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Of the Law of Nature and Nations by PUFENDORF Samuel

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Title
Of the Law of Nature and Nations
Author
PUFENDORF Samuel
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1717. PUFENDORF, Samuel. Of the Law of Nature and Nations. Eight Books. London: R. Sare, R. Bonwicke, et al., 1717. Folio (9 by 14 inches), contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $1800.Third edition in English of Pufendorf’s landmark work on the law of nature and nations, De Jure Naturae et Gentium, a handsome folio edition.A landmark in the German Enlightenment, ""the De Jure Naturae is a large work in eight books which presents an entire system of jurisprudence, private, public and international, based on the conception of natural law. Pufendorf was a disciple of Grotius, and was considered of first rank by Kent"" (NYU 578). Pufendorf ""teaches that the will of the state is but the sum of the individual wills that constitute it, and that this association explains the state. In this a priori conception… he shows himself as one of the precursors of J. J. Rousseau and of the Contrat social. Pufendorf powerfully defends the idea that international law is not restricted to Christendom, but constitutes a common bond between all nations because all nations form part of humanity"" (Britannica). First published in German in 1672 (and in English in 1703), this work was ""received with great favor and commented upon by the learned throughout all Europe. Pufendorf restored natural law to that superiority which belonged to it, and with great propriety treated the Law of Nations as only one main branch of the parent stock"" (Marvin 593-4). With chapters on such fundamental subjects as the will of man, the natural state of man, the law of nature, civil societies, moral actions, the structure of government, sovereignty, commonwealths, liberty, ""Despotical Power,"" ""All Men are by Nature Equal,"" ""The Mutual Duties of Humanity,"" ""Speech, and the Obligation which attends it,"" property, contracts, war and peace, and self-defense. With gap in pagination between pages 390-453; text complete. Interior clean and fine, contemporary calf binding with light rubbing and expert repairs.
Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on the Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton..

Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on the Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton.. by Barrow, John

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Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on the Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton..
Author
Barrow, John
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Walkabout Books (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
London: T.Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto. pp. ix, [3], 632, with 8 plates (including frontispiece), five of which are hand-colored. Recent full calf with new endpapers, original red spine label preserved, three armorial ink stamps on the top edge of the text block. Tissue repair to first page of table of contents, ocasional foxing and minor soiling in the margins; overall quite clean and sound. "Barrow accompanied Lord Macartney's mission to the court of China in 1792 as his private secretary, and the present account...is one of the best illustrated English travels on China. The eight plates are from drawings by William Alexander, who also accompanied the embassy and later published his own work. The strict exclusion of Europeans by the Chinese emperors had left China very much terra incognita to the western world well into the nineteenth century. Barrow was an excellent observer, and the text contains a number of descriptions and illustrations of Chinese artifacts and novelties. Among these are a plate depicting musical instruments, extensive renditions of Chinese melodies in western western notation, and a long description, with illustration, of an abacus" (Hill 62). Historian Michael Adas notes that Barrow "interspersed descriptions of his travels and personal experiences with lengthy discussions of varying aspects of Chinese culture....His judgments on the quality of Chinese life and material culture tended to be favorable at the beginning of his residence in China but grew more and more disparaging as time passed." Unlike Jesuit writers who praised the sophistication of Chinese science and culture, Barrow argued that a once-great civilization had been on the decline since the fifteenth century, providing "an implicit contrast between static, past-minded, backward China and the continually improving, foreward-looking, industrializing states of Europe (Adas, Machines as the Measure of Man pp 179-180). Cox I:346; Cordier 2388.
la bella figura: the literary journal devoted to Italian-American women. Omerta... Basta! issue 1, Spring 1988 silence

la bella figura: the literary journal devoted to Italian-American women. Omerta... Basta! issue 1, Spring 1988 silence by Romano, Rose, editor, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Rina Ferrarelli, Mary Jo Bona et al.

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la bella figura: the literary journal devoted to Italian-American women. Omerta... Basta! issue 1, Spring 1988 silence
Author
Romano, Rose, editor, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Rina Ferrarelli, Mary Jo Bona et al.
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
San Francisco: LBF, 1988. Magazine. 36p., 5.5x8.5 inches, poetry, prose, review, contributor bios, digest-size journal in glossy white upright wraps. Back cover has sustained some long adhesion scars over the word "Basta", which remains legible; item is otherwise perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. One may not think of immigrant Italian-Americans as being subject to racist taunts and violence. The texts here will disabuse; children especially vulnerable, of course.
La Accademia Medica di Roma nel suo primo secolo.

La Accademia Medica di Roma nel suo primo secolo. by [Accademia Medica di Roma] TRAVIA, Luigi (1892-1963).

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La Accademia Medica di Roma nel suo primo secolo.
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[Accademia Medica di Roma] TRAVIA, Luigi (1892-1963).
Seller
Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
Roma:: Edito dall'Accademia Medica di Roma, 1975., 1975. Series: Bollettino ed atti della Accademia Medica di Roma. Figs. Original printed wrappers. Ownership stamp on title of Franco Crainz. Very good. The Medical Academy of Rome in its first century.

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