![CATHERINE II, the Great. Nakaz... dannyi kommissii o sochinenii proekta novago ulozheniia. [Instructions of Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II to the Commission on the Work of the projected new Code of Laws.] St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaya Akademia Nauk, 1770. 4° (252 x 201mm). Text in Russian, Latin, German and French. Engraved vignettes. (Very faint marginal dampstain in a few leaves, small wormhole in the margin of others, some leaves lightly browned.) Contemporary Russian half calf (light wear).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_09702_0014_000(catherine_ii_the_great_nakaz_dannyi_kommissii_o_sochinenii_proekta_nov063310).jpg?w=1)
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CATHERINE II, the Great. Nakaz... dannyi kommissii o sochinenii proekta novago ulozheniia. [Instructions of Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II to the Commission on the Work of the projected new Code of Laws.] St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaya Akademia Nauk, 1770. 4° (252 x 201mm). Text in Russian, Latin, German and French. Engraved vignettes. (Very faint marginal dampstain in a few leaves, small wormhole in the margin of others, some leaves lightly browned.) Contemporary Russian half calf (light wear).
Described by Count M.A. Korf, then director of the Imperial Library, as 'THE BEST AND MOST LUXURIOUS EDITION' of Catherine the Great's Instructions. This projected rewrite of the Russian law code was among her most ambitious and significant undertakings. Burtsev 989; Drage 208; Fekula 2013; Sopikov 6456 ('best edition'); SK 2151.
Described by Count M.A. Korf, then director of the Imperial Library, as 'THE BEST AND MOST LUXURIOUS EDITION' of Catherine the Great's Instructions. This projected rewrite of the Russian law code was among her most ambitious and significant undertakings. Burtsev 989; Drage 208; Fekula 2013; Sopikov 6456 ('best edition'); SK 2151.