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Vermot de Pas: NASA Photographs - History of Space Conquest

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Auction Name	NASA Photographs - History of Space Conquest	Total Sales (EUR)	18,048.00
Auction Date	December 08, 2025 - December 08, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	18,800.00
Sale Number	#172873	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	26,500.00
Total Lots	300
Sold Lots	32.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	212,900.00
% of Lots Sold	10.67%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	303,650.00
Unsold Lots	268	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	5.94%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
56	NASA.	Apollo 11 mission. Historic photograph of astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the lunar module "EAGLE" next to the lunar wind analysis instrument.	July 20, 1969	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,408.00
234	NASA.	A magnificent and exceptional high-definition photograph of the lunar globe...	2010	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,152.00
53	NASA.	Apollo 11 mission. Historic photograph showing astronaut Buzz Aldrin saluting the American flag on	July 20, 1969	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,139.20
52	NASA.	Apollo 11 mission. Rare view of astronaut Buzz Aldrin halfway up the ladder of the lunar module EAGLE as he prepares to become the 2nd man to set foot on lunar soil.	July 20, 1969	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,024.00
60	NASA.	Apollo 11 mission. The most famous photograph of the Apollo 11 Mission showing astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the lunar surface.	July 1969	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 768.00
276	NASA.	This photograph condenses ultra-high-definition shots taken of the Sun over several weeks.	2016	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 640.00
25	NASA.	APOLLO 8 mission. Historic photograph depicting the 1st Earthrise observed by man from lunar orbit on	December 24, 1968	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
46	NASA.	APOLLO 12 mission. This magnificent photograph, captured during the Apollo 12 mission, shows the Earth rising above the lunar horizon.	1969	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
67	NASA.	Apollo 11 mission.	July 20, 1969	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
85	NASA.	Apollo 16. Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 mission, leaps into the air while saluting the American flag.	April 21, 1972	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
89	NASA.	APOLLO 17. View from Station 6, of an impressive lunar boulder taken during the third extravehicular activity (EVA).	1972	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
90		Planet Earth, 3rd planet of a star called the Sun. The Earth resembles a sphere, essentially composed of rock.	1972	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 588.80
103	NASA.	A false-color photograph produced by the VOYAGER 1 space probe: the mists captured from a distance of 22,000 km from Saturn's moon Titan.	November 1980	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
217	NASA.	Superb and historic photograph from the "BLUE MARBLE" series. Western Hemisphere.	2007	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
218	NASA.	Superb and historic photograph from the "BLUE MARBLE" series. Indian Ocean.	2007	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
230	NASA.	The Sun photographed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).	2010	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
232	NASA.	The Eagle Nebula consists of a cluster of stars and numerous emission and dark nebulae in the constellation Snake.	Circa 2010	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
246		The mythical Horsehead Nebula, specially photographed by Hubble	November 2012	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
253	NASA.	Magnificent mosaic photograph of the extraordinary planet Mars	2013	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
262	NASA.	Exceptional capture of a solar flare located on the lower part of the sun	October 27, 2014	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
285	NASA.	Superb crescent Moon photographed from the International Space Station (ISS) during an orbital sunset		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 588.80
54	NASA.	Apollo 11 mission. On July 24, 1969, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, U.S .Navy frogmen have just picked up astronauts Neil A .Armstrong, Michael Colins and Edwin E .Aldrin, Jr .Armstrong, Michael Colins and Edwin E .Aldrin, Jr .	July 24, 1969	EUR 600.00 - 700.00	EUR 576.00
48	NASA.	The impressive silhouette of the Saturn V rocket rises into the Florida sky.	May 20, 1969	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 448.00
73	NASA.	Astronaut James Irwin salutes the American flag, with the Falcon lunar module and Rover in the background.	July 1971	EUR 800.00 - 900.00	EUR 448.00
12	NASA.	Misison Gemini 4. Astronaut Ed. White floats alone in space in front of the globe, becoming the first American to perform a spacewalk	June 1965	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 320.00

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000