Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
89.33.024
Accession#:
89.33
Credit Line:
Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Seely Hall.
Object Name:
Book
Title:
The Merchant And Seaman's Expeditions Measurer Book
Creator:
Nash, A.L.
Scope & Content:
Gold leather with brown accents covers hardbound book. One hundred ninety six pages Right edge of pages has tabs one through eleven, red one, one through eleven, red two,one through eleven, red three, and one through eleven. Book is list of tables to compute "solid content" or volume of goods. Will E. Deyo has been purple stamped inside cover and crossed out. H.E. Biggs has been black—stamped twice inside cover, also written on cover. Published by A. L. Nash, New—York.
Inscription: "THE MERCHANT AND SEAMAN'S / EXPEDITIOUS MEASURER; CONTAINING A SET OF TABLES WHICH SHOW AT ONE VIEW, THE SOLID CONTENTS OF ALL KINDS OF PACKAGES AND CASKS; ACCORDING TO THEIR SEVERAL / LENGTH, BREADTHS, AND DEPTHS; Also, Rules for Determining the Contents of ALL SORTS OF CASKS, IN WINE AND BEER MEASURE"
Material: Paper/Paper/Ink
Inscription: "THE MERCHANT AND SEAMAN'S / EXPEDITIOUS MEASURER; CONTAINING A SET OF TABLES WHICH SHOW AT ONE VIEW, THE SOLID CONTENTS OF ALL KINDS OF PACKAGES AND CASKS; ACCORDING TO THEIR SEVERAL / LENGTH, BREADTHS, AND DEPTHS; Also, Rules for Determining the Contents of ALL SORTS OF CASKS, IN WINE AND BEER MEASURE"
Material: Paper/Paper/Ink
Notes:
See 89.33.23
Search Terms:
Business
Store
Store