Il Consolato Del Mare.../Het Consulaat van de Zee... Italian & Dutch
Bilingual Edition of an Important Maritime Code [Consolato Del Mare]. [Westerveen, Abraham (d.1725), Translator]. Il Consolato del Mare, Nel Quale Si Comprendono Tutti Gli Statuti & Ordini, Disposti da Gli Antichi Per Ogni Cosa di Mercantia, & di Navigare. Cosi a Beneficio di Marinari, Come di Mercanti, & Patroni di Nave / Het Consulaat van de Zee, Waar in Begreepen Zyn Alle de Keuren, en Ordonnantien by de Ouden Gemaakt, Aangaande Alderly Gevallen des Koophandels, En Zeevaart.... Amsterdam: By Salomon Schouten, Boekverkooper, In de St. Lucye-Steeg, 1723. [xxxii], 533, [1]; [2], 25, [73] pp. Copperplate pictorial frontispiece (dated 1704). Quarto (8-1/4" x 6-1/2"; 20.95 x 16.51 cm). Contemporary vellum, later hand-lettered title to spine. Light soiling and rubbing to boards, light scuff to front board, spine darkened, rear joint partially cracked, corners bumped. Moderate toning to interior, somewhat heavier in places, faint dampstaining to head of text block above headlines, faint spotting to sections of text. $1,250. * Second and final Dutch edition. Italian and Dutch on facing pages. The final section contains, in the original Catalan, Ordinacions de Tot Vexell qui Armara per Anar en Cors e de Tota Armada Ques Faca per Mar, a code dealing with such subjects as piracy. A landmark in the development of maritime law, the Consolato del Mare was first published in Barcelona in 1484. A digest of the law and practice commonly followed by the commercial judges in the chief ports around the Mediterranean, it became a maritime common law of the Mediterranean and a foundation for subsequent European maritime laws and customs. Its circulation was widest in Italy, especially among the Venetians, but it was also influential in Western Europe. First published in 1704, Westerveen's translation appeared at a time when Holland was a dominant maritime power with interests in the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. Indeed, his introduction and prefatory verse present Holland as the legitimate successor to the previous maritime leaders, Spain and Italy. This is why it was time, he argued, to produce a translation for Dutch readers. The striking frontispiece in our edition by Pieter Sluiter (Sluyter) [1675-1713] features a large group of men in a classical setting who are acclaiming the Consolato, which i.
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