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  • Catalogue of a bookseller's retail stock : comprising a variety of standard, miscellaneous works, juveniles, etc. : to be sold at auction / by Joseph Leonard, no.37 Tremont Row, on Tuesday, October 19, 1847.
  • Catalogue of new and second-hand school and miscellaneous books : to be sold at auction without reserve, on Friday evening, May 14, 1847 / by Phillips & Sampson, at their book and stationery auction rooms, 110 Washington Street, (up stairs.)
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Catalogue

    • Books

    A history of the auction / by Brian Learmount.

    Learmount, Brian. | Date: 1985
    • Books

    Under the hammer : book auctions since the seventeenth century / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote.

    | Date: 2001
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    • Online

    Catalogue of a bookseller's retail stock : comprising a variety of standard, miscellaneous works, juveniles, etc. : to be sold at auction / by Joseph Leonard, no.37 Tremont Row, on Tuesday, October 19, 1847.

    | Date: 1847
    • Books
    • Online

    A catalogue of books consisting of theological, historical, and philological authors, : in the Greek, Latin, French and English tongues, in all volumes. To be sold by auction at William Humphres's at the West-end of St. Maries Church, on Tuesday the twenty fourth of this instant March.

    | Date: [1700?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Catalogue of new and second-hand school and miscellaneous books : to be sold at auction without reserve, on Friday evening, May 14, 1847 / by Phillips & Sampson, at their book and stationery auction rooms, 110 Washington Street, (up stairs.)

    | Date: 1847
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