Gino Servini’s ‘Fleurs et Masques’ sold for £9,920. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image.
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Bidding soared for the opening lot of the sale with an almost complete collection of the books issued by Bird & Bull Press from the property of the late Mel Kavin of Kater-Craft Bookbinders which sold for £12,400 [Lot 1].
Doubling its presale estimate and selling for £9,920 was Gino Severini’s Fleurs et Masques, featuring 17 superb pochoir color plates highlighted with gold that depict Cubist still lives, harlequins musicians, and the masks and theatrics of the Commedia dell’Arte [Lot 144a].
Also attracting attention under the art topic was a fine series of classic racing prints from John Frederick Herring’s two series of St. Leger and derby winners that sold for £8,060 [Lot 569].
The first edition of the “Geneva version” English Bible, the earliest printed in roman type and with verse divisions, led the English Literature and history section, selling for £9,920 [Lot 317].
Another Bible in the sale to achieve an exceptional price was Jenson’s second edition of the Vulgate Bible, initialled in red and with decorations in blue and white, it sold for £6,200 [Lot 283].
English and Continental manuscripts attracted attention with a detailed and elaborately decorated collection of notes and pedigrees on Lincolnshire selling for £7,440 [Lot 210].
An unusual collection of mathematical books were in high demand with many achieving prices on or above top estimate. Bernoulli’s foundation work on the science of probability, Ars Conjectandi, Opus Posthumum sold for £9,300 [Lot 430] and a collection of 12 mathematical papers by Carl Fridrich Gauss achieved £8,680 [Lot 458]. An excellent copy of Lagrange’s masterpiece, Mechanique Analitique, one of the most important mechanical treatise ever published, also sold over estimate for £7,440 [Lot 467].
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ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE
Gino Servini’s ‘Fleurs et Masques’ sold for £9,920. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image. John Frederick Herring, ‘Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster.’ Sold for £8,060. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image. Jenson’s second edition of the Vulgate Bible sold for £6,200. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image. The first edition of the ‘Geneva version’ English Bible. Sold for £9,920. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image. An antiquary’s collection of notes and pedigrees on Lincolnshire families. Sold for £7,440. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image. Jakob Bernoulli ‘Ars Conjectandi, Opus Posthumum.’ Sold for £9,300. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image. Carl Friedrich Gauss collection of 12 mathematical papers. Sold for £8,680. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image. Joseph-Louis Lagrange, ‘Mechanique Analitique.’ Sold for £7,440. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions image.
