MEMORIAL OF THE AUCTIONEERS OF PHILADELPHIA. TO THE HONOURABLE THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED- THE MEMORIAL OF THE SUBSCRIBERS, CITIZENS OF PHILADELPHIA, RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH- .
[Philadelphia? 1824]. Caption title [as issued]. 16pp. Stitched, light fox and wear, Very Good. The Memorial opposes retailers' lobbying "to impose such a duty upon Sales by Auction, as will in effect be a prohibition of that mode of selling." Merchants resented auctioneers' disruption of their retail markets. Auctioneers, on..... More