[Rarebooks] fs-International Law [XVIII]

Joe Luttrell rarelaw at meyerbos.com
Fri Oct 8 00:39:21 EDT 2004


A selection of works which we have in stock on international law
and related subjects; for others, please feel free to browse our
web site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word
or phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1  VANDERZWAAG, David L.  The Fish Feud, The U.S. and Canadian
Boundary Dispute.  Lexington Books, Lexington, 1983.  Red cloth, a
good copy. [30419]                                        $ 25.00

2.  VARGAS, Jorge A.  Mexico y la Zona de Pesca de Estados
Unidos.  Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, 1979. Printed, sewn 
wraps; 140 pages. [30893]                   $ 25.00

3.  [VATTEL, Emerich de].  Le Droit Des Gens. Ou Principes de la
Loi Naturelle, Appliques a la conduite & aux affaires des Nations
& des Souverains. Two Volumes.  N.p., London [i.e. Neuchatel],
1758.  Contemporary boards, well worn, else a lovely, fresh
untrimmed set. [49497 L71] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=49497   $ 3,500.00

First edition of one of the most influential treatises on
international law ever written, particularly so in this country,
grouped by Jefferson with the works of Grotius, Pufendorf and
Wolff, and cited more than any other by early American courts.

4.  VICTORIA, Francisci de.  De Indis et de Iure Belli
Relectiones [The Relectiones in Moral Theology of the Very
Celebrated Spanish Theologian, Franciscus de Victoria].
Introduction by Ernest Nys and Translation by John Pawley Bate
[etc.].  Carnegie Institution, Washington, 1917.  Original tan
cloth, worn, hinges cracked, some browning, a usable copy; with the
bookplate of Theodore Marburg, one time Ambassador to Belgium.
[71535]                                                   $ 85.00

The Carnegie edition of the founding work of Spanish international
law, upholding the rights of the newly conquered Indians and
maintaining that looting and slavery were wrong; with the 1696 text
in facsimile, the Latin text and English translation.

5.  WALSH, Don (ed.).  The Law of the Sea, Issues in Ocean
Resource Management.  Praeger Publishers, New York, 1977.  Red
cloth, a sound copy. [30161]                              $ 25.00

Policy Issues of Pacific Ocean Resources lecture series.

6.  WARD, Robert.  A Treatise of the Relative Rights and Duties
of Belligerent and Neutral Powers, in Maritime Affairs [etc.]
[with] An Essay on Contraband: Being a Continuation of the [above]
Treatise [with separate title, but paginated continuously].  [1]
Printed for J. Butterworth; [2] Printed for J. Wright, London,
1801.  Contemporary calf, rebacked, some wear, but a good copy,
presented by Lieutenant General William Thornton to the Royal
Institution, with his bookplate. [69573 L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69573     $ 450.00

The carefully considered work upon the still vexed issues of
neutrality and contraband by the Inner Temple barrister and protege
of Eldon, praised by Holdsworth as the sole Englishman to write
upon international law from a philosophical perspective.

7.  WEBSTER, C.K.  The League of Nations in Theory and Practice.
With Some Chapters on International Co-operation by Sydney Herbert. George 
Allen and Unwin Ltd, London, 1933.  Original maroon cloth,
gilt, a bit worn, but a good copy. [91300]                $ 65.00

8.  WEIL, Prosper.  The Law of Maritime Delimitation --
Reflections.  Grotius Publications Limited, Cambridge, 1989.  A
very good copy, in the dustjacket. [91149 WRT]            $ 65.00

9.  WEILER, Lawrence D. and Anne Patricia Simons.  The United
States and the United Nations, The Search for International Peace
and Security.  Manhattan Publishing Company, New York, 1967. Original green 
cloth, a clean ex-library copy. [30354]    $ 20.00

10.  WESTERMAN, Gayl S.  The Juridical Bay.  Oxford University
Press, New York, 1987.  Oxford Monographs in International Law,
Volume One. [46148 L36L45L64L71]                          $ 45.00

The first major examination of Article 7 of the "Geneva Convention
on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone".

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