TZAR IVAN IV [THE TERRIBLE]. Sudebnik Gosudaria Tsaria i Velikago Kniazia Ioanna Vasilevicha.

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TZAR IVAN IV [THE TERRIBLE]. Sudebnik Gosudaria Tsaria i Velikago Kniazia Ioanna Vasilevicha. Moscow: Imperial University Press. 1768. 4to. Contemporary Russian mottled calf, marbled endpapers; pp. [iv], 138, [14], spine with some loss and wear; light spotting internally, a good copy; provenance : early 20th-century collector's stamp Aleksandr Ivanovich Ivanov to title-page and beginning of text, early 1960s Russian bookseller's stamp to rear fly-leaf. This is the Law Code of Ivan Vasilievich. Ivan IV's reform of the law code shifted power from the aristocracy to State and local institutions and introduced a conscription army. This is the first edition prepared by G.F. Miller from the manuscript owned by Vasilii Tatishchev, the Russian statesman and historian, a contemporary of Karamzin. Bitovt 1638; SK 6936; Sopikov 11593. SKU: 2110824

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