Société Hermétique des Protylites

Société Hermétique des Protylites. Réglements, status, etc. With inserted notes and additions, and a 'Discours au Néophyte'. Author's holograph MSS. Written in a ruled note-book, and illustrated with pen-drawings of designs for signet-rings, a secret alphabet, etc. The Constitution of a secret society for the study and practice of alchemy, based on Masonic lines. Women, financiers, military men, and Jews were automatically barred from membership. Produced in Paris.

c. 1890

1 volume 16 ll. (last 4 bl.). + 9 inserted ll. 4to. 22 × 171/2 cm. Original paper covers.

Purchased at Sotheby's (Hauser Sale) 18/4/1934, Lot 453 (part).

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

From the Library of Lionel Hauser of Paris, with his press-mark label 'L.H.70'.