De Iure Belli Libri Tres. Oxford, 1877.
Critical Edition in Latin of a Classic Text on International Law Gentili, Alberico [1552-1608]. Holland, Thomas Erskine [1835-1926], Editor. De Iure Belli Libri Tres. Oxford: ETtypographeo Clarendoniano, 1877. xxvii, 431 pp. Quarto (9-1/2" x 7-1/2"; 24 x 19.3 cm). Contemporary quarter morocco over textured cloth, library name and seal to boards (Birminingham Law Society), gilt fillets, title and publisher emblem to spine, small binder's ticket to rear pastedown. Rubbing and some light shelfwear, front hinge cracked, library bookplate and shelf leabel to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior, library stamp to title page and a few other leaves. A good copy. $500. * With the completion of this memorable work in 1598, a new era of international law began in Europe. Gentili was the first writer "to grasp as a whole the relations of States one to another, to distinguish international relations from questions with which there are more or less intimately connected, and to attempt their solution entirely independent of the authority" of Pope or Emperor. Holland was a British jurist and prolific Oxford-based legal scholar. Dauchy [et al.], The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture: 150 Books that Made the Law in the Age of Printing 42. Holland, "Gentili, Alberico" in Encyclopedia Britannica (1911) 11:603. Sherman, Roman Law in the Modern World 1:261.
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