Ioannis Seldeni Mare Clausum, seu De dominio maris libri duo
Subtitle: Quorum argumentum paginâ versâ
Publisher: Printed by Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevir] Iuxta exemplar Londinense, Will. Stanesbii pro Richardo Meighen
Published: 1636
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: lat; eng; fre
Number of pages: 567
Subjects: Maritime law; Early works to 1800; Sea power; Freedom of the seas; Commercial policy
Work titles: Mare clausum
Notes: Title page printed in red and black, with printer's device.

In two books, paged continuously.

Identification of the printers Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevir from STC (2nd ed.)

Collation: *⁸ 2*⁴ A-Z¹² 2A⁸ [$5 signed]

Two maps following pages 276 and 448; of Great Britain and surrounding areas, and of England, respectively.

In Roman and italic type; some black letter; Greek, Hebrew, and other non-Latin types.

Initials; head and tail pieces.

Mare clausum "defended British sovereignty over a wide expanse of sea. First written about 1619 and then revised to take account of the minimalist theory of natural law contained in Hugo Grotius's De jure belli ac pacis (1625)" --Oxford DNB.

First published in London in 1635.

Importation to England of this and two subsequent editions of Mare clausum (STC 22175.7 and STC 22176) was forbidden by proclamation of Charles I, 15 April 1636 (in STC 9060)

Includes bibliographical references.

English Short Title Catalog, S117098

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 22175.3

Text mostly in Latin, with passages in English, French, and Greek.

Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Ex libris Joa. Baptista Milo -- Ramón de Dalmau y de Olivart.

Armorial bookplate and ink stamps of Ramón de Dalmau y de Olivart, Marquis de Olivart. On title page, signature of Joa. Baptista Milo, dated 1773.

Copy 2

Copy imperfect; lacking leaves [2] and [3]

Copy 1

Bound in contemporary limp vellum with ms. spine title: Seldeni Mare clausum.