GUIDE DES MAÇONS ÉCOSSAIS, ou Cahiers des trois grades symboliques du Rit Ancien et Accepté. In Edinburgh, s.n., 58∴ [circa 1802]. Large in-4, copy with full margins, paperback in pink sponge paper cover. 92 pp; cover faded, spine later reinforced with same paper. FIRST EDITION OF THE CAHIERS DESTINES AU VENERABLE. The volume comes from the same press as the Régulateur du maçon, published in 1801 by the booksellers Antoine Caillot and Marcelin-Aimé Brun. Antique copy corrected and annotated in ink, with mention of Grand Orient prescriptions. VERY RARE: only an 1820 edition is mentioned by Fesch (col. 718).

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