314 results for "The Rare Books of Free Masonry" between $10.00 and $700.00

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

Description Table of Contents Author Bios Is the Shroud of Turin genuine? That is the question that Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas set out to answer in the follow-up to their ground-breaking first book, The Hiram Key.PFor over 700 years the world thought the shroud bore the image of the crucified Christ, but results of carbon dating have shown that the fabric could not have predated 1260. The authors have produced new evidence that conclusively proves that it is not a fake-yet neither is it...

The History of Free Masonry and the Grand Lodge of Scotland : With Chapters on the Knight Templars, Knights of St. John, Mark Masonry, and R.A. Degree (Paperback)

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...

London: William Pickering, 1830. 16mo. lviii, 252pp. First Aldine edition. With a fore-edge painting by Don Noble. William Pickering, who had a close association with Charles Whittingham of the Chiswick Press, is credited as being the first publisher to entirely separate the functions of publishing and printing. In 1830 he published his famous set of works by England's great poets, from which this volume derives, using Aldus Manutius's dolphin-and-anchor printer's device on the title-pages. This...

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 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 as the...

Brazen Serpent, Knight of. Commander of the Temple. Chief of the Tabernacle. Chritian Mark, Knights of. Cross, Order of. Entered Apprentice. Fellow Craft. Grand Elect and Perfect Mason. Grand Inspector General. Grand Master Architect. Grand Master of Symbolic Lodges. Grand Pontiff. Harodim, Prince of. Heroine of Jericho. Historical and Philosophical Degrees. Holy Sepulchre, Knights of. Ineffable Degrees. Intendant of the Building. Intimate Secretary. Inspector General. Knights...

Pages: 370, Edition: 1St Edition, Paperback, Queens Borough Public Library

‘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...

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....

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: Imago, (1950). Octavo. 88 pp. One of thirty copies printed on handmade paper, not for sale. Illustrated with twelve color lithographs by John Buckland Wright, all but one of them full-page. Bound in lime-green vellum with an image of a mermaid in gilt on the front cover and gilt titling to spine. An inscription on the front blank reads, "To Anne & Georg, a story of the seas -- your loving aunt Marie . . . September 1958." Some sunning to spine and edges of front cover, else a fine copy of...

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1963). Small quarto. 32pp. First edition. Illustrated throughout by Walter Lorraine, with bold, quirky drawings in purple, peach, and red. Even when facing the scariest of witches or a frightening nightmare, cool, composed Isabel never loses her courage in this tale by Nash, the influential American poet and humorist known for his playful verse. This was one of Nash's favorite poems, inspired by his own daughter, Isabel. Lorraine is a celebrated illustrator of...

New Britain, CT: REM Miniatures, 1999. (3)ff. One of 150 copies. A bibliography supplement in an unusual fold-out format. Fine in red paper wrappers with a printed label and matching chemise. (2 7/8 by 2 1/4; 73x57mm). (Item ID: 24047)

London & NY: John Lane, 1904. Octavo. 310pp. First edition. With lovely illustrations throughout by Jessie M. King in black & white, including numerous head- and tailpieces, as well as twenty-four full-page plates. The Scottish illustrator studied at the Glascow School of Art, which became known as the center of the "Glascow Style," Scotland's Art Nouveau movement characterized by the influences of Celtic imagery, Japanese prints, and the work of William Morris himself. The Art Nouveau binding, in...

Piccadilly: John Stockdale, 1797. 24mo. 99, (iv)pp. An unrecorded, separate edition of a tale that was originally published as part of The Children's Miscellany by Thomas Day. The publisher's introduction explains that this small, reasonably-priced version was intended for children who might not be able to afford more expensive books and "to diffuse, as extensively as possible, the entertainment and instruction to be derived from well-written works of this kind." Illustrated throughout with a frontispiece...