A Treatise on Military Matters and Warfare

1995. ISBN 0899419615. Belli, Pierino. A Treatise on Military Matters and Warfare. Translated by Herbert C. Nutting. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936. Reprint. W.S. Hein, 1995. 32a, viii, 411, [4] pp. Tan buckram with black spine lettering. Hardcover. New. $195. * Volume 2: A complete English translation of the 1563 edition. Carnegie Classics of International Law series. Belli, a soldier and jurist, was one of the founders of international law. One of the first treatises to advocate rules of war, it is considered the most significant work on the subject published before Grotius' De Jure Belli et Pacis (1625).