ALBERT PIKE: LEGENDA XIX-XXX * VERY RARE 1ST EDN c.1884 ~ SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC

Description

ALBERT PIKE.
LEGENDA XIX TO XXX (19º-30º).
No place, date, or authorial attribution, but an original
FIRST EDITION
c.1884 by
ALBERT PIKE [Harris: ‘Bibliography of the Writings of Albert Pike’, pg. 93].
170 pages. Large octavo (9 by 6 inch) hardcover in full original black pebbled cloth, top edge gilt, gilt title to front board.
Light rubbing,
VERY GOOD CONDITION.
Original writings by Albert Pike on the 19th through 30th degrees of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, USA Southern Jurisdiction. See Ray Baker Harris: “Bibliography of the Writings of Albert Pike”, pg. 93.
This copy is NOT lacking anything. They were all published like this: without a title-page and with no authorial attribution. Original or “first state” bindings vary from this black pebbled cloth to a more brownish pebbled cloth.
It is unknown how many were issued, but judging by its perennial rarity, relatively few were put out and/or have survived.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
HISTORY OF THE VEHM-GERICHT. • ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF GREECE. • THE KABBALAH • THE SEVEN SCIENCES OF PYTHAGORAS. • “THE VISION OF THE LIKENESS OF THE GLORY OF GOD”. • THE DRUSES. • LECTURE OF BROTHER TRUTH.
AND A GREAT DEAL MORE ON THE MOST ESOTERIC MASONIC SYMBOLISM OF THE DEGREES IN QUESTION.
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A RARE FIRST EDITION ALBERT PIKE SCOTTISH RITE ITEM IN VERY NICELY PRESERVED CONDITION!