Beschrijving
two volumes in two bindings
1. Leiden, 1749, Joannem van Kerckem, 4to., full parchment binding with blind tooled decoration and a handwritten title on the spine, with red and blue sprinkled edges. [36]+446+[29] pp. The book is in good condition with a solid construction, there are some stains on the binding and some folded corners.
2. Leiden, 1750, Joannem van Kerckem, 4to., full parchment binding with blind tooled decoration and a handwritten title on the spine, with red and blue sprinkled edges. [40]+570+[41] pp. The book is in good condition with a solid construction, the bottom corners of the binding are somewhat bent. With lovely decorative initals and endpieces.
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.
