Heritage Auctions: Space Exploration Signature Auction, 6326, Dallas

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 11, 2025 - December 12, 2025
Page Size: 515 items in 21 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
50003

Rocket Mail: The First International Rocket Mail Service in the United States, a Set of Four Flown and Signed Covers, 1936.

1936 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 812.50
50008

Albert I: The First Primate Launched into Space, in a V-2 Rocket on June 11, 1948, Launch Cover.

1948 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,000.00
50012

Missile Mail: U.S. Navy Regulus II "Missile Mail" Experimental Flown Cover with Original Documentation, 1958.

1958 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,000.00
50013

Missile Mail: U.S. Navy Regulus II "Missile Mail" Unauthorized Experimental Flown Cover, One of Only Twelve, with Original Documentation, 1959.

1959 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,062.50
50015

X-15: Sperry Gyroscope "Inertial Climb Indicator", Original Flight Instrument from the X-15 Program.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,875.00
50016

Space Mail: USAF "First Mail from Outer Space" Cover Flown on Discovery XVII with Original Letter of Transmittal to NASA's First Administrator, 1960.

1960 USD 1,440.00 - 2,160.00 USD 35,000.00
50017

Vostok: General Nikolai Kamanin's Map for Vostok 3KA-1 Landing with Site Marked, Signed in Russian on Verso.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 625.00
50018

Vostok 1: Records File on the First Space Flight by the USSR Citizen Yuri Alexeyevitch Gagarin, Made on April 12, 1961, on Spaceship-Sputnik "Vostok," Signed by Yuri Gagarin.

1961 USD 14,400.00 - 21,600.00 USD 42,500.00
50019

Vostok 1 Commemorative Presentation Model.

USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 7,812.50
50020

Yuri Gagarin Signed Large Photograph Inscribed to General Nikolai Kamanin and Originally from Kamanin's Personal Collection, dated August 24, 1961.

1961 USD 1,280.00 - 1,920.00 USD 4,250.00
50021

Yuri Gagarin Autograph Postcard, Signed Twice, to General Nikolai Kamanin and Originally from Kamanin's Personal Collection, postmarked December 30, 1961, with Certificate of Authenticity from PSA/DNA.

1961 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,125.00
50022

General Nikolai Kamanin: Photo Album Presented to Him by the People of Orenburg, Signed by Yuri Gagarin dated June 1961, from Kamanin's Personal Collection.

1961 USD 1,280.00 - 1,920.00 Not Sold
50023

General Nikolai Kamanin: Original Eight Page Handwritten Report on Yuri Gagarin's 1961 Visit to Cuba, Canada, and Brazil.

1961 Visit to Cuba USD 1,440.00 - 2,160.00 Not Sold
50024

Vostok 2: Records File on the Space Flight by the USSR Citizen German Stepanovich Titov, Made On August 6-7, 1961, On Spaceship-Sputnik "Vostok-2," with the First Images of Earth from Space, Signed by Gherman Titov.

1961 USD 6,400.00 - 9,600.00 Not Sold
50025

Vostok 2 Flown Food Tubes (Two) Originally from the Collection of Cosmonaut Gherman Titov.

USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 USD 4,250.00
50026

Vostok 3: Records File on the Space Flight by the USSR Citizen Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev In The "Vostok-3" Spaceship, August 11-15, 1962, Signed by Andriyan Nikolayev.

1962 USD 5,600.00 - 8,400.00 Not Sold
50027

Vostok 3 & Vostok 4: Records File Document on the First in the World Group Space Flight by the USSR Citizens Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev and Pavel Romanovich Popovich in the "Vostok-3" and "Vostok-4" Spaceships August 12-15, 1962, Signed by Nikolayev

1962 USD 6,400.00 - 9,600.00 Not Sold
50028

Vostok 6: Records File on the First in the World Space Flight by USSR Woman-Citizen Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova In The "Vostok-6" Spaceship, June 16-19, 1963, Signed by Valentina Tereshkova.

1963 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 20,000.00
50029

Vostok Cosmonauts: Large Photo Posed at Lenin's Mausoleum, Signed by the USSR's First Six in Space, with Certificate of Authenticity from PSA/DNA.

USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 4,000.00
50030

Voskhod 1: Records File of the First Multi-Crew Space Flight in the World Aboard the Spacecraft-Satellite "Vostok" October 12--13, 1964, Signed by Komarov, Feoktistov, and Yegorov.

1964 USD 7,200.00 - 10,800.00 USD 12,500.00
50031

Voskhod 2: Records File of the First Flight in the World with the Exit of a Human into Outer Space on the Spacecraft-Satellite Voskhod-2, March 18--19, 1965, Signed by Belyayev and Leonov.

1965 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 35,000.00
50032

Alexei Leonov: Handwritten and Signed Report on the First Human Spacewalk aboard Voskhod 2, March 18--19, 1965 [with] Signed Printed Copy of a Similar Report.

1965 [with] Signed Printed Copy of a Similar Report. USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 USD 5,750.00
50033

Pavel Belyayev's Personal Pilot's Watch Worn on Historic Voskhod 2 Mission, with Note from His Widow Tatyana.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
50034

Soviet Awards and Certificates Archive as Presented to Kerim Kerimov, Early Soviet Space Pioneer, Long Classified.

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 625.00
50035

Yuri Gagarin, Vladimir Komarov, and Three Other Cosmonauts as well as Two Military Heroes: Signatures on the Verso of a 1966-dated Central Committee of Communist Party-Issued Luncheon Invitation.

1966-dated Central Committee of Communist Party-Issued Luncheon Invitation. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 781.25
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    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.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    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
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    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
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    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
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    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
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    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
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    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