RIGHTS OF WAR AND PEACE, In three books. Wherein are explained, The LAW of Nature and Nations, and The Principal Points relating to Government.

 By Hugo Grotius. Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, Et Al London 1738 Folio title,half title followed by The Life of Hugo Grotius, xxxvi and 817 pages. Full Leather hard cover binding is clean, tight and in very good condition. Four pages have heavy foxing rest of text has some scattered light foxing. Marbled end papers and text are tight and in very good condition.

Book measures 10" x 15 1/4'. 

Hugo Grotius 10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), was a jurist in the Dutch Republic. With Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili he laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. He was also a philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright, historiographer. 

Grotius’s Rights of War and Peace is a classic of modern public international law which lays the foundation for a universal code of law and which strongly defends the rights of individual agents - states as well as private persons - to use their power to secure themselves and their property.