Précieuses éditions originales du Baron Ecker d'Eckhoff - Franc-Maçonnerie - 1777

Original editions set of Jean Henri, baron Ecker d'Eckhoff (1750-1790).

Modern half-brown morocco binding, spine with four raised bands, date at foot, gilt and masonic iron between two bands.

Included:

- The Prisoner Freemason.
Chez C Plaat et Comp., The Hague 1777, 27pp., complete.

- The Flight of Stanislas Lescinzky, King of Poland.
Chez C Plaat et Comp., The Hague 1777, 36pp., complete.

- Abassai.
Chez C Plaat et Comp., The Hague 1777, 70pp., complete.

Bound in sequence:

- [Anonymous]. The ill-guarded girl or the amorous counterpart.
Chez la Veuve Jolly, Amsterdam 1760, 48pp., complete.

- Mrs Anseaume and de Marcouville. The False Adventuress.
Chez la Veuve Jolly, Amsterdam 1760, 72pp., complete.

- [Anonymous]. The magician-soldier.
Chez A. Hopkes, Amsterdam 1761, 52pp., complete.

- [Anonymous]. Blaise the Sawyer.
Chez H. Constapel, The Hague 1760, 40pp., complete.

- [Anonymous]. Ariettes by Blaise Savetier.
Chez H. Constapel, The Hague 1760, 24pp., complete.

- [Anonymous]. The Devil with Four or the Double Metamorphosis.
Chez la Veuve Jolly, Amsterdam 1760, 64pp., complete.
Followed by Airs chosen from the Devil with Four. Same publisher at the same date, pages 65 to 88, complete.

Jean Henri, baron Ecker d’Eckhoff (Hans Heinrich Freiherr von Ecker und Eckhoffen, Circa 1750-1790)

German aristocrat, writer and active freemason in esoteric and masonic circles of the late 18th century. Jean Henri, baron Ecker d’Eckhoff belongs to this generation of German authors heavily influenced by the French Enlightenment culture. Moving in European central masonic and Rosicrucian circles, he was linked to mystic and initiatic currents that developed around the high degrees of Freemasonry in the 1770s-1780s.

He is mainly known for his masonic and theatrical writings, published in French and German, bearing witness to the intellectual cosmopolitanism of European Freemasonry on the eve of the French Revolution. His principal work: Le Franc-Maçon prisonnier (The Prisoner Freemason) (The Hague, 1777). A freemasonry drama in several acts, this work is one of the rare known examples of 18th-century theatre explicitly inspired by Freemasonry. The work develops initiatic, moral and fraternal themes specific to the masonic sensibility of the era.

State: Previous faint damp staining traces; otherwise fine condition. Rare and precious gathering. See photos for details.

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