[Rarebooks] FS: Masonry work printed in America. Philadelphia: 1783

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(MASONRY) [Dermott, Laurence]. AHIMAN REZON ABRIDGED AND DIGESTED: As a Help 
to All That Are, or Would be Free and Accepted Masons. To Which Is Added a 
Sermon, Preached in Christ-Church, Philadelphia… on Monday, December 28, 1778… 
Published by Order of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania by William Smith, D.D. 
Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers. 1783. First American edition. 
xvi,166pp. (the “Sermon” has its own title page). Engraved armorial frontispiece 
(some soiling and neatly backed). Cont. calf, a bit stained. Title page a bit 
soiled with minor chips at fore-edge. Old water stain at top third of text. Quite 
a scarce book.     $850.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first American printing of this work (which is dedicated to George 
Washington). The frontispiece is engraved by Robert Scot who in 1793 became chief 
engraver of the United States Mint. Evans #17195.

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