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1798 Robison PROOFS OF A CONSPIRACY ANTI-FREEMASONRY First American Edition MASONS ARE TRAITORS

PROOFS OF A CONSPIRACY AGAINST ALL THE RELIGIONS AND GOVERNMENTS OF EUROPE...FREE MASONS, ILLUMINATI, AND READING SOCIETIES...by John ROBISON.

PHILADELPHIA: Printed for T. DOBSON, 1798. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (from the THIRD U.K. edition).

The book lacks its covers, the original title page is loose and chipped (now in a protective sleeve and laid-in), the first two leaves are lacking (facsimiles of these two leaves are in protective sleeves and laid-in), textually complete, 6x9 inches (15x23 cm), 391 pages. In a professionally made custom clamshell case.

Condition: The book lacks its covers; the title-page is loose, toned and chipped, and laid-in; the first two leaves are lacking but facsimiles are laid-in; the last page (page 391) has its upper corner torn off affecting some text; there is foxing, some light shoreline, spotting, and some margin marks, underling and notes here and there throughout, but the text remains clear and legible. In a lovely, custom cloth covered clamshell case that is in fine condition.

Though a flawed copy, this true first American edition of the Anti-Masonic conspiracy theory is quite rare and amazing.

About the conspiracist JOHN ROBISON (from Wikipedia):

******John Robison FRSE, b.1739 d.1805, was a British physicist and mathematician. He was a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Towards the end of his life he published Proofs of a Conspiracy, alleging clandestine intrigue by the Illuminati and Freemasons. The monk Alexander Horn provided much of the material for Robison's allegations. French priest Abbé Barruel independently developed similar views that the Illuminati had infiltrated Continental Freemasonry, leading to the excesses of the French Revolution.

Modern conspiracy theorists, such as Nesta Webster and William Guy Carr, believe the methods of the Illuminati as described in Proofs of a Conspiracy were copied by radical groups throughout the 19th and 20th centuries in their subversion of benign organizations. Spiritual Counterfeits Project editor Tal Brooke has compared the views of Proofs of a Conspiracy with those found in Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope (Macmillan, 1966). Brooke suggests that the New World Order, which Robison believed Adam Weishaupt (founder of the Illuminati) had in part accomplished through the infiltration of Freemasonry, will now be completed by those holding sway over the international banking system (e.g., by means of the Rothschilds' banks, the U.S. Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank).******

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