[BECCARIA IN RUSSIA] Rassuzhdenie o prestupleniyakh i nakazaniyakh [i.e. On Crime and Punishments] / translated by Dmitriy Yazykov
St. Petersburg: V Gubernskom Pravlenii, 1803. XLIV, 268 pp. 20,6х12,7 cm. Contemporary full leather. Near fine, uncharacteristic of Russian books from the 1800s. Stamp ‘Otrada’ [i.e. Joy] on the title page, likely 19th century. First Russian edition (the second one being 1879). Extremely rare. The edition opens with..... More