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The Valuation of Annuities on Lives, Deduced from the London Bills of Mortality; with Several Tables exhibiting at one View, the Values of Lives at different Rates of Interest...
by Stonehouse, S
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- Hardcover
- first
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; Printed for S. Birt and H. Whitridge, 1754., 1754. Hard Cover. First and only edition. Octavo, pp. [8], [5]-107, [1]. 2 decorative head-pieces; 14 Tables. Contemporary full sprinkled polished calf with 5 raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine and double gilt fillet to boards. Edges rubbed with minor loss to head of spine and joints just starting. Armorial bookplate of Anthony Lax Maynard to front paste-down, in die-sinker style of the very early nineteenth century. A very good copy. Based upon the Bills of Mortality over the preceding twenty years in order to calculate life expectancy and annuity returns. From the legal library of Derby solicitor Anthony Lax-Maynard (1742-1825) of West House, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Scarce. Rare, not in Kress. ESTC: T177509.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11902
- Title
- The Valuation of Annuities on Lives, Deduced from the London Bills of Mortality; with Several Tables exhibiting at one View, the Values of Lives at different Rates of Interest...
- Author
- Stonehouse, S
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London; Printed for S. Birt and H. Whitridge, 1754.
- Date Published
- 1754
- Keywords
- Business & Economics
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Keel Row Books
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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- Bookplate
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