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Member MKAAD and CINOA Anatoly Borovkov, Judge:
".... Following the auction house Christie's, whose book trades 1 and 3 June 2009, we have already analyzed, book trades under the name "Continental and Russian books and manuscripts" on 10 June carries Sotheby's. In the catalog of the auction included the entire 107 lots, including which only 18 are Russian.
The West is represented by two truly remarkable books: the first edition of Charles Darwin's famous work "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (1859), with an estimate 40-50 thousand pounds (lot number 3), and rare books of Claudius Ptolemy "Cosmography" (1482) , with an estimate 400-600 thousand pounds (lot number 18 )...."
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