Hugo Grotius - Hugonis Grotii De jure belli ac pacis libri tres - 1751-1752





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Five-volume Lausanne reissue of Hugo Grotius's De jure belli ac pacis libri tres, in Latin, bound in full leather with gilt-tooled spines, frontispieces, and red/black morocco title and pagination labels, dated 1751–1752 and measuring about 25×20 cm with roughly 3200 pages in total, in good condition.
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Hugo Grotius (1583-1645). Hugo Grotius De jure belli ac pacis books I-III. Lausanne, Marci-Michaelis Bousquet, 1751-1752, lxiii-103 pp., 396 pp., 731 pp., 689 pp., 638 pp. / 703 pp.
5 volumes in-4 (250x200 mm), full calf, gilt-ruled spine with raised bands, title and volume labels in red and black Morocco leather, red edges (bindings from the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and spine, some title and volume labels partially missing, pale damp-stain along the upper margin of volume III, upper hinge of the first board of volume V slightly cracked. Interior fresh, no foxing.
New edition adorned with a portrait of Grotius in the frontispiece of volume I, and of Heinrich von Cocceji in the frontispiece of volume III. Complete in 5 volumes.
De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace) is the major work of the Dutch jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius.
This Lausanne edition is particularly expanded: in addition to Grotius’s text, it includes the author’s annotations, the notes of Johannes Fredericus Gronovius, the observations of Jean Barbeyrac, and the substantial commentaries of Heinrich von Cocceji and his son Samuel. It also contains the famous Grotius text on freedom of the seas (De mari libero), as well as a treatise on equity, indulgence, and facility.
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Hugo Grotius (1583-1645). Hugo Grotius De jure belli ac pacis books I-III. Lausanne, Marci-Michaelis Bousquet, 1751-1752, lxiii-103 pp., 396 pp., 731 pp., 689 pp., 638 pp. / 703 pp.
5 volumes in-4 (250x200 mm), full calf, gilt-ruled spine with raised bands, title and volume labels in red and black Morocco leather, red edges (bindings from the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and spine, some title and volume labels partially missing, pale damp-stain along the upper margin of volume III, upper hinge of the first board of volume V slightly cracked. Interior fresh, no foxing.
New edition adorned with a portrait of Grotius in the frontispiece of volume I, and of Heinrich von Cocceji in the frontispiece of volume III. Complete in 5 volumes.
De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace) is the major work of the Dutch jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius.
This Lausanne edition is particularly expanded: in addition to Grotius’s text, it includes the author’s annotations, the notes of Johannes Fredericus Gronovius, the observations of Jean Barbeyrac, and the substantial commentaries of Heinrich von Cocceji and his son Samuel. It also contains the famous Grotius text on freedom of the seas (De mari libero), as well as a treatise on equity, indulgence, and facility.

