October 25 will auction number 7, which is about 400 lots of rare books, manuscripts and autographs. A selection of books this auction is comparable, and in some respects even better than the famous book auctions Sotheby's and Christie's

House antique books in Nikitsky, October 25, 2012
Moscow, Nikitsky lane. 4a, page 1

October 25, 2012 "House of antique books in Nikitsky" holds 7th auction, which will feature about 400 lots of rare books, manuscripts and autographs. A selection of books this auction is comparable, and in some respects even better than the famous book auctions Sotheby's and Christie's.

Among the top lots of the auction - a copy of the famous podnosnoy chetyrehtomnika "Velikoknyazheskaya, the royal and imperial hunting in Russia "with silver square and all the important attributes of this publication," Antiquities of the Russian State, issued by Imperial order "FG Solntsev - 508 chromolithographs with the text," Russian art piece » B. F. Timm - a set of lithographs and texts for 12 years, "a collection of Coronation of the Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich».

lifetime editions of Russian classics have always been highly valued in the market, are close almanacs Pushkin's time, such as "Northern Flowers", "Literary Muzeum", "North Star", "Mnemosyne", "Galatea", "Astrakhan flora", "Art Newspaper", "Album of the northern muses" and others. Among the works in his lifetime Ivan Krylov - wonderful hand-colored copy of the "Fables" with drawings A. Sapozhnikov , as well as "Fables of eight books," 1830. Creativity Gogol presented books "Arabesque" (1835), "Taras Bulba" (1846, in German), as well as a luxurious Volfovsky edition of "Dead Souls". Among the books Dostoevsky - "Teenager" (1876) and "The Brothers Karamazov" (1882), Ivan Turgenev - "Fathers and Sons" and "Noble Nest". At the auction also presents a rare deziderata Russian bibliophile - the first edition of "Poet" Shevchenko (1840, a copy of a close friend of Gregory Shevchenko Tarnovsky).

Special sections are devoted to auction 200 years War of 1812, the 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty and the history of the Caucasus. So, in the last section will cover such rare books as "common law Ossetians in historical comparative light", "Historical information about Kabardian people", etc.

In a new special section of auction placed a large collection of rare Russian books division, including a unique book by Dahl "Research on skopcheskoy heresy", published in 1844 in an edition of 20 copies not for sale. An instance of the auction - preserving publishing covers and five lithographs, placed at the end of the book. Rare books in this section is also destroyed publication AS Prugavin "split at the bottom and at the top of the split," a copy of museum value in the cover and bound in the legendary studio Po, from the library of the famous collector ME Sinitsyna.

Auction "House antique books in Nikitsky" will be held October 25 to 19 at the address: Moscow, Nikitsky lane. 4a, page 1.

information call. : (985) 969-77-45, (495) 926-41-14, e-mail [email protected] : Sergei Burmistrov.

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