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Le Rameau d’or d’Eleusis by MARCONIS DE NÈGRE, Jacques-Etienne

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Title: Le Rameau d’or d’Eleusis
Author: MARCONIS DE NÈGRE, Jacques-Etienne
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: the Author, 1861. 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. 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, the text covers the history of the Order from the initiation of King Solomon, lists the Grand Lodges with their masters, number of members, and dates of foundation, explains the symbols, numbers, and letters used in masonry iconography, and details the 95 rites that members must exercise. The author describes the chants and responses said during rituals, clothing to be worn for various levels of membership, calendar of events, insular legal system, process for promotions, religious concordances, financial structure, and differences in orders depending on their rites and locations. One of the final chapters outlines the five stages of initiation for women to become members. The ornate bistre plates illustrate legends and allegories of freemason foundational lore. Jacques-Etienne Marconis (1795-1868) was a French author and freemason. His father, served in the Napoleonic army, where he became obsessed with Egyptian religion and myth. Upon his return to France in 1815, he founded a freemasonry lodge called the Pilgrims of Memphis, but the chapter was disbanded only one year later. He entrusted the archives to his son, who reformed and revived the charter in 1839, but his small group of pilgrims failed to receive dispensation from the freemasonry governing body, the Grand Orient of France. In 1859 Marconis applied again to the Grand Orient for masonic chapterhood, and it was finally granted. This book represents the final iteration of the foundation of the Rite of Memphis, a project that took over 40 years to come to fruition. OCLC locates no copies in U.S. libraries. Caillet 7116; Dorbon 689.

La science naturelle, dégagée des chicanes de l’ecole by SAINT-ROMAIN, G.B. de

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Title: La science naturelle, dégagée des chicanes de l’ecole
Author: SAINT-ROMAIN, G.B. de
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: Antoine Cellier, 1679. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, edges sprinkled red; lightly toned, but otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this course in natural history “free from the quibbles of school.” It provides an atomistic outlook on the origins and principles of nature, couched in divine purpose. The author addresses the principles of life and death, astronomy, the composition of bodies, metals and compounds, natural elements, human physiology, and, briefly, psychology. The author, a medical doctor, peppers the discussion with clinical observations and suggestions on health and hygiene. He attributes all things to an omnipotent God and postulates on the existence of immaterial spirits. Throughout, he includes references to ancient and contemporary scientists such as Descartes, Aristotle, and Gassendi. OCLC records 8 copies in the U.S. (Cornell, Berkeley, UCLA, Chicago, Harvard, NLM, Oklahoma, Wisconsin-Madison). Dorbon ainé, Bibliotheca Esoterica 4325; Murr, Gassendi et l’Europe, 1592-1792 384.

All Things Human by Benton, Stuart [pseudonym of George Sylvester Viereck]

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Title: All Things Human
Author: Benton, Stuart [pseudonym of George Sylvester Viereck]
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Sheridan House, 1949. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing of a salacious early "lost gay novel" written under a pen name by George Sylvester Viereck, prolific poet and fascist propagandist. 383 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in yellow. Near Fine, lightly worn, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with moderate wear and shallow chipping to crown, rubbing at extremities. A novel with overt homosexual themes about a millionaire, Stuart Kent, who is wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he did not commit and has life-changing gay experiences in prison. Anthony Slide notes in Lost Gay Novels that the book "requires tolerance from the reader. Although, in all honesty, much of it is so outrageous that one cannot help but read on in awe at what the author will come up with next." After his release, Stuart soon yearns to be reunited once again with his young convict lover, Jack, and gets arrested on purpose. Born in Munich to an aristocratic family, Vierick acted as a German agent and propagandist in the US from WWI to WWII, and afterwards stayed in contact with elements of the Nazi diaspora during the early Cold War. In 1933 he traveled to Berlin to personally meet then Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler and gave a speech at Madison Square Garden to over 20,000 Friends of New Germany members. He was indicted in 1941 for a violation against the Foreign Agents Registration Act and spent three years in prison. When not propagandizing and spying, he also was "something of a scandalous poet whose verse dealt with sexual imagery," as Slide notes. He edited an American edition of Oscar Wilde's Panthea and Other Poems and penned a Wildean decadent vampire novel Das Haus des Vampires in 1907. Slide writes, "The publisher [Sheridan House] claimed that although the prison scenes in All Things Human were 'not for the squeamish,' they were 'authenticated by the author's own experiences." Quite uncommon in the trade.

[Autograph Quote Signed] Wisconsin Politician Philip F. La Follette's Fond Tribute to his Father, Robert M. La Follette by [Wisconsin] La Follette, Philip F.

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Title: [Autograph Quote Signed] Wisconsin Politician Philip F. La Follette's Fond Tribute to his Father, Robert M. La Follette
Author: [Wisconsin] La Follette, Philip F.
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very good, folded, minor edge wear, tiny chip at top edge.
Description: 1930. Very good, folded, minor edge wear, tiny chip at top edge.. [1] pp. 8 x 10 inches. Dated May 31, 1930, and signed Philip F. La Follett, who was governor of Wisconsin (1931-33), brother of Robert M. La Follette, Jr. with whom he created the Wisconsin Progressive Party, and the son of Robert M. La Follette, leading Wisconsin statesman for many years, who ran for president on the Progressive Party ticket in 1924. This quote, signed by La Follett, was extracted from a speech he delivered at the "Unveiling of the Statue of Hon. Robert M. La Follette" in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capital on April 25, 1929 (See Congressional Record, 71st Cong., 1st Session, p. 3). "It would be unnecessary to point out to you that he had no narrow sense that he represented any single state or that his duty was confined to the people of Wisconsin. But throughout his long public life the greatest source of support to him was the sense of personal friendship and intimate association with the people of his state. He would want us to remember that whatever service he was able to render his country was made possible by the unmatched loyalty and affection, existing without interruption, for the quarter of a century he was in the Senate, between the people of Wisconsin and himself...Enemies swarmed upon him, leaders betrayed, friends forsook him, but in some mysterious way the silent masses reached out through it all and spoke to him..." A fitting tribute by one of an historically important political family in Wisconsin.

Henry-Fisherman: A Story of the Virgin Islands by Brown, Marcia

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Title: Henry-Fisherman: A Story of the Virgin Islands
Author: Brown, Marcia
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition with "A" on copyright page, oblong in gray cloth with brown illustration on front board, 4to, unnumbered pages, gorgeous illustrations done in five colors throughout, pictorial endpapers; manufacturing error resulting in permanent creases in front paste-down, dust jacket shows heavy edge wear with chipping and small tears. Toning along edges and to spine, sunned strip along rear fore-edge. A scarce title from one of America's most lauded picture book illustrators. Caldecott Honor book of 1950.

THE COMPLETE POEMS 1927-1979 by Bishop, Elizabeth

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Title: THE COMPLETE POEMS 1927-1979
Author: Bishop, Elizabeth
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN: 9780701126940
Condition: Fine.
Description: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. First printing. Fine.. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition of Bishop's complete poetic works, from her early teenage poems to the posthumously published "Sonnet," including her translations from the French and Portuguese and several previously uncollected poems. 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original tan printed wrappers. Ink pub date (3/83) and price ($15.50) on front wrapper as issued. 287, [1] pages. Minimal edgewear.

Trouble on Thunder Mountain [Signed by Hoban and Blake] by Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake

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Title: Trouble on Thunder Mountain [Signed by Hoban and Blake]
Author: Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780571193592
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Faber and Faber, 1999. Fine/Near Fine. [London]: Faber and Faber, [1999]. First Edition Stated. Small, slim quarto (22cm.); publisher's glossy paper-covered boards in matching dust jacket; 40pp.; full color illus. throughout. Just a hint of wear to jacket margins, else a Fine copy. Signed by both Hoban and Blake at head of title page.

Illustrated Gleanings from the Classics, Number 4: Tristram Shandy...With Six unpublished Illustrations in aquatint from the original copper-plates engraved in 1820: and an introductory note by John Oldcastle by Sterne, Laurence

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Title: Illustrated Gleanings from the Classics, Number 4: Tristram Shandy...With Six unpublished Illustrations in aquatint from the original copper-plates engraved in 1820: and an introductory note by John Oldcastle
Author: Sterne, Laurence
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, [1886] First edition. Original brown paper wrappers, stamped in black and gilt. Octavo. Spine cracked, back cover detached, flap of back wrapper torn off, but present. Otherwise a good, clean copy of a fragile book. Prints six excerpts from the novel, each with an aquatint illustration from the 1820 edition. Leadenhall Press Sixteenpenny Series.

Wilson Hurley: A Retrospective Exhibition

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Title: Wilson Hurley: A Retrospective Exhibition
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Kansas City and Albuquerque: The Lowell Press of Kansas City / The Albuquerque Museum and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1985. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST WILSON HURLEY on the front free endpaper. A sound, attractive copy to boot of the 1985 stated 1st edition of this important catalogue and monograph on the American Western landscape painter Wilson Hurley (1924-2008). Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto, high-quality color reproductions throughout.

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