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BG.781.007
4 Jun 1781:32 (1397)
By Authority. More jewels & diamonds for sentimentalists.
The sentimentalists of the town, and all volunteers, who are
pleased to encourage the extensive propagation of polite
literature, by the business of book auctioneering, which in
all free states, hath always been highly favoured with
peculiar privileges, because it is the sublimest auxiliary,
which science, commerce, and arts, either has, or perhaps
ever will possess, are requested to observe, that
To-morrow evening
being Tuesday the 5th of June, 1781. and two more evenings
successively, the following curious collection of valuable
and scarce books, containing history, biography, voyages,
travels, philosophy, mathematics, periodical papers,
letters, essays, arts, sciences, novels and adventures, with
poetic and dramatic entertainment, by the most celebrated
ancient and modern authors who have explored, investigated
and attempted to illuminate the human understanding with the
God-like attribute of knowledge,
Will be exhibited by auction at Captain Gray's American
Exchange-Tavern in State Street; by Robert Bell, bookseller,
provedore to the sentimentalists and professor of book
auctioneering, who is just arrived, from Philadelphia, and
will return thither in a few days.
Hours of exhibition by auction from five to seven o'clock
each evening; when the jewels and diamonds will
instantaneously, either be sold or sacrificed, according to
the taste of the company.
Printed catalogues of the books to be had at the time and
place of sale.
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