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Zustand: Very Good. SIGNED! Washington, D.C.: The Roberts Publishing Company, 1970. Centennial edition. 4to Hardcover. 1047pp. B/W photos and plates. Signed by author on front endpage. Very Good book and Acceptable dust jacket. (history, scottish rite, freemasonry, freemasons) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Zustand: Very Good. Washington, D.C.: The Roberts Publishing Company, 1970. Centennial edition. 4to Hardcover. 1047pp. B/W photos and plates. Very Good book and Acceptable dust jacket. Errata laid-in. In protective mylar cover. (freemasons, freemasonry, secret organizations) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Zustand: good, poor. Centennial Edition. 29 cm, 1047, illus., facsims., bibliography, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped, large piece missing in front DJ, ink note fr endpaper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Washington Mithras Lodge of Perfection, Washington DC. 1970. 1047 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are rubbed and worn). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The introduction of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite into the District of Columbia may be said to have begun when the Supreme Council, 33°, of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, elected Benjamin Brown French to receive the 33rd Degree of Sovereign Grand Inspector General and Active Member of the Supreme Council for the District of Columbia. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1047 pages.

Zustand: Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! Washington, D.C.: Mithras Lodge of Perfection Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Washington, D.C., 1970. Centennial Edition. Heavy 4to hardcover. Red cloth with gilt letting to the spine and front board. Pictorial dust jacket. 1047pp. Frontis, b/w illustrations, photos. Signed and inscribed by the author on front free endpaper. Good book and poor dust jacket. Shaken with a crease to the spine. Light white rubbing and a couple of small impressions to the rear board. A small A small stain to both the front pastedown and front free endpaper. The dust jacket tattered and nearly split into 2 pieces. Jacket flaps and folds nearly split. Tape repair to the lower front DJ corner. Errata slip laid in. Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. The format is 9 inches by 11.25 inches. xxiv, 1047, [1] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Addenda. Index. The dust jacket is worn, torn, soiled and chipped (heavily at the bottom front and back). Minor edge soiling. Errata Sheet. The author was a mason of the 33 degree and was the Grand Organist of the Supreme Council. Includes a brief biography of Benjamin B. French, a chapter on the Origin, Growth and Development from 1879-1940, and a chapter on Realization of Achievement 1940-1970. Benjamin Brown French (18001870) was a politician, telegraph business leader, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Public Commissioner of Buildings in Washington, D.C. He served as Clerk of the United States House of Representatives from 1845 until 1847 and was appointed Commissioner of Public Buildings. He compiled an album of salt print and albumen print photographs related to construction of the Capitol dome and other sites. He was involved in the burgeoning telegraph industry developed by Samuel Morse and others. French was very active in a number of clubs and societies, particularly Freemasonry. In the 1850s, he was Grand Master of the Knights Templar of the United States. He was present at Abraham Lincoln's inauguration (and was president of the inaugural ball committee. French was also present for the Gettysburg Address, and oversaw Lincoln's funeral. He gave the main speech April 14, 1868, at the dedication of the Abraham Lincoln statue at Washington's City Hall. He composed a hymn for the consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. From the introduction: The introduction of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite into the District of Columbia may be said to have begun when the Supreme Council, 33°, of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, elected Benjamin Brown French to receive the 33rd Degree of Sovereign Grand Inspector General and Active Member of the Supreme Council for the District of Columbia. He was duly invested with that degree by the Sovereign Grand Commander, Ill. Albert Pike, 33° on December 12, 1859. In the spring of 1860, Grand Commander Pike conferred the several degrees of the Rite, from the 4th to the 32nd inclusive, upon Brothers George C. Whiting, William D. Haley, John G. F. Holston, Gustavus A. Schwarzman, Christopher Ingle, Joseph W. Nairn, William G. Parkhurst, Aaron Van Camp, Ezra L. Stevens, Goff Alfred Hall, and Peter P. Pitchlyn. Brother Haley, after having received the degrees, was authorized to confer the same upon a few others, who were unable to be present at the several meetings called by the Grand Commander. On June 22, 1860, having previously assembled a cadre of Brethren willing to assist in establishing Scottish Rite Freemasonry in the District of Columbia, Brother Pike issued Letters Patent constituting a Grand Consistory of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, 32nd Degree; with the members forming this body being drawn from those mentioned above, along with Benjamin Brown French, Ben Perley Poore, Samuel T. Schugert, and Aaron H. Palmer: these officers were installed by Brother Pike on the same day. On June 28th, the new Grand Consistory gave a complimentary banquet in honor of the Grand Commander. The sitting officers of the Grand Consistory, except Pitchlyn and Poore, were reelected on January 22, 1861. It appears that the original concept for the structure of Scottish Rite bodies within a locale (Orient), was to first establish a Grand Consistory of the 32°, have that body charter such subordinate bodies as needed to support a hopefully expanding membership. Thus, the following: Letters Patent for a Lodge of Perfection of the 14th Degree had been issued by the newly chartered Grand Consistory on the same evening as its own creation to be called Osiris Lodge of Perfection No. 1. It was constituted on the evening of June 22, 1860 with Albert Pike, Grand Commander, presiding. The following officers were elected and installed: Joseph W. Nairn, Christopher Ingle, Ezra L. Stevens, John G. F. Holston, Benjamin B. French, G. A. Schwarzman, William G Parkhurst, Aaron Van Camp, and Goff Alfred Hall. These bodies held their meetings in the Masonic Hall, at the corner of Ninth and D Streets, N. W., where they did considerable work; Brother Ingle receiving for his excellent services the 33rd Degree, at the hands of the Supreme Council at their session in New Orleans on the first of April 1861. The great Civil War coming on, the stress of military and civic affairs rendered it impossible to continue the activities of the Rite, and it became dormant, the last meeting of the Consistory was held on April 5, 1861. On January 19, 1867, Brothers Benjamin B. French, George C. Whiting, Christopher Ingle, and Ben Perley Poore met at the "Club House," corner of Fifteenth and H streets, Northwest, to consider the status of the Scottish Rite in the District of Columbia. They agreed to do all they could to revive the Rite. Although the Grand Consistory and the Osiris Lodge of Perfection still had a dubious existence at this time, they evidently did little or no work, for we find Brother French, the Active 33rd, assisted by some of the other brethren, conferring and communicating the degrees on worthy Master Masons, at various times and places. On May 20, 1870, Brother French appointed Joseph Thomas Brown, 33°, to be his Deputy for the District; and he, at the death of Brother French on August 12, 1870, became Special Deputy for the District of Columbia, by appointment of Grand Commander Pike. Centennial Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing.