"Cabinet" opens a new antique season auction "Old and rare books, maps, engravings". Pre-auction exhibition opens today

auction house "KABINET", 25 September 2013
Beginning: 17.30
Central house of artists, Krymsky Val, 10, 1-й floor, room № 1

auction house "KABINET" opens a new antique season autumn series of trades. September 25th auction "Old and rare books, maps, engravings". Lots pre-show opens today, September 17th, and will last up to 24 sentyabrya@

Among the more than 500 lots there are such rarities as the first posthumous edition of Pushkin's Sovremennik 1837 with the first publications of works by A. S. Pushkin "the bronze Horseman" and "the Negro of Peter the Great" and the poems of Lermontov "Borodino" (lot is estimated at 480-650 thousand rubles). One of the most explicit love letters of Emperor Alexander II to his beloved, Princess Catherine Dolgoruky from 1 October 1868. Bilateral autograph — letter of K. E. Tsiolkovsky, dated to the year 1891. The letter is addressed to the great Russian physicist, teacher, and friend Tsiolkovsky Alexander Grigorievich Stoletov. Specifically decorated edition of "the history of the Apsheron regiment 1700-1892" 3-х volumes from the collection of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich (the Younger). Estimate unique publications on military history is 3.3 to 4 million rubles@

deltiologists of collectors of historic views will be of interest to large-scale collection of photographs and postcards (there are about 1 200) associated with the Caucasus: national types, the churches of Armenia and Georgia, maps and publications military sketches, types Sochi, Baku and Tiflis. Lot, which includes the largest selection — a two album Collection of postcards in the Caucasus (1890-1915) entered 711 cards — is estimated up to 1 million rubles@

a block of the auction catalog is traditionally devoted to the books of futurism and Russian avant-garde. This section highlights the lots in the line of the drafters: "rare!". In particular, a fully lithographed edition of the Russian avant-garde @. Kazimir Malevich "On new systems in art" (Vitebsk, 1919). The book, executed in an edition of 1000 copies apprentices Vitebsk school under the leadership El Lissitzky. And absolute top-лот of the auction — "Dance of Herodias" Alexei Remizov, published in Berlin, in publishing Trirema in 1922-м year. The font and drawings by the artist Nicholas Istselenova. From the edition of 500 copies only 50 were colored by hand. It is not surprising that the proposed lot — painted, numbered IV, and signed by N. Istselenova (!) estimated very high: from 1.2 million to 1.5 million rubles@

auction will also be presented one of the first avant-garde works Natalia Goncharova lithographically — six lithographs for poetry Corylina (1912), and also the first edition of Vladimir Mayakovsky "whatever page, the elephant, the lion" with pictures K. Zdanevich (1928).

Literature of the Soviet period there are wide enough. From autographs B. Akhmadullina and Voznesensky, and first editions of novels by Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer ward" (1968) and "the first Circle" (1969) to the legendary Gagarin's April issue of "Spark" in 1961 with two publishing covers. It is worth noting the album "Working-Крестьянская Red Army" (1934, artist El Lissitzky). In this rare ceremonial edition of the Soviet era with many photos were carved portraits of "enemies of the people". The auction house found and placed in the directory the originals untouched fotografi@

Source: kabinet-auktion.com