BAUER, Maria

Dividing Line Books Verified independent store

→

Glendale, CA: Veritas Press, 1944. Second edition, following the first of 1940. [6], 65pp; b&w illus; single-sheet of vellum with printed diagram laid in. Sewn in illustrated wraps . Shallow chip at head of spine; surface abrasion to front cover; closed tear to rear; very good. A work by California spiritualist Maria Bauer detailing her Anti-Stratfordian views and belief that Shakespeare’s works contained Francis Bacon's encoded Masonic messages. Her analysis of the latter led to an unsuccessful series of 1938 excavations in search of a secret "Bacon Vault" under the Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, where Bauer believed were buried golden chalices and lost works. With a foreword by Harold V. B. Voorhis. Show more