[RUSSIA - CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION].
Tarif général ou table alphabétique des droits que payeront les marchandises dans tous les ports et aux douanes des frontières de l'Empire de Russie, excepté à celles d'Astracan, du gouvernement d'Oufa et de Sibérie. Composé dans la Comission de Commerce l'année 1782.
St. Petersburg, J.J. Weitbrecht, 1783. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, sprinkled edges. 155, [1 blank] pp.
€ 3,000
Second known copy of a commercial publication of statutes, promulgated in French by the Russian Empress Catharine the Great, concerning import duties for commercial merchandise in Russian ports and at other frontiers of the Russian Empire as they were determined and accepted in 1782. There is an exception for Astrakhan, a major port and market city in southern Russia at the head of the Volga river, which was under the government of Siberia, which apparently maintained its own commercial regulations.
This publication is very rare, WorldCat lists only 1 copy (Kress Library of Business and Economics, Harvard University). Other libraries worldwide have only the microfilm of the Kress copy.
A faint stain and one tiny hole in the margin of the first 20 pp. Cover slightly rubbed. Otherwise in good condition. Goldsmiths'-Kress 12431.16.
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