Operum Theologicorum. . . . [Volumes 2, 3, and 4 of 4]

Volumes 2, 3, and 4 of 4 volumes. Folio. Full leather with raised bands, title and volume slips, and gilt designs in the compartments. [2], 668; [4], 671-1238, [174]; [2], 755, [63] pp. Volume 2: Binding solid, mostly separated along spine edges with some loss along spine edges and at head and foot of spine, margin dampstain on a few leaves. Volume 3: Binding solid, some separation along the spine edges, one small chip at a spine edge, some edge wear. Volume 4: Binding solid, separation all along one spine edge and slightly along the other, edge wear. Internals of all volumes nice although one page with pencil margin lines and another with an 1850 pencil notation. In ink on title page of all volumes: "Monasterii Sancti Benigni Divionensis cat. inscript. 1739". First edition of one of two issues published simultaneously in Amsterdam and London. The Amsterdam edition is much rarer than the London edition. Although Grotius is known as the father of the modern science of international law, he was also important in theology, philosophy, political theory, and other fields. He was a liberal theologian interested in harmonizing religious factions. His religious stands led him to be arrested by orthodox Calvinists and sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped by placing himself in a large trunk supposedly filled with his books and shipping it out of prison. Part of an important set by a towering seventeenth-century presence. These large and heavy volumes will require extra postage. …