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Folio, 35 x 21 cm. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards. Spine ruled in compartments with decorative floral device and label. Signatures in order. [22]+356+[98]+18+[11]+ 47 pp.. Neat stamp to front free endpaper date 1860 in ink. Annotation and tale in contemporary ink to f.e.p. verso. Followed by title page with decorative ruled margin. Contemporary ink inscription dated 1820. Generally a very nice copy. Spine ends and corners a little bruised, boards rather rubbed with a small loss of marbled paper to both boards but inoffensively so. Internally paper crisp, no tears, clean. Last edition of the Third Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish. It is the reprinted sixth edition of 1786 with no changes. The Statute was valid until 1840, when Russian laws were imposed in Lithuania. The legal code was published by Antoni Marcinowski (Wilno drukarnia ; 1817-1862).