(MASSACHUSETTS) Bumstead Joseph Broadside advertisement for

Sale 2473 - Lot 133

Price Realized: $ 1,500

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(MASSACHUSETTS.) Bumstead, Joseph. Broadside advertisement for the Exchange Book-Store and its auctions. Letterpress broadside, 11 x 9 inches; dampstaining, ink burns in text area, minor wear, manuscript notes on verso. Boston, 1812

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Bumstead advertises "an extensive, valuable, and increasing Collection of Books, Chiefly New--Editions, Bindings Elegant and Plain . . . at the lowest Cash Boston prices," and offers to buy or trade used books. His auction service is also described: "Booksellers can have that part of their stock which has for years waited in vain for purchasers, turned into Cash in hand . . . on a principle fair and honorable, giving equal satisfaction to purchaser and seller." On verso is the manuscript record of a book purchase: Richardson's novel Clarissa in two volumes for $7.00, less a 40% discount. What appears to be a short grocery list is appended: "fish, turkeys, turnips, eggs." One other copy traced in OCLC.