book is "an early and popular English arithmetic textbook"... "first published in England in 1743. An American edition was published in 1769; by 1786 it had reached 23 editions, and through 1800 it was the most popular mathematics text in America." -- Wikipedia. This edition was "carefully revised and adapted to the commerce of the citizens of the United States, with many additions in the various rules, by James Gibbons." -- FirstSearch.
OCLC: 8675713
Price: $40.00