BETSKOI, Ivan Ivanovich (1704-1795). Ustav vospitaniia dvukh sot blagorodnykh devits. [And:] Kratkoe Nastavlenie s nekotorymi fizicheskimi primechaniiami o Vospitanii Detei. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1768-69. 3 parts in 1 vol., 8° (240 x 194mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved title vignettes and head- and tailpieces. (Some mostly marginal soiling and occasional spotting.) Contemporary Russian calf (front cover detached, spine foot chipped, lower joint starting). Provenance: a 19th-century reader (large signature on front blank dated 1843) -- P.A. Efremov (author, publisher, collector; shelf label) -- P.V. Gubar (bookplate) -- V.I. Klochkov (bookseller's label) -- Martin Winkler (bookplate).

BETSKOI, Ivan Ivanovich (1704-1795). Ustav vospitaniia dvukh sot blagorodnykh devits. [And:] Kratkoe Nastavlenie s nekotorymi fizicheskimi primechaniiami o Vospitanii Detei. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1768-69. 3 parts in 1 vol., 8° (240 x 194mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved title vignettes and head- and tailpieces. (Some mostly marginal soiling and occasional spotting.) Contemporary Russian calf (front cover detached, spine foot chipped, lower joint starting). Provenance: a 19th-century reader (large signature on front blank dated 1843) -- P.A. Efremov (author, publisher, collector; shelf label) -- P.V. Gubar (bookplate) -- V.I. Klochkov (bookseller's label) -- Martin Winkler (bookplate).

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. FROM THE LIBRARY OF P.A. EFREMOV. With the allegorical frontispiece by Srebrenitskii after Kozlov. A collection of treatises on education by Betskoi, the chief architect of school reforms under Catherine II, one of which on the education of noble women, and another on the education of children. The collation of part 3 differs from that in SK (ie. [6], 50 rather than 54, [2], [4]). Bitovt 1642; SK 558; Sopikov 12203.