[Rarebooks] fs-International Law, featuring Hugo Grotius

[Joe Luttrell]

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and related subjects, including the works of Hugo Grotius; for
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1.  GOLDSBROUGH, David et al.  Reinvigorating Growth in
Developing Countries, Lessons from Adjustment Policies in Eight
Economies.  International Monetary Fund, Washington, 1996.
Printed wraps, a very good copy; 113 pages. [30504] $ 25.00

Occasional Paper 139.

2.  GOODWIN-GILL, Guy S.  International Law and the Movement of
Persons between States.  Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978.  Original
blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy, in a slightly worn dustjacket.
[71656 WRT] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71656      $ 85.00

Based in part on Mr. Goodwin-Gill's Doctor of Philosophy degree at
Oxford under the supervision of Ian Brownlie and completed while he
was Legal Adviser in the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees.

3.  GORDENKER, Leon.  International Aid and National Decisions,
Development Programs in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia.  Princeton
University Press, Princeton, 1976.  A very clean ex-library copy
in a rubbed dustjacket. [30163] $ 25.00

4.  GROTII, Hugonis.  De Jure Belli Ac Pacis, Libri Tres. In
quibus ius Naturae & Gentium: item iuris publici praecipua
explicantur. ter Meulen & Diermanse 566.  Typis & sumptibus
Wechelianorum, Danielis [etc.], Moeno-Francofurti, 1626.
Contemporary vellum, title defective, significant worming; usable.
[66600 L69L76E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66600   $ 4,500.00

The first edition, pirated, of the foremost classic of
international law, appearing a year after the first authorized
edition of 1625 and four years before the second authorized edition
of 1632; uncommon, four copies in the National Union Catalogue.

5.  GROTII, Hugonis.  De Jure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres, In
quibus jus Naturae & Gentium, item juris publici praecipua
explicantur. Editio Nova cum Annotatis Auctoris, Ex postrema ejus
ante obitum cura multo nunc auctior [etc.]. ter Meulen &
Diermanse 573.  Sumptibus Henrici Lavrentii, Amsterdami, 1647.
Contemporary calf, extra gilt, rubbed and a bit dusty, yet a
clean and even appealing copy. [69571 L76] $ 1,500.00

A rare, handsome edition published shortly after Grotius' death in
1645, based on the 1631 edition's "grand format" coupled with the
additions appearing in the 1642 edition (the last published in
Grotius' life); no copy in NUC or OCLC, one in RLIN.

6.  [GROTIUS, HUGO].  C[ornelis] van Vollenhoven.  Recherches
Concernant le "De Iure Belli ac Pacis" de Grotius, Faites aux
Archives Nationales de France, par L.V. Ledeboer [I] Resultats
Provisoires [and] [II] Resultats Definitifs.  Koninkluke Akademie
van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam, 1929-30.  Original printed stapled
wraps, showing wear, sound; 9+16 pages. [68575 L74]       $ 65.00

Professor van Vollenhoven's ingenious discovery of the previously
unknown authority relied upon by Grotius in his De Jure Belli ac
Pacis, asserting the survival in international law of the obscure
doctrine of "postliminy"; uncommon, 4 copies in OCLC.

7.  GROTIUS, Hugo.  De Jure Belli Ac Pacis Libri Tres, In Quibus
Ius Naturae et Gentium, Item Iuris Publici Praecipua Explicantur,
cum Annotatis Auctoris. Edidit P.C. Molhuysen. Praefatus est C. van
Vollenhoven.  Apud A.W. Sijthoff, Lugduni Batavorum, 1919.
Original crimson cloth, gilt, somewhat worn, but a good copy.
[68574 L74L75E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68574     $ 250.00

A fine, modern edition of Grotius's masterwork prepared by the
librarian of the Peace Palace at The Hague, based on the 1646
edition (the last to be revised by Grotius) and noting the
variations between it and the editions of 1632 and 1642.

8.  GROTIUS, Hugo.  De Jure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres, In quibus
jus Naturae & Gentium, item juris publici praecipua explicantur.
Editio Nova cum Annotatis Auctoris, Ex postrema ejus ante obitum
cura multo nunc auctior [etc.]. Ter Meulen & Diermanse 572.  Apud
Iohannem Blaev, Amsterdami, 1646.  Contemporary vellum, showing
some wear and some light browning, but a very good, clean copy, the
spine titled in black ink in a ?later hand. [71197] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71197   $ 1,500.00

The last edition upon which Grotius was to work, published
posthumously and including matter he had deemed prudent to exclude
from previous editions, this the text chosen by the Carnegie
Endowment as the basis for its edition earlier in this century.

9.  GROTIUS, Hugo.  De Jure Belli ac Pacis, Libri Tres [The Law
of War and Peace, in Three Books] . . . The Translation . . . by
Francis W. Kelsey, with the Collaboration of Arthur E.R. Boak,
Henry A. Sanders, Jesse S. Reeves . . . and an Introduction by
James Brown Scott.  The Legal Classics Library, Birmingham, 1984.
Modern green leather, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, a very
good copy. [71517] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71517 $ 250.00

The reissue of the English translation of Grotius' magnum opus
appearing in the Classics of International Law, itself taken from
the 1646 edition, the last upon which Grotius worked, and in which
he included matter not appearing in previous editions.

10.  GROTIUS, Hugo.  De Jure Praedae Commentarius.  Apud Martinum
Nijhoff, The Hague, 1868.  Modern tan cloth, the original front
wrap laid down, a very good, untrimmed and partly uncut copy.
[71859] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71859
                                                         $ 650.00

First edition of Grotius' first substantial legal work,
miraculously rediscovered in manuscript in the 1860's, the twelfth
chapter of which comprised his famed "De Mare Liberum".
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