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1877 · SZEPEBKS007741I — Rio de Janeiro: Oriente do Rio de Janeiro 1877. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 22x15 cm. - 388 pp. - With a separate title-page on the unnumbered Page 221: "Rituaes do Grande Oriente Unido e de Supremo Conselho do Brazil - I." with a date of 1879 as well as a full-page table of "Alphabetos Maconicos" on the also unnumbered Page 325. With a full-page Errata - Half red morocco spine with 4 raised bands and title in gilt marbled end-papers. Edges quite worn. With an old blue label of the Porto Allegre book dealer Joaquim Alves Leite and a bookplate of a now defunct U.S. seminary library. - The Grande Oriente do Brazil is a masonic body in Brazil in the tradition of Anglo-American Freemasonry. This book gives their constitution and laws and descrbes all of their rituals including the funeral ones. - Extremely rare: WorldCat gives no location at all and only a single one for the somewhat shorter 373 pages first edition of 1875 Universidade de Sao Paulo <br/> <br/> Oriente do Rio de Janeiro hardcover