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Auction Name Space Exploration Total Sales (USD) 1,138,461.50
Auction Date May 11, 2018 - May 11, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 628,700.00
Sale Number #6195 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 919,250.00
Total Lots 562
Sold Lots 549 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 654,450.00
% of Lots Sold 97.69% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 953,650.00
Unsold Lots 13 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 119.38%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
50071

Apollo 11 Flown Large Size American Flag on a Crew-Signed Presentation Certificate, Framed.

USD 50,000.00 - 75,000.00 USD 187,500.00
50122

Apollo 13 Flown Gold Robbins Medallion Originally from the Personal Collection of Mission Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert, with LOA.

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 87,500.00
50055

NASA Apollo Three Seat Crew Couch Complete with Head Beam Assembly and Left & Right Hand Stabilizer Beams, Manufactured by Weber Aircraft in 1968.

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 55,000.00
50037

Apollo Lunar Module Reaction Control System Marquardt R-4D Rocket Engine with Extended Nozzle, Manufactured in Early 1971.

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 47,500.00
50072

Apollo 11 Flown Silver Robbins Medallion, Serial Number 405, Originally from the Personal Collection of Mission Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin, with Signed LOA.

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 45,000.00
50042

Alan Bean Original 1983 Painting "Mother Earth," Acrylic on Masonite, Museum Framed.

USD 50,000.00 - 75,000.00 USD 37,500.00
50002

Kitty Hawk: Piece of Original Wright Flyer Fabric On a Presentation Certificate to Edwin E. Aldrin Sr., with Original Provenance and Frame.

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 32,500.00
50012

Gemini 3 - Gemini 12 Flown Fliteline Medallions: Complete Set of Ten in Matching Silver Color, Originally from Astronaut Gene Cernan, with Individual Signed Letters of Authenticity.

USD 24,000.00 - 36,000.00 USD 32,500.00
50073

Apollo 11 Flown Silver Robbins Medallion, Serial Number 419, Directly from the Family Collection of Astronaut Richard Gordon.

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 27,500.00
50054

I.S.S. Expeditions 1 through 45: Complete Collection of Unflown Silver Robbins Medals Directly from the Personal Collection of Astronaut Walt Cunningham, with Signed LOA.

USD 24,000.00 - 36,000.00 USD 25,000.00
50189

Space Shuttle Columbia Launch-Exploded Frangible Nut.

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 25,000.00
50083

Apollo 11 Crew-Signed The New York Times Front Page Dated July 21, 1969.

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 20,000.00
50113

Apollo 12 Flown Silver Robbins Medallion, Serial Number 37, Directly from the Family Collection of Mission Command Module Pilot Richard Gordon.

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 17,846.25
50082

Apollo 11 Crew-Signed "First Man on the Moon" First Day Cover.

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 11,875.00
50079

Apollo 11: Grumman Internal "LM5 Turnover Log" from the Spacecraft and Ground Support Equipment Team at KSC, Log Entries from April 16 to Launch.

USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 11,250.00
50019

Apollo Expeditions to the Moon Book Signed by Richard Nixon and Eighteen Apollo Astronauts, including Neil Armstrong and Eight Other Moonwalkers.

1975 USD 4,500.00 - 5,500.00 USD 10,000.00
50132

Apollo 14 Flown Ablative Plugs (Fifty-six) and Kapton Pieces (Seven) from the Estate of NASA Engineer Donald T. Hamilton.

USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 9,062.50
50015

Gemini 9 - Gemini 12 Flown Fliteline Medallions on Silver Bracelet Originally from the Personal Collection of Astronaut Paul J. Weitz, with Handwritten COA.

USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,125.00
50096

Apollo 11: NASA / Manned Spacecraft Center 16mm B&W Film Reels (Four) "Lunar EVA / Lunar Walk" (S69-329, 330, 331, 332).

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 8,125.00
50114

Apollo 12 Lunar Module Flown Largest Size American Flag on a Presentation Mat Signed by Richard Gordon, Directly from the Family Collection of Mission Command Module Pilot Richard Gordon.

USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,500.00
50137

Apollo 15 Flown Crew-Signed Limited Edition Apollo 12 Cover Directly from the Family Collection of Apollo 12 Command Module Pilot Richard Gordon, Signed and Certified.

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 7,500.00
50011

Mercury-Atlas 8 (Sigma 7) Flown "Hidden" One Dollar Silver Certificate Signed by Wally Schirra, in Framed Display.

USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 USD 6,875.00
50141

Apollo 16 Flown American Flag on Crew-Signed Presentation Certificate.

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,875.00
50147

Apollo 17 Flown American Flag on Original Presentation Certificate, in Framed Display.

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,875.00
50080

Apollo 11: Original Handwritten Grumman Work Order to Install the Flag Scabbard and Plaque Assemblies on LM-5's Descent Stage Just Days before Launch.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,750.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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