28 April auction house "KABINET" in the 29th-й time was selling old and rare knigami@

I'll tell you, that I was selling quite successfully. In the auction catalog, the organizers have included many by-настоящему rare and curious editions of rare Elizabethan like the Bible 1756 (lot 4) — monument of Russian art book, prints of Peter's time "Banners fireworks on 28 January 1722 in Moscow on the occasion of the world Nesladkoe" (lot 103), having Museum value etc and in the hall were about three dozen people, and complaining about a small number of telephone and absentee bids the organizers certainly did not prishlos@

In the process of active two-hour auction action with the hammer went lot 125 of 291 of the auction, or 42,96 % directory. Total revenue for the sold lots was $ 12.8 million, or 54,59 % of the average estimate. A great result for our times. In the absence of the opportunity to bargain in online-режиме, the greatest activity was shown by the participants on the phone, bought more than half, 69 of 125 sold in the day lots, lots 37 left in the room, 19 — correspondence went pokupatelem@

For the convenience of users of the catalog was divided into five thematic sections: "rare books of the XVII–XIX centuries", "Books on Jewish studies", "Masterpieces of Russian book-printing", "Printing graphics, posters, fabrics, cards and Books of the twentieth century."

the Audience came not just to watch but to participate actively in the destiny of lots offered for auction, and it became clear already after the first results section of Russian books XVII–XIX centuries, opened the auction. Telephone, room rate and distance involved in the fight from the first lots. So, this duel phone the hall and turned the auction for lot 4 — copy of the second edition of the Elizabethan Bible 1756. The first edition of this translation of the Bible in Church Slavonic language was published on 18 December 1751, during the reign of Empress Elizabeth (in her name translation and got its name). Copies were sold quickly, and in 1756 he published a second edition, in which the hieromonk Gedeon (Slonimsky) corrected the errors and misprints of the first edition. In addition, the second edition has added notes in the margins and prints. Starting with 770 000 rubles, the participants of the fight in several steps (and sometimes a half-step) raised the price to 840 000 rubles, for which lot and got the winner in the hall. Just a string of sold 19 of 43 (44,19 %) of the lots slightly more than 2 million rubles (54,66 % of the average estimate section).

Followed by the books of the XVII–XIX centuries section of Judaica such success to boast of could not. Who knows, maybe the reason was too narrow a topic? Be that as it may, section of the 14 lots were sold only four for a total amount of 130 000 rubles, or 8,91% of the average estimate section. Most expensive purchase here was the "History of the Israeli people" by E. Renan: two volumes in one book 1912 edition went on the phone to start at 75 000 rubley@

a Record and the number of lots sold, and total revenue — 55.1% of the total proceeds of the auction — became the category of "paintings" of 45 lots. Record the purchase section and the evening overall was the three-volume edition of "the divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, released by the Association M. O. wolf, and printed in the Printing Bera and Hermann in the years 1874-1879. Monument of Russian book printing the second half of the nineteenth century has attracted one of the bidders in the hall and telephone the player: starting with $ 700,000, in a bitter struggle they raised the price to 900 000 rubles, for which lot and got the phone. In this string of memorable and some more deals. A Copy Of The "Antiquities Of The Russian State. Kyiv St. Sophia Cathedral. Edition IV 4-х editions" (lot 65) was received by the owner of the highest winning absentee bids for 800 000 rubles. For the book "the History of mankind. World history" G. Gelmont edition of 1904, containing a folder with 260 individual applications, the winner on the phone paid 110 000 rubles, although it all started exactly half. Similarly, twice the initial 150,000 rubles, the prices went up gift album "Moscow", issued by the Association of skorobogaty A. A. Levenson in 1912; Luxe edition, illustrated B. Zvorykina V. Vasnetsov, in the battle hall and got the phone last for 300 000 rubley@

All in this string of sold 62,22 % of the lots, for a total of 7 058 000 rubles, or 70,99 % of the average estimate section. We can only congratulate the organizers with a good selection and excellent implementation of it vozmojnostei@

on the eve of 9 may, of course, was drawn to the Chapter "Printing graphics, posters, fabrics, cards", and in it — string of posters on the theme of the great Patriotic war. And the posters were sold one by one, and not at the start, and often with a significant excess of the lower estimate. For example, the poster "To the East! To the West!" (1944) the artist V. Denis (lot 130), starting from 75 000 rubles, against absentee bids and phone gone last for 105 000 rubles, and the next followed immediately by the poster artist A. Treskin "long live our victorious red army" in 1945 (lot 131) got a new owner for exactly twice the price of the launch, over 32,000 robla@

was closed the day with the most volume of 143 lots, the auction section "Books of the XX century", brought in a moneybox of the organizers of almost 3 000 000 rubles for 39,16 % of lots sold. Record the purchase of the section was the album charts, Topsham and photos on the reconstruction of Moscow 1938 "Moscow reconstructed" authorship Alexander Rodchenko, and V. Stepanova. Starting with 420, 000, the player in the room and the party on the phone quickly reached 550, 000 and then, moving half a step, reached 700 000, for which lot and left more resistant to the buyer on telephone@

Surprisingly, this time the long, exhausting fight even occurred on the very end of the auction, when most of the participants already morally ready to go home. So, more than 20 steps could not give each other two telephone bidder "100 ballet libretto" L. A. Entelis 1966 edition (lot 287). Starting with a modest 6 500 rubles, the book went to the winner of the over 16 000. And the longest draw happened at the very last lot in the catalogue. Another would be: "Nerve" of Vladimir Vysotsky (1981, compiled by R. Rozhdestvensky, the Illustrator Vladimir Vagin) — the first edition of the poems of Vladimir Vysotsky in the USSR; starting from 3 000 rubles, and two telephone player has disparilis to 34 000 rubles (!), for who got the winner, much to everyone's joy in sale@

Well, congratulations auction house "KABINET" with a successful and lively auction and waiting for new records on the following (scenic) auction, scheduled for 20 may@

Maria Kuznetsova, AI