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John Physiophilus' Specimen of the Natural History of the Various Orders of Monks, after the Manner of the Linnaean System. Translated from the Latin, printed at Augsburgh.
Published by London, for J. Johnson, 1783., 1783
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition in English of Ignaz von Born's Monachologia, with a 32-page preface signed "By an English Protestant." Disbound, xxxii + 48 pp., three large folding plates of monks' and nuns' clothing, done in imitation of natural-history illustrations. Title page lightly spotted, otherwise very good. Von Born was a mineralogist and Hofrat im Muenz- und Bergkunde (that is, court adviser on coinage and mining) to the Hapsburgs. He was also a high-ranking Mason and initiated Mozart into Viennese Masonic circles. In this scathingly anti-clerical pamphlet, von Born, himself a scientist, used the emerging style of scientific prose for satiric purposes. Rare.
