Author: Grotii, Hvgonis [Hugo Grotius]
Title: De Ivre Belli Ac Pacis Libri Tres /with/ Commentatio in Epistolam Pavli Apostoli Ad Philemonem /and/ de Mari Libero; in Quibus Jus Naturae & Gentium, Item Juris Publici Praecipua Explicantur
Description: Amstelaedami [Amsterdam], Joannem Blaev [Johann Blaeu], 1670. Editio Nova cum Annotatis. Leather Bound. pp. viii, 620, + Index ; 21; 28 + conts. list. 8vo. Bound in brown leather. Red speckling to page edges. Vignette title, title page in red and black, engraved portrait. Formerly the property of Queen's College Library, Kingston, as shown by a bookplate to front pastedown and blind stamps to ffep and title page. Loss to spine ends, joints splitting, leather dry with surface cracking over spine, pink ink letters to front pastedown, gift inscription to ffep (dated 1885), ink inscriptions to title page, occasional spotting throughout. Binding still tight and sound, and contents very clean. Text in Latin, with some Greek. Includes a commentary by Grotius on Paul the Apostle's Epistle to Philemon, as well as Grotius' dissertation on free access to the ocean, 'De Mari Libero'. .

Keywords: History; latin; geopolitics; international law; politics; 30 year war; political exile; political philosophy; protestant; thinkers; Reformation; Dutch; natural law; marine law


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