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The American Instructor; or, Young Man's Best CompanionTitle page from George Fisher's An American Instructor, instruction manual for schoolchildren and prospective merchants, 15th edition, published in…
Image opposite title page, George Fisher, An American InstructorImage of instructor giving lessons in schoolroom with charts and instruments and books
Numeration Table from FisherTable illustrating how to read and identify numbers
Addition of Money, from FisherExample of double entry bookkeeping, showing parallel lists of money owed and money spent
A New System of Mercantile Arithmetic, 3rd editionMathematical textbook
A New, Copious, and Complete System of ArithmeticMathematics textbook for schools and merchants
Schoolmaster’s Assistant; being a compendium of arithmetic, both practical and theoretical, 17th editionMathematics textbook, 17th edition, published in Philadelphia, 1773
The Preceptor’s Assistant, or Student's guide: being a systematical treatise of arithmetic, both vulgar and decimal; calculated for the use of schools, counting houses, and private families.
He Helu KamaliMathematics textbook in Hawaiian used to teach math and commerce at a missionary school in Honolulu
The Wonderful Advantages of Adventuring in the LotteryStory about the dangers of participating in the lottery, includes hand painted illustrations.