"House of antique books in Nikitsky" held unprecedented in the book market trading

Russian national picture. Collected and described
DA Rovinsky. Atlas. In 3 volumes, 6 books
SPb.: Expedition harvested
State Papers, 1881
House antique books in Nikitsky. 27.03.2013

Lot 197 Estimate: 5 000 000-6 000 000
Result: 11 000 000

March 27 was held in Moscow unprecedented for the book market auction, which was exhibited the largest private collection of rare Russian books XV - XX centuries. Among the rare books - copies of the libraries of Russian emperors and grand dukes, autographs of famous poets and writers such as Derzhavin, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, Nekrasov , personal inskripty Russian emperor Paul I and Alexander I, rare books poets of the Silver Age with their autographs, dozens of rare printed books, published during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. For its uniqueness and volume collection views can be compared with the best book collections ever presented at auction Christie's and Sotheby's.

auction was prepared "House antique books in Nikitsky." Presented a collection of unique books collected over 40 years by one man, who asked to remain anonymous. Total estimated cost of the collection - 120 million rubles. At the auction were presented 403 lots: Book XV - XIX centuries, including those for which for centuries hunted libraries and private collectors.

Many examples of the top lots of the auction were sold many times higher than the specified estimeytov. The champion was Lot "Russian Folk Pictures" DA Rovinsky, which was purchased for 11 million rubles at a starting price of 5.5 million rubles. 1881 edition of the book is a rarity: a collection unique in the number and variety of cheap popular images collected DA Rovinskaya.

Along with the publication of D. Rovinsky most expensive lots trades were "Antiquities of the Russian State" F. Solntsev (bought for 7 million rubles with a starting price of 4.5 million), "General armorial of noble families of the Russian Empire" (6 million rubles, with a starting price of 3 million), the gospel uzkoshriftnoe (5.5 million rubles, with a starting price of 1.3 million), "Russian art piece» B. Timm (3,6 million rubles, with a starting price of 2.5 million). The oldest book of the auction - "Pentecostarion", published in Krakow in 1493, was sold at 2.5 times the price estimate for 7.5 million rubles.

very popular and Lots of Russian classics. Thus, the price of the lot with the works of Derzhavin to 13 times higher than the starting price of 30 thousand rubles. Almost 5 times more expensive than the preliminary assessment items are gone, "Fathers and Sons" by Turgenev in 1862 edition and "Diary of a Writer" by F. Dostoevsky, 1876 at a price of almost 6 times the launch were sold works by Nikolai Gogol in 4 volume 1842 edition (3 million rubles).

For lovers of statistics: the auction sold 79.2 percent of lots, the total price is 189.2 percent of the average estimate.

«Books, presented in the meeting are truly rare and unique, and we were confident in the huge interest from collectors. But I can say that the sales has far exceeded our expectations: the final auction proceeds only by the first part of the collection has already exceeded its total assessed value ", - said the director of" House of the Nikitsky antiquarian book "Sergei Burmistrov.

April 11, 2013 will be held the following auction, which will be exhibited at the book XX century - the rarity of the poets of the Silver Age, the Soviet constructivism and the front of the book.

Source : vnikitskom.ru , artinvestment.ru