GROTIUS. Hugo.
The law of war and peace...
Paris.... Lot 130
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GROTIUS. Hugo.
The law of war and peace...
Paris. Arnould Seneuze. 1687. 2 volumes in-4, full calf, ornate ribbed spines, red titles.
[1] frontispiece, [25] ff. including 1 frontispiece portrait ; 621 pp. ; [3] pp. - [2] ff. 197 pp. ; [3] pp. ; 304 pp.
First French edition translated from Latin by Antoine de Courtin.
After fleeing Holland and hiding in a book-box, Grotius lived in Paris for some twenty years. It was here that he wrote The Law of War and Peace, in which he defines relations between nations as dominated by a higher natural law, and theorizes the first principles of just war.
Minor foxing, binding rubbed, a few small wormholes on spine.
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