RR Auction: Space Exploration and Aviation, 740, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 23, 2026 - April 23, 2026
Page Size: 333 items in 14 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5001 Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier

Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier Document Signed - Inventor of the Hot Air Balloon

N/A USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,856.00
5002 Thaddeus Lowe

Thaddeus Lowe Letter Signed

N/A USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
5003 Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin

Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin Autograph Letter Signed

N/A USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 368.00
5005 H. Luschnath

Zeppelin-Weltfahrten Book (1933) - Collector Picture Album with (264) Cigarette Cards

Dresden, Germany 1933 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 303.00
5006 Samuel P. Langley

Samuel P. Langley Autograph Letter Signed

N/A USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
5009 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Partial Typed Letter Signed on Demonstration Flights: "Witnesses to these flights have become so enthusiastic that they have been unable to hold their tongues"

N/A USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,755.00
5010 Wilbur Wright

Wilbur Wright Signed Check to His 'Flying Machine' Patent Lawyer

N/A USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,505.00
5011 Wilbur Wright

Wilbur Wright Autograph Letter Signed, Outlining Purchase Terms for Wright Flyers: "With an order of five machines we would teach an operator to use them"

N/A USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
5014 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Typed Letter Signed, Seeking to Preserve "the motor used at Kitty Hawk in 1903"

N/A USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,999.00
5015 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Signed Commemorative Cover - "Silver Anniversary of the First Airplane Flight" (1928)

N/A USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
5016 Lorin Wright

Lorin Wright Typed Letter Signed: "I cannot tell whether there is a possibility of getting a letter or picture from Orville"

N/A USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
5017 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Typed Letter Signed to His Grand-Nephew, Wilbur Wright

N/A USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 915.00
5018 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Signed Check

N/A USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 625.00
5019 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Typed Letter Signed to Henry Ford, Sending Thanks for Congratulations on "the anniversary of our first flight"

N/A USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,888.00
5020 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Typed Letter Signed, Suggesting a Noted Canadian Explorer "to give a talk on the Wright brothers' contribution to Arctic and other exploration"

N/A USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 795.00
5021 Glenn Curtiss

Glenn Curtiss Signed Air Mail Cover

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 335.00
5022

Curtiss-Wright 1930 Aircraft Sales Manual

New York City N/A USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 643.00
5023 Maurice Farman

Maurice Farman Autograph Letter Signed: "Aviation will soon change the way of fighting"

N/A USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
5024 Charles Nungesser

Charles Nungesser Signed Photograph

N/A USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 688.00
5025 Donald Albert Hall

Charles Lindbergh: Donald Albert Hall's Spirit of St. Louis Time Sheet and Movie Consulting Notes

N/A USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
5026 Charles A. Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh Signed Photograph with the 'Spirit of St. Louis'

N/A USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,363.00
5027 Charles A. Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh Signed Photograph

N/A USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
5028 Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh Typed Letter Signed, Preparing a Demo of His Heart-Bypass Pump in Copenhagen

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 334.00
5029 Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart Signed 'New York State Fair' Air Mail Cover (1928)

N/A USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,276.00
5030 Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart Signed Commemorative 'Air Mail' Cover (1933)

N/A USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,505.00
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 83 – Westall & Owen. Picturesque Tour of the River Thames, 1st edition, 1828. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 88 – Blume. Rumphia, Botanicae de plantis Indiae Orientalis, 1835-1848. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 101 – Michaux. Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1810-1812. £700-1,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 102 – Miller & Shaw. Cimelia Physica, 1796 [but c. 1816]. £3,000-5,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 104 – Parkinson. Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. £800-1,200.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 159 – Plancius. Orbis Terrarum..., double hemisphere map, 1594-99. £5,000-8,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 217 – Illuminated Medieval Manuscript. From a Breviary, 14th/15th c. £3,000-4,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 224 – The newe Testament … By Wylliam Tyndall…, 1549. £3,000-5,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 238 – Douay-Rheims Bible. 3 volumes, 1582/1609/1610. £7,000-10,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 336 – Ashendene Press. A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, 1903. £1,000-1,500.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 393 – Sassoon. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, signed limited edition, 1931. £800-1,200.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 402 – Dylan Thomas. Twenty-Five Poems, 1st edition in d.j., 1936. £400-600.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000
  • Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Timberlake, Henry: A DRAUGHT OF THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY on the West Side of the Twenty Four Mountains, Commonly Called "Over the Hills". $18,000 to $22,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Manuscript orderly book detailing day to day activities of multiple Virginia regiments in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary,1776-1777. $7,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, Random House, New York, 1965. Signed 1st Edition. $3,800 to $4,200.
    Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Battle of Kings Mountain Pamphlet by Isaac Shelby, April 1823, Signed. $1,800 to $2,200.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Large Tintype CSA Lt. Col. Thomas Coke Johnson, 19th GA, w/ Southern Cross, Book. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare Civil War Ambrotype, 19th GA Infantry with Johnson Family of GA. $800 to $1,200.
    Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: A signed note written by Thomas Alva Edison to an unknown recipient, in which he shares his thoughts on Guglielmo Marconi, regarded as the inventor of the radio. $800 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare 1931 TN Grasslands Steeplechase Book, Gallatin. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: War of 1812 related Broadside, Petersburg Volunteers. $700 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: 2 World War I Posters, “Our Colored Fighters” and “No Slacker”. $800 to $1,000.