[Rarebooks] Hugo Grotius

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

1.  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 L74L75EL79E] 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.

2.  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 L79] 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.

3.  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 L79E] 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.

4.  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 L79E] 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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