Vermot de Pas: NASA Photographs - History of Space Conquest, 172873, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: December 08, 2025 - December 08, 2025

Page Size: 300 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	NASA.	Robert Goddard stands beside his liquid-fuel rocket	March 16, 1926	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
2		A rare and perfect photograph of a TM-61 "MATADOR" missile during takeoff.	Circa 1950	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
3		US Air Force Photo. One of the first lunar probe launches, here "Lunar Probe #2" from the US Air Force missile launch center in Florida.	October 11, 1958	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
4	NASA.	The ship "USS Donner" moves to the landing area for the Mercury-Redstone 2 capsule.	1961	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
5	NASA.	Beautiful view of American space veteran Virgil I. Grissom, after his flight in the "Liberty Bell 7" rocket	1961	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
6	NASA.	Spectacular historic lift-off of a Douglas Delta Rocket from Cape Canaveral	October 2, 1962	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
7	NASA.	Astronaut Ed. White floats in space during the first spacewalk by an American astronaut. Gemini 4 mission.	June 1965	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
8	NASA.	Lunar Orbiter Mission. The purpose of the Lunar Orbiter mission was to produce a detailed map of the lunar surface in preparation for the Apollo mission's final lunar landing.	1965	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
9	NASA.	Lunar Orbiter Mission. The purpose of the Lunar Orbiter mission was to produce a detailed map of the lunar surface in preparation for the Apollo mission's final lunar landing.	1965	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
10	NASA.	Mission Ranger IX. A beautiful view of the lunar surface from an altitude of approximately 100 km	March 24, 1965	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
11	NASA.	Ranger IX mission. Pictured here is the eastern part of the Alphonsus crater floor.	March 24, 1965	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
12	NASA.	Misison Gemini 4. Astronaut Ed. White floats alone in space in front of the globe, becoming the first American to perform a spacewalk	June 1965	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 320.00
13	NASA.	Misison Gemini 4. Astronaut Ed. White floats alone in space in front of the globe, becoming the first American to perform a spacewalk	June 3, 1965	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
14	NASA.	Misison Gemini 4. Astronaut Ed. White floats alone in space in front of the globe, becoming the first American to perform a spacewalk	June 1965	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
15	NASA.	Gemini IV mission	June 3, 1965	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
16	NASA.	Close-up view of the Copernicus lunar crater from the LUNAR ORBITER space probe.	1966	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
17	NASA.	First SATURNE V rocket on the Cape Kennedy launch pad at sunset.	May 25, 1966	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
18	NASA.	LUNAR ORBITER 3 probe. View of the lunar surface.	February 1967	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
19	NASA.	View of the lunar surface by the Lunar Orbiter probe	May 13, 1967	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
20	NASA.	Apollo 4. Rare photograph of a crescent of the Earth from space.	November 1967	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
21	NASA.	Rare photograph depicting an astronaut performing scientific experiments on the lunar surface at night.	May 30, 1968	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
22	NASA.	Apollo 7 mission. Liftoff of the Apollo 7 rocket from Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida.	October 11, 1968	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
23	NASA.	Historic view of the 1st survey of the Earth observed by man from lunar orbit by the APOLLO 8 mission on	December 24, 1968	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
24	NASA.	Rare. The 1st photograph of the Earth in its entirety taken by Humans in Space.	December 1968	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
25	NASA.	APOLLO 8 mission. Historic photograph depicting the 1st Earthrise observed by man from lunar orbit on	December 24, 1968	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80

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Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
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Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
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29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000

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Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000

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29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000

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Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

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Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000

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Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800

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Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000