‎TUXEN, S. L. (+) VISBY, CARL HOLGER (+) BERGGREEN, ANDREAS PETER.‎
‎Beretning om Secularfesten i den retm. og fuldk. St. Johannes loge Zorobabel til Nordstjernen, 5845. (som Manuscript for Brødre).‎

‎Kjöbenhavn, Louis Klein, (1845) 8vo. In blank wrappers, with repairs. With repairs and light miscolouring to title-page, otherwise internally nice. XI, (1), 91, (3) pp. + two folded plates with music scores. ‎

Reference : 63020

‎Exceedingly rare official account of the jubilee (“secularfest”) of the Copenhagen based St. Johannes lodge ”Zorobabel til Nordstjernen”, one of the earliest lodges of Danish Freemasonry. Printed “som Manuscript for Brødre,” i.e. for private circulation among members only, and thus never intended for the book trade. The volume contains a detailed and ceremonially structured report of the festivities including speeches, addresses and texts on the ideals, historical consciousness, and institutional self-understanding of Danish Masonry. Publications of this kind - semi-official lodge printings documenting major internal celebrations - were printed in very small numbers and are rarely found in the trade. As such, they rank among the scarcest publications of Nordic Masonic works.‎