Wednesday 29 August 2012

Trinidad document


This document from 1819 is coming up for sale at Bonhams in Oxford at the end of September.

The catalogue description reads:

TRINIDAD IMPRINT
The Freemason's Sure Guide, or, Pocket Companion, blindstamp on title and final leaf, shelfmark on verso of title, early half calf, lacks upper cover, 8vo, Trinidad [Port of Spain], for the Publisher, 1819
Estimate:
£200 - 400
US$ 320 - 630
€250 - 500

Footnotes

  • SCARCE, COPAC locating only the John Rylands copy. Printed in Trinidad the author, an American resident in Port of Spain, notes that it is "intended principally for the use of the Fraternity in this Island".

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