The Universal Calculator | John Thomson | First Edition 1784 antique seating small drawers at each end

small drawers at each end

Provenance / Story: A finely decorated Continental marquetry chair reflecting the quality cabinet making produced in Germany and the Netherlands during the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Mechanism present

Era: 1974 (release year)

Condition notes: Honest age-related wear throughout

The Universal Calculator | John Thomson | First Edition 1784 antique seating small drawers at each endA scarce first edition of The Universal Calculator; or The Merchant's, Tradesman's, Family's and Infant's Tables by John Thomson, published in Edinburgh in 1784. Designed as a practical working reference, this compact volume contains extensive printed tables for merchants, shopkeepers and tradesmen, enabling rapid calculations of prices, commissions, exchange, weights and measures in the days before mechanical calculators. Works such as this were