The Star in the East, Shewing the Analogy which exists between the Lectures of Freemasonry, the Mechanism of Initiation into its Mysteries and the Christian Religion.
New York: Jno. W. Leonard & Co., American Masonic Agency, 1855. New Edition. 8vo, 79, [v], vii, [3], 102, [2]pp. Separate title and pagination for Oliver's "Mirror for the Johannite Masons", publisher's ads at rear. Original embossed blue cloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Bookplate of Captain [Thomson] Wilson, Barrack Master, London to front pastedown, and his gift inscription on title. Few contemporary pencil annotations to margins and at rear, stain to fore edge of last dozen or so pages. Front pastedown slightly chipped, boards with some staining. A sound, very good copy.
Scarce copy of this masonic text by the English cleric and freemason, George Oliver (1781-1861). OCLC notes publication dates of 1825, 1842, 1855 [3 copies], and 1866, for this title, each held in very few copies. Also of note, not all printings include his Mirror for the Johannite Masons, as this copy does. Item #9530
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