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Title: The freedom of the seas or, The right which belongs to the Dutch to take part in the East Indian trade
Author: Hugo Grotius
Editor: James Brown Scott
Translator: Ralph Van Deman Magoffin
Release date: April 26, 2025 [eBook #75962]
Language: English
Original publication: New York: Oxford University Press, 1916
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
The original book _Mare Liberum_ was first published in 1608 in renaissance latin. The latin of this book is based on a later 1633
printing. The english translation carefully maintains the meaning, and clarifies the context, of the original latin.
In this 1916 book, following the Introductory Note and Preface,…