Apologie pour l'Ordre des Francs-Maçons. Par Mr. N*** Membre de l'Ordre. Avec deux chansons composées par Le Frère Américain
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Verlag: La Haye, Chez Pierre Gosse, 1742, 1742
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Mille Septante Books, Anderlecht, BRUSS, Belgien
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12mo, modern half red morocco with gilt title and flower decoration to spine, frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, [14] + 118 + [3](engraved musical scores) + [2] pp.; very good copy, bound with original blue wrappers and pages untrimmed. First edition copy of one of the early key texts in defence of Freemasonry. It presents the Masonic Order by answering the objections which could be formulated by the society of the time, and it is to the "Equitable public, this most impartial judge of all" that the author wants to "submit his proofs". The work has been wrongly attributed to the notorious Freemason François-Felix Nougaret (1740 - 1831) or the prolific writer Pierre-Jean-Baptise Nougaret (1742-1823). New research identifies the author as the German gem-engraver Johann Lorenz Natter (1705 - 1763), a key figure in the diffusion of Masonic ideas throughout Europe. The text specifies the rights and the benefits of being a Freemason with the accent on brotherhood and universality:"L'agrément de reconnaître les frères, quoiqu'en pays étranger, dans un lieu dont on ignore la langue et sans les avoir jamais vus auparavant, et cela par un langage et des signes usités universellement dans l'ordre." It also points out the restriction of accepting only Christians as members of the Lodge. The composer of the two songs composées par Le Frère Américain is most likely Benjamin Franklin. Our copy has only Pierre Gosse in The Hague mentioned as a publisher while some copies of the same year mention Gosse and George Conrad Walther in Dresden. The frontispiece is an allegorical representation of Masonic love. A beautiful copy bound in its original wrappers with untrimmed pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1673367134919
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Titel: Apologie pour l'Ordre des Francs-Maçons. Par...
Verlag: La Haye, Chez Pierre Gosse, 1742
Erscheinungsdatum: 1742
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: 1st Edition
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Apologie pour l'Ordre des Francs-Maçons Par Mr. N*** Membre de l'Ordre. Avec deux Chansons [composées par Le Frére Américain]. Nouvelle edition augmentée par l'Auteur
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Hardcover
Anbieter: Földvári Books, Budapest, Ungarn
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Third (first in 1742), revised and enlarged edition. . In its first, blue hard paper binding. [1] leaf frontispiece, [14 (last blank)] 126 [2 (with engraved musical notation and text on the first page] pages, and [2] leaves (with 2 pages of engraved sheet music). Important masonic text with Benjamin Franklin's musical compositions. A curious, anonymously published apology on behalf of the Masonic Order, one of the key texts on the exclusiveness of Christians in the lodges in the 18th century, supplemented with two early American Masonic songs by Benjamin Franklin. Both the text and the songs are erroneously attributed to different authors by many bibliographies, the text to François Felix Nogaret (1740-1831) probably because he also wrote masonic hymns, the songs to Jacques-Christophe Naudot, an unrelated French Masonic composer. In fact, the book was written by Johann Lorenz Natter (1705-1763) the German goldsmith and gem-cutter, a member of the Florence Masonic Lodge and an ardent promoter of the Masonic ideas, and - as it is indicated in the title of the first edition - the songs by the American brother ("composées par Le Frére Américain"), who was no one else than Benjamin Franklin. (Basso 1994, p. 154.) All editions are rare on the market. The second was published in a different format only by Gosse and lacks the engraved music and the frontispiece. Wolfstieg 23736 (first edition); not in Sabin. Literature: Basso, Alberto. L' invenzione della gioia: musica e massoneria nell'età dei lumi. Milano: Garzanti, 1994. . In its first, blue hard paper binding Third (first in 1742), revised and enlarged edition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2561
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