Instituzione Riti E Cerimonie Dell' Ordine De' Francs-Maçons Ossian Liberi Muratori; [Together with] Dizionario Dell' Eresie, Degli Errori, E Degli Scismi: Osia Memorie. Tomo Terzo. Tomo Quarto (Second edition)

Venezia: Presso Leonardo Bassaglia; Presso Gian Francesco Garbo, 1785. Leather Bound. Very Good. 95; 370; 352pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] Mottled leather with gilt stamping on the spine. Publisher's red stain to the text block edges. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing and chipping to the leather at the extremities. Underlying boards exposed periodically along the edges. Very occasional light foxing to the pages. Small loss from bottom margin corner of p. 117/18 of second work. Regular errors in the printing of page numbers, but no text missing. Italian text. This copy is from the personal library of Kent Walgren, Mormon scholar, bookseller, and author of the definitive bibliography of freemasonry, with his brief markings in pencil on the front free endpaper. Pages exceptionally bright. Opens with a rare work on Freemasonry, written anonymously. Followed by parts 3 and 4 of Pluquet's work on Christian heretics translated by Tomasso Antonio Contin.