Ancient Russian Proverbs and autograph harms at auction "In the Nikita"
ARTinvestment.RU   20 декабря 2017

21 Dec 2017 "House of antique books in Nikitsky" will continue in the December series of trades in the auction No. 108 "Rare books, manuscripts, autographs and photos". In the directory — 392 lots

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In the section of literature of the XVIII century, the organizers invite you to pay attention to several rare items. In particular, note "the Collection of 4291 ancient Russian Proverbs" by an outstanding linguist, a student of M. V. Lomonosov, Professor of the Moscow University A. A. Barsov (lot 9), "Geographical lexicon of the Russian state", published in Moscow in 1773 (lot 11), the Masonic book of Polish statesman A. F. moshenskogo "Callister Poznan to Warsaw..." (lot 25). At the turn of XVIII–XIX centuries saw the light of day and one of the most expensive auction lots — "historical Dictionary, or a Condensed library" in 14 (lot 27) — Russian translation of the famous dictionary by L. M. Sotona "Nouveaudictionnairehistoriqueportative...", to which were added the biographies of Russian leaders (some of them were reprinted from "Experience historical dictionary of Russian writers" N. I. Novikova).

early nineteenth-century catalogue of rare books on the history of the Arkhangelsk region, Crimea, Kiev. Bibliophiles addressed to "Historical, genealogical, chronological, and geographical Atlas" G. Lesage and the first publication in Russia of the work of Adam Smith (albeit without the same volume, but the organizers call it rare in the antique market).

the Golden age of Russian literature presented the first edition (1831) of "Boris Godunov" by Alexander Pushkin (lot 100), the only poetry collection V. panaeva, "Ondine" by V. A. Zhukovsky.

the Section of the autographs on the quality of the collection, as noted in the auction house, almost as good as the previous one. Very seldom at auction autographs of D. I. Kharms, and this time collectors will have the opportunity to fight not just for his autograph, and the bilateral pattern-автограф, originating from the archives of other harms Boris Alexandrovich Smirnov (lot 273). Collectors gifts designed and album of the poet L. Borisova (lot 268), containing 12 autographs of his colleagues.

Interesting small collection of books with dedicatory poet's poet. About the enduring friendship, the close relationship tells an extraordinary meaning to the message of Boris Pasternak, Sergei Spassky (lot 274) and inskript, poet Nikolay Glazkov, addressed to Semyon Kirsanov, on the back of the photograph, 1943 (lot 284).

Two books with autographs of Varlam Shalamov's literary expert G. Kraskino accompanied by a letter of the author (lot 317); Aesopian language Shalamov's puzzling to today's reader, but he was, of course, understandable to the recipient, who knew the bitter way of the publication of both editions.

Complement section of autographs inskript Semenova on his first book, autographs, and photo of Anna Akhmatova, autographs of Ivan Bunin, Zoshchenko, K. Bulychev, I. Brodsky and many others.

Auction No. 108 will take place on 21 December 2017 in the hall of the "House of antique books in Nikitsky" at the address: Moscow, Nikita lane, 4A, page 1. Start of trading in 19:00.

Accepting absentee bids until 17:00 on the day of the auction.

Telephone: 7 (495) 926-41-14, e-mail: [email protected], website: vnikitskom.ru.

Source: press-релиз "House of antique books inNikita"