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
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
  • 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.