The pythagogeic covenant. VI, 46 pp., 1 w. Bl. 16.5 x 10 cm. Prussian blue cardboard tape from the beginning (somewhat stained and rubbed, with scrap marks and paper shields). Altenburg, Karl Heinrich Richter, 1797. VD18 13025120. Wolfstieg 5030. – According to a somewhat flattering preface, the only pressure of the small secret-dwelling treatise on the late Antiquity philosopher Pythagoras and the Mysteria-wrapping community of life, no more than a "not quite unwelcome" extract of the corresponding chapters from the history of the origin, progression and decay of the Sciences in Greece and Rome by the Göttingen professor Christoph Meiners. – Title a bit flaky. Exemplary from the library of the Leipzig Johannisloge Balduin zur Linde, founded in 1776, with corresponding stamp on the title and owner's shield on the interior mirror.