Interest Tables calculated at Six per cent, per annum, showing the interest on all sums, from one dollar to ten thousand.

GILLMEYER, Jacob. Interest Tables calculated at Six per cent, per annum, showing the interest on all sums, from one dollar to ten thousand...With directions. Also, Banking time-tables in twelve series...with directions. 12mo, original full dark green morocco, front cover-title and author's name stamped in gold, thin chain decorative gold borders, pp. 6, [72]. [Baltimore?] 1836.

Only Edition of "an abridgement of a large work, by the same author, which has been highly approved, and for which, among others, the following testimonial has been obtained...," according to a pink "Printed Advertisement" pasted inside front cover, bearing a testimonial from officers of the Bank of the United States, November 18, 1834. At the bottom of that slip Gillmeyer offers a $300.00 reward to anyone who can find the "first fair detection of an error of ONE CENT in the interest calculations..." The author's "large" work of 53-pages, is Banking Time Tables, in twelve series (Washington, D. C.: 1834). The Gillmeyer family was from Emmitsburg, Maryland, and a Jacob is listed as having been a Midshipman on Sloop Erieduring the War of 1812, and as a teacher at St. Mary's, Emmitsburg, 1827-1833, and living in Baltimore in 1834. Unless we miscounted, the title runs to 213 words! A handsome little book in a appealing binding, and scarce. Slight occasional foxing. OCLC locates two copies (Univ. Michigan; Univ. Virginia). Not in American Imprints.