Thursday, April 23 "House of antique books in Nikitsky" held an auction No. 51 "Rare books, manuscripts, autographs, photographs and posters". With the hammer took 42 % of the lots (172 of 409), and in monetary terms, revenue reached 6.7 million, or 64 % of the average total estimate. The result is significant in the sense that these book auction was held just a week after, to put it mildly, not the most successful auction to 70-летию Victory, which exhibited preferential photos (over 300 lots) and posters. It turns out that it is not in crisis and the falling demand of buyers, and the selection of the trades. And there's this difficult to change a thing as the specialization of one or another of the auction house. To work on expanding the range of sometimes very difficult when the sites have already formed the image of a seller of books or, say, orders and medals. And "House of antique books" the most popular destination on-прежнему the books remain, but attempts to sell fine art, photographs, posters, etc. as long as you go with varying degrees of success. But, hopefully, it's just a matter vremeni@

But back to the current auction. This evening the power between the participants in the room and Internet-игроками were approximately equal: in the hall took 55 lots, and Internet @. 60. Phone buyers took 35 lots, and absentee rates have played 22 times. In General, a good working auction, with reasonable activity in all of the parties to the auction. And not without surprises@

the Main news, perhaps, is to consider the sale of the first book of poems of Prince Vladimir Paley (1896-1918), son of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich in morganatic marriage with Olga Pistolkors (1915 Princess Paley). This unequal marriage had forced the family to go away for a few years in Europe, and there the childhood of Vladimir. Later, earning the forgiveness of Nicholas II, the family returned to Russia and received the princely title under the name of Paley. Young Vladimir was a very talented poet, and in 1916 released the first book of poems (the same "Bulletin", 31-й a copy of which was put up for auction). When in March 1918 the Cheka offered Vladimir to renounce his father to save himself, he flatly refused to do so and followed the link along with other Great princes and princes of Imperial blood — up to Alapaevsk, where in July 1918 they were all killed by the Bolsheviks. The collection came to the auction, there is a dedication of the author to the Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna, the wife of Greek king. The battle for the lead was opened with 50 thousand rubles. It immediately became clear that on the lot there are two main candidates — the party room and a telephone bidder, and that both of them are very serious. Traded very steadily, without interruptions of thought, and even the threshold of half a million rubles did not stop them. Finished only on the amount of 660 thousand rubles, which is 13 times higher than the start! Defeated bidder in the hall, "Collection" was the top-лотом just auction@

Other equally exciting auction stories did not happen, remaining lots were sold more-менее within normal limits. It is worth noting care "Nevsky almanac for 1827, published by E. Aladini" for 600 thousand rubles, while the estimate 350-400 thousand. The collection is valuable mainly published in it extracts from "the Bakhchsarai fountain" by Pushkin with illustrations engraved S. F. Galaktionov. Arguing for the lot two zaochku and phone player. The book got one telefonov@

Third top-лотом was the three-volume "Karamazov Brothers" in the strings illustrated works of F. M. Dostoevsky, published abroad. Three volumes in French, with the additional Suite of illustrations (hundreds of sheets of lithographs Alexander Alexeyev), was released in 1929 in Paris, limited to 100 copies (exhibited no. 66). This is a known bibliophile rarity, in 1997, another instance of "the Brothers Karamazov" was sold at Sotheby's for 11 550 pounds. We can say that at the auction, "Nikita" a three-volume lost cheap — "only" 500 thousand rubles in the evaluation of 300-350 thousand rubles. He raised the hammer price up to half a million Internet and room. Won Sol@

a Complete set of the magazine "is the Capital and the estate. Journal of the beautiful life" —; all 90 editions, published from 1913 to 1917 on the best coated paper, — was estimated at 350-360 thousand rubles. In the fight for all the rooms of this periodical, which published denominational news, and serious research on the history of Russian estate, art and collectibles, has entered the phone room and zaochku. Reached 440 thousand rubles, the winner got a party in sale@

Another rare book that wasn't going to give up without a fight parties @ & mdash; this book, 1938 "Moscow is being reconstructed. Album charts, Topsham and photos on the reconstruction of the mountains. Moscow", scored Alexander Rodchenko Varvara Stepanova, photos Eleazar Langman, Yakov Khalip, George Zelma, etc. arguing For the lot two telephone party, raised the hammer price up to four times compared with an upper estimate — up to 220 thousand rubles (estimate 50-55 thousand rubles).

May be not the most expensive, but one of the most popular was lot No. 89 — "Calendar for 1901 (simple) Pesce-бумажного shop of Philip F. Horror" (Kiev, 1900). Calendar with holidays and days of the week, dates, birthdays of the Imperial family members and other useful information traded non-stop online-игрока. When they are 3 thousand rubles reached 36 thousand, a player in the hall before quietly watching the frantic roll call of the rates, came into the game with two confident bets and cooled the ardor of the Internet-биддеров. The calendar and he got @. for 39 thousand rubles@

Another equally popular lot was the handwritten letter to Ilya Ehrenburg, the poet and novelist Mikhail Osipovich Tsetlin, presumably dated 1917. The autograph hall was struggling, part-time and online. Lot exceeded the preliminary estimate twice @70 thousand. rubles versus 35 thousand estimate. As an autograph of Yuri Gagarin to the photographer, Alexander Mokletsov ("Author,-моему, successful image. Sincerely Gagarin. 8.05.63") traded hall, telephone, Internet — from 5 to 22 thousand rubles. Won Telefon@

Maria Onuchin, AI