Nakaz Kommissii o sochinenii proekta novogo ulozhenii͡a. French.

Instruction de Sa Majesté Impériale Catherine II. pour la commission chargée de dresser le projet d'un nouveau code de loix.

A Amsterdam : Chez Marc Michel Rey, MDCCLXXI [1771]

6 unnumbered pages, 229 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1] leaf of plates : portrait (engraving) ; 21 cm (octavo)

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.

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.

Provenance: Holstein-Holsteinborg (stamp); modern bookplate, with monogram "SJ" or "JS"; Justice blindfolded, on a pedestal, with sword and book.

RARE

KLA470.A31768 N314 1771

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