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[RUSSIAN LAW] [CATHERINE II, the Great]. Nakaz Eia Imperatorskago Velichestva Ekateriny Vtoryia, Samoderzhitsy Vserossiiskiia dannyi...
[i.e. Instructions of Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II to the Commission on the Work of the projected new Code of Laws]... St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1770. First edition. Contemporary Russian calf, spine blind tooled, red leather titling piece, decorated paper endsheets in red and blue, all edges red. 9 3/4 x 8 inches (25 x 20 cm); polyglot edition (Russian Latin, German and French) with the four title pages, 403, [1] pp., with an initial engraved headpiece and a tailpiece engraved by C.M. Roth (both repeated), text in two columns. Binding worn on corners, some chipping to joints, within some scattered spotting and soiling, in all a sound copy.
A rare work of proposed legal reforms to the Russian legal code, the text in four languages, Russian and Latin on versos, German and French on opposite rectos. This was described by Count M.A. Korf, the director of the Imperial Library, as the best and most luxurious edition iof Catherine's Great Instructions. This rewriting of the Russian law code was among her most ambitious and significant undertakings. The book is rare. Burtsev 989; Drage 208; Fekula 2013; Sopikov 6456 ('best edition'); SK 2151.
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