Freemasons, Signed (8 results)

Condition: Fine. First edition first printing hardcover limited to 500 copies this number 32 Fine in fine dust jacket SIGNED INSCRIBED TO A FELLOW MASON BY WALKER AND DATED 11 1 02 ON THE FRONT END PAPER.

24mo stapled blue paperwraps printed in dark blue; 12 pages including 4 pages listing officers and members for 1923 at rear. Masonic degrees certification for "Dr. Clinton B. Weagley" filled in at front and signed by Secretary "Francis B. Sappington" with seal. Good with covers and first and last pages somewhat soiled and marked.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Not a book. Original document. 9 1/2" x 14" in original frame & under glass. Sealed by a Notary Public in Tuxedo, Orange County, New York. Initially, it appears to be related to a young women's society or club, but there is more to it that meets the eye. It has the notary seal with a ribbon that partially reads "R GIRLS" over it, & is signed in ink by 29 people, 4 of whom are the "Managing Committee", and two of whom are signed under the ribbon. All but the two names under the ribbon have small orange seals beside them. Typed in light print, and with three corrections, the document reads, "It is here-by agreed, that we the undersigned, on the day and date here-in after mentioned will be one of the party going to Monroe, starting from Tuxedo at seven oclock (sic) in the afternoon, on the Nineteenth day of January, One Thousand nine hundred and four." Etc., etc. Below the seal & above the four signatures of the managing committee is written in red ink, "Red Lemonade (?) Tablets to be used will be strictly in accordance with the formula of the I. D. G. T. The frame is backed with narrow slats, upon which there is a label with the following written in ink: "Presented to the "Mystic Seven" January 26th - 1904 by the "oudinae (?) Four". Therein lies a clue and a mystery. There is, on the internet, information about the "Mystical Seven". The website includes a long essay on the subject, and cites a 1907 encyclopedia entry re the society, "which is now thought to be dead, was in some respects one of the most remarkable and most ambitious college societies in the country" with its roots in the history of Freemasonry in the country. The website gives the history of the "Mystical Seven" which lately continued to exist at Wesleyan. There are further and extensive connections to the history of Freemasonry in the United States, to Wesleyan University, Methodism, & much more. Perhaps the reference to "the Mystic Seven" is only a kind of knock-off from the real thing, but the reference is nonetheless intriguing. The names on this document include the names of both men and women, although almost of the signatures are first two initials and then last names. This is an unusual document to say the least, and undoubtedly a rare piece.

Revised Edition. Presentation copy. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Scattered foxing throughout. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; iv, 238 pages. 13 plates. Subjects; Amended constitutions. Private organisations. 1 Kg.

Revised Edition. Presentation copy. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Scattered foxing throughout. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; iv, 238 pages. 13 plates. Subjects; Amended constitutions. Private organisations. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [Rare Massachusetts Masonic work in original fine binding (no. 2 of only 12)] Doubly signed and inscribed by Seranus Bowen (M.E., Grand High Priest). Limited edition of "only 700 copies printed . of which only 12 were bound in crushed levant, of the later this copy is number 2." Fine binding. Bound in polished brown levant morocco. Front hinge mended. Gilt ruled spine and covers. Gilt dentelle. Top edge gilt. Stamped in gold, John Gaigh. Inscribed to R.E. John Haigh, by Bownen. 145 pp. Includes list of members. Presumably John Haigh's copy (1832-1896), of Somerville, Massachusetts. Haigh was a noted industrialist, mason, and book collector. - Necrology of The New-England Historic Genealogical Society., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1897) Vol. 51, Page 82. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Special Edition. La Lire Maçonne, ou Recueil de Chansons des Francs-Maçons. Revué, corrigé, mis dans un nouvel ordre, & augmenté de quantité de Chansons qui n'avoient point encore paru Avec les airs notes tant pour le chant que pour le violon & la flute. The Hague, R.van Laak, 1787. 8vo. [12]f + xvi + 536p (pp519 -520 duplicated). Title in red & black, engraved vignette signed 'frere Boëly', woodcut head- and tail-pieces, numerous pages of printed music, printer's ornaments throughout. With:[BURCKHEIM, Jean de] Regle Maçonnique, à l'usage des loges réunies et rectifiées arrêtée au Convent Général de Wilhelmsbad. Seconde Edition. The Hague, I. van Cleef, 5797, 24p. Contemporary maroon calf, front & back covers with gilt borders, 'Les Vrais Bataves' on front, 'W; A. Snoek' on back, both in gilt, gilt title on spine lable, gilt floral and spiral ornament in spine panels. A rare Dutch Masonic volume prepared for members of the Amsterdam lodge preserved in a contemporary masonic binding. Augmented and corrected 4th edition (first: 1763) comprising 270 songs in French and in Dutch (50), many accompanied by musical scores, the majority with words written by the above authors; directions for accompanying music frequently suggest that of a popular air or dance, to accompany the violin or flute. The songs celebrate the life of he Freemason and the Order of the different lodges, its virtues, pleasures, duties, and ceremonies. The second work comprises the masonic rules for the reunited lodges as agreed at the Convention of Wilhelmsbad. An attractive volume in its original masonic binding with the owner s name gilt-stamped on back cover. Barbier iv,190; Fesch, Bibliographie de la Franc-Maconnerie et des societes secretes, col.1442. Signed by Author(s).

4to, 3 pp. Bifolium. Very good on lightly-aged paper. Minimal damage has been caused to the second leaf (affecting two or three unimportant words of text) by the breaking of the red wax seal. Addressed by Guthrie 'To Charles Sharpe of Hoddam Esqr [Hoddam Castle] | Provenance Grand Master for Dumfries Shire'. Small circular red ink postmark. Docketed. Guthrie's letter, in a secretarial hand but signed and with an initialed postscript by him, covers the two centre pages. He writes that 'a great proportion' of the lodges are in arrears, 'some of them 20 years and upwards'. 'The funds of the Grand Lodge are at present very much Exhausted by the liberal supplies they have been induced to afford to Indigent Brethren for these three years past'. He also mentions the laying of 'the foundation Stone of the new Jail at Dumfries'. He cites the minutes in support of a demand that Sharpe 'enforce a strict compliance'. The recto of the first sheet carries a list of fifteen numbered lodges, headed 'Dumfries Shire | Charles Sharpe Esqr P. G. M.', giving the dates of 'last pay[men]t.' and 'last Certificate'. At the foot of the page is quotation of a six-line resolution by the Grand Lodge 'of 2d May last' regarding arrears.