Synopsis Juris Gentium [With] Synopsis Of The Law Of Nations. 2 Books Textor, Johann Wolfgang Antiquarian & Scholarly

Vols. I and II, 2 books. Complete. Textor, Johann Wolfgang [1638-1701]. Synopsis Juris Gentium. Edited by Ludwig von Bar. Introduction by Ludwig von Bar. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1916. 28a, [6], 168 pp. Volume I. Complete 1680 Latin text. [with] Synopsis of the Law of Nations. Edited by Ludwig von Bar. Translation by John Pawley Bate. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1916. [xxvi], v, 349 pp. Volume II. The complete English translation of Synopsis Juris Gentium. Together 2 books. Ex-library, publisher's cloth, rubbed and soiled, bookplates to front pastedowns, front hinges cracked but holding, half-title page of volume one detached, internally clean. $50. * Little known to the English-speaking world, "[o]ne can have no two opinions of the importance of the work. It forms, as it were, an antidote to the writers of the school of natural law of which Pufendorf is so eminent a protagonist. Textor.occupies an important place among the writers of the positive school.": Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 582.