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
5031	Louis Bleriot	Louis Bleriot Typed Letter Signed		N/A	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
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	Unknown
5037	Chuck Yeager; Bob Hoover	Chuck Yeager and Bob Hoover (2)		N/A	USD 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
5050	Galileo Galilei	Galileo Galilei: First Latin Edition of Systema Cosmicum (1635)	Strasbourg (Augusta Trebocorum)	1635	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
5052		NASA Launch Complex Set of (7) Fragments from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station		N/A	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Unknown
5053	Hermann Oberth	Hermann Oberth Typed Manuscript Signed - 'The Moon Car'		1957	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
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	Unknown
5056	Wernher von Braun	Wernher von Braun Signed Mini Poster		N/A	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
5057	Wernher von Braun	Wernher von Braun Signed Book - The Mars Project	Urbana, IL	1953	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
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	Unknown
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	Unknown
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	Unknown
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	Unknown
5068	John Glenn	John Glenn Signed Flight Plan for the Mercury-Atlas 6 Mission		1961	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Unknown
5070	Scott Carpenter	Scott Carpenter Signed 'Project Mercury Familiarization' Manual		1961	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
5071	Scott Carpenter	Scott Carpenter Handwritten Prelight Checklist for the Mercury-Atlas 7 Mission		1962	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
5072	Scott Carpenter	Scott Carpenter Signed $1 Dollar Bill		1957A	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
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	Unknown
5075	Gordon Cooper	Gordon Cooper Handwritten Training Notes (12 pages) for the Gemini 5 Mission		1965	USD 500.00 - 700.00	Unknown
5076	Gordon Cooper	Gordon Cooper Signed Souvenir Currency		N/A	USD 200.00 - 300.00	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.