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The most excellent Hugo Grotius his Three books treating of the rights of war & peace : in the first is handled whether any war be just. In the second is shewed the causes of war, both just and unjust. In the third is declared what in war is lawful; that is, unpunishable. With the annotations digested into the body of every chapter

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Title: The most excellent Hugo Grotius his Three books treating of the rights of war & peace : in the first is handled whether any war be just. In the second is shewed the causes of war, both just and unjust. In the third is declared what in war is lawful; that is, unpunishable. With the annotations digested into the body of every chapter

Other titles: De jure belli et pacis; Three books treating of the rights of war & peace; Rights of war and peace

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Pol q/GRO

Creator(s): Grotius, Hugo (1583-1645)

Additional creator(s): Evats, William (Other); Nelham, John (Other); Whitfield, Thomas (Other)

Related people: Evats, William; Nelham, John; Whitfield, Thomas

Publisher: Printed by M.W. for Thomas Basset... and Ralph Smith

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1682

Language: English

Size and medium: [4], xxi, [5], 572, [31] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/288882

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002628489705181

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Translation of: De jure belli et pacis.


With angraved additional title in the form of a frontispiece.


The editor's Epistle to the reader, Nov. 1681, signed John Nelham and Thomas Whitfield (Evats' executors), is printed on a leaf signed with an asterisk.


Includes index.


Indexed in: Wing G2126.

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Editor's Epistle to the reader bound between c3 (end of table of Scriptures) and B1 (text), but catchwords suggest it should precede the leaf signed A2 (preface). Signature of P. Courthope on end-paper

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