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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.
- 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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