Catherine II Empress of Russia. Nakaz...dannyy kommissii o sochinenii proekta novago ulozheniya; Instruction...pour la Commission Chargée de dresser le projet d'un Nouveau Code de Loix, titles and text in Russian, Latin, German and French, printed in double columns, engraved head- & tail-piece by C.M.Roth after I.D.Stehlin, lightly browned, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed and slightly stained, spine worn at foot, [Burtsec 989; Drage 208; Fekula 2013; Sopikov 6456 "best edition"], 4to, St.Petersburg, Imp. Akad. Nauk., 1770.

***Catherine the Great's famous 'Great Instructions', originally published in 1768. They were "largely compiled and adapted by Catherine personally from the texts of Montesquieu and Beccaria. Although the project was never brought to fruition, the impulse behind it stands as one of the nobler concepts of Catherine's reign." Fekula, on a later edition..