last Thursday, July 9, "House of antique books in Nikitsky" held another antiquarian auction "Rare books, manuscripts, autographs, photographs and postcards".

a Auction, started in traditional seven o'clock in the evening, was quiet in operation, without special record, but no sags. Sold of 36.75 % of the lots catalog in a total of just over 3.5 million rubles, or 66,9 % of the average total estimate, in the presence of two out of approximately a dozen people in the hall and about a dozen participants online@

419 lots directory (2 positions of lot 421 was removed before the start of trading) were divided into eight thematic sections: "publications on the history of civil and military", "Science and religion, Geography, Ethnography, travel, Publications, useful in everyday life. "Delicious" books", "periodicals, Documents, letters, photos and postcards. Sheet edition", "Illustrated edition. Books on art and literature. Books about the works of writers and poets". In addition to the diversity of topics, a selection of the auction was astonishing even for Nikita democratic: only six lots have been assessed more than 100 000 rubles, and 322 of 419 lots (76.8 per cent of the catalogue) had average or low estimate of 10 000. Moreover, in the same affordable price point has made 60 % of all transactions for that day. Just two hours of bidding the hammer went 154 publications, 60 of which took hall, 53 bought the phone participants, 32 went to the absentee bidder, and won 9 times интернет-ставка.

Most expensive purchase last Thursday was lot 289 — the five-volume "Writings and translations of Vasily Mikhailovich Golovnin" in 1864 in modern polukozhany four covers and one back cover publishing. From the start to 90 000 rubles two phones, like race, placing bets in two or more steps at a fast pace to get to 340, 000, for which lot went Pobeditely@

Record of the day with the yield, with the departure of 10 times start, was lot 302 — "Collection partnerships "Knowledge" 1908", which included the works of M. Gorky, I. Bunin, A. Amfiteatrov and R. Demel, with a dedicatory inscription on the back of the title page "from a Friend, Sasha al. M. Peshkova. 9/XII 1908". Starting with a modest 3 000 rubles, which entered into struggle for the book, two phones in a few steps (though reached 10 000) was reached 30 000 final robla@

Results in sections as follows. The most successful of the public has once again become a string of "Publications is useful in everyday life", which this time was attended by an interesting selection of "delicious" books that disclosed the culinary secrets of the past. The hammer is gone 50 % of the books section for the sum of 635 000 — 81,8 % of the average estimate. The most expensive "tasty" book (and record purchase by absentee rate) became "Almanac deli" (1852-1855) J. M. Radetsky in three books, containing detailed instructions and explanations to prepare thirty full Lunches and dinners for fasting, various punch, as well as recipes for procurement of products for future use and the basic rules of serving food and grocery shopping. Edition in modern tselnokozhanom cover with gold lettering on the spine was sold at the start by absentee rate 250 000 rublej@

a Record of profitability, with revenues 96,44 % of the average estimate section, or 744 000 rubles, was the string of periodicals, to whom we owe a record of the care room. Five books were published in 1930 in Paris of the collection of "Numbers" under the editorship of I. V. de Manziarly and N. A. Otsup (lot 188) struggled distance rate, and one party room and on the phone. Starting from 60 000 rubles absentee rate, they quickly increased the price of the edition is almost 4 times and stopped at 200 000, for which lot and took party in sale@

highest total sales — 017 1 200 rubles (nearly a third of total revenue of the auction) — distinguished large section of "fiction. Books about the works of writers and poets" completes the sale; it has sold 66 of 140 Lotov@

in Addition to the record result of the evening, which was already mentioned above, a string of fiction memorable is a very good collection of fairy tales Harbin publishing house of the M. V. Zaitsev (lots 357-361). The book in bright illustrated publishing the cover flew one by one, and each has inflamed the serious dispute, mainly between the hall and absentee rate. Interestingly, the party room was not scared even a fairly high starts at 6 500 rubles, in the initial evaluation of publications in 3 000-3 200 rubles. The most expensive of these tales — "Frog-царевна", printed in the pre-reform orthography by order of the United Association of publishers in Paris (lot 360), left with a fourfold excess of the launch, over 12 000 rubley@

in Addition to fairy tales, memorable and some interesting deals in this string. So, lot 371 — book "Mike" (1933) T. Alexandrova with drawings V. Kizevalter (1933) with absentee start in 8 000 rubles went to the hall for 42 000. Almost twentyfold (!) excess of the starting price of 2,000 rubles was mentioned lot 414 — published in Tokyo collection of Russian obscene poems "a Wreath to Venus" (1986, compiled by I. N. Matovski). The book seriously traded phone player, in the party room and the absentee bidder, won the phone, purchased the lot for 36 000 rubley@

publications on the history of military and civil, books on science and religion, geography, Ethnography, travel, as well as picture books and art books have earned on average 30-50 % from the average estimate of its sections, which is at or a bit above the market average of results of the Moscow auctions this sezone@

Mansion on this high holiday sales and worthy of care, perhaps, only the string "Documents, letters, photos and postcards. Sheet edition", which was implemented only 4 of 38 (10.53 per cent) of lots 84 400 rubles (17,56 % of the mean estimate). Perhaps this section played a role "factor of summer" and collectors of historical documents and deltiologists just went on vacation; let's hope that in a couple of months, the situation izmenitsa@

fortunately, this small local failure does not strongly affect the overall result of trading, and we can again note worthy positive result of the auction "House of antique books in Nikitsky."

the Next auction house "three centuries" is scheduled on July 29. Will see if tender organizers to overpower "factor of summer" yet RES@

Maria Kuznetsova, AI