GROTIUS, HUGO. Of the law of Warre and Peace. With Annotations... And Memorials of the Author's Life and Death. [Translated by Clement Barksdale]. London: T. Warren for William Lee 1654. 8vo, 165 x 105mm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/8in.), contemporary blind-ruled calf, later red morocco gilt-lettered spine label and date in gilt on spine, later broken gilt rule on board edges, head and foot of spine slightly chipped, corners worn, front endpapers renewed, occasional dampstaining, Ss8v and Bbb2v just cropped at top. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 2 works in one, the first work in three parts, engraved portrait frontispiece by T. Cross. Ter Meulen and Diermanse 627; Wing G-2119.

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GROTIUS, HUGO. Of the law of Warre and Peace. With Annotations... And Memorials of the Author's Life and Death. [Translated by Clement Barksdale]. London: T. Warren for William Lee 1654. 8vo, 165 x 105mm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/8in.), contemporary blind-ruled calf, later red morocco gilt-lettered spine label and date in gilt on spine, later broken gilt rule on board edges, head and foot of spine slightly chipped, corners worn, front endpapers renewed, occasional dampstaining, Ss8v and Bbb2v just cropped at top. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 2 works in one, the first work in three parts, engraved portrait frontispiece by T. Cross. Ter Meulen and Diermanse 627; Wing G-2119.

The foundation of international law. "In France he returned to his early work, and in a single year completed his masterpiece, 'On the Law of War and Peace'....[A]nd the questions which he put forward have come to be the basis of the ultimate view of law and society. This was the first attempt to lay down a principle of right, and a basis for society and government, outside Church or Scripture."--Printing and the Mind of Man 125 (Paris 1625 edition). Barksdale's translation is an abridged version of the original Latin text.

Provenance: The Most Honourable the Marquess of Downshire, bookplate (sale, Sotheby's London, 5 November 1990, lot 941).