Rare books XVI–XX centuries and autographs of Nobel prize winners at the auction "KABINET" on April 22
ARTinvestment.RU   19 апреля 2017

Rare books, posters and over 120 autographs of the largest representatives of Russian literature of the twentieth century, including Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Anna Akhmatova, and all the national winners of the Nobel prize for literature

Online-каталоги auction April 22:

part 1: "Rare and valuable books. “Children's world”. Posters and billboards",

part 2: "Nobel laureates. Rare autographs, letters, manuscripts, photographs. Poets and artists").

Opens the auction catalogue section "of Rare and valuable books." Already the first lot — printed Unika — of the festal Triodion published in Moscow one of the "pioneer", Andronik Timofeev in 1591 that can decorate like a Museum collection and a private collection. Another monument of the pre-Petrine book culture @the mdas Tropologion 1638.

the Opportunity to look at our country through the eyes of the representatives of Western culture are given a "diary of a journey to Muscovy (1698 and 1699)." John George Korba, and "a pictorial representation of the costumes and customs of the Russian people" (1814) Alexander William. Among the historical works of Russian authors is allocated a convolute "Russian memorable objects" (13 issues; 1862-1866), published by the historian I. Snegirev and architect A. Martynov. Among the reference books — "Commemorative book" for 1851, 1860 and 1878, decorated with engravings of the official yearbooks, containing a list of the agencies and departments of the Russian Empire with their personnel. To this day preserves the scientific value of the fundamental work "the Three ages" (1912-1913), completed a series of "anniversary editions" I. Sytin. Lifetime editions of Konstantin Leontiev rarely appear on the antiquarian market. For auction exhibited three volumes of novels and short stories conservative thinker "in the life of Christians in Turkey" (1876).

interest in the four-volume "folk agricultural wisdom in Proverbs, sayings and superstitions" will warm presentation inscription by the author —, Minister of agriculture Alexei Yermolov. Poetic experiences of high-ranking officials — tradition long-established and venerable, as evidenced by "Poems of Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev" (1823), Minister of justice of the Russian Empire in the years 1810-1814 Russian poetry of the second half of the XVIII — beginning of the XIX century is also presented works by Gavriil Derzhavin, Vladislav Ozerov, and Konstantin Batiushkov. Another remarkable collection of poetry — "Poems 1879-1885" (1889) C. R. with a dedicatory inscription of the August author.

Among the rare editions of the Silver age — is the only edition of "the First journal of Russian futurists" (1914), a collection of "Simple as low" by V. Mayakovsky (1916) and most comprehensive edition of the "Stone" of Osip Mandelstam (1923), decorated one of the pillars of the Russian avant-garde, Alexander Rodchenko.

In "Children's world" collected a whole galaxy of masterpieces of typography — from lifetime illustrated edition "Childhood and adolescence". Tolstoy (1898) until released in 1920-30-х years sharing samples of the creativity of writers and artists: "About Misha and goat Tish" V. Kirenskogo (1927), "Flight to the gathering" Ural B. (1930), "Clay neck" O. guryan (1931), "Georgia" A. Kutateladze (1931), "Moydodyr" by K. Chukovsky (1935). Of publication second half of the century, contain the autographs of such "classics" as L. Kassil, S. Mikhalkov, V. Dragunsky, A. Barto, and K. Bulychev.

Notable editions of Russian abroad. Real bibliophilic rarity — edition "Skate-Горбунка" P. Ershov, published in 1945, in a camp for displaced persons (di-пи).Pleasing to the eye two books of the student of Alexei Remizov writer Natalia Kudranski, with illustrations of brilliant artists F. Rojankovski ("Globe man"), and Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov ("Golden gift").

18 choicest lots was a collection "and Posters". Their topics — theatre, cinema and circus, and among the authors — master of this "spectacular" genre — L. Voronov, I. Rublevsky, S. Mandel, V. Kozlinsky. Genuine pearls, top@section ndashлоты — two posters Kustodiev (1926) for the play "the game" and E. Zamyatin's "flea".

for the First time in Russia declared the thematic section "Nobel laureates." Autographs, first editions and rare photos of our countrymen, honored with major literary awards, — Ivan Bunin, Mikhail Sholokhov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Unpublished letters by Boris Pasternak. The collections with inscriptions of Joseph Brodsky, his drawings 1960-х years, one of which is made in the worst days of the poet's life — while in a psychiatric hospital on the Buckle, and the first version of the poem "message in a bottle" with author's corrections (1964). The section contains autographs of Nobel peace laureates Andrei Zacharovannaya Gorbachev. Finally, the first appearance of the Russian auctions, the largest American writer of the last century — by John Steinbeck. His letter to the translator Vera Potapova will be a true embellishment section.

of the items from the archive of the translators of L. Dligach and V. Potapova entered in section "Autographs, letters, manuscripts". It covered four decades of Russian literature in the letters of poets Aliger, Antokolsky P., N. Aseev, V. Inber, M. Isakovsky, V. Lebedev-Кумача, J. Moritz, A. Prokofiev, M. rylskyi, I. Selvinsky, K. Chukovsky, writer I. Erenburg, K. Paustovsky, Konstantin Fedin, N. Chukovsky, translators M. Lozinsky, T. Shhepkinoj-Куперник, S. Marshak, L. Ginzburg.

Part of another archive — writer Sergei Kaledin — includes letters from leading writers of the second half of the twentieth century V. Bykov and V. Astafyev, as well as books with the autographs of the key figures of Russian literature of the last decades — from Vladimir Makanin's to L. Ulitskaya.

the First half of the twentieth century literature is reflected in the autographs L. Andreev, N. Aseeva, N. Vengerov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Likharev. Absolute pearls collection — collection of Marina Tsvetaeva's "two books" (1913) with a dedicatory inscription of the daughter of Konstantin Balmont Mirra, made in 1920, and handwritten album Faith Ahrens (1919-1952) with autographs of Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Punina, Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky, etc.

Section "Poets and painters" on the informal culture of the two capitals. Moscow school marked with the names of I. Voroshilova, E. and L. Kropiwnicki, member of the "bulldozer exhibition", P Bordacheva, poets G. Sapgir and palindromia D. Avaliani. The idea of the Leningrad underground gives graphic artists "arefevsky circle" R. Vasmi, V. Shagin, a picturesque portrait of the poet O. Okhapkina, made by N. Zilina — mother "Mitka" Dmitry Shagin. Autographs of poems, samizdat collections, posters and graphics of poets and artists-трансфуристов A. Tarshis, B. Constrictor and B.Kudryakova. The original and draw graphics, books, decorated "Mitki".

for the First time at auction will appear in three original books of the St. Petersburg conceptualist-мистификатора Yury Alexandrov — "Last supper", "Canto two" and scroll, "a Psalm of Saul" dedicated to one poem N. Kononov and done only two copies.

In the"Samizdat" 1960-80-х years published Ya Somlev, I. Burykin, E. Wenzel, A. Volokhonsky, Yuri kublanovsky, A. Mironov, S. Stratanovsky whose autographs are included in the same section of the auction. Special attention it deserved two rare magazine, "Thirty seven" and the first anthology of unofficial Leningrad poetry of the "Island".

Rare deiskoe collection of selected works of Esenin, first editions of Vladimir Nabokov and one of his recent photos released in the West, the recordings of Vladimir Vysotsky and Okudzhava fill the final section "Tamizdat".

pre-Auction exhibition is open till April 21 (except Sunday) from 12:00 to 20:00 at the address: Moscow, Sadovaya-Кудринская, 25. Auction house and gallery "KABINET" (in the building of "the Antique centre on the Garden").

Phone: 7 (495) 374-5090; e-mail: [email protected].

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Source: press-релиз auction house "Antiquarium"