Lot 1072
1072
(LA PEYRERE, Is. de). Præadamitæ sive exercitatio super versibus 12, 13, & 14:5 Epistolæ D. Pauli ad Romanos. (Amst., Elsevier), 1655. 317, (7) pp. W. fold. engr. of the Holy Land. 12°. 19th c. full red mor., spine gilt, sides ruled in gilt, inside dentelles, gilt edges. (Map a bit creased caused by careless folding, but a very fine copy).
Right from the start this revolutionary work was banned and burned everywhere for its heretical claims that Adam was not the first man, that the Bible is not the history of mankind, but only the history of the Jews; that Moses did not write the Pentateuch, and that no accurate copy of the Bible existed. - Rare first edition. Willems 1189; Knuttel, Verboden boeken, 318; Enc. Jud. X, 1425-26; Graesse IV, 104.€ 600
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