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Item #72151 De Legationibus Libri Tres. Alberico Gentili.

De Legationibus Libri Tres.

Gentili, Alberico. De Legationibus Libri Tres. Oxford University Press, 1924. [New York, NY]: The Legal Classics Library, [1997]. Reprint. 37a, x, 208 pp. Full calf, extra gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $35. * A volume in the Carnegie Classics of International Law series. Gentili was the most important jurist before Grotius in the field of international law. "He first grasped as a whole the relations of states with one another and suggested solutions of problems in reliance on law other than Roman, particularly on the law of nature, and placed the subject on a non-theological basis, being the first to separate secular law from theology and canon law.": Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 518-519.

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