QUANTIN - Dictionnaire Maçonnique [ Rare originale] - 1825

QUENTIN or QUANTIN
Masonic Dictionary or Collection of Sketches of All Parts of the Structure Known Under the Title of Masonry.

Paris, Brianchon, 5825 (1825). A bound volume of 238 pages + 3 folding plates. From the period, half-leather binding, smooth spine richly decorated with fillets and floral motifs, with a title piece in red morocco.

Rare original edition - three large fold-out engraved lithographed plates by Langlumé.

Dictionary (163 pages) followed by the Instructions of the Seven Degrees of the French Rite (30 pages), followed by a Collection of Unpublished Hymns concluding with a new closing hymn (41 pages).

For Fesch, (Freemasonry, cols. 1115-1116), and Albert Caillet (III, 9033), the work is said to have been written by Joseph Quantin, novelist, founder of the magazine 'L'Abeille maçonnique,' and Venerable of the lodge of the Rigid Observers.

Caillet No. 9033, three curious large boards. Secret symbols of Freemasonry.
Dorbon No. 3827 contains interesting information about Arminius, Cagliostro, Caroline of Naples, Jacques de Molay, the Kadosch knights and the Rose-Cross, and the Templars.

Charming example in original period binding.