Second book trading house "Antiquarium". Brief summary
ARTinvestment.RU   15 апреля 2014

April 12 "Antiquarium" held in trading book "Art Center on Savvinskaya." From the point of view of the organization still has much to improve, but the result is quite at the level of the major players in the Russian art market

On Saturday , April 12 auction house " Antiquarium " held the second in its history antiquarian auction " Rare and valuable books ." Auction was held at the new location , the new premises of the auction house in the " Art Center on Savvinskaya ».

After a successful debut (remember , in the first auction " Antiquarium " , held on 16 November last year in hotel "Metropol" , has sold 82.3 %of lots ) organizers obviously tried not to lose the momentum and put together an extensive , 300 lots catalog covering Publishing XVI-XX centuries. Among them there are real bibliographic rarity - for example, " Prayer " in 1547 ( 21 known instance ); "Psalm with chasoslovtsem " published in Vilna in 1590 ( on the territory of Russia and Belarus only know the whereabouts of 9 publications and one fragment ); one of 19 surviving copies folders with two notebooks lithographs " Types of Georgian villages " with original covers , published in 1822 by Count Arakcheev ; " Short topographical , geographical , statistical and historical description of the Tver province " with a " detailed description proceeds , the number of people , their fishing , trading , handicrafts , customs, clothes , local position of antiquities and curiosities worthy of note ».

General results of the auction are as follows: in the hall was attended by about three dozen people were absentee bids , the participants on the phones and the Internet. Total Sales 65.33%( 196 of 300 ) lots totaling more than $ 740,000 from . ie ( 75.91 %of the average total estimate of all lots of catalog) . A great result! 85 lots went 8 active buyers in the room, 21 lot buyers took on the phones , got 6 lots of online participants , 84 times out of 138 absentee bid has been successful . Now the details .

For the convenience of buyers directory has been divided into 10 topics .

open trades section 's publications 1735-1800 . Writings of Seneca , Cicero, University , etc. , as well as other historical and philosophical books went mainly to start , mostly by correspondence rate. First purchase in the hall appeared lot 6 - translated from French books of Frederick II « Military instruction manual or the king of Prussia his generals " 1761 edition. Party in the hall with 1200 y. is unable to start in three easy steps to beat the correspondence bet and pick "Instructions ... " for 1500 at . is the most expensive lot of the same section of a three-volume edition was " Transformation Ovidievyh " 1794-1795 years , gone into the hall for 4200 y. 3000 is a start on a correspondence rate. A total of 69 lots were sold this section 43 .

next section monuments of Slavic- Russian literacy open " Prayer ," published Venetian Vincenzo Vukovich June 1, 1547 ( lot 70) , which is still before the auction was called among the undisputed top auction lots ; eventually exhibition has become one of the biggest shopping in the evening and went to the room to start in at 42,000 . is another interesting item in this section - a copy of the king's bishop script complain ( of confirmation ) and police clearance certificates Tarhan 1627 Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich bishop of Kolomna and Kashirskoe Raphael ; Diploma bought at the start in 9000 y. is the same party in the hall .

Editions time of Alexander I and Nicholas I ( the third section of the catalog ) were perceived quite calmly, sold 27 of 43 lots of thong . The most expensive item in it became 121 - "Our written off in the Russian nature " ( 1841 ); bargaining with one step in 6500 . edition is bought by absentee bid at the buyer in the hall .

Obviously gathered waiting for the start of trading on thong publications Russian writers of the XIX century . In the drawing sold 32 of 35 lots in this section were actively involved several people in the room , telephone, Internet and, of course , part-time rate . Bargained hard and long , increasing the price when starting in two, and when more than four times . In particular, item 152 - note ( autograph ) philosopher , writer and one of the founders of the Slavophile movement Khomyakov , a book of his poems and brochure 1860 " Requiem for Khomyakov in Kiev " - fought and two absentee bid Player in the hall. From the start in 2200 . is a result of long , multi-way combat lot still left in the room for 8500 y. is, itself, a major purchase of this thong (and the third result of the evening ) was the 11 - volume edition of Pushkin 's posthumous edition 1838-1841 (lot 142). Bargaining began with 15,000 y. is, and then two members in the hall more than 10 steps could not decide who would get the book ; The winner took Works for 23,000 y. is

Deal of the day ( and possibly one of the largest second-hand book sales season ) was held under « Albums - Atlases - uvrazhi » . Several dozen steps took party in the phone and the player is in the room to decide the fate of a folder with two notebooks lithographs " Types of Georgian villages " (lot 170). Starting with 50,000 y. ie , when the steps in a half step , and when they reached the first to 100 000, and then up to 150 000 in . The result is, the lot was on the phone at 152 500 . ie , more than three times (!) surpassing the already rather big estimate .

Section guidebooks and around Moscow was relatively quiet , out of 16 8 lots were sold , almost all buyers in the hall was dismantled .

section « Geography, Natural Sciences . Travel. Descriptions of places and cities » Another top lot of the auction, " quick topographical , geographical , statistical and historical description of the Tver province "(lot 196) , went on to start absentee rate of 15 000 in . is

Since two hundredth lots, despite the fact that the auction took almost two hours of trading markedly accelerated pace - in the fight included more and more new members of the hall, on the phone and the Internet. Sections editions 1855-1917 's and ceremonial books and publications on art late XIX - early XX century have been sold for more than three-quarters of the organizers and brought more than 70%of their average total estimate .

Completed the catalog of a very small section of publications which were published after 1917 . Opened his exhibition 295, which were collected 16 lifetime brochures Tsiolkovsky ; party here in the hall and beat the correspondence rate for 8000 at . ie , higher than the estimate took exhibition itself .

Bidding took place not without lining , on the organization can be more work ; but I think that the staff of the auction yourself noticed all thin places . Future as visitors new premises " Antiquarium " in " Art Center on Savvinskaya " recommend advance to find out ways to pass the waterfront or in the street , or to stock up on cards with pointers ; everything is close and easy - if you know where to go. In general , we repeat , trades can be safely written asset statistically result spotless quite at the level of main players in the Russian art market. What we " Antiquarium " congratulations . And we hope that the upcoming debut " scenic " auction , scheduled for April 19 , will take place no worse .

Maria Kuznetsova , AI