"Rare Book a Meeting"

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Ladies and gentlemen!

The auction house, "Empire" is glad to present you a collection of 25 antiquarian auction "Rare book a meeting." It is unique in its qualitative composition collection includes 564 lots, including rare book editions, lifetime editions of Russian classics, periodicals and multi-volume edition, as well as photographs and autographs.
The auction will take place on February 23, 2013.
We draw your attention to some of the top lots of the auction.
Auction offers unique publication, which will, of course, of great interest to collectors - one of the most famous books of Peter's time and one of the greatest works of Russian textbooks at the beginning of XVIII., The composition of the Russian mathematician Leontius Filippovich Magnitsky (1669-1739) "Arithmetic that is to say science numeral "(Wiley, 1703). This publication has played a great role in the history of Russian enlightenment of the first half of the XVIII century. Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov called "arithmetic", "gate of his learning."
Lovers of proceedings and, in particular, astronomy will be interesting first Russian atlas sky KH Reyssiga "Constellation presented at the XXX tables describing the add and a guide to finding them convenient in the sky, made up for schools and amateur astrognozii" (St. Petersburg, 1829).
A significant part of the collection of auction and take the first lifetime editions of the classics of Russian literature, each of which is a unique facility of its historical epoch, and issued neat volume, even without knowing their future grand destiny. This, of course, first editions of AS Pushkin - "Poltava" (St. Petersburg, 1829), "History of the Pugachev rebellion" (St. Petersburg, 1834), "Eugene Onegin" (St. Petersburg, 1833), the first two issues of the journal "Contemporary" (St. Petersburg, 1836-1866) , published poet and destroy censorship. The first edition of the poet's lifetime, the Decembrist KF Ryleeva, including the poem "Voynarovsky" (Wiley, 1825), destroyed immediately after publication because of the December uprising at Senate Square in 1825, the first publication of prose NV Gogol "Bisavryuk or evening before Ivan Kupala" in the journal "Notes of the Fatherland" (St. Petersburg, 1830), beautifully illustrated edition of the poem, VA Zhukovsky's "Ondine" (St. Petersburg, 1837), line drawings which played LA Meidel, with the first edition of the collection, "Poems of Denis Davydov" (Wiley, 1832), the first edition of poems, "Hurrah!" FN Glinka with autograph, the first book of Leo Tolstoy's "War Stories" (St. Petersburg, 1856), a book ST Aksakov "Notes on Fishing Fish" (Wiley, 1854).
Lifetime editions of the second half of XIX century is to provide a number of books: FM Dostoevsky - "The Idiot" (St. Petersburg, 1874), "Diary of a Writer for 1876" (St. Petersburg, 1877), Anton Chekhov - "Motley Tales" (St. Petersburg, 1886), as well as publications N.Ya. . Danilevsky, NG Chernyshevsky, ME Saltykov-Shchedrin, NS Leskov, etc.

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The group of literary anthologies beginning of XIX century. includes the famous "Northern Flowers" for 1828 and 1832, "Euterpe" in 1831 with a large collection of poems of the great Russian poet, and one of the most popular and enduring anthologies - "Nevsky almanac for 1832."
Of special mention is a narrow group of publications belonging to a list of rarities almost immediately after publication - the so-called "Arakcheyev edition." The creator of the famous "military settlements" Earl A. Arakcheev (1769-1834) in the management of his fiefdom established his own printing press. All the editions printed Arakcheev in very few instances, not sending them, even in public libraries. In our catalog are two of them: "The inventory of church plate, available at the Georgian Cathedral St. Andrew Pervozvannago" (BM, 1818) and a brochure MM Speranski "On the military settlements" (St. Petersburg, 1825).
A substantial body of the collection consists of luxury illustrated edition: the three-volume edition of "The Bible, or sacred books of the Old and the New Testament" (Moscow, St. Petersburg., 1876), which presents 230 drawings done by the famous French engraver Gustave Dore in the technique of wood engraving showing highly artistic design of a leading publisher of Mauritius Osipovich Wolf second half of XIX century, multi-volume editions in Russian and French, "Journey to the East of His Imperial Highness Tsarevich" EE Ukhtomsky (St. Petersburg, Paris, 1893-1897) devoted trehsotdnevnomu (from 23 October 1890 to 4 August 1891) traveling the Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich (the future Emperor Nicholas II) in Greece, Egypt, India, China, Japan and Siberia.
Lot number 245 - this is a landmark publication of the late XIX century, describing the unique collection of Byzantine enamel X-XI centuries A. B. Zvenigorod, which had been worked best artists and bookbinders, printed in St. Petersburg and the German printing professors, art connoisseur N. Kondakova, "History and Monuments of Byzantine enamel" (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1892), printed in a limited edition and the market have been reported. Our copy number 20 for the Greek King George I and Annex "History of" Byzantine enamel "AV Zvenigorod "VV Stasov (St. Petersburg, 1898), in French.
Also presented editions devoted tercentenary of the Romanov dynasty Lot № 258 "Coronation collection of Emperor Nicholas II» (St. Petersburg, 1899), which describes the coronation of Nicholas II, which took place May 14, 1896, and which was illustrated by the best Russian artists Alexander Benois, in . Vasnetsov, N. Samokish etc. Lot number 354 - anniversary edition of "Chronicle and facial Izbornik Romanov" (Wiley, 1913), depicting the history of the House of Romanov.
Lot number 265 - a rare French edition NI Kutepova "Royal Hunt in Russia" (St. Petersburg, 1896-1900), covering the grand and royal hunt from X century to the reign of Alexander III which appeared only in 2 volumes edition of only 200 copies., In contrast to the Russian edition.
 From historical publications we note the anniversary edition of "History of the Horse Guards 1724-1799-1899" SA Panchulidzeva (St. Petersburg, 1899-1912), dedicated to one of the most brilliant and privileged regiments of the Russian army - the Cavalry, the essay "The Ministry of the Interior" (St. Petersburg, 1901), the publication of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov "Emperor Alexander I: The experience of historical research" (St. Petersburg, 1912), and the publication of S. Tatishcheva "Emperor Alexander II: His life and reign" (St. Petersburg, 1903).
From illustrated bibliographical publications mentioned fundamental works on illustrated edition "catalog of my collection of Russian engraved and lithographed portraits" AV Morozov (Moscow, 1912-1913) and the "Catalogue of Russian illustrated books 1725-1860 gg." N. Obolyaninova (Moscow, 1914-1915).
Mandatory section of the collection is a complete set of known encyclopedias, "Dictionary" Britannica (St. Petersburg, 1890-1907), "The Jewish Encyclopedia" (St. Petersburg, 1908-1913), "Military Encyclopedia" (St. Petersburg, 1911-1915 ).
The collection presents beautiful kits literary magazines XX century. "Apollo" (St. Petersburg, 1909-1917), "Sophia" (Wiley, 1914), "Bayan" (New York, 1914-1915) stands out complete set of the journal "Chimes" (Riga, 1925-1929), which was printed and distributed in the Russian emigration.
A number of children's books in the collection especially decorated folk tales and fairy tales, AS Pushkin with drawings IJ Bilibin (St. Petersburg, 1901-1907) and Soviet picture books - "Orchestra" E. Krimmer (Moscow, Leningrad, 1926), "A trip to Batumi" A. Vvedensky (L., 1931), "The Book of Accidents' ( Moscow, Leningrad, 1931) and "The air staff" (L., 1932) B. Tambi.
Autograph collectors and pay attention to the following editions of the XX century.: The first book of Leonid Andreyev's "Stories" (St. Petersburg, 1901), with an inscription by the author's autograph AM Rodchenko's book on Stalin's "On Lenin" (Moscow, 1935), two signed photographs ballerina Balashov (1910.), Autographs poets of the sixties - AA Ascension Achilles' Heart "(Wiley, 1966), R. Christmas" seriously. New poems "(Wiley, 1970), P. Kazakov," Come down from the hill. A new book of poems "(Wiley, 1984), and a photograph of Sergei Mikhalkov with his autograph (1950.).
For bibliophiles in this collection should be of particular interest: "Bibliographic Notes" Afanas'eva (Moscow, 1858-1861.) Complete sets of the journal "Russian bibliophile" (St. Petersburg, 1911-1916) and "Antiques" (St. Petersburg , 1902-1903), the founder and editor of which was the antiquarian bookseller, NV Soloviev, "Dictionary bibliophile" EI Arkadieva (Wiley, 1890) - Russia's first dictionary of terms related books; MJ Paradelov "Address Book Russian bibliophiles and collectors of prints, lithographs, popular prints and other works of the press" (Wiley, 1904), EA Shumansky "Handbook for Russian bibliophiles and collectors" (Odessa, 1905).
In conclusion, we note a large selection of books first and second wave of Russian emigration, sheet material, the pictures and newspapers, archives.

The auction will take place on February 23, 2013 at «Marriott» Moscow Royal Aurora at: ul. Petrovka 11/20.
Auction starts at 12.00.
Viewing the collection of the auction, in our office, from 7 to 22 February 2013, daily except Sunday.
The auction catalog is available at our website www.auction-imperia.ru.
 
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