![PETER I -- Dukhovnyi reglament. [The Spiritual Regulation.] St. Petersburg: Senate, 1749. 2 parts in 1 vol., 8° (160 x 102mm). With index. 153 leaves (of 154, without blank leaf 48 in part 2). (Occasional soiling and spotting, worm track in the margin of the first few leaves.) Contemporary Russian calf, spine tooled and titled in blind (corners rubbed, some wear). Provenance: a few early pen trials -- a 20th-century Russian bookseller (small stamps).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2010/CSK/2010_CSK_05475_0325_000(peter_i_--_dukhovnyi_reglament_[the_spiritual_regulation]_st_petersbur072823).jpg?w=1)
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PETER I -- Dukhovnyi reglament. [The Spiritual Regulation.] St. Petersburg: Senate, 1749. 2 parts in 1 vol., 8° (160 x 102mm). With index. 153 leaves (of 154, without blank leaf 48 in part 2). (Occasional soiling and spotting, worm track in the margin of the first few leaves.) Contemporary Russian calf, spine tooled and titled in blind (corners rubbed, some wear). Provenance: a few early pen trials -- a 20th-century Russian bookseller (small stamps).
PETER I'S SUBORDINATION OF THE CHURCH TO THE STATE, one of his most important domestic reforms, whereby the Church became fully linked to the state by the Holy Synod. First published in 1721 this edition is rare, and apparently not recoded in the Svodnyi Katalog. cf. Bitovt 281; cf. SK 2069.
PETER I'S SUBORDINATION OF THE CHURCH TO THE STATE, one of his most important domestic reforms, whereby the Church became fully linked to the state by the Holy Synod. First published in 1721 this edition is rare, and apparently not recoded in the Svodnyi Katalog. cf. Bitovt 281; cf. SK 2069.
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