How to Use the Chinese Abacus
by W.D. Loy
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
A$53.87A$37.71
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About This Item
Washington, DC: Loy's Chinese Calculator, 1947 Loy's Chinese Calculator, Washington, DC. 1947. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light edge wear; small red and white paint blot on front wrap. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is secure in saddle staples; text is secure in binding. 56 pp 8vo. A recent dispatch from Tokyo told of a contest between a Japanese using and abacus and an American using and electric calculator to which the user of the abacus won in addition, subtraction, and division. This booklet will give the reader all the information one would need to buy, learn and use and abacus for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Full of exercises, diagrams, and drawings to make this ancient device useful to a Westerner. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013689
- Title
- How to Use the Chinese Abacus
- Author
- W.D. Loy
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Loy's Chinese Calculator
- Place of Publication
- Washington, DC
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- mathematics, Chinese Abacus, Japanese Abacus, numbers, addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, calculations,
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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