- MAISTRE (Joseph de): Les soirées de Saint Pétersbourg, ou Entretiens sur le Gouvernement temporel de la Providence, suivie d'un Traité sur les sacrifices. Paris, Librairie grecque, latine et française, 1821; two volumes in 8°, blue half-calf, spine with ornate nerves. Binding of the time. Beautiful copy of this very rare first edition. Disciple of Saint-Martin and friend of Willermoz, Joseph de Maistre was a dignitary of the rectified Christian masonry. It is in chapters IX to XI that he reports his esoteric experiences and his ideas on masonry.