Mare clausum
Subtitle: the right and dominion of the sea in two books.
By: In the first the sea is proved by the law of nature and nations, not to be common to all men, but to be susceptible of private dominion and propierty as well as the land.  In the second, it is asserted that the most serene King of Great Britain is the lord and proprietor of the circumfluent and surrounding sea, as an inseparable and perpetual appendix of the British empire.  Written  at first in Latin by that late famous and learned antiquary John Selden.  Formerly translated into English, and now perfected and restored by J. H. [i. e. James Howell]
Contributors: Howell, James, 1594?-1666, ed.; Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678, tr.; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for Andrew Kembe and Edward Thomas
Published: 1663
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Mare clausum.; Maritime law.; Freedom of the seas.; Great Britain -- Commercial policy.; Venice (Italy) -- Commercial policy.; Venice (Italy) -- Foreign relations.
Other titles: Additional evidences concerning the right of soveraignty ... of Great Brittain in the sea.; Dominium maris.
Notes: Signatures: 1 leaf unsigned, a 3, e-k2, B-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Mmm4, Nnn1, Ooo2, Ppp3, Qqq-Rrr4 (last leaf blank), Bbbb-Ffff4.

Irregularities in paging: no. 101, 177-178,275-278, 478-484 omitted, 99 repeated; p. 471 is incorrectly numbered 473.

Signature Nnn1 incorrectly numbered Nnn2.

The English translation by Marchamont Nedham was first published 1652, under title:  Of the dominion,or, ownership of the sea.

Includes (with special title-pages):  Additional evidences concerning the right of soveraignty and dominion of the kings of Great Brittain in the sea.  Collected out of certain publick papers, relating to the reigns of King James and King Charles, of ever blessed memory.  London,  MDCLXIII (p.[451]-500) and Dominium maris; the dominion of the sea.  Expressing the title which the Venetians pretend unto the sole dominion, and the absolute sovraignty of the Adriatick sea, commonly called the gulf of Venice... Translated out of Italian.  London, MDCLXIII (1 l., 37 p. at end)

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 1421