[VUILLAUME (Claude-André)]. Manuel maçonnique,... - Lot 130 - Pescheteau-Badin

[VUILLAUME (Claude-André)]. Manuel maçonnique, ou Tuileur de tous les rites de maçonnerie pratiqués en France. Paris: Hubert, Brun, 1820. In-8, half-brown basane, smooth spine cloisonné and decorated with fleurons and geometric motifs with black title page, speckled edges (period binding). viii-455-(one) pp; spine rubbed, headbands worn, spines split, title page and covers renewed; first few leaves wet. ORIGINAL EDITION of this tutor on the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the French Rite, the Egyptian Rite and Adoption Masonry. LITHOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION BY THE AUTHOR, including, hors texte: a title-frontispiece, and 31 plates numbered I to XXXI printed on azure paper. Provenance: de Barral family (armorial bookplate from the library of the château de Voiron). This family included several members of Freemasonry in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. - Then Théodore Ulmer (3 ex-libris stamps, including one scratched on the title and one on a plate), and Jacques Delemer (2 handwritten ex-libris in ink, including one on the title).