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| Title | The Teachers' Assistant: Or a System of Practical Arithmetic |
| Author | Stephen Pike |
| Compiled by | Stephen Pike |
| Publisher | M'Carty & Davis, 1824 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 198 pages |
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