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Boston, 1812. Only Am. ed. from London ed. (1812). First and Only American edition of Chitty's A Practical Treatise on the Law of Nations Owned by a U.S. Secretary of State Chitty, Joseph [1776-1841]. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Nations, Relative to the Legal Effect of War on the Commerce of Belligerents and Neutrals; And on Orders in Council and Licences. To Which Are Added, Extracts from Grotius, Bynkershoek, And Vattel: Also, The Letter of Sir William Scott, And of the Duke of Newcastle, &c. Containing Matters Applicable to the Law of Prize. Boston: Published by Bradford and Read, 1812. xii, 340, [4] pp. Includes four-page publisher list. Octavo (8-1/2"x 5-1/4"; 21.6 x 13.3 cm). Contemporary calf, blind fillets to boards, lettering piece and blind fillets to spine, blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing to boards, shallow scuffs to upper outside corner of front board, moderate rubbing to extremities, front joint just starting at head, corners bumped, hinges cracked, front free endpaper detaching. Moderate toning and light foxing to interior, occasional faint dampstaining to margins. Early book label, "J.M. Clayton's," to front pastedown, early inkstamps of John M. Clayton to front free endpaper and left margin of p. 40. A good copy in an appealing contemporary binding. $1,250. * Published the same year as the sole London edition, this is the first and only American edition of Chitty's major contribution to international law. Published precisely at the onset of the War of 1812, the treatise offers critical contemporary insights into the Anglo-American trade tensions, maritime restrictions, and highly volatile laws of blockade and prize capture that fueled the conflict. Chitty was one of the most wide-ranging and prolific British legal writers of the nineteenth century; this treatise and his 1813 edition of Beawes's Lex Mercatoria represent his major contributions to international law. While Marvin's Legal Bibliography notes some contemporary criticism of the work, it highly praises its compilation of Sir William Scott's landmark judgments in prize cases (p. 190). Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 7175. Boston, 1812. Only Am. ed. from London ed. (1812) (illustrator).…