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SELDEN, JOHN. Mare Clausum; seu, De dominio maris libri duo. 5 woodcut text illustrations; 2 full-page engraved maps. [24], 504; 61 pages; lacks final blank. Some use of Arabic, black letter, Greek, and Hebrew type. 8vo, contemporary sheep, spine wormed, joints reinforced; contents browned, few minor clean tears. London: "Juxta exemplar Will. Stansbeii pro Richardo Meighen" [i. e., Amsterdam: Elzevier], 1636
first elzevier edition of a work on maritime law first published the year before in London, in which Selden rejected the doctrine set forth in Hugo Grotius''s 1609 Mare liberum that the high seas should remain free from national claims to sovereignty. Alden 636/99 (for references to America and Greenland); STC 22175.3; Willems 449.
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