(SCHIO, Reghellini de & RÖSSLER, Karl A.)

Leipzig, Joh, Jacob Weber, 1835. 8vo. III-XII,+ 338,+ (2); (2),+ 292 pp.+ slip; (2),+ 367,+ (1); (2),+ 263,+ (1),+ XXVII pp.+ large folding engr. plate. Foxing, mostly in part one, some ugly spotting pp. 82-88 in part one and pp. 87-92 in part two, pencil notes in margins, first part lacks the half title. Worn later blue cloth, spines with printed worn labels. Two volumes. The first three title pages with library stamp ”Stora Landt Logens Bibliothek”, and inscribed as gift from notarien Norstedt 1847. In ink ”St. Nicolaus Visby” on front paste down. Lacks 7 plates, one in part one and 6 in part four. Wolfstieg 1875. Kloss 2042 (for the second German edition). Rare first German edition, with the extra added part four which contains commentaries by Rössler to the three first parts. A second edition was published in 1836. The French original, ”La maçonnerie considerée comme le résultat des religions égyptienne, juive et chrétienne”, was published in three parts in 1829. R. S. Acerrellos is a pseudonym for Karl A. Rössler.