Mare liberum
Subtitle: sive, De iure quod Batavis competit ad Indicana commercia dissertatio.
By: Lugduni Batavorum, Ex officina L. Elzevirii, 1609.
Contributors: Welwood, William, fl. 1578-1622.; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Published: 1952
Place of publication: [New York
Language: lat
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Law of the sea; Freedom of the seas
Notes: A photographic reproduction.  With it are photographic reproductions of the manuscript of the Mare liberum (34 leaves), chapter 27 of William Welwood's Abridgement of all sea-lawes, London, 1613 (p. 61-72), and Grotius' manuscript reply to Welwood, entitled Defensio capitis quinti Maris liberi oppugnati a Guilielmo Welwood, (20 leaves)  The whole was to have formed part of a revised edition of Grotius' The freedom of the seas, published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1916.