Marine - Whaling - Lot 410

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Marine - Whaling - Lot 410
Marine - Whaling [CLEIRAC (Estienne)] The Uses and Customs of the Sea. Divided into three parts. I. Of navigation. II. Of naval commerce, & maritime contracts. III. Of the jurisdiction of the Navy. With a treatise of the terms of navy, regulations of the navigation of the rivers. Bourdeaux, Millanges, 1647. (Followed by) explanation of the terms of the Navy used by the edicts, ordinances and regulations of the Admiralty. Bourdeaux, Millanges, sd. (Followed by) CHARONDAS LE CARON (Louys): Mémorables, ou observations du droit françois rapport au romain civil et canonic. In which book are represented several Roman & French antiquities, not yet well observed. Paris, Mettayer & L'Huillier, 1601. 3 works in one volume in-4 : 4f., 592pp. - 79pp, (2). - 4f., 267f. Light rings in margins, handwritten notes in margin of the last part, some small paper losses in margins of some leaves (weakened paper) without affecting the text. Contemporary speckled tan basane, spine ribbed and decorated, missing headpieces, red title page, black author's page, red edges. The work deals with ancient maritime laws, reuniting the judgments of Oleron (Regulations of Wisby and the Teutonic Hanse; the Guidon de la Mer, and a compilation of ancient laws of marine jurisdiction); also contains a passage on whaling. In two curious chapters devoted to his Basque compatriots (Expedition or Voyage of the Basques in the Greenland Sea, and First Discovery of America by the Basques), the author asserts that the Basques discovered Newfoundland and Canada one hundred years before Columbus, and that it was a Newfoundland pilot who revealed the existence of the island to him. The author was a lawyer in Bordeaux. Not in Vinson (Labadie 254 and 255).
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