Beschrijving
Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Apud Joannem van Kerckhem, 1744, 4to., full parchment binding with ribbed spine and blind tooled decoration and sprinkled edges, handwritten title on spine, [16]+571+[21]pp., the book is in very good condition, without damage to the spine or the construction and with clean pages. With a subtle sticker on the endpaper in the back of the book from a bookseller in Leeuwarden (Boekhandel van Hugo Suringar te Leeuwarden). In the last 5 signatures there is some worming in the top margin. Apparently there was an error in the page numbers. This has been solved by erasing the incorrect pagenumbers, resulting in holes where the pagenumers of pages 261-264 should be. With an engraved vignet on the titlepage and some lovely woodcut endpieces. With separate half title pages for each of the 7 texts in this book: Lecta XL, Dissertatio de Pactis, De Auctore Auctoribusve, Contentio Literaria, De Lege Rhodia, Dissertatio de Domino Maris, De Foro Legatorum.
Cornelis (or Cornelius) van Bijnkershoek (1673-1743) was a Dutch jurist and legal theorist who was educated at the University of Franeker. He applied himself to jurisprudence and international laws. He was especially important in the development of the Law of the Sea. He furthered Hugo Grotius' idea that coastal states have a right to the adjoining waters the width of which had to correspond to the capacity of exercising an effective control over it, that Grotius expressed in his famous book De Iure Belli ac Pacis.
