Item #002622 De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior. Hugo GROTIUS.
De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior.
De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior.
De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior.
De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior.
De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior.
De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior.
De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior.
De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior.
De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior.
De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior.
De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior.
De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior.

De jure belli ac pacis libri tres. Editio secunda emendatior, & multis locis auctior.

Amsterdam: apud G. Blaeuw, 1631.

2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002622

Folio (298 x 195 mm). [24], 554, [46] pp., title printed in red and black with woodcut device, lacks the final blank. Contemporary full calf, boards ruled in gilt, spine with 6 raised bands gilt in compartments and with gilt-lettered morocco label (crack in upper joint repaired, spine ends scuffed, boards rubbed and soiled, extremities worn and leather partly chipped, lower corners bumped). Text very little browned, very minor occasional spotting, faint dampstaining to upper margin. Provenance: Chevallier Rufigny (bookplate to front pastedown). ----

Ter Meulen-D. 567; vgl. PMM 125 (for 1st. ed.). THE SECOND AUTHORISED EDITION (first folio and first Amsterdam edition) of the 'foundation of modern international law' (PMM). A prodigy in his youth, Grotius became a statesman and thinker of the greatest integrity whose influence on modern European thought can scarcely be overestimated. In 1619, cutting short a successful career in the law and diplomacy, Grotius was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Louvestein fortress in Holland by order of the stadtholder, Prince Maurice of Nassau, for having attempted to orchestrate a compromise between the Calvinist and anti-Spanish party, led by Maurice, and the more moderate Remonstrant party, who advocated self-government of the Dutch states in matters of religion. After a dramatic escape two years later (his wife smuggled him out of jail in a book trunk) Grotius took refuge in France, where he survived on meagre pensions, setding in 1623 in the country house of the President de Meme near Senlis, close to the property of deThou fib, who gave him free access to his father's splendid library. There Grotius began writing his master work, De jure belli ac pacis. Many of the ideas developed therein had been outlined in an unpublished work of his youth, the De jure praedae, the manuscript of which he had brought with him, enabling him to finish the treatise in under a year. The fundamental importance of the mature work is its attempt, a century before the spread of the Enlightenment, 'to obtain a principle of right, and a basis for society and government, outside the church or the Bible' (M. Pattison, art."Grotius", Ency. Brit. 1911,12, p.623).
"L'édition qui est la première parue en Hollande et la première en grand format, est la troisième de toute la serie . . . est la plus importante des cinq éditions qui on été préparées, plus ou moins, par l'auteur lui-même." (Ter Meulen, Grotius No. 567). Visit our website for additional images and information.

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