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	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
5077	Gordon Cooper	Gordon Cooper Signed $1 Dollar Bill	1957A	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
5078	Gordon Cooper	Gordon Cooper Signed $1 Dollar Bill	1957A	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
5081	John Glenn	John Glenn Signed $1 Dollar Bill	1957A	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
5083	Gus Grissom	Gus Grissom Signed Check - America's Second Man in Space Pays 'The Holiday Inn' Four Days After Flying the Liberty Bell 7	1961	USD 500.00 - 600.00	Unknown
5084	Gus Grissom	Gus Grissom Document Signed	1962	USD 400.00 - 600.00	Unknown
5088	Gus Grissom	Liberty Bell 7: Postlaunch Memorandum Report for Mercury-Redstone 4 - From the Personal Collection of Gus Grissom	1961	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
5090	Walter M. Schirra, Jr.; Virgil I. Grissom; Bill Dana; Leroy S. Cooper; D. K. Slayton; Bill Lyon	Mercury Astronauts Signed $1 Dollar Bill with Gus Grissom - From the Personal Collection of Wally Schirra	1935G	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
5091	George Bishop	Mercury Astronauts (6) Multi-Signed Limited Edition Print - 'Mercury 7' (35˝ x 25˝)	N/A	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
5093	Wally Schirra	Wally Schirra Signed $1 Dollar Bill	1957A	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
5094	Gus Grissom; John Young	Gemini 3 Molly Brown Flown $2 Dollar Bill, Signed by Gus Grissom and John Young - PMG CVF 35	1953C	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Unknown
5096	Jim McDivitt	Gemini 4 Flown $2 Dollar Bill, Signed by Jim McDivitt - PMG EF 40	1963	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Unknown
5099	Gordon Cooper; Charles Conrad, Jr.	Gemini 5 Flown $2 Dollar Bill Halves, Signed by Charles Conrad and Gordon Cooper for Padleader Guenter Wendt	1963	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Unknown
5108	Gene Cernan	Gemini 9 Flown Flight Plan Book - From the Personal Collection of Gene Cernan	N/A	USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	Unknown
5116	John Young; Michael Collins	Gemini 10 Crew-Signed $1 Dollar Bill - Young and Collins	1963A	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
5117	Charles Conrad; Richard Gordon	Gemini 11 Crew-Signed $1 Dollar Bill - Conrad and Gordon	1963A	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
5118	James Lovell; Buzz Aldrin	Gemini 12 Crew-Signed $1 Dollar Bill - Aldrin and Lovell	1963A	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
5120	Jim McDivitt; Edward White II	Gemini 4 Crew-Signed $1 Dollar Bill - White and McDivitt	1963A	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
5121		Gemini 4 Original 'Type 1' Photograph - Edward H. White II's Spacewalk	N/A	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
5122		Gemini 4 Original 'Type 1' Photograph - Edward H. White II's Spacewalk	N/A	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
5123		Gemini 4 Original 'Type 1' Photograph - Edward H. White II's Spacewalk	N/A	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
5124		Gemini 5 'Experimental Procedure' Checklist Page (Attested as Flown)	N/A	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Unknown
5126	Wally Schirra; Tom Stafford	Gemini 6 Crew-Signed $1 Dollar Bill - Stafford and Schirra	1963A	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
5128	Frank Borman; James Lovell	Gemini 7 Crew-Signed $1 Dollar Bill - Borman and Lovell	1963	USD 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
5132	Eugene F. Kranz	Gene Kranz Signed Gemini 6 'Mission Rules' Manual	N/A	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Unknown
5133	Paul Haney; Alan Shepard	Alan Shepard and Paul Haney Hand-Annotated and Signed Government Memorandum: "The public at large doesn't think of our space pilots as a bunch of altar boys"	1968	USD 500.00 - 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.