Legacy LibraryThomas Barclay
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| Library date | 1794-02-13 |
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| Sources | Newspaper advertisement for sale: Dunlap and Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser, 11 February 1794, p. 2 Noted in George L. McKay, American Book Auction Catalogues 1713-1934: A Union List. New York Public Library (1937), p. 60 |
| Library Notes | Advertisement text: "Books by Auction. On Thursday next the 13th and Friday the 14th instant, precisely at six o'clock in the evening, at the Store of the Subscriber, No. 95 Front near Walnut-street, will commence the sales of the Library of the late THOMAS BARCLAY, Esq. deceased, consisting of an elegant collection of Modern Authors, upon the most important subjects. The Books are in the greatest preservation, and in elegant bindings, the most so of any Library yet offered for public sale. Catalogues of the Library are printed, and a few of them (yet on hand) may be had at the Auction Store. EDWARD POLE, Auctioneer. February 11." |
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| Date of Birth | 1728 |
| Date of Death | 1793-01-19 |
| Gender | male |
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