A charming little all-in-one pocket reference book for simple math and measurements, aimed at young people.
Very good.
Price: $100.00
"It is hoped that the set of Tables here offered to the public, has some advantages over those already in use."
Mahlon Day, a Quaker publisher, printer, and bookseller, was "one of the two printers who dominated the New York City children's book publishing scene in the early 19th century" (Modero). His varied output included simple reference chapbooks such as this one, which would have occupied a similar niche as a smartphone: an all-in-one calculator, currency converter, measurement reference, and more, all in your pocket.
Read more: Gina Modero, "A Printer's Account of the Caribbean: Mahlon Day's Diary," New-York Historical Society; Robin Halwas Limited, American Mathematical Textbooks 1760-1850, item 441.
New-York: Mahlon Day, [circa 1828]. 4.5'' x 3.75''. Original yellow pictorial wrappers. Black-and-white pictorial title page with several black-and-white woodcuts and charts throughout. 24 pages, ads to rear wrapper. Contemporary gift inscription to verso of front wrapper. Contemporary vernacular sewn repairs to spine. Wrappers with light soil and edgewear. Leaves with scattered soil and edgewear. A sound survival.
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