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RR Auction: Space Exploration

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Auction Name	Space Exploration	Total Sales (USD)	721,633.00
Auction Date	October 16, 2025 - October 16, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	410,400.00
Sale Number	#728	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	593,400.00
Total Lots	435
Sold Lots	297.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	731,300.00
% of Lots Sold	68.28%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	1,051,600.00
Unsold Lots	138	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	68.62%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
8390	Gene Cernan's	Gene Cernan's Apollo 17 Lunar Surface-Flown 'LM Data Card Book' - All (20) Pages Signed and Flight-Certified by CDR Cernan	N/A	USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	USD 73,219.00
8369		Charlie Duke's A7LB EVA Glove TMG Assembly	N/A	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 53,594.00
8032	Wally Schirra"s	Wally Schirra"s Omega Speedmaster "Ed White" Professional Moonwatch (105.003-64) with Rare "True Blue" Bezel - Presented to a Project Gemini Medical Director	N/A	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 49,156.00
8175	Apollo 11	Apollo 11 Crew-Signed 'Type 1' Quarantine Cover, aEUoeCarried to the Moon on Apollo 11aEU - Flown Cover from the Personal Collection of Buzz Aldrin	N/A	USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	USD 45,125.00
8313		Apollo 14 Collection of (36) Flown Lunar Bible 50-Page Text Fragments Carried to the Surface of the Moon	N/A	USD 35,000.00 - 40,000.00	USD 41,023.00
8177		Apollo 11 Flown Flight Plan Page Twice-Signed by Buzz Aldrin, with In-Flight Notations by Aldrin and Collins	N/A	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 33,273.00
8121	Apollo 1	Apollo 1 Signed Oversized Photograph - From the Estate of a North American Aviation Employee	N/A	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 26,121.00
8431	Lindbergh, Aldrin, Collins, Irwin, Cernan, Sagan, and Roddenberry	National Air and Space Museum Signed Guestbook with Lindbergh, Aldrin, Collins, Irwin, Cernan, Sagan, and Roddenberry	N/A	USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 25,000.00
8181	Neil Armstrong	Neil Armstrong Signed Copy of His Scientific Article - "Lunar Surface Exploration" (1969)	N/A	USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 14,949.00
8132	Apollo 7	Apollo 7 Flown Cue Card from the First Live Television Broadcast from an American Spacecraft	N/A	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 13,589.00
8180		Apollo 11 Flown Flight Plan Page Signed by Buzz Aldrin - From the Personal Collection of Buzz Aldrin	N/A	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 13,589.00
8143	Apollo 8	Apollo 8 Crew-Signed Photograph - 'Earthrise'	N/A	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 11,731.00
8004	Wright Brothers	Wright Brothers Signed Menu Page from an Honorary Banquet Hosted by the Aero Club of Sarthe (May 1, 1909)	N/A	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 11,364.00
8185	Apollo 11	Apollo 11 Signed Book - First on the Moon	N/A	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 9,983.00
8191	Apollo 11 and Wernher von Braun	Apollo 11 and Wernher von Braun Signed "Splashdown Party" Program - Presented to the NASA Scientist Who Helped Save the Apollo 13 Astronauts	N/A	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 8,529.00
8183	Apollo 11	Apollo 11 Crew-Signed 'Type 3' Insurance Cover	N/A	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 8,504.00
8184	Apollo 11	Apollo 11 Crew-Signed 'Type 1' Insurance Cover	N/A	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 8,308.00
8029	Mercury 7	Mercury 7 Fully Signed Book - The Astronauts	N/A	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 8,043.00
8189		Neil Armstrong's Aviation Hall of Fame 10K Gold Medal - NGC MS 64	N/A	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 7,499.00
8190	Apollo 11	Apollo 11 Crew-Signed $1 Dollar Bill	N/A	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 7,320.00
8007	William E. Boeing	William E. Boeing Typed Letter Signed, Preceding the Founding of Boeing: "In the past few months I have taken a great deal of interest in aviation"	N/A	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	USD 7,155.00
8079		Gemini 9 Flown Spacecraft ID Plate - From the Personal Collection of Gene Cernan	N/A	USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 6,265.00
8122	Apollo 1	Apollo 1 (3) Signed Photographs - Grissom,White, and Chaffee	N/A	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,813.00
8449		Apollo 15, 16, and 17 Training-Used "LM Data Card Book" Manuals - Signed and Certified by Dave Scott, Charlie Duke, and Gene Cernan	N/A	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,623.00
8367	Charlie Duke	Charlie Duke Handwritten Apollo 16 Training Notebook: "Our really intensive training starts next month with the beginning of spacecraft checkout"	N/A	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 5,530.00

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.