the Evening of 11 September in the "House of antique books in Nikitsky" held the second part of the Grand (over 1,000 lots) auction "Rare books and manuscripts — XX century Part II".

these Trades, called the auction house "opening the season" (525 first lots were sold August 21), can also be called and the original card, fully showing the scale of the ongoing and auction house events, and the range and thematic variety of the range offered to potential buyers, — from the literary monuments of national importance XV @XVI centuries & mdash; to the rarest of lifetime editions of the classics of Russian literature of the XIX — XX centuries and just curiosities, collectible interest — posters, letters, autographs, various historical documents and p@

this time the auction catalogue can boast of the famous Ostrog Bible, the first printer Ivan Fyodorov in 1581, a collection of rare books thus far, publications on topical recently ucrainica, lifetime editions of Alexander Pushkin, as well as numerous autographs of Russian writers — V. Bryusov, A. Kuprin, I. Bunin, B. Pasternak, Brodsky and Dr@

, we Can safely say that the opening of the season was a great success. By the beginning of the auction the hall was attended by about three and a half dozen people, and if you count Internet-участников, and more than fifty. There were a lot of phones, 129 absentee rates and the actual bargaining. Surprisingly, the activity of the hall did not abate until the end of the three-hour auction event. The prolonged struggle of the participants in the room fell on lot 579 — autographs of poets I. Brodsky and A. Newman, a past winner for 65 000 26 000 start part-time stavke@

General results of the auction are as follows: the hammer is gone 316 (53,83 %) of auctioned lots 587 for a total amount of 15.6 million rubles (86,39 % of the mean estimate of the directory). Hall has won 125 times, 112 lots went to buyers on the phone, 63 @ & mdash; part-time rate, 16 times managed to win онлайн-участникам.

the General tone of trading asked draw the first lot — Ostrog Bible, published in 1581 the first printer Ivan Fyodorov. This book is issued in the estate of Prince K. K. Ostrozhsky and the first printed Church Slavonic Bible, even before trading was named among the top-лотов auction. The publication challenged customer correspondence and online-ставка. Lot went online-участнику for 950, 000 and was the most expensive Internet-покупкой vecera@

Following several dozen lots sold went mainly to start. The audience seemed to be getting the taste of warmed up. And it seems, has finally warmed up to 53-му lot. For two-part edition of "the Painter, the weekly satirical essay" of 1793 seized two phones, which had started with 50 000, did not want to concede each other almost half a dozen steps. In the end, the winner broke the enemy resistance at the figure of 140 000. Even more thrust out of the drawing 62-го lot — rare books "My Trifles" N. M. Karamzin in two parts (1797), when the game came just three members in the hall. The book has got a new owner for 220 000 rubles, exceeding the start 4 times. On the one hand, an impressive result, with another — not so rare for the past auctiona@

Lot 72 — an eight-volume 1803 and 1804 Karamzin gg just-чуть has not held up to a fivefold increase in start and became the most expensive buy on the phone, and the winning absentee bid, and the buyer in the room. The first edition of the works of Karamzin, especially rare in full kit, was the winner for 950 000 with absentee start in 200 000.

two Internet, telephone and party in the hall joint efforts helped to perpetrated one of the most effective deals in the evening, by personal example proving the relevance of books of Ukrainian subjects. "Brief description of Kiev, which contains a historical list of this town, as the reading of memorable objects and antiquities onago" by M. Belinsky 1820 — edition, very rare as a complete set (lot 87), a few steps went to the most persistent Internet-участнику for 400 000 rubles, which is 8 times higher starta@

a Record high figure of the evening was the result for lot 112 — book "Poems and stories by Aleksandr Pushkin" 1835, one of the rarest of lifetime editions of the poet. In the party room, perioperative the zaochku and phone, was able to buy a book for 1 500 000 800 000 rubles by correspondence start stavke@

Speaking of records, not to mention the draw of lot 292 — books "Cornflowers: the legend" P. Solovieva and N. Manaseina (1915). Edition printing T-ва I. D. Sytina, in publishing illustrated cartonage, starting from 5 000 rubles in absentia rate was the most productive auction deal. A bidder on the phone in an attempt to outbid an absentee bid showed real tenacity and gave up only 85 000 rubles, i.e. the price of the book 17 times (!) exceeded start@

With a starting price, by the way, at the last bid was also not so easy. Here are a couple particularly memorable (and surprising) start. Lot 304 — album of the Valaam Spaso-Преображенского of the monastery and its sketes 1917 edition, with a preliminary assessment 50 000 – 60 000 rubles, surprised all present very affordable starting at 4 000. After a few incredulous and surprised refinements of the lot went to one of the buyers in the room for 5 000. Surprised the audience and another starting price @on lot 542 mdash —; special edition of LIFE magazine in March 1943. Journal of the USSR with the image of Stalin on the front cover estimate: 6 000-8 000 started immediately with 20 000 absentee rate and went under the amazed comments of the hall for 38 000 rubles to the buyer on telephone@

Finally about the autographs. Despite the fact that today the auctions they have recently not so rare, the interest in them, especially if it's on-настоящему interesting instance, has not abated. So, the autograph of M. Bulgakov "Lyudmila S. Storozhenko for memory! Kiev 4.VI.1936. M. Bulgakov's" the book of Six Soviet plays [Six Soviet plays] under the editorship of Eugene Lyons, 1934 (lot 503) went for 170 000 rubles to the buyer on the phone, perekopivka absentee rate from 80 000 start. Lot 548 — the letter of Ivan Bunin, the writer addressed to B. G. Panteleimonova and devoted to the release of the "Russian collection" (1947), several interested bidders in the hall and part-time members. After a long bargaining the letter got the winner in the hall for 220 000, with 70 000 absentee starta@

Last in Thursday trading, despite its three-hour length, was quite dynamic and was pleased with their results not only the organizers, but all present. Nikita took extremely good start, and I think we can count on an equally interesting continuation of the auction sezona@

Maria Kuznetsova, AI