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1910List2410American 1910. Tintype measuring 8 x 6 inches with an African-American portrait laminated at borders with a decorative frame with the insignia of the Prince Hall Masons. Some chips to lamination at corners very good. Very Good. An interesting portrait of an African-American man with a decorative masonic border bearing the distinctive shape of the Prince Hall Masons emblem. Prince Hall Freemasonry stands as the earliest officially recognized and consistently operational organization established by individuals of African descent. Its inception occurred on March 6 1775 when Prince Hall ca. 1748-1807 a proponent of abolition and a civil rights activist alongside fourteen other free black individuals underwent initiation into freemasonry. They established African Lodge No. 1 on July 3 1775. In 1784 a formal request for a charter was submitted to the Grand Lodge of England and upon approval African Lodge No. 1 was redesignated as African Lodge No. 459 in Boston Massachusetts. By the time this picture was taken there were numerous lodges making the exact location or identity of the sitter unknown. unknown
1866512935Dick & Fitzgerald 1866. Third Edition. Hardcover. GOOD. Undated printing verso lists only 1866 copyright date. 281pp. Extensively illustrated with in-text figures showing the secret rituals promised in the title. 18mo sewn binding in brown cloth gilt stamped lettering front cover stamped with masonic symbol over bible opened to Ecclesiastes XII. Covers show moderate rubbing front hinge starting at title page tail; FFEP and flyleaf stained in matching vertical lines and once adhered with some peeling to the FFEP verso; textblock entirely sound with clean pages and no markings. Owner's name to FFEP 'J. Francis Drake.' Scarce in trade. Dick & Fitzgerald hardcover
1951064430Philosophical Publishing Co. 1951. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Revised Edition. Burgundy cloth with gilt stampings. Mild foxing/toning to endpapers owner name seal on fly. 287pp. Philosophical Publishing Co. Hardcover
2006060703Cornerstone Book Pub 2006. Book. Near Fine. Paperback. 1st Edition. 194pp. Cornerstone Book Pub Paperback
180063138London Newbery 1800. 8vo. Unbound. Leaves frayed and with marginal tears. Spine without paper as issued. First and last leaves browned and partly detached but otherwise internally nice and clean. VI 74 pp. Possibly wanting a frontispiece. <br/><br/><em>Rare later edition first published in 1762 of this highly influential and popular exposure of Masonic rituals. Wolfstieg 29983. </em> unknown
1838256709Hamburg: Nestler und Melle 1838. paperback. good. Festlich begangen durch die Grosse Loge zu Hamburg in Vereine mit ihren zu Hamburg arbeitenden Tochter Logen g. u. v. St. Johannis Logen: Absalom St. Georg Emanuel Ferdinande Caroline und Ferdinand zum Felsen. Lithograph illustrations on front and back wrappers two engraved vignettes on title page. 128pp. 1 leaf. 8vo original pr. wrs. spine worn wrappers lightly soiled scattered light foxing. Hamburg: Nestler und Melle 1838.<br/> <br/> Nestler und Melle unknown
190000006835Des Moines Iowa: Order of the Grand Chapter 1900 10 volumes of the following years: 1899 1900 1901 1902 1904 1905 1911 1913 1914. Minor wear to these paper volumes. Order of the Grand Chapter paperback
190261457San Francisco CA: The History Publishing Co. 1902. Thick folio. 11 x 13.5 in. 545 3 31 1 xiii 1 pp. Extra-illustrated title text illustrations plates rubricated initials photogravure plates preserving tissue guards rubricated initials and more throughout. Full calf on beveled boards cover decoration & ornament embossed in blind on front cover gilt lettering stamped on front cover & spine gilt inner dentelles a.e.g. expertly rebacked w/ original spine laid-back down minor repairs to corners endpapers renewed ink markings & annotations on a few pages still a VG- tight and sound copy of this very heavy tome. First edition of this lavish production detailing the founding and growth of Freemasonry Lodges in the Oregon Washington Idaho & Montana Territories and later States including specific biographical details of key personnel. The weighty work opens with a narrative of the origins of Freemasonry the Scottish Rites and the Knights Templar as well as the rise and progress of the Mystic Shrine and Eastern Star. In 1846 7 Freemasons organized and petitioned the nearest lodge in Missouri for a charter granted for the Multnomah Lodge No. 84 in the same year. The first Masonic lodge in Washington was located in Olympia in 1853 while still part of the Oregon Territory. The History Publishing Co., hardcover
13405American 1870s. 2pp. folio. On two leaves of yellow paper with 'PATENT' lion and unicorn watermark. Text enclosed within faint blue vertical lines. Good on lightly aged and worn paper. No record found of the publication of this item the first page of which is headed 'Opening: -' with the last section ending two thirds down the page suggesting that it is complete. A rhymed poem of 36 lines: the first section consisting of 10 lines the second of 16 lines and the third of 10 lines. The 'Opening' reads: 'Hail Thou from whom all light is shed Within whose beams we live and move Who guardest all the quick & dead And art the very source of love. Hear us who meet in brotherhood And dimly shape our lives to be A part of that which pure and good Streams ever in broad floods from thee.' The item is from an American source and the handwriting suggests America in the latter part of the nineteenth century but there is no evidence of the source or date. [American? 1870s?] unknown
189549534Boston: A.A. Rothenberg & Co. 1895. Oblong thick folio. 14 x 11 in. 499 9 pp. Illustrated title over 2000 text photos photo illustrations illustrations. Original publisher’s padded pebble-grain brown morocco gilt illustration of Knight Templar on front cover lettering gilt lettering on spine a.e.g. w/ original gift box & lid hinges reinforced with cloth tape NF/G copy w/ original issue of the August 27 1895 issue of the Boston Herald devoted to the Encampment laid-in. First edition of this spectacular and scarce work visually chronicling this massive meeting of over 40000 Freemason Knights Templar in Boston during the Gilded Age. This Conclave was the height of pomp and circumstance for the Philanthropic Chivalric Order of Freemasons and they seem to have taken over the entire city. The New York Times notes that “Boston has seldom if ever been so elaborately decorated. Practially every building along the line of the march besides many of the side streets is clothed in color with appropriate mottoes and Masonic emblems intertwined with streamers and bunting.†This spectacular work depicts the 1000s of the participants participating lodges the special Masonic badges and ribbons for the event regalia the active lodges in Boston at the time and more. The California Commandery was one of the earliest to arrive in their specially equipped train who upon mounting their horses was escorted through the city by the Boston Commandery. Worldcat locates 2 copies. A.A. Rothenberg & Co., hardcover
178569714Venezia: Presso Leonardo Bassaglia; Presso Gian Francesco Garbo 1785. Leather Bound. Very Good. 95; 370; 352pp. Duodecimo 18.5 cm Mottled leather with gilt stamping on the spine. Publisher's red stain to the text block edges. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing and chipping to the leather at the extremities. Underlying boards exposed periodically along the edges. Very occasional light foxing to the pages. Small loss from bottom margin corner of p. 117/18 of second work. Regular errors in the printing of page numbers but no text missing. Italian text. This copy is from the personal library of Kent Walgren Mormon scholar bookseller and author of the definitive bibliography of freemasonry with his brief markings in pencil on the front free endpaper. Pages exceptionally bright. Opens with a rare work on Freemasonry written anonymously. Followed by parts 3 and 4 of Pluquet's work on Christian heretics translated by Tomasso Antonio Contin. Presso Leonardo Bassaglia; Presso Gian Francesco Garbo unknown
186418401NY: Clark & Maynard. Fine. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. The only defect is one small bug hole through the front hinge. Original cloth is bright and clean as it was 150 years ago. Original owner's name and lodge on the endpapers in Illinois. ; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 4278 pages . Clark & Maynard hardcover
187423304NY: Lechler & Moore. Very Good-. 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound uniformly in three-quarter leather. Covers are rubbed. Fep and first page of volume one are missing. The contents are comprised of numerous individual articles gathered together for this publication. The spine of volume one is crazed. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall . Lechler & Moore hardcover
103577Augsburg Sumptibus Sebastiani Eysenbarth 1748. 8vo. 178 4 pp. Wormholes in the margins worse on pp. 130-50 with some loss of text in side-notes. Worn contemporary marbled paper boards. Minimal wormholes through the boards. Sprinkled edges. From the library of the Provincial masonic lodge of Gothenburg. VD18 15299570. Wolfstieg 1351. Kloss 332 for the Italian translation. Second edition first published in 1747. This is an anti-masonic tract and especially polemic against â€Der neu-aufgesteckte brennende Leuchter des Freymäurer-Ordens.†published in Leipzig 1746. Its content is summarized by Wolfstieg as: â€Die Frmr die gefährlichte Gesellschaft der Welt sie bereiten das Kommen des Antichristen vor.†hardcover
1933ZB385650Berne 1933-37. 44 issues dated January 31 1933 to December 15 1937 not consecutive all thin quartos text in French and German self wrappers; text darkening and becoming fragile overall good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Berne unknown
26835Both 1823. See John Barrow "The LIfe and Correpondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith" Chapter XIII pp.406-424 Knights Templars etc. ITEM 1: Holograph one page 18 x 23cms aged but good condition double column some additions and corrections apparently a draft for a formal document giving details concerning the distinctions of Wiliiam Sidney Smith in both English and French as follows: "The undersigned Sir William Sidney Smith Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Britannic Majesty's Fleet Knight Grand Prior of the Antient and most noble Order of the Temple Commander Grand Cross of the Royal Military Orders of the Sword of Sweden The Tower and Sword of Portugal of Saint Ferdinand and Merit of Sicily and of the Antient Nobility of the Four Emperors of Germany Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath Knight of the Crescent of the Ottoman Porte Knight of the Lion of Holstein Doctor of Laws of the Univerities of Oxford and Cambridge Fellow of the Royal Society of London and President of the Knights Liberators of the Slaves of Africa Declares that all persons are bound to respect these prents the same being lawfully issued under and by virtue of the said Order of the Temple. Given at Paris the 8th Nisan 705 20th March 1823 Masonic symbol f. Gulielmus Anglicanus sketch of a seal". This runs parallel to a translation into French. ITEM 2: One page 12mo "Nisan 1823" printed heading "Ordre du Temple" brief note with subscription and name I can't fathom SEE Image text as follows: "Laissez entrer Monsieur Le Grand Sieur d'Angleterre Chevr. Sir Sydney Smith." From the archive of Richard Bentley & Son material about Smith accumulated for John Barrow's biography. Notes: a. "The "Knights Liberators of the Slaves in Africa" was a knightly order founded by British Admiral Sir Sidney Smith around 1815 though it was more of a philanthropic and political campaign than a formal military order. Its stated goal was to end the enslavement of Europeans captured by Barbary corsairs and to publicize the cause of ending slavery more broadly in Africa. Smith used the organization and related events such as a banquet at the Congress of Vienna to bring attention to the issue and propose international action." AI; b. "Smith had managed to run up significant debts through his diplomatic expenses which the British government proved to be very slow in reimbursing. He also lived the high life and his efforts to mobilise opinion against the slave trade had cost a good deal of money. In Britain at that time debtors were often imprisoned until their debts were paid so Smith moved his family to France settling in Paris. Eventually the government did reimburse his expenditures and increased his pension allowing him to live in some style. Despite frequent attempts to obtain a seagoing position he was never to hold a command again. He died on 26 May 1840 of a stroke. He is buried with his wife in Père Lachaise Cemetery." Both 1823. unknown
3335London Lewis 1901 140p 53x9cm black calf reading ribbon gilt edges - unknown
180035948Brookfield Massachusetts: Printed by E. Merriam & Co 1800. 73 of 83 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Later calf and blue boards. Chips to corners of the title without loss to text. 73 of 83 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Scarce with three recorded copies AAS Yale Boston Aetheneum.<br /> <br /> The Brookfield printer Ebenezer Merriam was born Dec. 15 1777 in Leicester Massachusetts son of Ebenezer and Margaret Jefferson. At the age of thirteen he began a six year apprenticeship in Worcester with Isaiah Thomas. In 1798 he established with his brother Dan E. Merriam & Co. a printing and book binding business located in the West Parish of Brookfield with a printing press which had formerly been used by Benjamin Franklin. The firm would be the precursor to the formation of Merriam-Webster. Not in Evans. Lowens 208; Walgren 549; ESTC W12639 Printed by E. Merriam & Co unknown
175020179Cont. full calf raised bands gilt back gilt titlelabel. Binding with minor scratches. Top of spine worn. Engraved ornamental titlepage. 893 pp. engraved having 89 "chansons" all with engraved music and engr. text. At end 3 pp. listing the 89 songs. Occasionally a little brownspotted on good paper. hardcover
2009044951Digital Legend Press 2009. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. This is Book 2 of a series in glossy pictorial boards fully illustrated in color. Clean bright copy. This is the First Edition not the Revised Edition as the ISBN might suggest. 344pp. Digital Legend Press Hardcover
2009044950Digital Legend Press 2009. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. This is Book 1 of a series in glossy pictorial boards fully illustrated in color. Clean bright copy. This is the First Edition not the Revised Edition as the ISBN suggests. 214pp. Digital Legend Press Hardcover
1949221401949. Tuscan Morning Star Lodge No. 48 annual banquet photograph documenting African American fraternal life and community leadership in Philadelphia during the late 1940s. The image records members and guests of a lodge affiliated with Prince Hall Freemasonry a network of lodges founded in the eighteenth century to provide African American men with access to fraternal institutions from which they had been excluded by white Masonic bodies. By the mid twentieth century Prince Hall lodges functioned as major centers of civic organization mutual aid and social leadership within Black communities. The photograph captures a large formal banquet held in 1949 illustrating how Masonic gatherings served as social events that reinforced institutional identity and community solidarity during the decades preceding the modern civil rights movement.<br /> <br /> Tuscan Morning Star Lodge No. 48 Annual Banquet. Philadelphia: Reynolds Hall May 21 1949. Large panoramic black and white photograph credited to the photographer West Hooper. The image shows more than one hundred African American men and women seated at long banquet tables arranged across a large hall decorated with hanging streamers. Attendees appear in formal evening dress including tuxedos corsages and gowns suggesting the ceremonial and social importance of the event. A musical ensemble identified by a sign reading "JS" performs on a raised platform at the rear of the hall while guests converse and dine. The photograph records both lodge members and community participants gathered for the annual banquet of Tuscan Morning Star Lodge No. 48 providing a visual record of fraternal ceremony and social life within Philadelphia's African American community.<br /> <br /> Prince Hall Freemasonry has long played a significant role in African American civic organization providing networks of leadership philanthropy and social support in communities where Black citizens faced exclusion from many professional and social institutions. Lodge events such as banquets and public gatherings functioned as spaces for community organization and mutual aid throughout the twentieth century. The photograph measures approximately 10 × 20 inches and is displayed in a wooden gilt frame behind glass measuring approximately 30 × 18 inches. Minor handling wear visible with light surface marks to the frame and glass consistent with age. Overall condition very good. unknown
1880187246London: c.1880. Rare and unrecorded First edition one of 30 copies of this illustrated collection of shop signs or locations of Masonic lodges in London in the 18th century. The frontispiece comprises a full-page illustration titled "Ceremony of Making a 'Mason'". We can trace only two copies in libraries both in the Museum of Freemasonry in London. The volume is unrecorded in standard Masonic bibliographies. The preface notes that the compilation relies on a "rare and unknown. work of the early 18th century". The text is signed in black ink by H.S. with an additional note that the book is "privately printed and colored by F. Cornman". The Museum of Freemasonry supplies a suggested name of Frederick. The work is similar to John Pine's A List of Regular Lodges According to their Senority & Constitution published around 1730 which was the first printed directory of Masonic lodges. The preface of the present volume promises "a further contribution" on the subject matter and with publication in 1889 of John Lane's A Handy Book to the Study of the Engraved Printed and Manuscript Lists of Lodges of Ancient Free & Accepted Aasons of England. from 1723 to 1814 it is tempting to ascribe some responsibility in the current volume to Lane. Small quarto. Full-page frontispiece lithographic handwritten title page and preface 80 hand-coloured lithographic illustrations printed on rectos only. Parchment-backed grey paper boards. Spine worn with tears and some loss corners worn creases to endpapers browning to free endpapers short tears to front hinge: a very good copy. hardcover
1921176628Cawnpore 1921-38. Masons in the Raj An intriguing grouping of material shedding light on the hierarchical structures and elaborate social life of freemasons in northern India between the wars. This material concerns the activities of two Cawnpore lodges: the venerable Lodge of Harmony Number 438 consecrated in 1836; and the "Ark in Cawnpore" Lodge of Royal Mark Mariners attached to the Sir John Edge Lodge of Mark Master Masons Number 497 consecrated in 1918. Included is a 1929 edition of the bylaws of the "Ark in Cawnpore" a 1930s edition of the bylaws of the Sir John Edge Lodge and a 1936 detailed history of the Lodge of Harmony. This tells how Harmony was formed in Cawnpore in 1834 by a group of British military officers and warranted two years later. "Of records prior to the Mutiny of 1857 and from that date until 1859 there are none. All the property of the Lodge including documentary records and regalia was lost. There are many stories or surmises perhaps regarding what happened to the Lodge property during this period. Probably the most authentic and the certainty the most interesting theory is that Wor.-Master R. A. B. Johnston took all the property from the Lodge building and buried it or deposited it in General Wheeler's Entrenchments" p. 5. Accompanying these publications are 17 finely printed programmes not including 2 duplicates for ceremonial dinners at various lodges primarily the Lodge of Harmony between 1921 and 1936 many marking the installation of a new officer. Some list the names of officers reinforcing that their credentials "must not be disputed" and the toasts given at the conclusion of banquets traditionally beginning with a salute to the "king emperor". The cuisine was comfortably BritishL attendees at a Lodge of Harmony dinner in 1922 tucked into turkey ham tomato soup and Devonshire cream and roast fowl and Oxford sausage was a regular menu item throughout the decade. But chefs also occasionally served curries and other local delicacies. Entertainment came in the form of musical performances of pieces by Schubert Sousa Beethoven and Benyon and tended to include a rousing chorus of "Roast Beef of Old England". Provenance: the history of the Lodge of Harmony is signed on the front pastedown by R. Paton a Cawnpore freemason who served as Harmony's president in 1925. He is named in a number of the programmes including one from 15 March 1928 marking his installation as P.Z. Together 22 items: octavo vol. in blue cloth; two small booklets pp. 10 and 16 in printed wrappers; 19 finely printed folding card programmes 150 x 100 mm to 220 x 150 mm some with ribbon tassels and paper inserts variety of gilt and coloured lettering and embossed decoration. Signs of handling light soiling one programme with worm track not affecting text: a very good collection. hardcover
17734232Paris: Le Breton 1773. 8vo 192 x 120 mm. 566 pages. 5 leaves are cancels as called for in the Avis au relieur on the last page the 5 cancels were originally the last 5 leaves of the final quire. Marginal tear to pp. 399-400 not affecting text. Contemporary French gold-tooled morocco covers tooled with a triple rule frame enclosing a wide dentelle border incorporating emblems of the Freemasons compasses & squares stars shooting stars and a pair of shaking hands fleurs-de-lis at corners at center a large double-ruled Masonic triangle whose band is filled with pointillé dots inner triangle with a shooting star at each corner and the initial P at center; spine in six gold-tooled compartments with title and date in two compartments large and small fleurs-de-lis in the others gilt edges blue endpapers; in fine condition small light dark spot to upper cover a couple of other insignificant small marks. 20th-century leather-backed cloth folding case. Provenance: small booklabel inside folding box “Bibliophilia / AG / Bern†with an image of a binding press. <br /> <br /> A fine Masonic binding on the Almanach royal for 1773. <br /> <br /> This was an important year for the Freemasons in France. In 1773 they reorganized their disparate and in the past often schismatic loges into one hierarchically organized Grand Orient de France whose grand master was none other than Louis-Philippe d’Orléans later known as Philippe-Egalité for his support of radical reform of the French monarchical system. Masonic lodges open to bourgeois and artisans as well as aristocrats were in many parts of France a venue for new social connections and the philosophical opening toward new ideas and they were to take an active part in the elections to the Estates General in 1789. Nevertheless as the Revolution intensified the dangers of being associated with an exclusive secretive and originally aristocratic club were not lost on Louis-Philippe who renounced his position in the winter of 1793; this had little effect on his terrible fate he was guillotined less than 9 months later.<br /> <br /> Other than Le Droit humain an international order of Freemasonry that was founded in the 1880s most Masonic lodges still exclude women and atheists.<br /> <br /> The dentelle of this well-preserved binding is built up from individual tools unlike the Dubuisson bindings that decorate so many Almanachs royaux. The initial P. at the center of each cover may represent a chapter name. Le Breton unknown
