Tobia, Ewald Sigismund. The Pravda Russkaya, Russia's oldest legal book, compared, Germanized and explained according to all previously discovered and published manuscripts. Part I. 1 Bl., IV, 94 pp. With a coloured facsimile panel and 1 folded table. 26.5 x 21.5 cm. Red cardboard band d. time (lightly rubbed, corners and edges hit, back and 1 mirror cover renewed, 1 corner with kink track, front cover top with moisture stain) with gold-embossed lid borders. St. Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1844. The series title "Collection of critically processed sources of the history of Russian law", whose first and only volume this was, does not appear here. Tobia was a lecturer at the University of Dorpat and a member of several learned societies. The "Pravda Russkaja", a collection of Russian customary rights, dates back to the year 1019. – Slightly browned and partly slightly spotted.