Robert Bell's book auction catalog
Subtitle: an eighteenth-century American broadside : a facsimile from the Library of Congress.
Contributors: Gilreath, James, 1947-; Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1982
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Bell, Robert, 1732?-1784; Book auctions -- United States -- Catalogs; Book auctions -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources; Booksellers and bookselling -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources; Broadsides -- United States
Other titles: 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 ...
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.