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Albany Historical Society Inc > Records

MERCHANTS' ACCOUNTS; OR BOOK-KEEPING ACCORDING TO THE ITALIAN METHOD OF DOUBLE ENTRY

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1826

Overview

Brown leather hard cover (front loose) with faded ink title 'Book-keeping' Inside at top of title page is written in ink 'George Cooper, Albany Jan 1880'. On preface page 'George Cooper Albany February 18th 1880'. 152 pages with diagrams. Book-keeping according to the Italian Method, owed its origin to being first invented at Venice and practised there with success about the fifteenth century.

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cwa-org-51-B2006.120

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LANGFORD, R.

Keywords

Education - Mathematics

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Statement of significance

Late 19th Century Book-Keeping instruction book presume may have been used by George Cooper in Albany?

Albany Historical Society Inc

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