3 volumes de 360, 709 et 703 pages, format 165 x 245 mm, reliés cartonnage dos cuir, publiés en 1880-1881, Seguin Frères (Avignon) et Oudin Frères (Paris), bon état
Quatrième édition entièrement refondue et continuée jusqu'aux évènements actuels avec une introduction sur l'action des sociétés secrètes au XIXe siècle par Claudio Jannet. Bien complet de son Tome Troisième : "Notes et Documents"
Fremont: Fremont Tribune 1893. Very good plus. 32pp. Original green printed wrappers. Light wear and dust soiling. A scarce pamphlet publishing the rules of the local chapter of Freemasons in Fremont Nebraska as of 1893 and an interesting document of this outpost of the Odd Fellows in the rural eastern part of the state. OCLC locates one copy at Yale. Fremont Tribune unknown books
Tuxedo New York 1914: n.p. 1914. Soft cover. 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. n.p. unknown
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