MASONIC BOOKS & EPHEMERA TUESDAY
525 Hammond, W. Masonic Emblems and Jewels. Treasures at Freemasons’ Hall. 1917 De Luxe ed., La.4to and the 8vo issue;
WITH: three other books and other various catalogues (Sotheby’s and Christies) of Masonic silver and medals, commemorative catalogues of Masonic Exhibitions, Masonic medals and jewels etc from 1886 to 1962 £150 - 200
526 The Gentleman’s Magazine. 1731 onwards a broken run with some duplication all in contemporary calf, Vols. 1 to 3 (In matching, contemporary polished calf gilt), 5, 7. (3), 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, vol. 25, 38, 42, 67 some duplication. Calf bound.. All volumes present have Masonic references. (21) £200 - 300
527 Quatuor Coronatorum Antigrapha: Masonic Reprints ..... [of scarce manuscripts and books] Edited by G. W. Speth and W.J. Songhurst. 1889 - 1913 Vols. 1 to 10. With many plates and facsimiles etc. 4to. Half roan. Very scarce. (10) £350 - 450
528 Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge. 1888 - 1967. Vols. 1 to 53 in half leather, remainder in cloth. (80) £600 - 800
529 Miscellanea Latomorum, or Masonic Notes and Queries. 1913 - c.1945. Vols. 1 to 22 in half calf, later volumes (incomplete) in wrappers.
WITH: Adams, C.C. Masonic Notes. 1918 A short run of this journal in wrappers. (22 plus unbound parts) £200 - 300
530 The Freemason. 1884, 1893 then 1929 to 1939. Folio. In cloth. (10) £100 - 150
531 Manuscripts: Subscription account book of Globe Lodge, no. 23, 1922 - 25 sm. 8vo..
WITH: Signature Book of Four Kings Council No. 7 [of the Allied Masonic Degrees] .... c 1882 - 1946 folio; Signature Book of Plantagenet Conclave No. 2 [ of the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine], 1912 - 1962 folio; and four manuscript notebooks on masonic history etc. by A. Nice. (8) £150 - 200
532 Masonic Scrapbooks. Two volumes. Large folio. c 1920 - 1950 Compiled by Mr. Nice and containing his very extensive notes on specific Masonic lodges, with a large number of inserted programmes, summonses etc. of Masonic meetings. A unique reference work. (2) £200 - 300
533 Ephemera: Masonic certificates of English, Irish and other Craft Lodges, Royal Arch Chapters, and other bodies, including an early French Scottish Rite certificate (c.1810). The Craft certificates date from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. (Approx 21) £150 - 200
534 Playbills: Much Ado About Nothing. (1834), and Patrician and Parvenu, or Confusion worse Confounded. (1835)
Both framed and glazed. Performed at the Theatre Royal in Bristol under Masonic patronage and for masonic benefit. (2) £150 - 200
535 Engravings: Hogarth, W. Mystery of Masonry brought to Light by ye Gormogons (c.1750 an early impression);
WITH: Making a Sailor a Mason. 1807 Large coloured aquatint (humorous). (2) £300 - 400
536 A Free-Mason. Caricatures in vignettes, on a single, oblong folio sheet. Lithograph on green paper. (c.1830-40).
WITH: Peter Lambert de Lintot, Chapter and Grand Lodge of England. (1789) Symbolic engraving showing the emblems of the Rite of Seven Degrees. 4to.; and two other Masonic engravings £150 - 200
537 Masonic ephemera, comprising pictorial summonses to lodge meetings (c.1890-1920), and similar, small engravings, three Victorian cartes de visite photographs of Masonic Tracing Boards, and other items. (a quantity) £100 - 150
538 Masonry Universal. (c.1790) La. 4to. Copper engraving of Masonic emblems, arms and allegorical figures. Mounted on board, with fraying to edges and some marginal loss.
WITH: The Masonic Mirror and Symbolic Chart. (c.1810 - 1820) Large engraved sheet, in sections, mounted on linen. Pictorial emblems, symbols etc. in the centre sections, with explanatory text on sections to right and left. Frayed at folds with some slight loss. Folds like a map into leather fronted book £150 - 200
539 First Degree in Masonry. A concise account of the Ceremonies, &c. of Initiating an Entered Apprentice. London (c.1830-40) Single sheet, large folio, printed on both sides. Very rare.
WITH: Solomon in all his Glory, or The Master Mason ….. Glasgow (c.1840) Lge. 8vo. Folded as issued. Title-page detached, very frayed and with loss to inner margin. (2) £150 - 200
540 The Enter’d Prentices Song. By our late Brother Mr. Mathew Birkhead, deceas’d. To be sung when all grave Business is over, and with the Master’s leave. Dublin : Printed by George Faulkner, Pembroke Court, Castle street. [1726?] Broadsheet, folio, printed on both sides (the verso having ‘The Fellow Crafts Song’) . Creased horizontally and vertically, fraying along edges, with some loss to blank corners, margins and folds. Ink-stain to blank right hand margin. Extremely rare £200 - 350
541 Cagliostro: A Masonic Anecdote (Caricature of Cagliostro and others at a meeting of the Lodge of Antiquity) 1786, approx. 20 x 18 inches. The original copper plate from which the engraving was printed (see Lot No 519, page 45 to see engraving from this plate) £600 - 800
542 Hannay, James. Complete Works of William Hogarth in a series of one hundred and fifty steel engravings from the original pictures: with an introductory essay by James Hannay, and descriptive letterpress by Rev. J Trusler and E F Roberts. London. Wiliam Mackenzie. Volumes I, II, III, IV, V and VI. Circa mid 1800’s (not the later versions). All volumes identical binding. Title gilt, Tan gloss cloth boards, gold bevelled edges, front has two line red and black border, central panel tan with very ornate leaf design corners, black/tan. Panel centre has impressed gilt bust of Hogarth against red background, with artist’s palette and two books, either side of bust, and very lavish gilt/red leaf design beneath. Half-title has superb b/w engraving ‘The Pieman’. Volume commences with a short biography of Hogarth. Volume illus. throughout, numerous exquisite engravings, each protected by a sheet of fine white paper (not tissue). Very good condition, slight bending of ridged corners and top of spines., some foxing in one or two volumes £100 - 200
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