[CORSAIRS AND PIRATES]. Dominique-Joseph GARAT (1749-1833), - Lot 249

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[CORSAIRS AND PIRATES]. Dominique-Joseph GARAT (1749-1833), - Lot 249
[CORSAIRS AND PIRATES]. Dominique-Joseph GARAT (1749-1833), philosopher and politician, member of the French Academy (1803). Partially autograph manuscript (very corrected draft with passages crossed out entirely rewritten in the margin, the last pages are entirely autograph), 54 pp. large in-folio. [1798]. Exceptional draft of a text by Garat on maritime captures, and particularly on privateers and pirates. "A privateer and a pirate have no relation to each other: one is a man who at his own expense, at his own risk and with the sanction of his government, wages war against the enemies of his country: the other is a brigand who without the admission of any nation wages war against all of them, to whom he is abhorred; and to his own nation, of which he is a disgrace. Pirates are the thieves of the seas; privateers are the light troops. However, such has been the inevitable or at least unavoidable rigor of the laws of all nations on privateering, that in all the languages of Europe the words Privateers and Pirates appear almost synonymous [].
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