Auction "Old and rare books, maps, engravings" (June 19 to 18.00)
Auction "Old and rare books, maps, engravings" (June 19 to 18.00)
At the auction, "Old and rare books, maps, engravings» № 17 (61) collectors will see the "Family Album Sofia Kovalevskaya", consisting of 16 pages with 43 photographs of the world's first female professor of mathematics Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) . Baby pictures nee Sophia Corwin Krukovskaya; pictures of a later period, when the 18-year-old Sophia is married sham marriage for young scientists Kovalevsky, and then, at 21 years of caring for the Communards, rescuing from prison V.Zhaklara leader of the Paris Commune, the husband's sister- Anna revolutionary, and finally, then, beginning in 1884, changed his name to «Sonya Kovalevsky», teaches at the University of Stockholm. (Estimate 150 thousand - 190 thousand).
Another "topom" trading book will only lifetime publication comedy "Woe from Wit" by Alexander Griboyedov. As you know, all this work in the writer's life was not published because it was forbidden "to be published and staged." A small excerpt was published Thaddeus Bulgarin in the literary and theatrical anthology "Russian Waist." Estimate 420 thousand - 500 thousand rubles.
And again at the auction house "Kabinet" exhibited masterpieces of Russian avant-garde. This time it is the second revised edition of the poem "The game of hell" Kruchenykh and Velimir Khlebnikov, with lithographs by Olga Rozanova (1914g.) Recall that at the previous auction in April 2013. First edition of this book for was achieved a world record price - it was sold for 3 million 300 thousand rubles. The main difference between the first and second editions of the authorship of pictures. Cover and put up three figures in the June edition of trades executed by Kazimir Malevich, the other drawings - Olga Rozanova. (Estimate 360 thousand-500 thousand. Rubles).
Finally, the attention of collectors will be presented to one of the most beautiful and unusual books of Russian avant-garde - pentahedron "Tango with Cows. Reinforced concrete poem "Vasily Kamensky with drawings brothers Burliuk (1914g.). Square on the format of the book, the right edge is cut on the diagonal, the author called the "pentagonal book." The book is printed on the reverse side of brightly colored wallpaper, in protest against the Futurists luxury editions of "bourgeois" "World of Art." Texture wallpaper gave an additional effect - picture shines through from the back side is printed on the text, and is in conflict with the design of the text. It is the second most important in the history of the printed edition of Russian Futurism (the first - "Game in Hell") and a very large bibliographic rarity. (An estimated 530 thousand - 800 thousand rubles).
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