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The Templars' Chart: or Hieroglyphic Monitor; Containing All the Emblems and Hieroglyphics explained in the Valiant and Magnanimous Orders of Knight of the Red Cross, Knights Templars and Knights of Malta
by Jeremy L. Cross
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good, tight square binding, fraying and chipping to edges of spine and corners, some soiling, fading, small staining to boa
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: A.S. Barnes and Co, 1857. Fourth Edition. Hardcover 8vo, brown cloth with all over decorative stamping, some gilt. [24 plates], 163 pp, 106 pp, [48 plates]. Very Good, tight square binding, fraying and chipping to edges of spine and corners, some soiling, fading, small staining to boards, foxing throughout, some dampstaining and horizontal creasing running through front leaves. Fourth Edition of this scarce masonic text, quite scarce in any of its early editions, and bearing the bookplate of Lewis G. Lockward, the first mayor of Caldwell, NJ (birthplace of Grover Cleveland).
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 596
- Title
- The Templars' Chart
- Author
- Jeremy L. Cross
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover 8vo, brown cloth with all over decorative stamping, some gilt. [24 plates], 163 pp, 106 pp, [48 plates]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, tight square binding, fraying and chipping to edges of spine and corners, some soiling, fading, small staining to boa
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A.S. Barnes and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1857
- Keywords
- Masonry, Caldwell, Freemasonry, Templar, Grover Cleveland, New Jersey, Occult
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Bookplate
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- G
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