RR Auction: Space Exploration and Aviation, 740, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 23, 2026 - April 23, 2026

Page Size: 333 items in 14 pages

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	Unknown
5002	Thaddeus Lowe	Thaddeus Lowe Letter Signed		N/A	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
5003	Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin	Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin Autograph Letter Signed		N/A	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
5005	H. Luschnath	Zeppelin-Weltfahrten Book (1933) - Collector Picture Album with (264) Cigarette Cards	Dresden, Germany	1933	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
5006	Samuel P. Langley	Samuel P. Langley Autograph Letter Signed		N/A	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
5010	Wilbur Wright	Wilbur Wright Signed Check to His 'Flying Machine' Patent Lawyer		N/A	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
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	Unknown
5015	Orville Wright	Orville Wright Signed Commemorative Cover - "Silver Anniversary of the First Airplane Flight" (1928)		N/A	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
5017	Orville Wright	Orville Wright Typed Letter Signed to His Grand-Nephew, Wilbur Wright		N/A	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
5018	Orville Wright	Orville Wright Signed Check		N/A	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
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	Unknown
5021	Glenn Curtiss	Glenn Curtiss Signed Air Mail Cover		N/A	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
5022		Curtiss-Wright 1930 Aircraft Sales Manual	New York City	N/A	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
5023	Maurice Farman	Maurice Farman Autograph Letter Signed: "Aviation will soon change the way of fighting"		N/A	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
5024	Charles Nungesser	Charles Nungesser Signed Photograph		N/A	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
5026	Charles A. Lindbergh	Charles Lindbergh Signed Photograph with the 'Spirit of St. Louis'		N/A	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
5027	Charles A. Lindbergh	Charles Lindbergh Signed Photograph		N/A	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
5029	Amelia Earhart	Amelia Earhart Signed 'New York State Fair' Air Mail Cover (1928)		N/A	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
5030	Amelia Earhart	Amelia Earhart Signed Commemorative 'Air Mail' Cover (1933)		N/A	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.