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The American Instructor; or, Young Man's Best Companion
Title page from George Fisher's An American Instructor, instruction manual for schoolchildren and prospective merchants, 15th edition, published in Philadelphia
Image opposite title page, George Fisher, An American Instructor
Image of instructor giving lessons in schoolroom with charts and instruments and books
Numeration Table from Fisher
Table illustrating how to read and identify numbers
Addition of Money, from Fisher
Example of double entry bookkeeping, showing parallel lists of money owed and money spent
A New System of Mercantile Arithmetic, 3rd edition
Mathematical textbook
A New, Copious, and Complete System of Arithmetic
Mathematics textbook for schools and merchants
Schoolmaster’s Assistant; being a compendium of arithmetic, both practical and theoretical, 17th edition
Mathematics textbook, 17th edition, published in Philadelphia, 1773
He Helu Kamali
Mathematics textbook in Hawaiian used to teach math and commerce at a missionary school in Honolulu
The Wonderful Advantages of Adventuring in the Lottery
Story about the dangers of participating in the lottery, includes hand painted illustrations.