‎OSIANDER, JOHANN ADAM.‎
‎Observationes Maximam partem Theologicæ In Libros Tres De Jure Belli Et Pacis‎

‎Tubingae, Cotta, 1671. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum with title in contemporary hand to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to upper part of spine. Soiling and miscolouring to extremities. Internally nice and clean. (14), 1552, (72) pp.‎

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‎The rare first edition of Osiander’s commentary on Hugo Grotius's seminal work “De Jure Belli” in which he is analyzing Grotius's legal and ethical arguments through a Lutheran theological lens “Major Lutheran theologians such as Johann Adam Osiander, who taught at Tübingen in the second half of the seventeenth century and counted many Swedish youngsters among his students, engaged intensely with Grotius’s De iure belli ac pacis. Moreover, Lutheran theologians thoroughly engaged with contract law, in particular, recycling ideas and concepts from the Roman law, the early-modern scholastic tradition and Grotius, but integrating them into a Biblical framework, especially the Eighth Commandment prohibiting false testimony.”‎