![SPERANSKII, Mikhail Mikhailovich, Count (1772-1839). Précis des notions historiques sur la formation du corps des lois Russes. [Obozrenie istoricheskikh svedenii o svode zakonov.] St. Petersburg: Pluchart's widow and sons, 1833.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CKS/2012_CKS_06769_0069_001(speranskii_mikhail_mikhailovich_count_precis_des_notions_historiques_s062307).jpg?w=1)
![SPERANSKII, Mikhail Mikhailovich, Count (1772-1839). Précis des notions historiques sur la formation du corps des lois Russes. [Obozrenie istoricheskikh svedenii o svode zakonov.] St. Petersburg: Pluchart's widow and sons, 1833.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CKS/2012_CKS_06769_0069_000(speranskii_mikhail_mikhailovich_count_precis_des_notions_historiques_s060634).jpg?w=1)
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SPERANSKII, Mikhail Mikhailovich, Count (1772-1839). Précis des notions historiques sur la formation du corps des lois Russes. [Obozrenie istoricheskikh svedenii o svode zakonov.] St. Petersburg: Pluchart's widow and sons, 1833.
8° (195 x 130mm). Contemporary dark green morocco, sides panelled in gilt and blind, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, pink coated endpapers, gilt and blind inner dentelles. Provenance: Maximilian, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817-1852; bookplate; shelf label on the spine numbered '235').
THE LEUCHTENBERG COPY. Speranskii, the close and powerful advisor of both Alexander I and his brother Nicholas I, here surveys the historical basis for the codification of Russian law -- a monumental project with which he had been tasked by Nicholas I. Duke Maximilian married Grand Duchess Mariia Nikolaevna, eldest and favourite daughter of Nicholas I. Translated by the author from his own Russian edition of the same year.
8° (195 x 130mm). Contemporary dark green morocco, sides panelled in gilt and blind, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, pink coated endpapers, gilt and blind inner dentelles. Provenance: Maximilian, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817-1852; bookplate; shelf label on the spine numbered '235').
THE LEUCHTENBERG COPY. Speranskii, the close and powerful advisor of both Alexander I and his brother Nicholas I, here surveys the historical basis for the codification of Russian law -- a monumental project with which he had been tasked by Nicholas I. Duke Maximilian married Grand Duchess Mariia Nikolaevna, eldest and favourite daughter of Nicholas I. Translated by the author from his own Russian edition of the same year.
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