Instruction de Sa Majesté Impériale Catherine II. pour la commission chargée de dresser le projet d'un nouveau code de loix.
KLA470.A31768 N314 1771
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Corporate Author
Russia. Sovereign (1762-1796 : Catherine II)
Uniform title
Nakaz Kommissii o sochinenii proekta novogo ulozhenii͡a., French.
Title
Instruction de Sa Majesté Impériale Catherine II. pour la commission chargée de dresser le projet d'un nouveau code de loix.
Added Author
Rey, Marc-Michel, 1720-1780, book producer.
Boily, Charles-Ange, 1738 or 1739-1813, book producer.
Fenton, Adelaide Lucy, 1825-1897, book producer.
Boily, Charles-Ange, 1738 or 1739-1813, book producer.
Fenton, Adelaide Lucy, 1825-1897, book producer.
Added Corporate Author
Russia. Komissii͡a o sochineniĭ novogo ulozhenii͡a, 1767.
Imprint
A Amsterdam : Chez Marc Michel Rey, MDCCLXXI [1771]
Description
6 unnumbered pages, 229 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1] leaf of plates : portrait (engraving) ; 21 cm (octavo)
Note
Signatures: pi¹ *³ A-O⁸ P³.
Largely taken from Montesquieu's "Esprit des lois" and Beccaria's "Dei delitti e delle pene." Cf. Bil'basov, Katharina II. Kaiserin von Russland, im Urtheile der Weltliteratur, v. 1, p. 80-83, 125-126.
Reprinted from a St. Petersburg edition (probably the official one) of 1769. Not mentioned in Bil'basov. Cf. "Avertissement de l'editeur de Hollande," on verso of 3rd prelim. leaf.
Has engraved frontispiece portrait of Catherine II; signed: C. Boily, del. et fecit (i.e. Charles-Ange Boily). Engraved publisher's device signed: J. [or I.] v. S. f[ecit]. 1762.
Largely taken from Montesquieu's "Esprit des lois" and Beccaria's "Dei delitti e delle pene." Cf. Bil'basov, Katharina II. Kaiserin von Russland, im Urtheile der Weltliteratur, v. 1, p. 80-83, 125-126.
Reprinted from a St. Petersburg edition (probably the official one) of 1769. Not mentioned in Bil'basov. Cf. "Avertissement de l'editeur de Hollande," on verso of 3rd prelim. leaf.
Has engraved frontispiece portrait of Catherine II; signed: C. Boily, del. et fecit (i.e. Charles-Ange Boily). Engraved publisher's device signed: J. [or I.] v. S. f[ecit]. 1762.
Local Note
Marginalia.
Binding: contemporary quarter tan leather with corners, gold-tooled and -stamped on back, with title label, red page-edges, and ribbon.
Originally classed as: KE4321.I57.
Binding: contemporary quarter tan leather with corners, gold-tooled and -stamped on back, with title label, red page-edges, and ribbon.
Originally classed as: KE4321.I57.
Ownership
Provenance: Holstein-Holsteinborg (stamp); modern bookplate, with monogram "SJ" or "JS"; Justice blindfolded, on a pedestal, with sword and book.
Location
RARE
Call Number
KLA470.A31768 N314 1771
Language
French
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