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Auction Name Space Exploration and Aviation Total Sales (USD) 607,899.00
Auction Date April 23, 2026 - April 23, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 363,150.00
Sale Number #740 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 503,600.00
Total Lots 333
Sold Lots 262.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 489,600.00
% of Lots Sold 78.68% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 673,800.00
Unsold Lots 71 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 90.22%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5378 Gene Cernan

Gemini 9, Apollo 10, and Apollo 17 Lunar Surface-Flown $2 Dollar Bill - From the Personal Collection of Gene Cernan - PMG CF 15

1953 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 91,519.00
5135 Ed White; Gus Grissom; Roger Chaffee

Apollo 1 Signed Photograph - Rare 'Type 1' Red-Numbered NASA Photo

N/A USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 46,926.00
5183

Apollo 11 Original 'Type 1' Photograph - The Only Hasselblad Shot of Neil Armstrong on the Lunar Surface

N/A USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,469.00
5009 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Partial Typed Letter Signed on Demonstration Flights: "Witnesses to these flights have become so enthusiastic that they have been unable to hold their tongues"

N/A USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,755.00
5327 Dave Scott

Apollo 15 Flown CSM Photo Target Wheel - From the Personal Collection of Dave Scott

1971 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,000.00
5108 Gene Cernan

Gemini 9 Flown Flight Plan Book - From the Personal Collection of Gene Cernan

N/A USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 14,996.00
5050 Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei: First Latin Edition of Systema Cosmicum (1635)

1635 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,753.00
5051 Hermann Struck

Albert Einstein Signed Etching by Hermann Struck (c. 1920) (Ltd. Ed. #149/150): "Per aspera ad astra"

1920 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,353.00
5268 James Lovell; Fred Haise; Jack Swigert; Ken Mattingly

Apollo 13 Flown $1 Dollar Bill, Signed by James Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert, and Ken Mattingly

N/A USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,344.00
5062 John Glenn; Scott Carpenter

Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 Flown $2 Dollar Bill, Signed by John Glenn and Scott Carpenter - PMG VF 30

1953A USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,375.00
5184 Neil Armstrong; Michael Collins; Buzz Aldrin

Apollo 11 Signed 'Type 1' Insurance Cover

1969 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,074.00
5269 Fred Haise; James Lovell

Apollo 13 Flown CSM 'Premodulation Processor' Schematic Signed by James Lovell and Fred Haise - "Flown to the moon on Apollo 13"

1969 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,748.00
5155 Frank Borman; James Lovell; Bill Anders; Reid Wiseman; Victor Glover; Christina Koch; Jeremy Hansen

Apollo 8 Signed Oversized Photograph and Artemis II Signed Letter with Official Mission Patch - From the Personal Collections of Stuart and Rosemary Roosa

N/A USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,155.00
5189 Neil Armstrong; Michael Collins; Buzz Aldrin

Apollo 11 Signed Photograph

N/A USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,970.00
5471

STS-51-L 'Pre-Ingress Checklist' Used by the Closeout Crew on Launch Morning - One of the Last Items Removed from the Challenger Cabin

1986 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,743.00
5186

Apollo 11 Original 'Type 1' Photographs (18) - Collection of Red-Numbered NASA Photos of Earth, Moon, and Aldrin

N/A USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,255.00
5033 Frank Whittle

Frank Whittle Archive with a Confidential First Report on the Turbojet Engine (1 of 5 Copies) and (3) Signed Documents

1938; 1940 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,250.00
5373 Gene Cernan

Apollo 17 Lunar-Surface Flown 'LM Malfunction Procedures' Checklist Page - From the Personal Collection of Gene Cernan

1972 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,041.00
5227

Apollo 11 Saturn V Flight Manual (SA-506)

1969 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 5,913.00
5478 John Fabian

STS-7 Flown Complete Checklist - "Proximity Ops," Signed by John Fabian

N/A USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 5,545.00
5332 Dave Scott; Jim Irwin; Al Worden

Apollo 15 Flown $1 Dollar Bill, Signed by Dave Scott, Jim Irwin, and Al Worden

1969A USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 5,294.00
5368 Gene Cernan

Apollo 17 Lunar-Flown LM Circuit Breaker Panel Layout Page - Signed by Gene Cernan

1972 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,003.00
5014 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Typed Letter Signed, Seeking to Preserve "the motor used at Kitty Hawk in 1903"

N/A USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,999.00
5367 Gene Cernan

Apollo 17 Lunar Surface-Flown Metal Ring and Card from the 'LM Contingency Checklist' - Signed by Gene Cernan

N/A USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,999.00
5396 Buzz Aldrin; Alan Bean; Fred Haise; Edgar Mitchell; Dave Scott; Charlie Duke; Gene Cernan

Apollo Astronauts (7) Signed Lunar Charts with 'Landing Site' Autographs from Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Fred Haise, Edgar Mitchell, Dave Scott, Charlie Duke, and Gene Cernan

1966; 1964; 1978; 1965 USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,973.00
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 83 – Westall & Owen. Picturesque Tour of the River Thames, 1st edition, 1828. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 88 – Blume. Rumphia, Botanicae de plantis Indiae Orientalis, 1835-1848. £2,000-3,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 101 – Michaux. Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1810-1812. £700-1,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 102 – Miller & Shaw. Cimelia Physica, 1796 [but c. 1816]. £3,000-5,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 104 – Parkinson. Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. £800-1,200.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 159 – Plancius. Orbis Terrarum..., double hemisphere map, 1594-99. £5,000-8,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 217 – Illuminated Medieval Manuscript. From a Breviary, 14th/15th c. £3,000-4,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 224 – The newe Testament … By Wylliam Tyndall…, 1549. £3,000-5,000.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 238 – Douay-Rheims Bible. 3 volumes, 1582/1609/1610. £7,000-10,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
    1500-1800
    22nd July 2026
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 336 – Ashendene Press. A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, 1903. £1,000-1,500.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 393 – Sassoon. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, signed limited edition, 1931. £800-1,200.
    Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 402 – Dylan Thomas. Twenty-Five Poems, 1st edition in d.j., 1936. £400-600.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000
  • Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Timberlake, Henry: A DRAUGHT OF THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY on the West Side of the Twenty Four Mountains, Commonly Called "Over the Hills". $18,000 to $22,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Manuscript orderly book detailing day to day activities of multiple Virginia regiments in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary,1776-1777. $7,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, Random House, New York, 1965. Signed 1st Edition. $3,800 to $4,200.
    Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Battle of Kings Mountain Pamphlet by Isaac Shelby, April 1823, Signed. $1,800 to $2,200.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Large Tintype CSA Lt. Col. Thomas Coke Johnson, 19th GA, w/ Southern Cross, Book. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare Civil War Ambrotype, 19th GA Infantry with Johnson Family of GA. $800 to $1,200.
    Case Auctions
    2026 Summer Auction
    August 1st and 2nd
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: A signed note written by Thomas Alva Edison to an unknown recipient, in which he shares his thoughts on Guglielmo Marconi, regarded as the inventor of the radio. $800 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare 1931 TN Grasslands Steeplechase Book, Gallatin. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: War of 1812 related Broadside, Petersburg Volunteers. $700 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Aug. 1: 2 World War I Posters, “Our Colored Fighters” and “No Slacker”. $800 to $1,000.