"Consciousness that we know very little of his glorious Motherland... revived in me the desire to devote your life to the knowledge of Russia, its virtues, its localities and monuments..." - wrote a famous Russian writer and historian P. P. Svinyin, author of "Pictures of Russia and life mingled its peoples". In the new auction catalogue "House of antique books in Nikitsky" part of rare antique books devoted to travel and geographical discoveries in the Russian Imperia@

Online auction catalog Rare books, autographs, manuscripts and fotografii@

January 29, "House of antique books in Nikitsky" opens the auction season 2015 auction, which will be presented to rare books, manuscripts, autographs and pictures, including those associated with the geographical discoveries and travels in Russia. Among the rarities organizers, in particular, pay attention to the Description of the Arkhangelsk province" (1813), "Pocket postal guide, or a description of all post roads of the Russian Empire..." (1831), "Pictures of Russia and life mingled its peoples" (1839), the book "Old Ruthenian, Zaporizhzhya and don" (1846), "the capital city of Moscow and its environs" (1853) - the instance of the Imperial Hermitage library, "a description of the types of Tula" (1856), "Drawings to the study of fisheries and animal crafts on White and Arctic seas" (1863), "Yenisei district and his life" (1865), "Drawings to the study of fisheries in the Black and Azov seas", "Description Donets basin" (1914) and Dr@

in Addition, the auction will be presented a significant number of autographs of famous writers of the XIX-XX centuries. One of the most interesting lots of the Thong - the third of the four "outputs" (editions), which at one time known throughout Russia book "Moscow and Muscovites" M N. Zagoskina, with a dedication from the author Earl C. Was Stroganov; add to the autographs of famous poets and writers of the twentieth century, Alexander Blok, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Mikhail Kuzmin, Andrey Bely, Samuil Marshak, Eugene Schwartz and Dr@

a Collection of over 100 rare children's books 1920-30-ies adorns the auction catalogue. Among the top lots in this section - children's book With. Marshak "Riddles" with illustrations К. Петрова-Водкина, "Max and Moritz" Wilhelm Busch  is one of the rare children's books, published by Academia, books with illustrationsН. Альтмана, И. Рерберга, Г. Ечеистова, В. Курдова, В. Лебедева, В. Конашевича, Е. Чарушина, И. Билибина, Н. Тырсы and drugih@

Pre-auction exhibition will be held from 17 to 28 January from 10 to 20 hours (daily except Mondays) at the address: Moscow, Nikita lane, 4A, page 1. ("House of antique books in Nikitka@

Auction will be held there on January 29. In the beginning 19:00.

Phone: (985) 969 7745 or(495) 926 4114.

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