‎"(PERAU, GABRIEL-LOUIS-CALABRE).‎
‎Den opdagede og forraadte Friemurer-orden, Og den aabenbarede Hemmelighed om Mopse-Lauget. Andet oplag. (i.e. ""Le Secret des Francs-macons""). ‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Groth, 1745. 8vo. In a contemporary half cloth binding. Binding with wear, spine with loss of cloth, hinges weak. Boards with scratches and stains. Previous owner's names to verso of front board. Title-page reinforced in margin, slightly toucing text. Last leaf with loss of lower half. (16), 158 pp.‎

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‎Second edition, published the same year as the first, of the first Danish translation of Perau's highly influential work on freemasons - being one of the very earliest published in Danish. ""A man of letters, an Abbé, and a member of the Society of the Sorbonne. He was born at Semur, in Auxois, in 1700, and died at Paris, March 31, 1767. De Feller (Universal Biography) speaks of his uprightness and probity, his frankness, and sweetness of disposition which endeared him to many friends. Certainly the only work which gives him a place in Masonic history indicates a gentleness and moderation of character with which we can find no fault. In general literature, he was distinguished as the continuator of d'Avrigny's Vies des Hommes illustres de la France, Lives of the Illustrious Men of France" which, however, a loss of sight prevented him from completing. In 1742, he published at Geneva a work entitled Le Secret des Franc-Maçons. This work at its first appearance attracted much attention and went through many editions, the title being sometimes changed to a more attractive one by booksellers. The Abbe Larudan attempted to palm off his libelous and malignant work on the Abbé Perau, but without success" for while the work of Larudan is marked with the bitterest maligruty to the Order of Freemasonry, that of Perau is simply a detail of the ceremonies and instructions of Freemasonry as then practiced, under the guise of friendship."" (Encyclopedia Masonica).‎