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Efterretning om Abeliternes Orden, indeholdende en Beskrivelse over denne Ordens Lemmers Hensigt, og deres Bestræbelser i og udenfor deres Loger, først bekientgjort ved Abeliternes Selskab i Gribsvald, og nu af Tydsk paa Dansk oversat
Kiøbenhavn, Heiden, 1764.
8vo. In contemporary marbled paper covered boards with gilt "F" to front board and "Z" to back board. Wear to spine, lower part of spine with old paper label. All edges coloured in blue. Internally nice and clean. (8), 80 pp. + engraved half title.
Exceedingly rare Danish translation of a German account of the short-lived Order of the Abelites (Abelsorden), a moral-philosophical brotherhood based on contemporary Freemasonry. The society, founded in Greifswald in the mid-18th century, took its name from the biblical Abel and aimed to promote virtue, charity and fraternal conduct among its members. ”A secret Order which existed about the middle of the eighteenth century in Germany, called also the Order of Abel The organization was in possession of peculiar signs, words, and ceremonies of initiation, but, according to Gadicke, Freimaurer Lexicon, it had no connection with Freemasonry. According to Clavel the order was founded at Griefswald in 1745.” (Encyclopedia Masonica). OCLC only list two copies, both in Copenhagen, Denmark
Order-nr.: 63017
DKK 5.000,00