[Rarebooks] FS: Auctions are EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! [Three 1828 pamphlets]

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

>From our newly published catalog #305,
AUCTION CATALOGS of the 19th-20th CENTURIES
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"REASONS WHY THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF AUCTIONS OUGHT TO BE ABOLISHED"

[together with]

"AN EXAMINATION OF THE REASONS WHY THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF AUCTIONS OUGHT TO
BE ABOLOISHED AS SET FORTH BY THE COMMITTEE OF NEW YORK MERCHANTS, OPPOSED
TO THE AUCTION SYSTEM"

New York; Printed by Alexander Ming, Jr.: 1828 [and] Boston; Beals, Homer
and Co.: 1828.

A pair of dueling pamphlets on the subject of auctions. The first lists 19
grievances against commercial auctions, apparently put together by a group
of New York-area merchants and jobbers after a meeting at Masonic Hall in
May. Among their arguments- auctions are a monopoly; the commission under
which an auctioneer acts is believed to be unconstitutional; auctions give
dangerous facilities for the sale of contraband goods; auctions produce
all the pernicious effects of gambling; auctions tend to destroy a regard
for truth, and so on.

The second pamphlet contains a direct a detailed rebuttal of the arguments
of the first pamphlet. Written by “A Practical Man”, who professes to be a
wholesale jobber, just like the authors of the first pamphlet, he
professes to be completely in sympathy with them, but somehow rips their
arguments to shreds anyway. An unusual and uncommon pair of pamphlets.

First title- disbound pamphlet. 5.25”x8”, 16 pages. Some soil and a little
staining. Second title- disbound pamphlet. 5.25”x8.25”, 48 pages. Light
discoloration, minor foxing. Last leaf with two small rub-holes causing
loss of lettering in several words. [31240] $375.00

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"THE RUINOUS TENDENCY OF AUCTIONEERING, AND THE NECESSITY OF RESTRAINING
IT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TRADE, Demonstrated in a Letter to the Right
Hon. Lord Bathurst, President of the Board of Trade"

Published in London, re-published in New York; 1828.

“The frequenters of auction-rooms change into a sort of Ishmaelites; they
are not like other men, and the bad passions gain such ascendancy over
them, that they are unfit for the society of other men”. A pamphlet
addressed to members of the American Senate and House of Representatives-
“as showing a remarkable coincidence between the evils of [auctioneering]
as they formerly existed in [England], and those charged upon the same
system in the numerous memorials recently presented to your Honorable
Bodies from many parts of this country. This coincidence furnishes
conclusive evidence that the evils complained of in this country have not
resulted from any accidental cause, but are the legitimate fruits of this
system, wherever it has been left without the regulation of government”.
Uncommon.

Disbound pamphlet. 5.25”x8”, 23 pages. Some what browned, period ownership
signature written on title page. [31241] $175.00


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