FINE SECOND EDITION OF PECK’S COLLECTED WORKS
IN AN ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY BINDING

FOUNDATION OF INTERNATIONAL MARITIME LAW

PECK, PIETER. Petri Peckii Ziricaei olim in Academia Lovaniensi ivris professoris in magno senatv belgico consiliarii Opera omnia: in unum volumen redacta, ac de nouo in lucem producta; quorum elenchum altera post epistolam dedicatoriam pagina indicabit. [...]. Antwerp, Jerome and Jean-Baptiste Verdussen, 1666.

Folio, attractive contemporary calf with elegant blind-tooled borders and floral decorations, six raised bands spines, ff. [4], pp. 896, ff. [22].
Printer’s woodcut device at titlepage (printed in black and red). Publisher's dedicatory epistle signed: Hieronymus Verdussen.

SECOND EDITION OF PECK’S COLLECTED WORKS ALSO CONTAINING HIS TREATISES ON INTERNATIONAL MARITIME LAW, CONSIDERED AMONG THE FIRST WORKS EVER PUBLISHED ON THIS TOPIC.

Petrus Peckius the Elder (born Pieter Peck, Zierikzee, 16 July 1529; died Mechelen, 16 July 1589), also known as Pierre Peckius, was an eminent Netherlandish jurist, one of the first to write about international maritime law and the father of Petrus Peckius the Younger, diplomat and chancellor of Brabant for the Sovereign Archdukes Albert and Isabella. He is best known for a failed attempt to negotiate a renewal of the Twelve Years' Truce in 1621.
He was an orthodox Catholic and remained loyal to the Crown during the Eighty Years' War. In 1582 he was appointed a justice in the Great Council, the supreme law court of the Seventeen Provinces, which normally sat in Mechelen but due to the Dutch Revolt was then meeting in the city of Namur.
Peck studied Civil and Canon law at the University of Leuven with Gabriel Mudaeus. He received his doctorate on 27 August 1553. As usual in this era for academic scholars he Latinized his name to Peckius.
He was appointed to the new chair in introductory law (Paratitles) that Philip II of Spain endowed at the university in 1555. Was made ordinarius in Roman Law at the university in 1562. In the same year he succeeded Jean Vendeville, who had left for the University of Douai, as professor of Canon law.

References: IT\ICCU\LIAE\024612. OCLC, 19966814.

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