Ripley Auctions: PICKERS EXPRESS Timed Auction of Industrial, Scientific & Pop Culture Collectibles XIX, 12726, Indianapolis

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 27, 2026 - January 27, 2026
Page Size: 85 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
11151

Lot of vintage advertising material Mead Cycle Company bicycles in original envelopes

Not Available Unknown
11152

Lot of vintage radio advertising material, early-mid 1900's, The Scott Mews, pamphlets for Rederal Radio Type 59 and Western Electric Telephone Headset, Golden-Leutz 1927 Catalog, Graybar Radio ad poster

early-mid 1900's Not Available Unknown
11173 Paul Whiteman,

Jazz (Hardcover)

1926 Not Available Unknown
11174

Telefunken Werkstattbuch (Workshop Book), a collectible manual for Telefunken radios,

1948-07-01 Not Available Unknown
11175

Grand opera, Boston grand opera, 1898 edition, Puccini,

1898 Not Available Unknown
11176 Meyerbeer,

1860 libretto, Les Huguenots, comes with "letter of significance"

1860 Not Available Unknown
11177

4 Richard Wagner programs from 1888, 1890, Metropolitan Opera House, Valkyr, Tannhauser, etc.

1888, 1890, Not Available Unknown
11178

10 metropolitan Opera House programs, 1930s era, Libretto, comes with note from past owner,

Not Available Unknown
11179

Grand opera House, Six opera/libretto programs early 1900s to 1930s, enclosed note.

early 1900s to 1930s Not Available Unknown
11181 M.G. Hay,

Handmade and written instruction book "Naval Ship Construction" shipwright work

Not Available Unknown
11189

6 volumes of Harper's magazine from the 1870s,

1870s, Not Available Unknown
11194

Bound volume of Atlantic Monthly from 1860, Darwin Origin of Species,

1860 Not Available Unknown
11195

book Grundzuge der Physik (Principles of Physics) by Dr. Johannes Cruger,

Leipzig 1889 Not Available Unknown
11196 Babcock, George H. and Stephen Wilcox,

Steam - Its Generation and Use (Hardcover),

New York, 1908, Not Available Unknown
11197

Collier's Photographic History of World Wat II (1944), American Shrines in England, Howard Heinz (1910?) and Nature's Art: ...

Not Available Unknown
11216 A.A. Fesquet,

Galvanoplastic Manipulations: A Practical Guide for the Gold and Silver... (Hardcover)

1872 Not Available Unknown
11217 , written by Henry Frith and S. Rawson. , Authors: Henry Frith and S. Rawson,

Coil and Current; or, the Triumphs of Electricity

1896 Not Available Unknown
11218 by D.B. Dixon and Thos

The Mechanical Arts Simplified, It is a comprehensive guide to mechanical arts, machinery, and engineering. hydraulics, pneumatics, steam engines, and electricity.

1894 Not Available Unknown
11219 J. Munro,

Electricity and its Uses

London 1890 Not Available Unknown
11220

Radio Equipment supplies 1928 Post and Lester,

1928 Not Available Unknown
11221 George Gershwin

Vintage vocal score for the opera Porgy and Bess

Not Available Unknown
11222

Motor annual Show, January 1932,

1932 Not Available Unknown
11223

1951 Street & Smith's All-Star Sports Baseball magazine featuring Joe DiMaggio and Ralph Kiner on the cover.

1951 Not Available Unknown
11268

2 early 20th century pamphlets, "the Heart of Everyman's Library, H.W. Mabie 1909, and "The Book Of the Roycrofters" 1914,

1909, and 1914, Not Available Unknown
11269

Bound volume of Harper's Magazine, 1868-1869,

1868-1869, Not Available Unknown
  • 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 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    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
  • 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.