Sale 2501 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 7, 2019

145 146 144 c   GROTIUS, HUGO. Le Droit de la Guerre et de la Paix. French translation by Antoine de Courtin. [52], 621, [3]; [4], 304, 197, [3] pages, including engraved allegorical additional title and portrait of the translator. 2 volumes. 4to, 252x188 mm, contemporary sprinkled sheep, crudely rebacked with paper tape; occasional marginal foxing or toning, scattered ink spots, some gatherings browned, dampstain in lower outer corners toward end of Volume 1. Armorial bookplates of Lady Robert Manners. Paris: (Laurent Rondet for) Arnould Seneuze, 1687 [400/600] first edition in french . Printing and the Mind of Man 125 (1625 original edition in Latin, “the foundation of modern international law”). 145 c   LAMBARD,WILLIAM. Arkhaionomia; sive, De priscis Anglorum legibus libri, sermone Anglico. Anglo-Saxon text and Latin translation on facing pages. Full-page woodcut map of England on D4v. [19], 140, [3] leaves. Early 19th-century wood-engraved portrait bound facing title. 4to, 179x136 mm, old limp vellum, soiled, lacking ties; front endpapers and portrait loose, title soiled, marginal dampstaining on opening leaves and on 2G4, scattered marginal spotting, map cropped in outer margin. London: John Day, 1568 [1,500/2,500] first edition of the first published collection of Anglo-Saxon laws. STC 15142; Beale T379. 146 c   (MANUSCRIPT.) Ane Breiff Treatiss upon Severall Substantiall Heads of ye Scotts Law verie profitable for young students written by ye most Learned Jurisconsult Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall. manuscript in english on paper, written in cursive hand in brown ink. [2], 124, [13] leaves. 149x91 mm, modern sprinkled leather; contents toned, occasional dog-earing in lower outer corners. Scotland, later 17th century [500/1,000] The writings on Scottish law by Sir Thomas Hope, Lord Advocate of Scotland (d. 1646), remained unpublished until the 1726 printing of his Minor Practicks, but manuscript copies apparently circulated after his death.