1. Opuscula varii argumenti, his inscriptionibus (...) 2. Curae secundae de jure occidendi et exponendi liberos apud veteres Romanos ad virum clarissimum Gerardum Noodt. Leiden, Joannem van Kerckhem, 1749, 4to., part 3 (of 5): De jure occidendi, vendendi, et exponendi liberos apud veteres romanos, 3rd ed., full parchment binding with blind tooled decoration and a handwritten title on the spine, with red and blue sprinkled edges. [16]+408+[28] pp. With an engraved printer's mark on the titlepage and some lovely woodcut endpieces. Bound with: Cornelii van Bynkershoek, Curae secundae de jure occidendi et exponendi liberos apud veteres Romanos ad virum clarissimum Gerardum Noodt. Leiden, Joannem à Kerckhem, 1749. [8]+99 pp. 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. l Convolute, two titles Also available in a set of 5 books by Bynkershoek (5 titles, 6 bindings), all bound in the same style: 73168 (Opera Minora), 73187 (Quaestionum juris privati), 73202 (Observationum juris romani, two bindings), 73237 (Opsula varii argumenti) and 73243 (Quaestionum juris publici). The set price is: €1500.