CATALOGUE OF USEFUL BOOKS Published by Effingham Wilson, 11, ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. WILSON'S HANDBOOK OF THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE, WITH A MEMOIR OF SIR THOMAS GRESHAM, THE FOUnder. In 1 vol. 12mo, with 18 Embellishments, in cloth, 2s. 6d. "We are glad to welcome this Publisher back to his old place of business. His house has issued many valuable commercial works! His first publication in his new establishment is both well timed and well calculated to secure public favour."-Britannia. THE ENGLISH FENN'S COMPENDIUM OF AND FOREIGN FUNDS. Banks, Railways, Mines, and the principal Joint Stock Companies, forming an epitome of the various objects of investment and speculation negociable in London; with an account of the debts and revenues of the British Empire and foreign States, a variety of tables explanatory of the public debt, the conversion of stocks, the Bank of England, the public funds, and also an epitome of the rules and regulations of the Stock Exchange. To which are added the latest returns of every railway in the United Kingdom, with its capital, debt, rate of dividend, traffic mileage, &c.; the latest balance sheets of the Loudon joint stock banks; an official list of all funds, railway shares, joint stock companies, mines, and other public securities that are negociated on the London Stock Exchange; with a great variety of information connected with the dealing of these securities; the whole of which are brought down to the latest period, so as to render the work alike useful to the CAPITALIST, THE BANKER, THE MERCHANT OR THE PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL. The sixth edition revised, corrected, and brought down to the present time. Any Book in this Catalogue will be sent Post Free, to any part of the United Kingdom, on receipt of the price of the Book. 2 CATALOGUE OF USEFUL BOOKS Commercial Works. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR THOMAS GRESHAM, KNIGHT, FOUNDER OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE; Including Notices of many of his contemporaries, by SIR THOMAS GRESHAM, with a liberality truly patriotic, erected for the convenience of Merchants, the ROYAL EXCHANGE; and in addition to his other extensive Charities, founded and endowed Seven Lectureships, for the Gratuitous instruction of the CITIZENS OF LONDON in the seven liberal Sciences. It is therefore confidently presumed, that few Merchants, Bankers, or Members of the Corporation of the City of London, will be without it. 2 vols. 8vo, 15s. Very few copies remain for sale of the large paper in 2 vols. royal 8vo, with proof impressions of the plates, price £1 10s., published at £3. * "These are two magnificent volumes in regard to size, illustration and typography; nor are their literary contents unworthy of their external splendour, or the fame of the distinguished merchant to whose biography they are devoted."United Service Gazette. Bank of England Decimal Tables. Just published, in 4to, price 4 florins, or 8s. 6d. post free, DECIMAL TABLES USED AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND, for reducing the gross weight of gold and silver to standard weight according to the assay reports. BY WILLIAM MILLER, Cashier, Bank of England. Το which is prefixed a copy of the Act 16 Vic. cap. 19, establishing the ounce as the standard or unit of troy weight. Gumersall's Tables of Interest, &c. Interest and Discount Tables, computed at 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, and 5 per cent from 1 to 365 days, and from £1 to £20,000, that the Interest or Discount on any sum, for any number of days, at any of the above rates, may be obtained by the inspection of one page only. Each Rate occupies eighty pages: the last five of which are devoted to the same number of pounds from 1 to 11 months, and from 1 to 10 years. They are also accompanied with Tables of Time and Brokerage, being altogether a vast improvement on Thompson and others. By T. B. GUMERSALL, Accountant, London. This work is pre-eminently distinguished from all others on the same subject by facility of reference, distinctness of type, and accuracy of calculation. Ninth Edition, in 1 vol. 8vo, (pp. 500), price 10s. 6d. bound in cloth. Information about the British Funds: Being an accurate Account of the different Funds and Stocks; the No. 11, South-East Corner, PUBLISHED BY EFFINGHAM WILSON. Monies, Weights and Measures of all Nations. 3 TATE'S MODERN CAMBIST; forming a Manual of Exchanges in the various operations of Bills of Exchange and Bullion; with Tables of Foreign Weights and Measures, with their equivalents in English and French, according to the practice of all Trading Nations. By WILLIAM TATE. "A work of great excellence.”—Times. Eighth Edition, with important additions, just published, 12s. cloth. Mr. Doubleday's Financial and Monetary History. A Financial, Monetary, and Statistical HISTORY OF ENGLAND, from the Revolution of 1688 to the present time; derived principally from Official Documents. By THOMAS DOUBLEDAY, Esq. Author of The True Law of Population,' &c. &c. In I vol. 8vo, price 12s. cloth. Table of Profit, Discount, Commission, and Brokerage. Tables, on an entirely New Principle, by which the Cost and Returns per Cents. are placed together, and their relative value or equivalent shown at one view. Tables of Interest, at Five, Four-and-a-Half, Four, and Three-anda-Half per Cent., from 1 to 300 days, and from 1 to 12 months, with Rules for the Conversion of any per Cent. into any other Rates per Cent. of Interest, with a Table of Bays. BY ANDREW FERGUSON, Accountant. Price 7s. 6d. cloth. Remarks on the Purchase of Landed Property. Price 3s., by post 3s. 6d. Remarks on the Purchase-value, Management and Letting of LANDED PROPERTY; with several useful Tables, by which the Rental-value may be ascertained, or any number of acres, roods, or perches. By GEORGE JOHN RHODES, Surveyor. Fynn's British Consul's Handbook. British Consuls Abroad; their Origin, Rank, Privileges, Duties, Jurisdiction, and Emoluments; including the Laws, Orders in Council, and Instructions by which they are governed, as well as those relating to Shipowners and Merchants in their connexion with Consuls. By ROBERT FYNN, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. New Edition, with the Act for facilitating Marriages abroad. Price 65. neatly bound. The National Debt and Public Funds Simplified. By JUSTIN BRENAN. Author of Composition and Punctuation familiarly explained.' "This is the cleverest exposition of these otherwise complicated matters ever published."-The Critic. Second Edition, with additions, 1s. cloth, or Post free on receipt of 13 Queen's Heads. Royal Exchange. * CATALOGUE OF USEFUL BOOKS British Mining. A Treatise on British Mining, with a digest of THE COST-BOOK SYSTEM, Stannarie, and General Mining Laws. By THOMAS BARTLETT. 1 vol. 8vo, price 4s. Coins of the Romans relating to Britain Described and Illustrated. By JOHN YONGE AKERMAN, F.S.A. Corresponding Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. "Factum ablit, monumenta manent."-Ovid. Fast. In small 8vo, with numerous Engravings on steel and wood, and neatly bound, price 7s. 6d. Tate's Bankers' Clearing-House. The System of the London Bankers' Clearances, and their Effects upon the Currency, explained and exemplified by Formulæ of the Clearing-house Accounts. By W. TATE, Author of The Modern Cambist,' &c. 2s. 6d. Jackson's Book-keeping. A New Check-Journal; combining the advantages of the DayBook, Journal, and Cash-Book; forming a complete System of Book-keeping by Double Entry; with copious illustrations of Interest Accounts, and Joint Adventures; and a New Method of Book-keeping, or Double Entry by Single. By GEORGE JACKSON, Accountant, London. Eighth Edition, with the most effectual means of preventing Fraud, Error, and Embezzlement, in Cash Transactions, and in the Receipt and Delivery of Goods, &c. Price 5s. cloth. "We can conscientiously add our meed of praise to that of the many who have already preceded us in the same task, and strongly recommend it to general adoption."-Athenæum. The Circuiteer; A MAP OF LONDON ON A NEW PLAN, WITH A GUIDE FOR ASCER- With Explanations in English, French and German. Railway Share and Stock Calculator. Tables for Calculating Shares in Railway, Canal. Gas, Mining, Insurance, and other Companies, at any price from 1-16th of a Pound Sterling, or Is. 34. per Share, up to £310 in value; and from 1 Share to 500. Applicable also to Foreign or English Stocks, or Bonds, and for other purposes; to which is annexed a Comprehensive Table of Income Tax, By R. EDWIN ROBINSON, Stock Exchange. Third Edition, with Scale of Commissions, as agreed by authority of the Committee of the Stock Exchange, London. Price 7s. 6d. cloth. No. 11, South-East Corner, |