232. Baty, T[homas]. International Law. London: John Murray, 1909. 364 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Cloth. New.  $95.
* Baty provides a thorough review of international incidents throughout nineteenth century Europe, the Near East and the Americas relating to arbitration, penetration, territorialism and similar subjects. He concludes that international law manifested in agreements among nations would be supplanted by a less rigid system governed by contracts. This will happen, he reasons, due to the greater economic interdependence of nations brought about by globalization. Anticipating the effects of 21st-century globalism, Baty concludes by outlining the ways this interdependence will occur, and some of its potential dangers.

233. Basu, Durga Das. Commentary on the Constitution of India. Calcutta: S.C. Sarkar & Sons, 1965. Two volumes. Original cloth, some shelfwear and soiling, light fading to spines, front hinge just starting. Ex-library. Stamps to endleaves.  $95.
* Fifth edition. Now in its sixth (and final) edition, this groundbreaking study is also an important work of comparative constitutional jurisprudence.

234. Castberg, Frede. The European Convention on Human Rights. Edited by Torkel Opsahl and Thomas Ouchterlony. [Translated from the Norwegian by Gytte Borch]. Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1974. x, 198 pp. Original cloth, moderate shelfwear, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, stamps to endleaves, card pocket to rear pastedown.  $85.
* A translation with revisions of Den Europeiske Konvensjon om Menneskerettighetene.

Written to Discourage

American Intervention in Cuba?

237. [Cuyas, Arturo, and L.V. Abad De Las Casas]. The New Constitutional Laws for Cuba. Text of the Recent Measures for the Self-Government of the Island, With Comments Thereon. New York: Published by the Associated Spanish and Cuban Press, 1897. 168 pp. Octavo (6" x 9"). Original printed wrappers, hand-lettered title to spine, moderate shelfwear, stab holes near spine ends. Ex-library. Location numbers to spine and front cover. Bookplate to front pastedown.  $150.
* This pamphlet was written to demonstrate how Cuba was reforming its legal system, government and social structure to incorporate changes demanded by American critics. Written a year before the Spanish-American War, it seems to be addressed to those who were promoting the annexation of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the name of democracy. OCLC locates 56 copies.

239. Dell’Anno, P. The Law and Practice Relating to Pollution Control in Italy. [London]: Published by Graham & Trotman, Ltd., [1976]. xxvii, 342 [2] pp. Hardbound, some shelfwear, internally clean. Ex-library. Location number to spine, stamps to endleaves.  $45.
* First edition. A second edition by Mario Guttieres was published in 1982.

240. Department of State, United States. Opinions of The Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, and Other Papers Relating to Expatriation, Naturalization and Change of Allegiance. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1873. 279 pp. Contemporary buckram, some shelfwear and moderate soiling, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, stamps to endleaves and edges, card pocket to rear pastedown.  $95.
* This volume deals with the laws of the United States, Great Britain and other major nations.

242. Eeckhout, P[iet], and Takis Tridimas. Yearbook of European Law. Vol. 20. 2001. Oxford University Press, 2002. xviii, 689 pp. Cloth, very good in a worn dust jacket. Publisher’s Price $225.  Special $85.
* Contains highly respected annual surveys, together with articles written by leading academics in the field, and through its commitment to consistently high standards, it is well established as an essential tool for all practitioners and scholars of EC law.

Attractive Copy of Mare Liberum

with Three Other Works

248. Grotius, Hugo [1583-1645]. De Mari Libero.

[With]

Merula (Merel) Paulus van [1558-1607]. De Maribus.

[With]

Boxhorn, Marcus Zuerius [1612-1663]. Apologia Pro Navigationibus Hollandorum, Adversus Pontum Heuterum.

[With]

Tractatus Pacis, Mutui Commercii, Sive Intercursus Navigationum, Confirmatus Londino Anno [1295], Inter Henricum Septimum Angliae Regem, & Philippum Archiducem Austriae, Burgundiae, &c.

Leiden: Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1633. 308 pp. The first two works preceded by (and listed on) copperplate pictorial general title page, third and fourth works preceded by divisional title pages. Octavo (2-1/4" x 4-1/4"). Contemporary calf, rebacked in period style, blind rules to boards, hinges mended, endleaves renewed, some wear to corners. Woodcut head and tail-pieces. Negligible inkstain and light soiling to title page, light toning to text, interior otherwise fresh.  $1,800.
*Later edition of this classic of international maritime law first published in 1609 (Mare Liberum), it contained the core of Grotius’s thought on freedom of the seas and of trade. It was the twelfth chapter of De Jure Praedae (On the Law of the Prize), a work written in 1606 but not published until 1868. Using a sophisticated argument based on natural law, Grotius argued for the free navigation of the seas. More specifically, Grotius defended the actions of Dutch fishermen, who were attempting to operate near the English coast, and the Dutch East India Company, which was engaged in a territorial dispute in the Caribbean with Portuguese traders. Selden vigorously attacked his position in his Mare Clausum. Grotius’ work was enormously influential on the later development of international law. Indeed, his thesis that the seas were common to all humanity was endorsed in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Grotius’s essay is complemented by those of Merel and Boxhorn. A treaty between Henry VII of England and Philip, Archduke of Austria is appended to the latter essay. This is one of two editions published by Elsevier in 1633. They are identical in all respects except pagination; the other is paged continuously. Ter Meulen and Diermanse, Bibliographie de Grotius 546. See also 545).
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Legal Classics Edition of De Jure Belli ac Pacis

249. Grotius, Hugo. [Scott, James Brown (1866-1943), Introduction]. De Jure Belli Ac Pacis Libri Tres. The Law of War and Peace. The [English] Translation of the 1646 Amsterdam edition by Johan Blaeu, by Francis W. Kelsey With the Collaboration of Arthur E.R. Boek, Henry A. Sanders, Jesse S. Reeves and Herbert F. Wright and an Introduction. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1925. Reprint. Birmingham: Legal Classics Library, 1984. xlvi, 946, [3] pp. Calf with decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine.  $150.
* Reprinted from the Carnegie Classics of International Law series. Reproduction of the 1646 edition with scholarly apparatus and an extensive introduction. The final edition produced by the author, it contains material that does not appear in earlier editions. First published in Paris in 1625, it established the system of modern public international law, based on the concept of “droit naturel,” a morality-based law that superseded the laws of individuals or nations. Though based on Christian natural law, Grotius advanced the novel argument that his system would still be valid if it lacked a divine basis. In this regard Grotius pointed to the future by moving international law in a secular direction.
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252. Keeton, George W. and Georg Schwarzenberger. English Law and the Common Market. London: Stevens & Sons, 1963. viii, 231 pp. Original cloth, worn, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to front board, stamps to endleaves, card pocket to rear pastedown.  $85.
* Essays by G.W. Keeton, D. Lloyd, E.H. Scamell, M.A. Millner, E.C. Ryder, E.R.H. Ivamy, R.G. Lloyd, G. Schwarzenberger, V. Korah, R.W. Harding, E.D. Brown and B. Cheng.

255. Kollewijn, R.D. American-Dutch Private International Law. New York: Oceana Publications, 1961. 111 pp. Original cloth, light shelfwear, internally clean. Ex-library. Stamps to front endleaves, card pocket to rear pastedown.  $45.
* Second edition. A study dealing with the conflict of laws.

256. Krishna Iyer, V.R. A Random Miscellany: Legal and Other. New Delhi: People’s Publishing House, [1984]. vi, [ii], 133 pp. Cloth very good in worn dust jacket. Ex-library. Stamps and stapled catalogue cards to front free endpaper.  $45.
* Topics include the Indian Constitution, judicial administration, tax structure, pollution and adoption.

Handsome Copy of Martens’ Law of Nations

260. Mukherjee, Subimal Kumar. International Law Redefined. Calcutta: Uttaryan Limited, [1954]. viii, [4], 164 pp. Hardbound, some shelfwear and soiling, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to front cover, stamps to endleaves, card pocket to rear free endpaper.  $65.
* OCLC locates 12 copies.

265. Puttkammer, Ernst W. War and The Law. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, [1944]. vii, 205 pp. Original cloth, moderate shelfwear, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, stamps to endleaves.  $20.
* Charles R. Walgreen Foundation Lectures.

269. Savigny, Friedrich Carl von. Private International Law, and the Retrospective Operation of Statutes: A Treatise On the Conflict of Laws, and the Limits of Their Operation in Respect to Place and Time. Translated, With Notes, by William Guthrie. With an Appendix Containing the Treatises of Bartolus, Molinaeus, Paul Voet, and Huber. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, Law Publishers, 1880. xii, 567 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Cloth. New.  $150.
* Reprint of the second revised edition. Savigny [1779-1861] was an important German jurist and an excellent scholar of Roman law. A principal member of the historical school of jurisprudence, he had a keen interest in its role in the subsequent development of European law. Private International Law is a volume drawn from his System of Modern Roman Law (1840-1849), an eight-volume study of contemporary legal systems based on Roman law. As the translator observes, this volume is valuable because it “deals with a subject of great practical importance, as to which the opinions of foreign jurists have always been respected in the British courts. And not only has the eighth volume itself been cited as an authority in our tribunals, but English writers have borrowed and enforced its doctrines with more or less exactness of reproduction” (Introduction, 9). Beyond its lucid exposition of a complex subject, this book offers a wonderful introduction to Savigny’s monumental study. With an appendix containing a biography of Savigny and an index of English and Scottish cases.
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274. [United Nations]. Documents of the United Nations Conference on International Organization. New York: United Nations Information Organizations, 1945. Reprinted by W. S. Hein. 1998. Vols. 1-22 (1945-1955). Cloth. New.  $2,100.
* The complete documentary “Legislative History” of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, which was held in San Francisco from April 25 to June 26, 1945. The Conference of the United Nations was “to prepare a charter for the maintenance of international peace and security.” The collection of documents was originally made available as follows: volumes 1-15 were published by the United Nations Organization in cooperation with the Library of Congress. A sixteenth volume was added in 1946 which indexes the first fifteen volumes. The collection was completed with volumes seventeen through twenty-two, the bilingual, supplemental volumes and indexes published in 1954 by the Secretary General of the United Nations. Printed on acid-free paper.

The Property of Australian Wives

277. Walker, R.E., and C.A. Walsh. The Married Women’s Property Act, 1901 (New South Wales) with Annotations Including References to Relevant Decisions of the Courts of England, Scotland, Australia and New Zealand, Together with the Practice and Procedure for Obtaining a Summary Determination of Questions Arising Between Husband and Wife as to the Ownership Etc. of Property, Including Specimen Forms of Summons, Order, Etc., And Bills of Costs. Sydney: The Law Book Co. of Australasia Pty. Ltd., 1950. xv, 127 pp. Original cloth, some shelfwear and light fading to spine, internally clean. Ex-library. Residue from shelf label to foot of spine, stamps to front endleaves.  $150.
* OCLC locates 6 copies, 4 in North America at the Library of Congress, Harvard Law School, University of Chicago and York University, Ontario.

Wheaton on International Law

279. Wheaton, Henry [1785-1848] and William Beach Lawrence. Elements of International Law. Second Annotated Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1863. [viii], v, 1,095, 47 pp. Octavo (5-3/4" x 9-1/2"). Includes eight-page publisher catalogue. Later tan buckram with black lettered spine. A sound copy.  $150.
* Second annotated edition by Lawrence. An important treatise on international law by the distinguished lawyer and diplomat that enjoyed numerous later editions and translations. “Mr. Wheaton’s early familiarity with the jurisprudence and foreign relations of the United States, his long experience in diplomacy, his intimate acquaintance with European languages and foreign diplomatic writers, entitles his writings upon International Law to more than ordinary consideration. His works enjoy the highest reputation for the soundness of their views, and the learning and research displayed in illustrating the various topics discussed.” Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 728, citing third edition. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) I:905.

280. Whiteman, Marjorie M. Digest of International Law. Washington: U.S. Department of State, 1963-1973. Vols. 1-15. Complete set. Reprint by W. S. Hein. Cloth. New.  $1,395.
* Successor to Hackworth’s Digest of International Law.