LA PEYRERE ISAAC.

Praeadamitae. Sive Exercitatio super versibus duodecimo, decimotertio, & decimoquarto, capitis quinti Epistolae D.Pauli ad Romanos.

(No place, Elzevir), 1655.

12mo. In contemporary full vellum. Title in contemporary hand to spine. Binding with light wear and miscolouring. Previous owner's names in contemporary hand to title-page. 317, (7) pp. + 1 folded map. 

First 12mo-edition, second overall, of this famous attempt to demonstrate, on the authority of St. Paul, that men existed before Adam. The book was condemned immediately upon its appearance and ordered to be burned by.
Willem states that although Brunet claim otherwise, this second edition also came from the Elzevir presses in Amsterdam.

Order-nr.: 63330