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Robert Bell's book auction catalog : an eighteenth-century American broadside : a facsimile from the Library of Congress.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Mapcase Z473.B39 B44 1982
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Format:
Book
Government document
Author/Creator:
Bell, Robert, 1732?-1784.
Contributor:
Gilreath, James, 1947-
Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Bell, Robert, 1732?-1784.
Bell, Robert.
Book auctions--United States--Catalogs.
Book auctions.
Book auctions--United States--History--18th century--Sources.
Booksellers and bookselling--United States--History--18th century--Sources.
Booksellers and bookselling.
Broadsides--United States.
Broadsides.
History.
United States.
Genre:
Catalogs.
History.
Sources.
Penn Provenance:
Traister, Daniel (donor) (RBC copy)
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages)) ; 36 cm
Other Title:
Book auction catalog.
Robert Bell, bookseller, provedore to the sentimentalists, and professor of book-auctioneering in America, is just arrived from Philadelphia with a small collection of modern, instructive, and entertaining books ...
Place of Publication:
[Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress, [1982]
Notes:
Title from portfolio.
Broadside is captioned: Robert Bell, bookseller, provedore to the sentimentalists, and professor of book-auctioneering in America, is just arrived from Philadelphia with a small collection of modern, instructive, and entertaining books ... Catalogue of books with the prices printed at which they ought to sell. Page [2] contains arguments supporting book collecting. Undated, the broadside was printed in 1778. Cf. Bristol 43414.
Biographical note about Robert Bell by James Gilreath, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, on inside of portfolio.
Local Notes:
RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Daniel Traister.
OCLC:
13526780

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