Auction house “Empire” has published an overview of the spring auctions in the Russian antiquarian-book market

Auction house «Empire» has published an overview of the spring auctions in the Russian antiquarian-book market by the KV Sofronova, head of secondhand directions auction house.

The author notes that despite a lull in the antique market, associated with the overall financial instability in Russia's economy, and indeed throughout the world, selling to secondhand market in Moscow and continued with the beginning of the year has already passed several notable auctions.

The purpose of this review - on the basis of analysis of the sales of antique and antiquarian books in spring 2009 to outline the general picture that emerged in this segment of the Russian antique market in the difficult period of the first half of 2009.

, however, emphasizes the author, the review does not reflect the full picture on the market in our area of interest, ie does not take into account the sale of antique shops, stores, online portals and private dealers, but at that is well-founded reasons. Chief among them - this is a high degree of closure to the results of the trading of resources, which, of course, is also indicative of the status and maturity of the modern domestic market.

P review of the spring auctions in the Russian antiquarian-book market and a« Top 30 lots in the auctions of the first half of secondhand 2009 »can be found here .

Of course, the antique and antiquarian Russian edition were sold this spring, not only on the Moscow market. ARTinvestment.RU monitors book sales of the world's largest auction and publish reviews of the most interesting and valuable lots, made a member of MKAAD, an expert on books and the printed schedule of the Russian avant-garde Anatoly Borovkova.

Overview «Book of Russian avant-garde. Reflections A. Borovkova » was written in March this year at the request of participants forum ARTinvestment.RU to make predictions about market trends, the prospects for investments, etc.

The first foreign book auction in 2009 took place on 1 and 3 June in London at auction Christie's. The forecast for the most interesting lots - in the article «Anatoly Borovkov - on the Russian theme in the book auction Christie's ». Review of the auction - in the article «The results of the Russian book of lots at auction Christie's 1 and June 3 ».

June 10, 2009 bid book, entitled «Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts» held a Sotheby's. Overview of the most interesting lots - in the article « Book bidding at an auction Sotheby's ».

Material prepared Elena Vladimirova, AI

Source: auction-imperia.ru , artinvestment.ru