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19029273Wheeling W. Va. 1902. 6.5" x 5" folded. Marbled paper with gilt decoration and blue and black ink titling and decoration horizontal crease and mild toning else near fine. <br /> <br /> <br /> Invitation for the thirty-fifth anniversary celebration of Nelson Lodge No. 30 A.F & A.M in Wheeling West Virginia. States "Yourself and Lady are Cordially Invited" and promises "a Reception and Entertainment". Committee members listed on back cover.<br /> . unknown
187769585Buffalo NY: Young Lockwood & Co's Steam Press 1877. Hardcover. Good . 453pp. Octavo 23.5 cm Decoratively embossed red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Prominent dings to board edges. Cloth at spine ends a bit chipped and frayed. Small stains at fore-edge of the text block. Slight lean to spine. Elbert H. English 1816-1884 was chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court when the state seceded from the Union in 1861. Young, Lockwood & Co's Steam Press hardcover
192746568Columbus OH: Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Ohio 1927. Very Good-. Columbus OH: Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Ohio 1927. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's white card wrappers printed within decorative border; 229pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece of Frank A.B. Hall Grand Master of the Lodge. Wrappers quite dust-soiled and a bit worn with small loss at spine foot; About Very Good overall. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Ohio unknown
18651408Raleigh: Printed at the "Daily Confederate" Office 1865. Stitched without wrappers. Octavo. 102 pages. Very good with mild uniform toning and some light soil and minor extremity wear. Top fore corner of first leaf has a neat tape repair from back side. Original stitched binding holding well. A few leaves unopened. The Grand Lodge met in Raleigh the first week of December 1864. In his address herein Grand Master Eli Faucette Watson alluding to the Civil War and the Confederacy notes that the ancient fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons has nobly sent forth many valiant sons "who have sacrificed their lives in defence of Liberty and against the usurpation of a despot and tyrant and will ever be ready to stand side by side with the bravest of North Carolina's sons in vindicating our rights and institutions."<br /> <br /> Much additional content relating to Masonic business in North Carolina including treasurer's reports membership reports and more. <br /> <br /> Ref. PARRISH & WHLLINGHAM 8628. Printed at the "Daily Confederate" Office unknown
187681630Philadelphia: Masonic Publishing Company 1876. First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's coated pale blue paper wraps titled to front wrap in dark blue. 233pp. Some light edgewear and marginal creasing some wear to the spine ends and some slight but not terribly significant wear to the spine panel with a small triangle of loss at the head. A very good copy whose only real issue is that 1870's sky blue paper looks a little grubby rather easily. Internally clean a nice densely printed object. An account of the dealings affairs meetings and minutes of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania; expenses new members a mason's account of visiting the various lodges of Philadelphia notable correspondence with other lodges and a wealth of associated information. Masonic Publishing Company unknown
190969925N.p.: Supreme Council 1909. First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait 75 1 pp. Photographic portraits throughout. Publisher's tan wrappers with raised gilt lettering. An excellent copy.This is a text honoring the great American explorer Albert Pike as a Mason. According to the text this lodge also had two hundred bronze medallions struck to honot his centenary. Supreme Council unknown
187754481Sacramento: H. S. Crocker & Co. Printers 1877. Hardcover. Near fine. 76pp. Twenty-fourmo 14 cm Pebbled navy blue cloth over boards decoratively stamped in blind and gilt. With only very minor wear to the extremities. H. S. Crocker & Co., Printers hardcover
189722059Wien. B. Herder. 1897 1897. Soft cover. Very Good. tall8v0 24cm v387p. printed & decorated wraps covers detached with spine lacking covers foxed leaves loose contents very good. ds1. - A series of twelve lectures on freemasonry in the Austro-Hungary Empire given in the Musikvereins-Saale in Vienna in 1897. Wien. B. Herder. 1897 unknown
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
183443645Gettysburg PA: R.W. Middleton 1834. 8vo. xiv 15-93 1 pp. Woodcut illust. on title. Original calf-backd blue boards old spine labl partially chppd mnr rubbng edgewear hnges startng mnr soilng few frmr ownrshp mrkng on frnt pstdn & title still a G copy. First edition of this very scarce work. Thaddeus Stevens 1792-1868 -- best-remembered as the primary proponent of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson after the Civil War -- was a fiery leader of the Anti-Masonic party in Pennsylvania. He claimed that the Freemasons were conspiring and monopolizing positions in government and the testimony wrung from the Masonic defendant’s witnesses was very embarrassing to the local Masonic Societies. R.W. Middleton, hardcover
2280Richmond: Gillis & Baptist Steam Job Printer 1874. . 8vo royal-blue cloth Five holdings in OCLC four in Virginia The story of the founding of a French Rite lodge in Richmond Virginia in the 1840s. Enumerating the difficulties of communication between the York Rite freemasons already in Richmond and the new French Lodge because of language and the very significant differences between the two Rites. Richmond: Gillis & Baptist, Steam Job Printer, 1874. 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
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
18558878Philadelphia: Leon Hyneman 1855. Second edition. 23x14cm 72pp. Frontis illustration. Bound in elaborately blind stamped navy cloth with gilt decoration to spine. Ownership stamp of Samuel M. Todd grandmaster of Louisiana on the front endpapers. Boards lightly bumped and with a few scuffs. Scattered light foxing else clean internally and very good. <br /> <br /> Early uniform American edition published as part of the Masonic Library series of key Freemason texts with an interesting ownership provenance. Samuel M. Todd 1815-1905 served as Grand Master of Masons in Louisiana in 1859 1868 and 1870-1872. He was also grand commander of the Knights Templar of Louisiana in 1866-67. . Leon Hyneman unknown
19308853Memphis Tenn: Masonic Supply Co 1930. Early printing. Large 8vo. 508pp. Maroon blind stamped boards with gilt decoration to spine and front cover gilt edges. Light shelf war to boards else near fine. Masonic Supply Co unknown
19358846Published by Authority of The Supreme Guardian Council of Job's Daughters 1935. Third edition. 8vo. 31pp. Gray paper boards with purple ink titling and decoration to front cover staple bound minor smudging and wear damage from sticker removal on front cover very good. Published by Authority of The Supreme Guardian Council of Job's Daughters 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
197934923Bloomington IL: Masonic Book Club 1979. 8vo. xii 74 l 2 401 1 pp. Frntsp. 1 large folding plate of torture chamber. Blue cloth gilt lettrng 7 decrtn vry mnr shlfwr VG w/ frmr ownrshp lbl on frnt pstdn. First facsimile edition 1 of 1250 copies printed of this famed work about John Coustos who was tortured by the Spanish Inquisition in Lisbon rpeatedly over 2 months and then sentenced to the galleys for four years until he was freed by emissaries of King George II. Masonic Book Club, hardcover
190814582New York: Ullman Manufacturing and Bergan Publishing 1908. Very Good. New York: Ullman Manufacturing and Bergan Publishing 1908. Three different Masonic promotional broadside posters. Printed recto only. 6 3/4" x 9 3/4"; 7 3/4" x 9 3/4". Light rubbing to edge; short closed along edge of "I dearly love a Mason."<br /> <br /> "Let's End All Discontent" undated but the style and typeface matches the other Bergen poster. Ullman Manufacturing and Bergan Publishing unknown
1875004900No Place: M. W. & Co. 1875. Three tickets 1875-1878 no place. All removed from an album with minor signs of this the menu has some loss to the surface of the lower cover. The first is for a banquet to celebrate the installation of Adam Robertson at the Star Hotel Alnwick in November 1875; the second and third both relate to the anniversary of this installation in 1878 one item being a ticket the other a folding list of toasts and a menu. The list of toasts / menu was published by M. W. &. Co. almost certainly Marcus Ward & Co. in London. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Various. Tickets. M. W. & Co. Paperback
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
18273Cosham near Portsmouth . 9 December 1862. 1p. 12mo. In fair condition on aged paper. Newspaper cutting of obituary laid-down at foot. He asks to be sent 'some Printed cards for the Election of Poor Brother Moss' Son'. These are wanted 'to send to a friend in Warwickshire as also to one in Surrey - for them to Distribute.' Cosham [ near Portsmouth ]. 9 December 1862. 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
1982018442San Jose CA: Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC 1982. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Minor rubbing to corners. Green boards with gilt pictorial stampings. 236pp. Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC Hardcover
053793AMORC Book. Good. Stapled Wraps. Faint exterior oil stain to the lower corner of some issues not affecting text. 11 monographs. AMORC Paperback
