Beschrijving
Leiden, apud Joannem van Kerckhem, 1751, 4to., full parchment binding with blind tooled decoration and a handwritten title on the spine, with red and blue sprinkled edges, [24]+384+[31] pp. With an engraved printer's mark on the titlepage and some lovely woodcut endpieces. There is some damage along the top edge of the book.
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.
