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| Title | Lectures on the Philosophy of Arithmetic and the Adaptation of that Science to the Business Purposes of Life: With Numerous Problems, Curious and Useful, Solved by Various Modes ... |
| Author | Uriah Parke |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Moss & Brother, 1849 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 22 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 395 pages |
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