Author: DAY, B.H.
Title: Day's American Ready Reckoner: Containing Tables for Rapid Calculations of Aggregate Values, Wages, Salaries, Board, Interest Money, Timber, Plank, Board, Wood, and Land Measurements, with Explanations of the Proper Methods of Reckoning Them, and Simple Rules for Measuring Land
Description: New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1866. Hardcover. 16mo. Brown cloth spine with gilt lettering and yellow printed paper over boards. 192pp, (36pp ads). Text endpapers. Very good. A bit edgeworn, with spine lettering quite rubbed, but overall clean, tight and internally near fine; tiny front pastedown ownership initials. Attractive copy of this early construction estimating guide, whose mile-long title is truncated on front board to "Day's American Ready Reckoner and Log Measurer" -- with charming front board graphic depicting two men in a sawmill.. measuring logs! Lovely copy of a title usually found in horrific condition. .

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