LODGE LES VRAIS AMIS DE DRESDE. Freemasons' subscription for - Lot 87

LODGE LES VRAIS AMIS DE DRESDE. Freemasons' subscription for the poor. Dresden, January 17, 1772. Translated from the German. [Dresden, 1772]. Small in-8 booklet, stapled in blue paperback. (2 of which the second is blank)-28-(2 blank) pp. Speeches by masters of the Aux Trois Glaives d'Or and Les Vrais Amis lodges, of Dresden, calling for participation in a fund-raising campaign for the poor of Saxony, hit hard by a terrible famine since the summer of 1771. The Lodges Aux Trois Glaives d'Or and Les Vrais Amis (originally Saint-Jean-des-Voyageurs, cosmopolitan and French-speaking), merged that same year. 2 copper-engraved vignettes in the text, including one on the title, by Adrian Zingg after Johann Eleazar Schenau.