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[LA PEYRÈRE, Isaac de (1596-1676)]. Praeadamitae. Sive exercitatio super versibus duodecimo, decimoterio, & decimoquarto… [Bound with:] Systema theologicum, ex Praeadamitarum hypothesi. Pars Prima. [Amsterdam: L. & D. Elzevier,] 1655. 12mo. With folding map of the Holy Land. (Text toned, a some occasional wear, soiling, upper margins trimmed a bit close, with some occasional loss of text). Modern full brown cloth, black gilt morocco lettering label, new endleaves. Second edition, published the same year as the first. This heretical work put forth the author’s claim that Adam was not the first man, but was only the first Jew; that there were Gentiles long before Adam. He attempted to account for other ancient non-Jewish civilizations was an early attempt at anthropology.