VRAIS JUGEMENS SUR LA SOCIETE DES FRANCS-MAÇONS... - Lot 129 - Pescheteau-Badin

VRAIS JUGEMENS SUR LA SOCIETE DES FRANCS-MAÇONS (LES). Où l'on raporte un détail abrégé de leurs statuts : où l'on fait voir ensuite combien ces maximes sont contraires à celles de la religion. Brussels: Pierre de Hondt, 1752. - Supplément aux Vrais jugemens sur société maçonne. Brussels: Pierre de Hondt, 1754. All bound in one volume in-12, brown marbled calf, spine ribbed and threaded (period binding). 1: xii-192 [misfigured without missing 1 to 181 and 202 to 212]-(2) pp. - 2: (2 of which the second is blank)-vi-123 pp. - Binding spine entirely rebound. Anti-Masonic pamphlets probably written by a clergyman protected by the bishops of Comtat-Venaissin, Monseigneur Joseph de Guyon de Crochans in Avignon, who took measures against Freemasonry, and Monseigneur Joseph-Dominique d'Inguimbert in Carpentras, in whose library the manuscripts of the texts were found. Les Vrais jugemens includes the texts of the bulls condemning Freemasonry issued by Clement XII (In Eminenti, 1738) and Benedict XIV (Providas, 1751). Woodcut on title depicting a Masonic apron. The Supplément was published as a rebuttal to Abbé Pérau's Le Secret des Francs-Maçons, originally published in Geneva in 1742 and reprinted several times until 1778. RARE.