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London, Wellcome Institute MS. 3941. 16 + 9 folios. 220x175mm. 19th Century [c.1890.] Albert Poisson. Societe Hermetique des Protylites. Reglements, statuts, etc. With inserted notes and additions, and a 'Discours au Neophyte'. Authors Holograph manuscript.
Paris, c 1890.
[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 practise of alchemy, based on Masonic lines. Women, financiers, military men and Jews were automatically barred from membership.]
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