Magic mushrooms bring bidding madness and a £480,000 bill…
Illustrated with 117 detailed watercolours, an account of the different species of Agaric mushrooms growing in the Vienna region, complete with notes on their suitability for eating, was one of two mycological manuscripts in the natural history section of the Sotheby’s sale of May 7 (19.5/10% buyer's premium).
Produced in the mid-1860s by Anton Ritter von Perger, it was an interesting lot, but not a truly exc…