Read our grandparents in childhood, I will tell you "the Empire"...
ARTinvestment.RU   13 марта 2019

Tomorrow, March 14th, auction house "Antiquarium" will auction, which will present 400 lots of books, autographs, photographs and postcards. The average estimate of lots will be from 3 000 to 10 000 rubles

Among the many lots, presented at very affordable prices, we can note a number of children's and youth books of the late XIX — early XX century, which almost certainly was read and was read by our grandparents in their early childhood. The specimens on the auction, was more fortunate: almost all of them are in very good, and sometimes in pristine condition.

Online-каталог auction.

Among rare books you can find stories for girls "Podrostok" (1897), illustrated a number of luxury chromolithograph. Many children of the early XX century have probably read the memories of the popular children's writer of Faith Petrovna Alex "I was little" (1901), luxuriously printed and illustrated in the famous devrien publishing house. She was the younger sister of Helena Blavatsky. These memories explain in detail about the childhood of the world famous religious philosopher and Theosophist.

Almost all the boys of the nineteenth and beginning of the last century surely was reading a book just-Жана Etienne Roy, "History of chivalry" (1898) with a detailed description of customs and mores of medieval European chivalry. Or anyone from the young naturalists of the past studied from cover to cover, these richly illustrated publications, like "Watching young naturalist", as well as sketches and paintings from the life and manners of the animals "How animals live"? Young astronomers of the past have learned a lot about stars and planets from such books as, for example, "Starry sky" (1909), and the exact mathematical Sciences from famous books Yakov Perelman, such as "Interesting geometry in the open air and at home" (1933) and other.

pre-Auction exhibition is open until March 14 at the office of the auction house "Russian enamel" at: Moscow, Nizhny Kislovskiy lane., 6, p. 2.

the Auction will be held tomorrow, March 14. Start of trading in 19:00.

Phone: 7 495-792-48-92; 7 985-969-77-45; e-mail: [email protected].

Source: press-релиз the auction house "Russian enamel"