The fifth anniversary of the Guild of antique dealers-книжников in the "Antiquarium". The results of the anniversary auction
ARTinvestment.RU   08 ноября 2017

Auction catalog October 28, separated by almost a third. Total revenue amounted to slightly less than 4 million rubles

October 28 in the walls of the auction house "Russian enamel" held an unusual mixed auction, on the 5-летнему anniversary of the Guild of antique dealers-книжников. In forming the catalogue was attended by members of the Guild — famous antique-букинистические shops and salons, including TDK "Moscow" Moscow Book House, Trading house "Biblio-Глобус" salon "Among collectors", Internet-магазины Biblionne and "Cap" stores "the Reader", "Adelanta" from Moscow and "Antiques" from Krasnoyarsk, as well as the auction house "Russian enamel". Each of them gave for the auction and exhaustively described from 5 to 20 lots; thus, the 163 lots of the catalogue amounted to rare editions of the XVI — the first half of the twentieth century, autographs, manuscripts and even a folder of wood engravings by V. V. Kandinsky, published in Paris in 1909.

To the start of the auction in the hall there were twenty-odd people — for the most part it was representatives of the owners of the lots, but the main focus has attracted several well-known dealers and bibliophiles. Half a dozen online-игроков watched and participated in the auction in real time.

as a result, for the hours of time the auction went under the hammer 47 (163) lots totaling 3,727 million rubles (or a little less than 40% of the average total estimate of catalog). 18 lots (most) of the evening was sold out, as usual, very active online-игрокам. But pleased with his activity and the hall where 13 lots. Telephone participants were able to buy less but more expensive: 4 of 9 lots purchased by telephone, entered the top ten most expensive purchases of the evening, and finally, 7 out of 8 times was the winning distance rate.

the Most expensive lot of the day was a rare illustrated edition of the "flora of the St. Petersburg and Moscow, or the description of plants located in the vicinity of the two capitals of the Russian Empire for lovers of botany and gardens" category in Saint-петербургской Maritime press in 1818 (lot 66) and provided for auction antique Department of "Moscow house of books". Starting from 300 thousand RUB, the book is illustrated with 40 engravings with hand-coloring of watercolor, several participants on the phones and the Internet has risen by almost 1.5 times and gone into new hands of one of the buyers on the phone for 420 thousand rubles.

the Second place in the list of the most expensive lots took another lot "Moscow house of books" — five-volume edition of "Songs of the Russian people" I. P. Sakharov 1838-1839 (lot 68), from the start to 300 thousand rubles sold on the phone for 380 thousand rubles.

the Three leaders closes the first edition of the lavishly illustrated (with 300 engravings and ornaments on wood, performed by the best foreign and Russian engravers) "History of Catherine II" by A. Brickner three embossed publishing calico binding, provided on the auction information portal and online-магазином "Rus-auction.сom". The lot was sold at a start of 300 thousand rubles to the buyer on the phone.

As mentioned above, the auction participants themselves picked up books and made bibliographic description of lots the catalogue, therefore, is particularly interesting, who managed to create a selection, most met the expectations of customers.

Among the leaders on this dimension were (and this is natural, given the many years of successful activity in the auction market), he auction house"Literary Fund" (lots 130-143). Eleven of the fourteen lots sold lithoscope Thong brought a total of slightly less than one-third of the total revenue of the day — 1,112 million RUB, and the top-лотом it was a folder with five woodcuts by Vasily Kandinsky, which the author published in Paris in 1909 at his own expense and was long considered their hallmark. Almost 110 years of existence, the folder did not lose its urgency and relevance: the auction is for lot with an estimate of 100-120 thousand rubles started with 240 thousand rubles by correspondence rate and ended after two steps in correspondence of the same rate of 280 thousand RUB It 4-й the result of the evening.

Collection of books of the "literary Fund" was the leader and one indicator: one of the lots sold showed record growth rates, relative to the start. The earliest, dated in the autumn of 1923 handwritten book of poems by Pavel Antokolsky, dedicated to the poet's wife, actress Zoe Baranovoj (lot 141), left on auction with a starting price of 80 thousand rubles To fight for it joined the party in the hall and several Internet-игроков, one of which was also the most stubborn and the most generous, for which he was rewarded: the book he got for 220 thousand rubles, almost three times higher than the start.

the Second place in efficiency took the "Moscow house of books": the collection formed by specialists the antique Department, of the 16 lots (lots 65-80) was sold 5, but two of them led the price rating of the auction! Only "Moscow book house" earned more than 950 thousand rubles, or almost 55% of the average total estimate of their lots, and this figure was second only to the "Antiquarium", where the performance exceeded 100 % of the mean estimate.

In third place — bookstore "Letter" (lots 81-95): 6 out of 15 lots of his strings brought a total of more than 660 thousand rubles.

the results of the other auction participants located in the range 112-336 thousand rubles., ie an average of about 30 % of their total average estimate. Very good result, especially for stores not taking active participation in rare book auctions.

From the overall positive picture is that the struggling g-string lots, collected by experts of the store, "Biblio-глобус" and store the old books "the Reader", which sold was less than 10 % of the lots, and the rest is quite in demand string of 14 books (lots 16-29) provided to store antique books Biblionne. But then probably just the stars never aligned.

Congratulations to the Guild of antiquarians-книжников with the end of the first working five-year plan, and the auction house "Russian enamel" — with another very interesting auction, without a doubt, included in the history of rare book auctions in Russia.

we Hope that the results following five years of work of the Guild of antique dealers-книжников will be equally higher and positive!

Maria Kuznetsova, AI