Exposition of the Motives founded upon the universally received Laws of Nations which have determined the King (of Prussia) upon the repeated Instances of his Subjects trading by Sea to lay on Attachment upon the Captail Funds which his Majesty

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had promised to reimburse to the Subjects of Great-Britain in Virtue of the Peace-Treaties of Breslau and Dresden; and to procure Out of the said Capitals to to his said Subjects an Indemnity for the Losses which they have sustained by the Depreciations and Violences of the English Privateers exercised upon them on the High Seas. London: Printed for J. Raymond 1752. Sm.8vo. Calf backed marbled paper boards. (xvi 6-132pp.). Parallel English and French text with the French title-page on the verso of the initial leaf bearing the imprint Berlin 1752. Some aging of the text otherwise an excellent complete copy of this important treatise in the development of international law particularly to the seizure of an enemy's property on neutral ships in time of war.