Heritage Auctions: Space Exploration Signature Auction, 6326, Dallas

Auction Details

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
50231

NASA: Neil Armstrong Autopen-Signed Apollo 11 White Spacesuit Crew Color Photo Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified.

USD 160.00 - 240.00 Unknown
50232

Gemini 8: NASA Agena and Gemini Launch Color Photo Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified.

USD 160.00 - 240.00 Unknown
50233

NASA "Log of Apollo 11" Booklet Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified.

USD 160.00 - 240.00 Unknown
50234

Gemini: NASA "Gemini Program Highlights" Color Photo Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified.

USD 160.00 - 240.00 Unknown
50235

Philatelia: Apollo 11 "Houston, Tranquility Base Here. The Eagle Has Landed" First Day Canceled Souvenir Card Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified.

USD 160.00 - 240.00 Unknown
50236

Apollo 11: "Man Walks on the Moon" First Day Canceled Document Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified.

USD 160.00 - 240.00 Unknown
50237

Apollo 11 RCA Moon Landing First Day Cover, Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified.

USD 160.00 - 240.00 Unknown
50238

Apollo 11: "First Anniversary Man Landing on the Moon July 20, 1970" Cover With Wapakoneta, Ohio Postmark Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified.

1970" Cover With Wapakoneta USD 160.00 - 240.00 Unknown
50239

"Twelfth Anniversary Eagle Has Landed" Cover With Wapakoneta, Ohio Postmark Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified.

USD 160.00 - 240.00 Unknown
50240

"Twelfth Anniversary Columbia in Lunar Orbit" Cover With Wapakoneta, Ohio Postmark Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified.

USD 160.00 - 240.00 Unknown
50241

"First Man on the Moon" First Day Cancelled Cover Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified.

USD 160.00 - 240.00 Unknown
50242

Apollo 11: "Man's First Landing on the Moon" First Day Cover Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified.

USD 160.00 - 240.00 Unknown
50248

Auguste & Jean Piccard's 1933 Planned Stratosphere Balloon Flight: Flown Cover with the Century of Progress Cachet, Canceled August 5, 1933.

1933 USD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
50249

V-2 Rocket Experimental Tests at White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico, 1947: Red and Black V-2 / Las Cruces, NM 1947 Overprints on First American Mail Rocket Flight Labels, Signed by Ernst Stuhlinger.

1947: Red and Black V-2 / Las Cruces USD 640.00 - 960.00 Unknown
50250

V-2 Rocket Launch Cover with Attached Photograph, White Sands Proving Ground, July 25, 1948, with Railway Post Office Postmark.

1948 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
50251

Voyager Aircraft Limited Edition, #151/500, Flown Cover Signed by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, with Numbered Certificate of Authenticity.

USD 160.00 - 240.00 Unknown
50252

Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7): Alan Shepard Signed U.S.S. Lake Champlain Recovery Ship Captain's Cover from Mission Date [with] Color Photo.

USD 720.00 - 1,080.00 Unknown
50253

Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7): Launch Cover Signed by John Glenn and Deke Slayton [with] Photo.

USD 120.00 - 180.00 Unknown
50254

Mercury-Atlas 7 (Aurora 7): Launch Cover Signed by Scott Carpenter [with] Color Photo.

USD 120.00 - 180.00 Unknown
50255

Gemini 12 Rare Backup Crew (Cooper, Cernan) Signed Launch Cover.

USD 240.00 - 360.00 Unknown
50256

Apollo 9 Rare Crew-Signed Official NASA Kennedy Space Center VIP Launch-Day Post Card [with] Color Photo.

USD 240.00 - 360.00 Unknown
50257

Apollo 12 Crew-Signed Moonlanding Cover, also Signed by Wernher von Braun, Robert Gilruth, Hermann Oberth, and Others.

USD 640.00 - 960.00 Unknown
50258

Apollo 12 Crew-Signed U.S. Navy Recovery Force Cover from the U.S.S. Hornet [with] Color Photo.

USD 560.00 - 840.00 Unknown
50259

Apollo 12 Presentation Grouping, Including a Flown Kapton Foil Segment from Yankee Clipper and a USS Hornet Recovery Cover with Letter of Transmittal from Swim Team Officer in Charge. Also, a Medallic Art Bronze Medal and Crew Patch.

USD 480.00 - 720.00 Unknown
50260

Apollo 13 Crew-Signed U.S. Navy Recovery Force Cover from the U.S.S. New Orleans [with] Color Photo.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.