Commentaries on the Law of Nations by William Oke Manning - 1839

London: S. Sweet, 1, Chancery Lane, Law Bookseller [etc.], 1839. Original boards, printed paper label, rubbed and somewhat chipped, else a very good copy in original state, the edges untrimmed First edition of Manning's "closely reasoned work", inscribed "from the Author" on the front blank, but seemingly Manning's own copy, with some forty annotations in the text (several substantial) and a lengthy note in ?his hand on the rear pastedown