Hispanicae Advocationis Libri Duo. Volume I: Facsimile of 1661 edition
Gentili, Alberico [1552-1608]. Hispanicae Advocationis Libri Duo: Vol. I. A Photographic Reproduction of the Edition of 1661, With an Introduction by Frank Frost Abbott, and a List of Errata. New York: Oxford University Press, 1921. 44a, [16], 274, 2 pp. Original cloth bound hardcover with author and title stamped in black ink on spine. Moderate shelfwear with some rubbing and bumping to spine and extremities. Internally clean. A good copy. $85. * A Title in the Carnegie Classics of International Law series. Reproduction of the 1661 Latin edition. A foundational work in international law that analyzes real-world cases involving maritime law, war, and the rights of neutral parties, particularly in relation to Spain's global activities in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The book is a collection of legal arguments that Gentili, an Anglo-Italian jurist and diplomat, drafted while serving as a legal counsel for the Spanish embassy in England. It moves beyond abstract legal theory by applying principles of international law to actual disputes of the period. One of the principal treatises of the notable Anglo-Italian jurist and diplomat. "He has increasingly been recognized as the most notable forerunner of Grotius in establishing public international law and the first true scholar and writer on modern international law as the law of the community of states.": Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 518.
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