278 results for "The Rare Books of Free Masonry" between $10.00 and $900.00

Excellent, and quite scarce, bibliography of the Craft. Each entry has a bibliographical citation. new PAPER

Private Lessons: Interpreting the Inner Meaning of Masonry (Kessinger Publishing's Rare Mystical Reprints)

1902. Comprising a history of Egypt, with a comprehensive and authentic account of the Antiquity of Masonry resulting from many years of personal investigation and exhaustive research in India, Persia, Syria and the valley of the Nile. Extremely rare book. Illustrations. Partial Contents: Alexandria; Origin of the name Freemason; Scottish Rite philosophy; Supreme Architect; Esoteric teaching of the Scottish Rite; Pyramids; Solomon; Sun Worship; Ineffable Degrees; Masonic Teachings, Hindu beggar,...

First American edition. Color frontispiece and four striking two-page color illustrations by Andre Castaigne as issued. Contemporary owner name on the front fly, bottom corners a trifle bumped, near fine in a very good example of the exceptionally rare dustwrapper. The jacket has some professional internal repair, and some modest chipping at the spine ends that continues a bit onto the rear panel near the crown. The jacket art repeats the striking Castaigne image of the Phantom descending the staircase...

Boston: Bromer, Anne and David, 1982. 41ff. One of just thirty-six copies. A miniature manuscript consisting of twelve original watercolor designs on soft gray paper by Robert Gould, showing hearts embellished with symbolic designs. These include the Heart of the Rose Tree, the Heart of the Medusa, the Wooden Heart, and others, all influenced by emblematic books and mythological images. The titles for each heart have been calligraphed in red by Colleen, a noted Boston-area calligrapher who served...

Pages: 22, Paperback, Nabu Press

Pages: 148, Paperback, Kessinger Publishing, LLC

This remarkable work, by the noted author and historic newspaper preservationist, presents in thousands of speeches, diaries, memos, public proclamations and contemporary newspaper articles, powerful first-hand documentation of the astounding diplomatic blunders, behind-the-scenes intrigues, miscalculations and lost opportunities for peace that led to the Second World War. The result? Seventy million dead, the destruction of Europe, the collapse of the British Empire, the unleashing of the nuclear...

Pages: 268, Paperback, CreateSpace

Pages: 42, Paperback, Nabu Press

Bangor: Theodore Press, 1986. Quarto. (138) pp. One of 160 copies signed by the illustrator, Claire Van Vliet. This edition uses the text of the 1623 First Folio, which is accompanied by Van Vliet's expressive black and white woodcut illustrations, some of them full page. A very fine copy in stab-bound quarter leather and birch-covered boards, which have been decorated by the illustrator. Housed in a black cloth chemise and gray cloth slipcase with a paper label on the spine. Prospectus laid in....

‘I have reason to believe many have been encouraged to commit by that current and commonly received Error, That Tithes are not due by Divine right, but only by humane positive Constitutions. For in the days of our Fathers, while the Divine right was generally maintained and believed, it was thought a matter of Conscience to pay Tithes justly. But now they that are either so cunning to avoid discovery, or so great to despise the punishments of the Law, do without scrupple in part, or in whole, subtract...

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, (1910). Small quarto. 296pp., + 12ff. plates. First edition, first issue. Illustrated throughout in black & white by John R. Neill, with sixteen full-page color plates heightened with metallic emerald ink. In the introduction, Baum describes how he wrote this sixth installment in the Oz series by incorporating many of the imaginative and clever ideas that his young readers had suggested in their letters to him. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Corners and spine ends slightly...

Pages: 1309, Hardcover, Gale

NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. First edition. One of the most notable science fiction stories by the author, in which modern aviation has changed the world so drastically. Frontispiece, endpapers, and other color illustrations by Frank X. Leyendecker and H. Reuterdahl. Extracts from the contemporary magazine in which it appeared, McClure's Magazine (1905), appear in the "Advertising Section." Head and foot of spine lightly bumped, else a very fine copy in pictorial cloth. (Item ID: 18551)

London: Macmillan Publishers, 1993. Small quarto. 41pp., plus (9)ff. of wood engravings. From an edition of 430 numbered copies, this is one of 130 copies accompanied by a portfolio containing prints of the nine Henry Holiday wood engravings printed from the original wood blocks for the first time. The nine engravings are a delightful representation of Carroll's playful language in The Snark. A handsome edition printed by Ian Mortimer of I.M. Imprimit, London. In quarter-cloth boards with an inlaid...

(Berlin: 1922). Octavo. (16)pp. An extraordinary illuminated manuscript on vellum calligraphed by Peter Moser. The text, in black, is adorned with red and gold initials and delicate tendrils in blue that create a border on the left margin of each page. On the title page, the title is gilt on top of a gesso ground, giving dimension to the letters. Beautifully bound by Bruno Scheer in gilt-decorated red morocco, with vellum paste-downs bordered with gilt dentelles. Spine with seven raised bands, gilt...