ADOPTION MASONRY. - ADOPTION OR WOMEN'S MASONRY,... - Lot 90 - Pescheteau-Badin

ADOPTION MASONRY. - ADOPTION OR WOMEN'S MASONRY, in three grades. À la Fidélité, chez le Silence, 1100070075 [1775]. [On last page:] This book can be found at La Haye, chez P. Gosse & Pinet ; & à Genève, chez I. Bardin. Small in-8, brown half-chagrin with corners, 2-nerved spine at head and tail, gilt fillet on leather edge on boards (modern binding). 64 pp; spine a little faded; trace of bookplate on first flyleaf, several leaves wet. ORIGINAL EDITION of this tuileur concerning the first three grades, in the tradition of the Grand Orient. Sometimes attributed to Louis Guillemain de Saint-Victor, author in 1779 of La Vraie Maçonnerie d'adoption. BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATION: 3 OUT OF TEXT ENGRAVED PLATES ON COPPER, symbolic compositions inspired by the Old Testament; and 2 woodcut vignettes with Masonic motifs, including one on the title.