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First American edition of Maillet's influential treatise, a rare Baltimore imprint. First published in France in 1748, the work proposed that the earth had evolved by slow changes over billions of years and that continents had expanded while a universal ocean diminished. He suggested that all life forms had undergone transformations in adapting to new environmental conditions. Evans 32414; Sabin 43892. With bookplate of John Sinkankas.