[Rarebooks] PA.-GERMAN PRINTING

[Norman Kane]

CAESAR, JOHANN SIMON.  DER GESCHWINDE INTRESSEN-RECHNER . . . VON EINEM TAGE BIS ZUM GANZEN JAHR . . .  Reading, (Penn.); Johann Ritter & Comp., 1816. First German edition (also published in English the same year as "The Ready Calculator of Interest.")   Old (presumed original) leather-backed marbled boards, a very good copy.  [44] pages.  There is a divisional title page for the second section, "Berechnung der Intressen in Federal-Geld ..."  Arndt & Eck, "The First Century of German Language Printing in the U.S.A.", #2184. Karpinski, "Bibliography of Mathematical Works Printed in America Through 1850" p. 207, with repro. of the title page on p. 208.  A good example of utilitarian German-American publishing in the early 19th Century. $135.00
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