Online auction - Lot 370
[Freemasonry]
Thuileur des trente-trois degrés de l'écossisme du rit ancien [...].
Paris, Delaunay, 1813
Starting bid: €
80
€ 100 / 150
Bidding via DrouotLot description
8vo; 14 pl. (incl. front.) (text n.c., browned).
Contemp. quarter cloth, titled flat spine (corners bumped).
Rare first ed. of this "Thuileur" of the ecossism, containing all the sacred words in Hebrew text with their etymology, the layout of the lodges, etc. A thuileur or tyler is a lodge officer responsible for checking and admitting visitors, the term is sometimes also used for instruction books. Ill. with 14 pl., of which 1 large fold., representing the tables, figures, alphabets, seals, etc. in use in the various ranks.
Ref. Caillet I:2910.
Prov. Hoebeke-Warmoes (collector's stamp).
Joined: 1. Onclair, A. - La Franc-Maçonnerie dans ses origines [...]. Brussels, H. Goemaere, 1874. 8vo. Contemp. cloth (spine rubbed). - 2. Ragon, J.-M. - Tuileur général de la Francmaçonnerie ou manuel de l'initié [...]. Paris, Collignon, 1861. 8vo (occ. spotting). Contemp. half cloth. (3 vol.).