[Rarebooks] fa: [DIPLOMACY] Abraham de Wicquefort: THE RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES, AND OFFICE OF EMBASSADORS - 1740

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Abraham de Wicquefort: The Rights, Privileges, and Office of Embassadors and Publick , Ministers. Illustrated with Historical Narrations of the most important Affairs that have been transacted by them through all the Courts of Europe, and A General View of the most celebrated Treaties. To which is added, A Discourse Concerning the Succession in the German Empire; with Remarks on the Golden Bull of Charles IV, which regulated the Number of Electors: and A Short Account of their several Principalities. Correcting the Mistakes of Mons. de Thou, and other the most celebrated Historians. By Mons. de Wicquefort, Privy Counsellor to the Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Zell, &c. Translated into English by Mr. Digby. The second edition. London: Printed for Charles Davis, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXL [1740]. Folio (32 cm) bound in modern calf-backed cloth, spine title lettered in gilt, endpapers refreshed; [8], 570, [28] pp.; woodcut decorations and initials. ESTC N12957.

A reissue with a cancel title of the sheets of the 1716 edition, which had the title, The Embassador and his Functions. "A perfect knowledge of, and a perfect care for, the requirements of international courtesy are an all-essential equipment of every national official. In all that concerns the rights and duties pf public ministers, Wicquefort's Rights, Privileges, and Office of Embassadors is a perfect mine of ancient precedent" (Thomas Alfred Walker: The Science of International Law, London: 1893).

Rather uncommon: ESTC locates copies in only four institutions in the UK and Ireland, seven in the U.S. Damp-staining to the top and bottom of the title-page and the first few leaves, lesser damp-staining to the top edges of the ensuing leaves, otherwise very clean and crisp, firmly bound in fresh and handsome modern binding.