Today, February 22, in the house "Kabinet" open pre-show of two auctions that will be held on the same day - March 2, 2013

«Kabinet", March 2, 2013, beginning at 16.00
Krymsky Val, 10, CHA, 1st Floor

Today, February 22, in the house "Kabinet" open pre-show of two auctions that will be held on the same day - March 2, 2013. In 13 hours the auction will begin «Russian paintings and drawings XIX - XX centuries" , and will open at 16:00 auction "Old and rare books, maps, prints».

Collection Auction "Old and rare books, maps, engravings," includes 453 lots. Will be offered publication XVI - XX centuries: rare books on geography, ethnography, religion, Russian and foreign history, military history, heraldry, first and lifetime editions of Russian classics, autographs, photographs, posters, lithographs, poetry of the Silver Age, publications on have worked with the master of constructivism and Russian avant-garde.

The oldest book in the catalog - «Treatise on Architecture" Sebastiano Serlio of Bologna (1584) and "The Apostle" ( 1654).

The auction will feature over 30 publications XVIII century , of which the top lots are: "The Manifesto, or the announcement of his accession to the throne of the Russian Empress Catherine Alekseevna. SPb., 1725, "" The spectacle of nature and the arts "- a rare encyclopedia XVIII century with many engravings (1784-1813), a historical work Zechariah Orfelina" The Life and glorious deeds of Peter the Great, with the assumption of the All-Russian autocrat brief geographical and political history of the Russian state "(1772-1774), a compilation of Russian cheap popular images late XVIII - early XIX century.

separate directory string - the unique collection of first editions and lifetime M. State University, as well as publications on his life and work, including: "The word on the origin of the light of a new theory of color represent a public meeting of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of the day July 1 1756 Speaking Michail" (1756), "Peter the Great , heroic poem, Mikhail Lomonosov "(1760-1761)," Short Russian Chronicle with pedigree. Michail writings "(1760)," Ancient Russian History from the beginning of the Russian people to the death of Grand Prince Yaroslav the First or until 1054, composed by Michail, state councilor, professor of chemistry and a member of the St. Petersburg Imperial and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2 parts "(1766. First Edition)," The Complete Works of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, with the writer and the communion of life with the addition of many it anywhere yet printed creations. In six volumes "(1784-1787. First scientific publication of collected works of MV Lomonosov Moscow State University)," Materials for a biography University, collected extraordinary academician Biliarska "(1865. Rarest, the most comprehensive publication dedicated to the biography of the famous scientist).

Section books on geography and ethnography contains edition lithograph "The costumes of the peoples living between the Caspian and Black Seas", made with illustrations K. P. Beggrow (2nd quarter of the XIX century.) 3 issues for 1903 art-literary magazine "first step", made by hand in watercolor and ink art school students from Tiflis, a rare lithograph album M. Brosse "Ruins of Ani , the capital of Armenia to Bagratunis in X and XI centuries. History and description. Atlas with 21 lithography "(1861), the military-topographic map of the peninsula of Crimea in 10 sheets 130 x 230 cm (1817).

illustrated editions of XX century organizers pay attention to the "ABC" (1913-1914) - one of the most beautiful illustrated books of the alphabet, made by the artist Elizabeth Elizabeth Boehm ; «treasurers' Lermontov (1913) with illustrations M. Dobuzhinsky ; Edition "Exhibition of 1812. M. Association AA Levenson, 1913 ».

Among picture album attention should first published in Vienna album" Light painting Count Nostitz " (1896) are also interesting photograph album D. Ermakov "Views of Central Asia" (1900s), a selection of photos Ukrainian scientific expedition to Central Tien Shan of SG Szymanski (1924-1925), an album with photos GAZ automobile plant (1936), a unique album of photographs of one of the greatest actresses of MAT, Olga Nikolaevna Androvskaya (1910 - 1973), a compilation of photographs devoted to Isadora Duncan (1904-1905).

In the editions of the Silver Age and the avant-garde 12 collected editions Mayakovsky, 5 editions A. Twisted , as well as a number of publications designed A. Rodchenko , El Lissitzky . Next to them will be exposed album "Moscow reconstruction" (1938) in the design of Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Fedorovna B. Stepanova . Such publications have been sold for a record $ 1.4 million rubles in the auction house "Kabinet" auction № 13 "Vintage Rare book" November 21, 2012.

auction is March 2, beginning at 16.00.

Electronic catalog auction .

pre-auction exhibition is open in the halls of the auction house" Kabinet "from February 22 to March 1 daily from 11:00 to 19:00, except Monday, February 25.

Source : press release auction house "Kabinet»