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Auction Name Space Exploration - bidstart 7/13 Total Sales (USD) 1,189,646.00
Auction Date July 20, 2021 - July 20, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 529,400.00
Sale Number #N10719 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 781,100.00
Total Lots 67
Sold Lots 62 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 542,900.00
% of Lots Sold 92.54% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 802,600.00
Unsold Lots 5 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 148.22%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
44

Apollo Guidance Computer

ca 1966-67 USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 746,000.00
45

[Apollo 11] — Lunar Surface Flown Checklist sheet with notations by Neil Armstrong

USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 63,000.00
81

Richard Feynman's notes, letters, & et al from the Rogers Commission to Investigate the Challenger disaster, 1986.

1986 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 44,100.00
21

Hergé. On a Marché sur la Lune. Sgd. and insc. by Hergé and 8 Apollo astronauts, inc. 7 Moonwalkers

1954 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 20,160.00
46

[Apollo 11] — Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 flown crew-signed commemorative cover, number A-82

1969 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 20,160.00
58

Bean, Alan "Sunrise over Antares", Copyright Date 1984

1984 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,160.00
73

[Apollo 16] — Lunar Surface Flown Lunar Rover Steering System Schematic. Signed and inscribed by Charlie Duke

1972 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,900.00
78

[Apollo 17] — Lunar Surface Flown Lunar Rover Suspension System Schematic. Signed and inscribed by Gene Cernan

1972 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,900.00
20

[Lunar Missions] — Large lunar chart sgd. by a member of every lunar flight crew, inc. a Moonwalker from each mission

1970 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,380.00
63

[Apollo 13] — Translunar/Transearth Trajectory Plotting Chart (Boom!). Signed and inscribed by Lovell and Haise

1970 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 13,860.00
33

[Saturn 1B] — Extra Large Saturn 1B blueprint, signed and inscribed by Apollo 7 Lunar Module Pilot Walt Cunningham

[1966] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 12,600.00
56

[Apollo 11] — Apollo Translunar/Transearth Trajectory Plotting Chart. Signed and inscribed by Buzz Aldrin

1969 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 11,340.00
40

[Apollo 8] — Earthrise. Color photograph, signed and inscribed by Mission Commander Frank Borman

1968 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,190.00
48

[Apollo 11] - Crew Presentation Triptych. Color photos signed by the crew, framed w/ NASA and Apollo 11 emblems

USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,190.00
6

[Voshkod-2] — The First Spacewalk. Color photograph, signed and inscribed by Alexei Leonov

1965 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 7,560.00
26

[Lunar Excursion Module] Group of three original blueprints for the Grumman Lunar Excursion Module

1964 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,300.00
47

[Apollo 11] — Buzz Aldrin's crew signed insurance cover

1969 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,300.00
8

Album of 39 vintage gelatin prints of Langley Research Center taken by Senior NASA Photographer Bill Taub

1958 & 1959 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,048.00
15

[Gemini IV] — The First American Spacewalk. Color photograph signed and inscribed by Jim McDivitt

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,048.00
41

[Apollo 8] — Lunar Orbit Chart. Signed and inscribed by Mission Commander Frank Borman

1968 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,670.00
9

[Project Mercury] — Mercury Seven. Vintage photograph of the Mercury 7, signed by all seven

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,292.00
51

[Apollo 11] — Buzz in the Sea of Tranquility. Color photograph, signed and inscribed by Buzz Aldrin

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,292.00
18

[Gemini XII] — Buzz Aldrin in the First Space Selfie. Vintage NASA "red number" color photograph

1966 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,788.00
36

[Apollo 8] - Earthrise. Vintage chromogenic print taken by LMP William Anders

1968 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,788.00
49

[Apollo 11] — A Photographic Review of the Apollo 11 Mission. Set of twelve vintage NASA "red number" color photographs

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,788.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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