Beschrijving
Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Joannem van Kerckhem, 1744, 4to., full parchment binding with ribbed spine and blind tooled decoration and sprinkled edges, handwritten title on spine, [28]+744+[16] pp., with a subtle sticker on the endpaper in the back of the book from a bookseller in Leeuwarden (Boekhandel van Hugo Suringar te Leeuwarden). The book is in good condition with a solid construction, intact binding and hardly any stains. There is a fold out engraving with a portrait of the author (P. van Dijk Pinx. 1733, J. Houbraken sculp. 1743).
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.
