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
5402 Alan Bean; Wally Schirra; Walt Cunningham; Frank Borman; Jim McDivitt; Rusty Schweickart; Tom Stafford; Buzz Aldrin; Michael Collins; Charles Conrad; Richard Gordon; Fred Haise; James Lovell; Harrison Schmitt; Charlie Duke; Dave Scott; Al Worden; Alan She

Apollo Astronauts (20) Multi-Signed Print by Alan Bean - 'In the Beginning' (Ltd. Ed. #223/1000)

N/A USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,191.00
5404 Buzz Aldrin; Alan Bean; Edgar Mitchell; Charlie Duke; Gene Cernan; James Lovell; Tom Stafford; Fred Haise; Richard Gordon; Walt Cunningham; Rusty Schweickart; Al Worden; Gordon Cooper

Apollo Spacecraft News Signed by (13) Astronauts, including Aldrin, Cernan, and

1969 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,251.00
5405 Frank Borman; Jim Irwin; James Lovell; John Glenn; Richard Gordon; Jim McDivitt; Wally Schirra; Deke Slayton; Tony England; Gordon Fullerton; Ed Gibson

Astronauts (11) Signed $2 Dollar Bills, with Glenn, Borman, Lovell, Irwin, and Schirra

N/A USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 1,344.00
5406 Gene Cernan; Scott Carpenter; Walt Cunningham; James Lovell; Al Worden; Rusty Schweickart; Richard Gordon; Tom Stafford; Gene Kranz; Suzan Cooper; Alan Bean

Astronauts (9) Multi-Signed Book - Painting Apollo: First Artist on Another World by Alan Bean

Washington, D.C. 2009 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
5408 James Wyeth; Peter Hurd; Mitchell Jamieson; George A. Weymouth; Billy Morrow Jackson; Paul Calle; Lamar Dodd; Hugh Laidman; Franklin McMahon; Nicholas Solovioff; Fred Freeman

NASA Poster and Chart Collection (23)

1966; 1989 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 734.00
5409

Apollo Program Contamination Control Handbook and Snoopy Poster: "Dirt and Fibers are for the Birds!"

1966; c. 1970 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
5410

Apollo Manned Flight Awareness 'Critical Space Item' Snoopy Poster: "We are now entering the Moon landing phase of Apollo"

c. 1969 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 334.00
5411

Apollo Mission Simulator Instructor Handbook

1966 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,399.00
5412 Joseph G. Gavin, Jr.

Apollo Operations Handbook 'Lunar Module, LM 10 and Subsequent' (1971) - Signed by the Director of the Lunar Module Program, Joseph G. Gavin, Jr.

1971 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,325.00
5413 John Houbolt; Aaron Cohen

Apollo Operations Handbook 'Block II Spacecraft' Volume I (1969) - Signed by NASA Engineers John Houbolt and Aaron Cohen

1969 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,251.00
5415

Apollo Program (5) Schematics

N/A USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
5416

Apollo/Saturn V Oversized Launch Photographs (5)

N/A USD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
5417

Russian Reports on Project Mercury, Apollo 13, and Apollo 14

N/A USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
5439

Charles and Gayle Dodson Dual NASA Archives Highlighted by Space Shuttle-Flown Artifacts, a Silver Snoopy Award, and Career Accolades from the Marshall Space Flight Center

N/A USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 2,843.00
5443 Glenn E. Daniels

NASA Technical Memorandum (1973) - 'Terrestrial Environment (Climatic) Criteria Guidelines for Use in Aerospace Vehicle Development'

1973 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
5444 John P. Marbarger; Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun Signed Book - Space Medicine - From the Library of Walter Dornberger, Leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 Rocket Program

Urbana, Illinois; Frankfurt, Germany 1951; 1952; 1953 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 966.00
5445 Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun Handwritten Draft Letter on the Transfer of Lunar Traverse Planning to Houston

1966 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,059.00
5446 Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun Signed Photograph and Typed Letter Signed

1959 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 908.00
5447 Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun Typed Letter Signed: "Why I Believe in Immortality"

1960 USD 500.00 - 600.00 USD 656.00
5448 Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun Signed Photograph

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 723.00
5451 Jack Lousma

Jack Lousma Autograph Letter Signed: "Critics of our efforts in space will be relegated to the same place in history as those who said, 'It will never fly, Orville!'"

1974 USD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
5452 Jack Lousma

Jack Lousma Autograph Letter Signed: "Expect by now you have received invitation to Skylab II launch"

1973 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
5455

Skylab 2, 3, and 4 Manual - 'Launch Vehicle Ground Support Planning Document'

1972 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
5458 Andre Dumas; C. E. Hennecart; J. B. Montgomery; M. J. Randleman

Skylab 4: National Aeronautic Association and Federation Aeronautique Internationale World Record Certificates (4) - From the Personal Collection of William Pogue

N/A USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 303.00
5460

Skylab 4 Flight Evaluation Report - 'Saturn IB Launch Vehicle'

1974 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
  • 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.