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Auction Name Space Exploration Signature Auction Total Sales (USD) 765,606.75
Auction Date December 11, 2025 - December 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 489,760.00
Sale Number #6326 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 734,640.00
Total Lots 515
Sold Lots 501.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 551,840.00
% of Lots Sold 97.28% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 827,760.00
Unsold Lots 14 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 92.49%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
50018

Vostok 1: Records File on the First Space Flight by the USSR Citizen Yuri Alexeyevitch Gagarin, Made on April 12, 1961, on Spaceship-Sputnik "Vostok," Signed by Yuri Gagarin.

1961 USD 14,400.00 - 21,600.00 USD 42,500.00
50016

Space Mail: USAF "First Mail from Outer Space" Cover Flown on Discovery XVII with Original Letter of Transmittal to NASA's First Administrator, 1960.

1960 USD 1,440.00 - 2,160.00 USD 35,000.00
50031

Voskhod 2: Records File of the First Flight in the World with the Exit of a Human into Outer Space on the Spacecraft-Satellite Voskhod-2, March 18--19, 1965, Signed by Belyayev and Leonov.

1965 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 35,000.00
50136

Alan Bean Original 2000 Painting "Lone Star" Textured Acrylic with Moondust and Flown Kapton Foil on Aircraft Plywood.

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 35,000.00
50103

Apollo 11 Flown Crew-Signed "Type Three" Quarantine Cover, Hand-numbered "EEA-30", Certified and Signed on Both Front and Verso and Originally from the Personal Collection of Mission LMP Buzz Aldrin, with 1980-dated Signed Personal Letter of Provenance an

1980-dated Signed Personal Letter of Provenance and Authenticity from Space Expert Michael Orenstein. USD 24,000.00 - 36,000.00 USD 27,500.00
50143

Apollo 13 Flown Flag on Crew-Signed Presentation, Originally from the Personal Collection of Jack Swigert.

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 25,000.00
50028

Vostok 6: Records File on the First in the World Space Flight by USSR Woman-Citizen Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova In The "Vostok-6" Spaceship, June 16-19, 1963, Signed by Valentina Tereshkova.

1963 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 20,000.00
50106

Apollo 11: Crew-Signed "Type One" Insurance Cover Originally from The Armstrong Family Collection, CAG Certified and Crew-Signed White Spacesuit Color Photo in Framed Display.

USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 16,250.00
50050

Gemini 6A and Gemini 7 Rare Dual Heat Shield Plugs in Capsule Shaped Displays.

USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 15,000.00
50030

Voskhod 1: Records File of the First Multi-Crew Space Flight in the World Aboard the Spacecraft-Satellite "Vostok" October 12--13, 1964, Signed by Komarov, Feoktistov, and Yegorov.

1964 USD 7,200.00 - 10,800.00 USD 12,500.00
50077

Apollo: Ten Original 1970 Vintage Yousuf Karsh Photographs Sent to NASA's Office of the Astronauts, Including Apollo 11 Crew Portraits.

1970 Vintage Yousuf Karsh Photographs Sent to NASA's Office of the Astronauts USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 12,500.00
50181

Apollo 16 Lunar Module Flown Lunar Orbit Monitor Chart, Directly from the Personal Collection of Charlie Duke.

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,250.00
50170

Apollo 15 Lunar Module Flown Crew-Signed "Sieger" Crew-Owned Cover #110, Directly from the Family Collection of Jim Irwin.

USD 6,400.00 - 9,600.00 USD 10,000.00
50210

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: Flown "Space Magna Carta" Certificate Signed in Space by Both Crews [and] Three Federation Aeronautique Internationale World Record Diplomas for the Flight, [with] Large Color Photo of the Signing, United States and Soviet Union

1975 USD 12,800.00 - 19,200.00 USD 10,000.00
50046

Gemini Program: Individually Signed 11" x 8.5" Photo-Illustrated Launch-Canceled Documents, One for Each of the Ten Missions, with Authentication by Michael Orenstein and Ken Havekotte.

USD 3,840.00 - 5,760.00 USD 8,750.00
50079

Apollo 1 Crew Signed Photograph from December 1966, Given to Their Personal Secretary for Christmas.

1966 USD 6,400.00 - 9,600.00 USD 8,750.00
50142

Apollo 13 Flown "Power Distribution Matrix, Miscellaneous Buses" Mission Operations Flowchart Originally from the Personal Collection of James Lovell, Signed by both Lovell and Fred Haise.

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,750.00
50070

Apollo Moonwalkers: Complete Set of Twelve Signed Color Photos, with Each Wearing their Iconic White Spacesuits.

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,125.00
50107

Apollo 11 Crew-Signed Ultra-Rare "Type Two" Insurance Cover with Dow-Unicover Cachet, also with the Apollo 11 25th Anniversary Stamp and Pictorial Cancellation [with] Color Photos.

USD 4,800.00 - 7,200.00 USD 8,125.00
50019

Vostok 1 Commemorative Presentation Model.

USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 7,812.50
50039

Mercury Seven Astronauts: Early NASA Group Photo Signed by All, with Letter of Authenticity from Steve Zarelli.

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,187.50
50252

Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7): Alan Shepard Signed U.S.S. Lake Champlain Recovery Ship Captain's Cover from Mission Date [with] Color Photo.

USD 720.00 - 1,080.00 USD 6,250.00
50531

Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Commemorative Set of Signed "Spies in Space" Book and USAF MOL Flight Crew Patch and Crew Signed Photo, Directly from the Estate of Albert H. Crews.

USD 320.00 - 480.00 USD 6,250.00
50032

Alexei Leonov: Handwritten and Signed Report on the First Human Spacewalk aboard Voskhod 2, March 18--19, 1965 [with] Signed Printed Copy of a Similar Report.

1965 [with] Signed Printed Copy of a Similar Report. USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 USD 5,750.00
50189

Apollo 17 Lunar Module Flown "Lunar Surface Checklist" Double-Sided Page Originally from the Personal Collection of Mission Commander Gene Cernan, Certified and Signed.

USD 7,200.00 - 10,800.00 USD 5,625.00
  • 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