Auction house "Russian enamel"
ARTinvestment.RU   16 марта 2018

Spring series second-hand auction "In the Nikitsky" opens March 22 auction # 113 "Rare books, manuscripts, autographs and photos"

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this time, bidding open for two rare books XVII century — "festal Triodion" 1630 and Psalter printed in two colors in 1645 Both publications saw the light of day on the Moscow Print yard.

Rare books XVIII century are much better: collectors, in particular, will be offered to "the gospel of the altar" 1717 (lot 3), "the monthly Menaion" 1732 (lot of 4), rare edition of "On the true Christianity six books" of the German theologian Johann Arndt (lot 9), exceedingly rare Masonic publication "Johan Mason cognition..." (lot 11), confiscated and banned for distribution. Bibliophiles will have the opportunity to complete your collection, and the tragedy of "Julius Caesar" (lot 12), which in 1794 were also among the "harmful" and faced destruction.

Century XIX in the catalogue is extensive and varied. The book "Travels in North America to the Arctic sea and the Pacific ocean" written by the brave American explorers of the North C. Hearn and A. Mackenzie (lot 20). The first book of one of the founders of Russian historical genre of the novel of I. I. Lazhechnikov, "the First experiments in prose and verse" (lot 25) was subjected to too severe criticism from... of the author: Parsifal was written, he hastened to destroy the circulation.

Among the books XIX century historical themes the organizers of the auction say the complete copy in excellent bindings of the two volumes of N. Ustryalov "the Legend of Prince Kurbsky" 1833 (lot 31), "the Centenary of the war Ministry" Quadri presented in six bindings that it is rare (lot 116), as well as historical collection "Russia from the Troubles of our time" (lot 155).

this section is Rich in works of the Russian classics. The first posthumous edition of the novel of M. Lermontov "Hero of our time" comes from the library of Ksenia Suvorina, daughter of publisher A. S. suvorina (lot 39), the first separate edition of the novel by F. Dostoevsky "the Brothers Karamazov" (lot 77), released in December, 1880, was, as they say the organizers of the auction, the last lifetime book writer.

In a large section of autographs auction organizers pay attention to the public primarily on two positions. We are talking about a manuscript of poetic translations of Anna Akhmatova from different authors for the unpublished collection "Poets for peace and progress" (lot 337), as well as on notebook V. S. Vysotsky associated with his work on songs for fairy tales and films the Studio "Mosfilm" (lot 422). In addition to manuscripts, donative inscriptions of A. A. Akhmatova, will be presented lots 324 and 226.

In this section, will be exhibited autographs of Boris Pasternak, P. Krasnov, Leon Trotsky, Leonid Brezhnev, Ilf and Petrov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Andrei Tarkovsky, Yuri Gagarin, and others.

Pre-exhibition opened in the halls of the House of antique books "In the Nikita" at the address: Moscow, Nikita lane, 4A, page 1.

the Auction will be held on March 22. Start of trading in 19:00.

Phone: 7 (495) 926-41-14 (from 10 to 20, Tuesday — Saturday), e-mail: [email protected].

Source: press-релиз House of antique books "In the Nikita"