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Title
The rights of war and peace, in three books : Wherein are explained, the law of nature and nations, and The Principal Points relating to Government. Written in Latin by the learned Hugo Grotius, and translated into English. To which are added, all the large notes of Mr. J. Barbeyrac, Professor of Law at Groningen, And Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin.
Call Number
Oversize PITN 014.41.18q
Oversize Lapidus 5.2432f
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcb2774615x
Publisher
London : Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, J. and P. Knapton, D. Brown, T. Osborn, and E. Wicksteed, 1738.
Language
English
Date Created
1738
Extent
[4], xxxvi, 817 [i.e. 809], [1] p. 35 cm. (2⁰).
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Armorial bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield's "South Library" at Shirburn Castle, on which is written the shelfmark 161.F.15.
Princeton copy 1 Lozenge label on spine marked 'B 3.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC T110924
Meulen & Diermanse. Bib. Hugo Grotius (1950), 635
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Translated and edited by John Morrice, with the assistance of Edward Littlehales and John Spavan (cf. Journal for eighteenth century studies, vol. 32, no. 2 (2009), p. 173).
Signatures: pi² a-i² A² C-9U². LC copy has no 9U2 (blank?)
Pp.545-548 and 770-779 are omitted and pp.553-556 and 738, 739 are repeated, but text and register are continuous.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Contemporary full calf.

Discovery Information

Subject
International law
Natural law
War (International law)

Physical Characteristics

File Count
861

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e8f3efbb-5938-498b-86d6-07ae7a93d530/manifest