Le droit des gens : ou, Principes de la loi naturelle, appliqués à la conduite & aux affaires des nations & des souverains.

Door: Vattel. Emer de.

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• Uitgever: Londres : [s.n.], 1758. 2 Volumes. Contemp. vellum bindings. [2],xxvi,[26],541; [20],375,[1] pp. 4to. 24x18 cm. New endpapers. Modern letterpieces. Binding sl. soiled. Stamped crowned small monogram MA, resembling the monogram of Marie-Antoinette...
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• Extra informatie: - First editon, published in Neuchâtel by Abraham Droz in 1758, of this seminal work in the history of political ideas, international law and diplomacy, of which it establishes its theoretical foundations.Vattel is one of the first modern authors to deal with the question of moralization war and the means of its suppression. The work also deals with the question of the internal government of States from an innovative angle; large passages are devoted to economic, commercial and demographic questions.'Its impact was considerable from its publication and it remains today a universal reference. '' Praised by his contemporaries throughout Europe as well as in America (the declaration of independence of the United States takes up its definition of state sovereignty). The work, which reintroduces a liberal vision inherited from Locke and Jurieu, exerted a decisive influence. "Having acquired an inexhaustible optimism from reading Leibniz, Vattel develops, on the relations between nations, on sovereignty, on the rights of peoples, ideas which will serve to found the liberal doctrine" (Patricia Buirette) (Camus-Dupin). , 202. Lonchamp, 3084. 'Le Livre neuchâtelois', 1533-1983, n ° 29, p.36 ["masterpiece of Neuchâtel typography"]). Not in Kress, Goldsmiths and Einaudi.
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