[LAW]. A pair of early works, including: GROTIUS, Hugo. De ...

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Feb 26, 2022

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Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com

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  [LAW]. A pair of early works, including: GROTIUS, Hugo. De Jure Belli ac Pacis, Libris Tres, in quibus Jus Naturae & Gentium? Amsterdam: Henricum Westtenium, 1702. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and title. Contemporary full vellum, hand?titled spine (covers soiled, upper joint repaired, reinforcement near foot, contemporary marginalia). Provenance: Alexander Bacon (signature date 1896). Early edition of the famed Dutch jurist?s best-known work first published in 1645. ?? BOHMER, Justus Henning. Introductio in jus digestorum, sensum partiter ac usum singularum materiarum? Halle Magdeburg: Orphanotrophe, 1704. 2 volumes in one, 8vo. Title in red and black. With errata and index. Contemporary full vellum, hand?titled spine (extremities soiled, contemporary inked signature on title and front pastedown). FIRST EDITION, by the noted German jurist who was the first authoritative legal scholar of the Bohmer family of lawyers.
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