Printed books and manuscripts at Christie's auction

ARTinvestment.RU publishes a brief overview of Anatolia Borovkova on the most interesting lots, Christie's June 22 "Remarkable printed books and manuscripts"

June 22 in New York will auction Christie's «Remarkable printed books and manuscripts, including the U.S.».

exhibited at auction 320 lots, including 8 lots, lower estimeyt than 100 thousand dollars. These include: the famous "Cosmography K. Ptolemy 1478 edition with estimeytom 600-800 thousand dollars (Lot 127) and" Geography "Francesco Berlingeri in 1482 with an estimate of 300-400 thousand (128).

in the sale list is one of the publications of the Declaration of Independence "in 1776 with a preliminary estimate of 250-350 thousand dollars (Lot № 5).

Fourth the preliminary estimate with great descriptions and an indication of the greatest rarity, offered jobs N. Lobachevsky "On the basis of geometry." This collected from the five editions of the magazine "Kazan Gazette" for 1829-1830 years, the first publication of the famous work of the great Russian mathematician estimated at 150-200 thousand dollars (Lot 275).

expert, member MKAAD Anatoly Borovkov, specifically for AI

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