Author: Grotius, Hugo (Hugo de Groot)..
Title: Le droit de la guerre, et de la paix.
Description: Nouvelle traduction, par Jean Barbeyrac ... ; avec les notes de l'auteur même, qui n'avoient point encore paru en françois ; & de nouvelles notes du traducteur. A Amsterdam : Chez Pierre de Coup, 1724. 2 Volumes. Modern halfcloth binding. [6],xliii,[3],1001,[39] pp. With engraved publishers vignette, motto : Vita sine litteris mors est on title-pages. in both volumes. Title-page printed in red & black. With engraved portrait of Hugo Grotius. Old bookplate. Some wear on edges. Corners bumped. Very good attractive set. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. 5th edition of French translation of 'De Iure Belli ac Pacis', the first by Jean Barbeyrac (1674-1744), French jurist and professor at Groningen, who's fame rests chiefly on the preface and notes to his translation of Samuel Pufendorf's treatise De Jure Naturae et Gentium. In fundamental principles he follows almost entirely John Locke and Pufendorf; but he works out with great skill the theory of moral obligation, referring it to the command or will of God. He indicates the distinction, developed more fully by Thomasius and Kant, between the legal and the moral qualities of action. The principles of international law he reduces to those of the law of nature, and in so doing opposes many of the positions taken up by Grotius. He rejects the notion that sovereignty in any way resembles property, and makes even marriage a matter of civil contract. Barbeyrac also translated Grotius's De Jure Belli et Pacis, Cumberland's De Legibus Naturae, and Pufendorf's smaller treatise De Officio Hominis et Civis. (wikipedia). Ter Meulen & Diermanse, 654.

Keywords: RECHT, Grotius, Hugo (1583-1645)