Le Rameau d’or d’Eleusis

by Jacques-Etienne Marconis De NÈGre

$3,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Paris: the Author, 1861. Small folio. 512, 4 pp. Sepia lithographed frontispiece and 6 full-page sepia lithographed plates. Contemporary gilt black sheep-backed marbled boards. Minor foxing, otherwise a very good copy in original condition. Item #20085 First edition of this privately published manual of freemasonry by the founder of the Rite of Memphis, a Templar-based branch of the practice. Intended for use by novices,

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