Instruction de Sa Majesté impériale Catherine II. pour la commission chargée de dresser le projet d'un nouveau code de loix
Contributors: Boily, Charles-Ange, 1738 or 1739-1813, etcher; Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, former owner; Yudin Collection (Library of Congress); Russian Imperial Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Chez Marc Michel Rey
Published: 1771
Place of publication: A Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Sources; Early works to 1800; Law; Codification
Work titles: Nakaz Kommissii o sochinenii proekta novogo ulozhenii︠a︡
Notes: Largely taken from Montesquieu's "Esprit des lois" and Beccaria's "Dei delitti e delle pene." cf. Bilʹbasov, Katharina II, Kaiserin von Russland, im Witheile der Weltliteratur, v. 1, p. 80-83, 125-126.

Reprinted from a St. Petersburg edition (probably the offical one) of 1769. Not mentioned in Bilʹbasov. Lacks the "médaillon représentant Sa Majesté l'impératrice Catherine II., dessiné & gravé d'aprés un médaillon en plâtre ..." cf. Avertissement, on verso of 3rd prelim. leaf.

Has etched/engraved frontispiece portrait of Catherine II; signed: C. Boily, del.et fecit. Etched title vignette dated 1762.

LC Copy 1 trimmed to 17 cm.; in doublure binding with botanical tooling in corners and on spine, gilt borders front and back. Has red ink stamp on title page: Cabinet de Mr. de St. Albin. Has Library of Congress Yudin book labels. Has LC accession no. 128209 dated 1908: not the Yudin accession number. Shelved with the Yudin Collection.