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
5524 Vladimir Dezhurov

ISS Expedition 3/STS-103/STS-109 Flown $1 Dollar Bill, Signed by Vladimir Dezhurov

1995 USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
5526 Kenneth Bowersox; Nikolai Budarin; Donald Pettit; Yuri Malenchenko; Ed Lu

ISS Expedition 6 and 7 Flown Crew-Signed Letter and Flown Cover

N/A USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
5528 Yuri Malenchenko

ISS Expedition 32/Soyuz TMA-05M Flown Letter by Yuri Malenchenko

2012 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
5529 Sergey Zalyotin; Aleksandr Kaleri

Soyuz TM-30/MIR-28/TMA-1/ISS Flown $1 Dollar Bill, Signed by Sergey Zalyotin and Aleksandr Kaleri

1995 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
5530 Sergei Zalyotin; Frank De Winne; Yury Lonchakov

Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34/ISS (2) Flown 10 Ruble Bills, Signed by Sergei Zalyotin, Frank De Winne, and Yury Lonchakov

1997 USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
5531 Sergei Zalyotin; Frank De Winne; Yury Lonchakov

Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34/ISS Flown 5 Euro Bill, Signed by Sergei Zalyotin, Frank De Winne, and Yury Lonchakov

2002 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
5534 R. H. Goddard

Robert H. Goddard Typed Letter Signed on His Time in Princeton, where "a large part of the high-altitude rocket theory was worked out"

1929 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
5535 Robert H. Goddard

Robert H. Goddard: First Edition of Rockets (1946)

NY 1946 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
5537 R. H. Goddard

Robert H. Goddard Signature

N/A USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
5539 Tsiolkovsky

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Autograph Letter Signed

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
5540

Ranger Program Three-Volume Collection of (550) Photographs

1964; 1965 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
5546

Martin Marietta: Paul E. Hogan Aerospace Engineering Archive - Titan, Viking, Skylab, and Space Shuttle (1962–1982)

1962-1982 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
5561 Sergey Prokopyev; Dmitri Petelin; Francisco Rubio; Nicole Mann; Koichi Wakata; Anna Kikina; Josh Kassada; Stephen Bowen; Warren Hoburg; Sultan Al-Nejadi; Andrey Fedjajev

ISS Expedition 68 Flown Cover, Signed by (11)

N/A USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
5562 Butch Wilmore; Sunita Williams; Jeanette Epps; Michael Barratt; Matthew Dominick

SpaceX Dragon Crew-9 Flown Cover Signed by (7)

N/A USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
5564 Mike Melvill; Brian Binnie

SpaceShipOne Flown $2 Dollar Bill, Signed by Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie - PMG CU 64

2003 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
5565

Blue Origin NS-13 Flown $2 Dollar Bill

1976 USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
5566 Edwin Hubble

Edwin Hubble Signature

Mt. Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California, U.S.A. N/A USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
5567 Ch. Nungesser

Charles Nungesser Letter Signed as a Student Pilot: "The wind blows all day and the officers do not let us go out"

1914 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
5568 Clyde W. Tombaugh

Clyde Tombaugh Autograph Letter Signed: "I calculated the models of the solar system and galaxy"

1976 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
5569 Clyde W. Tombaugh

Clyde Tombaugh Signed Photograph

N/A USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
5573 Pavel Popovich; Andrian Nikolaev; Gherman Titov; Valentina Tereshkova; Yuri Gagarin; Valery Bykovsky

Vostok Cosmonauts (6) Multi-Signed Photograph

1964 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
5574 Alexei Leonov

Alexei Leonov (10) Signed Prints - 'First Walk' - Each 20˝ x 16.5˝

1991 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
5575 Yuri Gagarin; Pavel Popovich; Gherman Titov; Andrian Nikolayev

Cosmonauts Signed Postcard with Gagarin, Popovich, Titov, and Nikolayev

c. 1963 USD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
5576 Yuri Gagarin; Pavel Popovich; Gherman Titov; Andrian Nikolayev

Cosmonauts Signed Cover with Gagarin, Popovich, Titov, and Nikolayev

c. 1966 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
5577 Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin Signed Postcard

c. 1961 USD 400.00 - 600.00 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.