[Rarebooks] fa: DUKE OF NEWCASTLE on INTERNATIONAL LAW/PRIZE SHIPS - 1753

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other 17th-19th Century British books and  
pamphlets, auctions ending Sunday, May 9. Details and images can be  
found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

http://shop.ebay.com/arch_in_la/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340
OR
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Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A., CA USA


Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle:] The Duke of Newcastle’s  
Letter, by His Majesty’s Order, to Monsieur Michell, the King of  
Prussia’s Secretary of the Embassy, in Answer to the Memorial, and  
other Papers, deliver’d, by Monsieur Michell, to the Duke of  
Newcastle, on the 23d of November, and 13th of December last. London:  
Printed by Edward Owen, in Warwick-Lane, 1753. FIRST EDITION. Disbound  
4to (10.25 x 8.25 in); 46 pp.; woodcut decorations and initials,  
folding tables...
An important pamphlet by the Duke of Newcastle, then Secretary of  
State for the Northern Department, concerning international and  
maritime law, specifically prize law and the neutrality controversy.  
Includes the lengthy report by George Lee, George Paul, etc., on the  
application of principles of international law to Prussian claims  
against British captures. With two large folding tables of Prussian  
and neutral ships "taken by British Armaments at Sea."