LAW JUSTICE ALEXANDER A General Treatise of the Dominion o

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[JUSTICE, ALEXANDER.] A General Treatise of the Dominion of the Sea: And a Compleat Body of the Sea-Laws . . . Second Edition, with Large Additions, and Improvements. And a New Appendix containing Several Eminent Lawyers Opinions in Important Marine Cases. Folding engraved allegorical frontispiece, folding engraved plate of flags, and woodcut illustration of the Union Jack, all hand-colored. [34], 378, 421-684, 107 pages. 4to, contemporary panelled calf, top of spine chipped, front joint cracked and chipped, cords intact; some browning and dampstaining, scattered traces of mold on opening leaves, frontispiece slightly frayed along top edge, plate repaired on verso. 19th-century signatures of Charles Hougham Baker; 20th-century armorial bookplate of J. C. Rudland-Hearn. London: D. Leach for J. Nicholson et al., [1709?]

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Work on maritime law first published in 1705; includes references to English, French, and Spanish colonies. Alden 709/83.