99 - MASONIC APOLOGETICS and miscellaneous works. — Set of 11 volumes; some defects and missing pages. 1,000/1,500

MASONIC APOLOGETICS and miscellaneous works. — Set of 11 volumes; some defects and missing pages. 1,000/1,500 — BOUILLOD (Joseph-Alexis). Persecutions of a Frenchman on trial under the oligarchic government of Genoa in 1793. Including [...] his imprisonment in various civil and criminal prisons and in the dungeons of the Papal Inquisition established in that country. In Nice, printed by Bouillod and Company. Year V [1796–1797]. 2 volumes, in-8; corner loss on one endpaper, some soiling, marginal stains on the last pages of the second volume (bound circa 1860). Rare first edition of these memoirs by a merchant forced to confess to the Inquisition his membership in Freemasonry. Separate copperplate engravings. — CALCOTT (Wellins). A Candid Disquisition of the Principles and Practices of the Most Ancient and Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons. London, printed for the author by Brother James Dixwell, A.L. 5769, A.D. 1769. In-8, brown marbled calfskin decorated with Masonic motifs; binding heavily worn with spine re-bound featuring gilded Masonic motifs (contemporary binding). — COUSTOS (John). The Sufferings of John Coustos for Freemasonry, and for His Refusal to Convert to Roman Catholicism. London, printed by W. Strahan, for the author, 1746. In-8, speckled brown calfskin, binding re-done with portions of the cover material on the boards preserved; the copper-engraved frontispiece portrait is missing; the fold-out plate is lined and stained. — APOLOGETIC DEFENSE OF THE FREEMASONS, against the five discourses of the Most Reverend Fathers … missionaries in … by Brother … Amsterdam: Henry Dusauzet, 1767. 12mo, marbled brown sheepskin with floral decoration; binding slightly worn, water stains at the corners (contemporary binding). Work originally published in 1747. Provenance: Joseph Delorie (old handwritten bookplate); Pierre Cayrol (handwritten bookplate and bookplate stamp). — THE FREEMASON ORATOR (L’). Berlin, n.p., printed this year [1766]. In-12, half-shagreen Bradel binding (modern binding). First edition. Copper-engraved vignette on the title page. — Etc.