Trades, which I wrote in previous preliminary review , ended yesterday. Here are some of the results.

Auction June 1

Lot 248, a collection of Georgian Futurists «H2SO4». I just now saw the disgusting image of a preserved cover, so the sale price of 1 180 pounds (1 900 dollars), while estimeyte at 800-1200 pounds, normal for this version.

Lot 249, «Arms of ...», as I noted earlier, the most interesting Russian whole lot auction sold for 6 000 pounds (9 750 USD), with lower estimeyte to 3 000 pounds.

Lot 251, A. Kruchenykh «Vozropschem», not sold.

But then sold several lots, which I did not write. This lot is 28, the original of a letter Chekhov with estimeytom 2-3 thousand pounds (kayus, wanted to buy myself, so described), we have an application for £ 5000, left the lot for £ 5 250 (8 547 USD).

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904). Autograph letter to Anna Mikhailovna Evreinov signed «A. Chekhov». 8 February [1889]

A number 253 of 1 625 pounds (2 600 USD) sold a book with a libretto by Pushkin, the opera «The Golden Cockerel» in 1909 with illustrations I. Bilibin . For the Russian market was cool at the bottom estimeyte at 700 pounds.

And quite expensive, over 3 750 pounds (6 000 USD), left the lot 254 - «Eugene Onegin» Pushkin in 1937 with illustrations M. Dobuzhinsky .

Auction June 3

Lot 41. Music of Tchaikovsky autograph sold for 97 250 pounds (159 U.S. $ 000).

Lot 91. Ignore me «Coronation of Alexander the Second» the language sold over 58 850 pounds (96 000 dollars )!!

«Byzantine enamel» Zvenigorodsky (lot 95) sold for 27 500 pounds.

I Do not described Lot 97 - engraved «Map of St. Petersburg» in 1753 by Maha, with lower estimeyte to 4 000 pounds, sold for 16 250 pounds (26 500 dollars).

Classic Russian science is not interested buyers: lots 98 (Mendeleev) and 104 (Popov) - not sold.

But «Protecting Luzhina» (Lot 102), first edition with notes of Nabokov, with the lower estimeyte 4-000, sold for 10 650 pounds.

The six volumes of the ten «Armorial» (lot 103) with great appreciation, I have observed, and were not sold.

Do not I have mentioned in previous review of 39 lithographs Plyushara 1825, issued in St. Petersburg, sold for £ 9 375.

Lot 108 (L. Tolstoy), as I predicted, not sold.

Below this lower estimeyta have mentioned, I bought a watercolor on the Crimean War (Lot 107) - 39 650 pounds (65 000 dollars).

twice - starting with 5 000 to 11 875 pounds - I went up to advertise in the review kit «Firebird».

So the crisis of the crisis, and the prices of the books of inspiring. It's a pity that there is almost no good books for sale. But ahead of an auction of books at Sotheby's June 10.

Member MKAAD and CINOA Anatoly Borovkov