ALBERT PIKE.

LITURGY OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY, FOR THE SOUTHERN JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES: PART II – IV TO XIV.

Supreme Council. REPRINT EDITION. 1982 [1877; 1962].

213 pages. B&W LINE ILLUSTRATIONS. Large octavo (9 by 6 inch) hardcover, medium brown pebbled buckram cloth boards.

Corners very slightly bumped, 8 pages got a bit bent at the bottoms, o/w internals entirely clean & NEAR FINE CONDITION.

A VERY SOLID MODERN COPY IN ALMOST INDESTRUCTIBLE BROWN BUCKRAM.

The original 1877 edition was provided with color plates. This reprint edition contains only b&w plates along with the same vignette illustrations. The reprint also eliminated the original appendix, which brought the total pages of that original up to 243.

The 4th through the 14th degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite are called the Ineffable Degrees.

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GREAT ORIGINAL SCOTTISH RITE MATERIAL FROM THE PEN OF ALBERT PIKE, REPRINTED WITH B&W PLATES IN LIEU OF THE ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS, BUT WITH ALL THE SAME INFORMATION.