December 11 auction will be held XX "House of antique books in Nikitsky", which will be presented 450 lots of rare books, manuscripts and autographs from the beginning of the XV to the first half of the XX century

December 11, 2013 auction will be held XX "House of antique books in Nikitsky ", which will feature 450 lots of rare books , manuscripts and autographs from the beginning of the XV to the first half of the XX century .

catalog opens top lot number 1 - " Lenten lean " - a rare manuscript , created a contemporary of Andrei Rublev. Gaining " Lenten Triodion " , dating experts , paleography beginning of the XV century ( 1420s ) , can be considered not only an event for collectors of rare books and manuscripts , but also a unique phenomenon national scale . Instance , presented at the auction, is among the rarest specimens of old Russian literature . His scientific and cultural value is not confined to antiquity , it is multiplied by a multiple of the content part . In fact, a document which allows to reconstruct the creative laboratory scribe beginning of the XV century. A large number of inserts and marginalia in the fields, and strikethrough text correction indicate textual ( editorial ) work on the manuscript . Before us is a kind of creative era draft general rise of national culture , which began after the victory in the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380 .

traditional for the "House of antique books in Nikitsky " impressive selection of lifetime editions of Alexander Pushkin and his contemporaries. Among them - donative manuscript poem " Chechotka " Derzhavin , dated 1805 year. The poem itself was first published only three years later, in 1808, in the third volume of works Derzhavin , but the text in the manuscript contains several discrepancies with the published later this. The manuscript is a collection value of the museum level , displayed at exhibitions and is accompanied by the conclusion of the Pushkin House .

Lifetime Publishing Sir.doc include first play, " young couple " ( 1815), and two copies of the comedy " Woe from Wit " (1833), half of the verses which, as predicted Pushkin entered the proverbs and sayings . One of the copies , which has historical and cultural value of the museum level , it is interesting that in his 11 sheets are woven with full transcripts of the censorship bills . All litters are made in the first half of the XIX century Oreshkovo ink. The other - in a luxurious podnosnogo marokenovom cover - contains an engraved portrait and facsimiles. In the literature it is known only a few such instances of comedy .

Another contemporary of Pushkin, Gogol presents the second edition of the "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" 1836.

most famous works of Pushkin - the novel "Eugene Onegin" - auction offers meeting individual chapters were published as they were written for seven years . The antique market a complete set of all the chapters of "Eugene Onegin " in the first edition has always been considered a rarity. Collection value is the Paris edition of " The Fountain of Bakhchisarai " in French (1826 ) , marked by a noted collector and bibliographer NP Smirnov - Sokolsky as one of the rarest editions of Pushkin .

Pushkinianu in fine sketch art is unpublished book "Ruslan and Ludmila ", created in the 1920s Yaroslav Titov . By 1929, refers autograph A. Tyrkova -Williams on the book "Life of Pushkin" , addressed to the famous artist .

by the second half of the XIX century are rare editions of tabloids and adventure novels , including many works owned by one of the founders of the genre, the French writer Xavier de Montepenu whose books , despite the impressive circulations were read almost to the holes and are now a rarity .

section autographs noteworthy instance of " Sights of Moscow Kremlin " A. M. Veltman (1843), owned by Alexander Pavlovich Briullov , with his autograph possessory ; few autographs Alexander Karlovich background Mecca in one of two albums of photographs and drawings known climber Nikolai Poggenpol dedicated climbing Elbrus in 1898 and Kazbek and Miley - Hoch in 1902 , Osip Mandelstam's autograph and an invitation to read his poems , autographs D. Mamin- Siberian, Ivan Bunin , Bryusov , A. and others Talkers .

Live auction catalog .

auction exhibition is open from 4 to 11 December from 10 am to 20 pm ( daily except Mondays ) at the address : Moscow, Nikita lane. 4a , page 1 . ("House of antique books in Nikitsky »).

auction will be held at the same place on December 11. Starts at 19:00.

Tel. : (985) 969-77-45 or (495 ) 926-41-14.

Source : press release "House of antique books in Nikitsky »