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(GROCER'S DICTIONARY). [JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (Pub.)]. The Grocer's Companion and Merchant's Hand-Book. Containing a Comprehensive Account of the Growth, Manufacture and Qualities of Every Article Sold by Grocers. Boston: New England Grocer Office, [1883]. 1st ed.?. 8vo. 192 pp. Index. Orig. cloth. In the margins of pp. 58/9 someone has repeatedly stamped the date Mar. 19, 1889. $135.00
Lists hundred of items with usual measures, origins and uses. Includes a variety of tables such as duties on produce, interest laws of all states, business laws, how to analyze financial success in business, yield of various vegetables, homestead exemptions, weights of original packages, etc.