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Auction Name Final Frontier: Space Exploration & Flight Through the Ages - Fact & Fiction. Timed Auction - bidstart 9/7 Total Sales (USD) 22,338.00
Auction Date September 17, 2020 - September 17, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #2039 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 231
Sold Lots 154 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 66.67% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 77 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
211

Panama and the Canal from an Aeroplane...in Six Parts - six sheet film poster

[1914] Not Available USD 1,200.00
2 Gauss, Carl Friedrich

Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium

1809 Not Available USD 996.00
210

Panama and the Canal from an Aeroplane...in Six Parts - one sheet film poster

[1914] Not Available USD 660.00
23 Lasser, David

Conquest Of Space

1931 Not Available USD 480.00
109 Ride, Sally, et al

Four books signed by women astronauts

1963-2003 Not Available USD 480.00
163 Frewin, Anthony, editor

Are We Alone: The Stanley Kubrick Extraterrestrial-Intelligence Interviews

1992 Not Available USD 480.00
43 Tsien, Hsue-shen, editor

Jet Propulsion, A Reference Text Prepared By The Staffs Of The Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute Of Technology

1946 Not Available USD 360.00
56 Clarke, Arthur C.

The Exploration Of Space

1951 Not Available USD 360.00
180 Clarke, Arthur C.

Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography

[1959] Not Available USD 360.00
206

Zeppelin-Weltfahrten

[1933] Not Available USD 360.00
154 Von Braun, Wernher

The Mars Project

1901 Not Available USD 330.00
27 Philp, Charles G.

Stratosphere And Rocket Flight (Astronautics)

1935 Not Available USD 300.00
77 Von Braun, Werhner; Hermann Oberth, et al

Space Journal, Dedicated To The Astro-Sciences: Official Organ Of The Rocket City Astronomical Association

1957-1959 Not Available USD 300.00
155 Wells, H.G.

The First Men in the Moon

2008 Not Available USD 300.00
193 Clarke, Arthur C.

Voices From the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age

2017 Not Available USD 300.00
212

Approximately 75 real-photo postcards, original snapshot photographs, photomechanical postcards, etc., featuring heavier- and lighter-than-air flying craft, most at Berlin's Johannisthal airfield

c.1909-1914, some later Not Available USD 300.00
219

Airplane Rides Featuring the Boeing Clipper America's Largest Trimotor

[1929] Not Available USD 300.00
69 Caidin, Martin (editor)

Astronautics, Journal of the American Astronautical Society

1954-1955 Not Available USD 270.00
182 Clarke, Arthur C.

Childhood Ends: The Earliest Writings of Arthur C. Clarke

[1953] Not Available USD 270.00
6 Lowell, Percival

Mars As The Abode Of Life

1908 Not Available USD 240.00
12 Esnault-Pelterie, Robert

L'Exploration Par Fusées De La Très Haute Atmosphére Et De La Possibilité De Voyages Interplanétaires [Exploration by Rocket of the Very High Atmosphere and of the Possibility of Interplanetary Travel]

1928 Not Available USD 240.00
50 Tsien, Hsue-Shen

Collection of writings by Hsue-Shen Tsien

1950-1953 Not Available USD 240.00
52 Sutton, George P.[aul]

Rocket Propulsion Elements: An Introduction To The Engineering Of Rockets

1949 Not Available USD 240.00
87

Memoirs by Three Scientists involved in the Development of Early U. S. Space Policy

1958-1964 Not Available USD 240.00
119 Clarke, Arthur C., compiler and editor

Coming Of The Space Age: Famous Accounts Of Man’s Probing Of The Universe

1967 Not Available USD 240.00
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