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Celebrating progress in Russia's legal system
Publication: Sytin, Moskva, 1914.
Fine example of this celebratory work, in the pleasant publisher’s binding.
£500
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Fresh example of this richly illustrated work dedicated to fifty years jubilee of the judicial reform. It comprises memoirs of the people who were directly involved in the implementation of the reform by compiling judicial statutes and supervising their execution. In his work Koni (1844 – 1927), a Russian jurist and judge, also included biographies of the most prominent pioneers of the reform, such as D.A. Rovinskii, M.E. Kovalevskii, D.N. Nabokov, A.I. Urusov and F.N. Plevako, many of whom he knew personally.
Provenance
Avenir Nizoff (émigré, pianist, who lived in Edmonton, Canada, in the second half of the 20th century, and gathered a very large library of Russian works of all kinds).
Item number
963
Quarto (28.5 x 22 cm). [4], IV, 4, 296, 22, 2 pp., with 27 lithographed plates.
Binding
Publisher’s decorated cloth.
Condition
Slightly rubbed, otherwise a fine example.
An early Russian biography of Peter the Great, illustrated and noted for its rarity. Pleasant example in contemporary binding.
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Instruction [...] pour la commission chargee de dresser le projet d'un nouveau code de loix.
Instruction fúr die zu Verfertigung des Entwurfs zu einem neuen Gesetz-Buche verordnete Commission.
Instrvctio [...] coetvi convocato ad conficiendam ideam novi legvm codicis
Instruction [...] pour la commission chargee de dresser le projet d'un nouveau code de loix.
Instruction fúr die zu Verfertigung des Entwurfs zu einem neuen Gesetz-Buche verordnete Commission.
Instrvctio [...] coetvi convocato ad conficiendam ideam novi legvm codicis
A lovely example of this famous edition of Catherine's celebrated Great Instructions, much inspired by important European philosophers of the Englightenment.
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