Citation - Independent Chronicle: 1780.12.08

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Index Entry Bell, Robert, sells plays 
Location Boston 
Citation
IC.780.039
8 Dec 1780:13 (13/641)
By permission.  Jewels and diamonds, for sentimentalists. 
Boston, Thursday, November 30th, 1780.
The Sentimentalists of the town, who choose 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, . . . [3
lines]
   This evening, and for eight or nine evenings
successively, (Sunday and the Thanksgiving day excepted) The
following Jewels & Diamonds for Sentimentalists; being a
curious collection of valuable and scarce books, containing,
history, biography, voyages, travels, . . . [3 lines] novels
and adventures, with poetic and dramatic entertainment--- by
the most celebrated ancient and modern authors . . . [3
lines]
   Which will be exhibited by auction . . . by Robert Bell,
Bookseller, provedore to the Sentimentalists, and Professor
of Book-auctioneering in America, who is lately arrived from
Philadelphia, and will return thither in a few days. . . [13
lines]


Generic Title Independent Chronicle 
Date 1780.12.08 
Publisher Willis, Nathaniel 
City, State Boston, MA 
Year 1780 
Bibliography B0017819
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