RR Auction: Space Exploration and Aviation, 740, Amherst
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 23, 2026 - April 23, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5031 | Louis Bleriot | Louis Bleriot Typed Letter Signed |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 558.00 | |
| 5032 | Igor Sikorsky | Igor Sikorsky Collection of Publishing Material for His Autobiography, The Story of the Winged-S, Including (7) Signed Documents and Typed Letters |
1936; 1958 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,769.00 | |
| 5033 | Frank Whittle | Frank Whittle Archive with a Confidential First Report on the Turbojet Engine (1 of 5 Copies) and (3) Signed Documents |
1938; 1940 | USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 | |
| 5037 | Chuck Yeager; Bob Hoover | Chuck Yeager and Bob Hoover (2) |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 5038 | Alan Bean; Frank Borman; Vance Brand; Gene Cernan; Walt Cunningham; Charlie Duke; Joe Engle; Fred Haise; Jim Lovell; Jim McDivitt; Dick Rutan; Roy Grinnell | The Spirit of Flight Print Signed by (11) Astronauts and Aviators (30˝ x 24˝) (Ltd. Ed. 57/80) |
N/A | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5050 | Galileo Galilei | Galileo Galilei: First Latin Edition of Systema Cosmicum (1635) |
Strasbourg (Augusta Trebocorum) | 1635 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 13,753.00 |
| 5051 | Hermann Struck | Albert Einstein Signed Etching by Hermann Struck (c. 1920) (Ltd. Ed. #149/150): "Per aspera ad astra" |
1920 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 12,353.00 | |
| 5052 | NASA Launch Complex Set of (7) Fragments from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 5053 | Hermann Oberth | Hermann Oberth Typed Manuscript Signed - 'The Moon Car' |
1957 | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5054 | Wernher von Braun; Hermann Oberth; Rudolf Nebel; Ernst Engel | Rocket Pioneers: Wernher von Braun, Hermann Oberth, Rudolf Nebel, and Ernst Engel Signed 'Berlin Rocket Airfield' Cover |
1970 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 656.00 | |
| 5055 | Neil Armstrong; Alan Shepard; John Glenn | Space Firsts: Neil Armstrong, Alan Shepard, and John Glenn Signed Philatelic Souvenir |
N/A | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 4,441.00 | |
| 5056 | Wernher von Braun | Wernher von Braun Signed Mini Poster |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 275.00 | |
| 5057 | Wernher von Braun | Wernher von Braun Signed Book - The Mars Project |
Urbana, IL | 1953 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 2,296.00 |
| 5059 | Joe Engle | X-15 Flight 138 Flown $1 Dollar Bill, Signed by Joe Engle - PMG VF 25 |
1963 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5061 | Gordon Cooper | Mercury-Atlas 9 Faith 7 Flown $2 Dollar Bill, Signed by Gordon Cooper - PMG VF 30 |
1917 | USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5062 | John Glenn; Scott Carpenter | Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 Flown $2 Dollar Bill, Signed by John Glenn and Scott Carpenter - PMG VF 30 |
1953A | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 9,375.00 | |
| 5065 | M. Scott Carpenter; Leroy G. Cooper, Jr.; Virgil I. Grissom; Walter M. Schirra, Jr.; Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; D. K. Slayton | Mercury 7 and Wives Signed Agency Contract for Rights to "their personal stories of their space flights" |
1965 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 2,063.00 | |
| 5066 | Gordon Cooper | Gordon Cooper's Mercury-Atlas 9 Notebook - Over 20 Pages of Handwritten Notes and Sketches for the Faith 7 Capsule |
1963 | USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5068 | John Glenn | John Glenn Signed Flight Plan for the Mercury-Atlas 6 Mission |
1961 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5070 | Scott Carpenter | Scott Carpenter Signed 'Project Mercury Familiarization' Manual |
1961 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,361.00 | |
| 5071 | Scott Carpenter | Scott Carpenter Handwritten Prelight Checklist for the Mercury-Atlas 7 Mission |
1962 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 2,968.00 | |
| 5072 | Scott Carpenter | Scott Carpenter Signed $1 Dollar Bill |
1957A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 5073 | Gordon Cooper | Gordon Cooper Handwritten Meeting Notes with Chris Kraft on the Mercury Rocket Abort System |
1959 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,251.00 | |
| 5075 | Gordon Cooper | Gordon Cooper Handwritten Training Notes (12 pages) for the Gemini 5 Mission |
1965 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 833.00 | |
| 5076 | Gordon Cooper | Gordon Cooper Signed Souvenir Currency |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
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Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic 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 2026Dominic 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 2026Dominic 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 2026Dominic 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. -
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