Maritime Law.- Selden (John) Mare clausum seu de dominio maris libri duo, first edition, with initial and final blanks, title in red and black with woodcut device, errata on penultimate leaf, illustrations, mostly woodcut but including 2 engraved maps, old ink inscription "Hen. Bull è coll. Magd. Oxon 1691" at head of title and initial blank, light marginal staining at beginning and end, some worming causing slight loss, contemporary sheep, rubbed and scuffed, head of spine and corners a little worn, [Sabin 78971; STC 22175 ], folio, Will. Stanesby for Richard Meighen, 1635.

⁂ Important work on maritime law proposing that countries could claim territory at sea as well as on land, opposing Grotius's suggestion that the sea should be international territory and free for all to use for trade. The Dutch then produced a compromise that a country's maritime territory should extend only as far as it could be protected by cannon from the coast, later developed into the three-mile limit.