Friday 25 March under the arches of the hall "Library" of the hotel "Ukraine" passed the next auction, "Antiquarian book club." Auction "old and Rare books, autographs, manuscripts" gathered in the room for about three dozen representatives of the Moscow antiquarian community. Giving a few minutes late (and dealt with cocktails), leading Helen mountain began trading in a cheerful, business-like pace, which he held until the end of the auction. The audience had no time to recover, as four hundred lots went by unnoticed for two and a half hours.

End — 168 lots sold from 403 (42 %) totaling $ 22.9 million rubles (35 % of the average total estimate). Many collectors have decided to negotiate personally to about a dozen participants made bets in the hall, and they eventually went to 86 lots (more than half sold). 35 lots broke the Internet-игроки and phone buyers. Finally, 12 times played correspondence rates.

Opened auction rare decals and the original edition of the XVIII century, and the participants actively joined the struggle for the lots in this section. Books went under the hammer one after another, often exceeding the estimate. Translated from French and published in typography at the University of Moscow in 1761-1762, an essay of Jacques Benign of Bossuet's "Conversation on universal history" (lot 2) phone and a player in the hall were trading from 70 to 160 thousand rubles. And the book "Satire and other essays stihotvorchestva Prince Antiochus Cantemir" (lot 3), issued by the printing house of the Academy of Sciences in St.-Петербурге in 1762, the same rivals, was staged in several steps for 140 thousand rubles (estimate 60-70 thousand rubles). Both times the victory was won by hall.

Entertaining "a Brief description of the lifestyles, customs and rites..." of the Far and Middle East, North Africa, the tribes of the Islands of Polynesia, native America, etc. translated from German (Moscow: University typ., N. Novikov, 1782, lot 13) came from 45 to 110 thousand rubles. Won a lot in the party room. Another book for the curious — "story of the sailing. How it started and grew; which from time to time benefited; as were found, also thereof, to unknown places of the earth" (the book was first translated from English to French, and in 1749, on the instructions of the Director of the Sea cadet corps-French-Russian) — after fighting two players in the hall and the phone went for 200 thousand roubles in the hall (lot 17; estimate 160-180 thousand rubles).

So we crept to one of the top-лотов coming at number 22: the first Russian historical encyclopedia in 14 volumes (published in Moscow from 1790 through 1811 "Dictionary of historical, or a Condensed library, containing the life and deeds: the patriarchs, kings, emperors...") was purchased by a full-time player for 1.6 million rubles (estimate of 1.2–1.4 million rubles). And at number 27 was offered a book Vaksel "Images of different monuments of antiquity, found on the shores of the Black sea belonging to the Russian Empire" (St. Petersburg.: Printed from I. K. Schnoor, 1801): her start at 900 thousand rubles acquired in the party room.

Illustrated with 65 engravings "Description in the persons of the celebrations that took place in 1606, February 5, at the nuptials of the sovereign Tsar and Grand Prince Mikhail Fedorovich, the Empress tsarina Evdokia Lukyanovna, from the kind of chyrnaya Gryaz estate" (Moscow: In type. Plato Beketov, 1810) aroused great interest two phone players. Traded from 260 to 420 thousand rubles (lot 37; assessment 260-280 thousand rubles). Shortly after this sale the complete edition, in 12 volumes, "History of the Russian State" N. M. Karamzin (St. Petersburg, 1818-1829) hall was bought for 800 thousand rubles (lot 45; estimate of 800-900 thousand rubles).

From the top-лотов also worth mentioning published in 1825 in Paris a collection of lithographs "Views of Moscow" French officer and artist Auguste Kadala (lot 60). The complete set of lithographs (and painted, which is extremely rare) was purchased by phone starting at 3.2 million rubles.

Of lifetime editions of the classics have found new owners two volumes of "Arabesque" N. V. Gogol (lot 68; estimate of 800-900 thousand lot руб.; price 850 thousand rubles.), and 2-е lifetime edition of a poem "Dead souls" 1846 with woven into the engravings from the drawings of A. Agina (lot 94; estimate 500-600 thousand руб.; the price of 550 thousand rbl.); magazine "the spectator Nevsky" for the year 1820 with the first publications of poems by A. S. Pushkin "Doris", "Vilhelm kyukhelbekker", "Charmer", etc. (lot 51; assessment 260-280 thousand руб.; the price of 260 thousand rbl.); "Union and translation of the Four Gospels". Tolstoy's autograph (lot 171; assessment 500-550 thousand руб.; the price is 500 thousand rubles.).

And several significant sales it is impossible to ignore. "Dictionary of memorable people of the Russian land..." D. N. Bantysh-Каменского (lot 79) the party room and telephone the player traded with 750 thousand to 1.2 million rubles. The victory was again won by the party in the hall, have chosen a huge number of publications from the catalogue and not behind the price. The collection of Russian folk legends, published by Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev in 1859 (lot 118), telephone and room raised the price to 160 thousand rubles (estimate lot size 80-90 thousand rubles.). And the book "Russian folk Proverbs and parables" (lot 98), prepared by Ivan Mikhailovich Snegirev (Moscow: University typ., 1848), doubled its estimate and was sold for 400 thousand rubles (estimate 240-260 thousand roubles the lot). And finally, a luxurious illustrated edition of Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich "Russian portraits XVIII and XIX centuries" (St. Petersburg.: The expedition of storing state papers, 1905-1909) went to a telephone buyer at the start for 900 thousand rubles (lot 229; estimate 0,9–1,2 million rubles).

Following the auction "Antiquarian book club" will be held in late may — 21 and 27.

Maria Onuchin, AI