RR Auction: Space Exploration and Aviation, 740, Amherst
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 23, 2026 - April 23, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5372 | Gene Cernan | Apollo 17 Flown CSM Lunar Landmark Map Plate - From the Personal Collection of Gene Cernan |
N/A | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,069.00 | |
| 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 | |
| 5375 | Gene Cernan | Apollo 17 Lunar-Surface Flown 'LM Malfunction Procedures' Checklist Page Signed by Gene Cernan |
1972 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,538.00 | |
| 5376 | Harrison Schmitt | Apollo 17 Original 'Type 1' Photograph - Earth (The Blue Marble) |
1972 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,414.00 | |
| 5377 | Gene Cernan | Apollo 17 Surface-Flown Lunar Module Contingency Checklist Page - From the Personal Collection of Gene Cernan |
N/A | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 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 | |
| 5379 | Gene Cernan; Harrison Schmitt; Ron Evans | Apollo 17 Signed $1 Dollar Bill |
1969C | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,250.00 | |
| 5380 | Gene Cernan; Jack Schmitt; Ron Evans | Apollo 17 Crew-Signed Anniversary Cover - From the Collection of Gene Cernan |
1997; 2002; 2007 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,553.00 | |
| 5382 | Apollo 17 (2) Original 'Type 1' Photographs |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,283.00 | ||
| 5383 | Gene Cernan; Ron Evans; H. H. Schmitt; Ed Gibson | Apollo 17 Signed 'Splashdown' Cover - From the Personal Collection of Ed Gibson |
1972 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 900.00 | |
| 5385 | Gene Cernan | Gene Cernan Signed Oversized Photograph |
N/A | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5386 | Gene Cernan | Gene Cernan's 'Good Luck' $2 Dollar Bill |
1976 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 596.00 | |
| 5388 | Gene Cernan; Ron Woods | Gene Cernan Signed Lithograph by Ron Woods (Ltd. Ed. #49/250) - 31˝ x 22.75˝ |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 275.00 | |
| 5389 | Gene Cernan | Gene Cernan Signed 'The Last Words Ever Spoken' Print (Ltd. Ed. #22/45) - 19˝ x 13˝ |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 446.00 | |
| 5390 | Cernan | Gene Cernan Oversized Signed Photograph - 'America's Challenge' (Ltd. Ed. #93/500) |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 5391 | Gene Cernan | Gene Cernan Signed Oversized Photograph of the Apollo 17 Landing Site |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 944.00 | |
| 5392 | Gene Cernan | Gene Cernan Signed 'Lunar Map' Print - 22˝ x 17˝ |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 500.00 | |
| 5393 | Gene Cernan | Gene Cernan Signed Oversized Photograph |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 656.00 | |
| 5394 | Gene Cernan | Gene Cernan Signed $1 Dollar Bill |
1963A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 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 | |
| 5397 | Wally Schirra; Walt Cunningham; Frank Borman; Jim Lovell; Jim McDivitt; Rusty Schweickart; Dave Scott; Tom Stafford; Gene Cernan; Buzz Aldrin; Charles Conrad; Alan Bean; Dick Gordon; Fred Haise; Alan Shepard; Edgar Mitchell; Al Worden; Charlie Duke | Apollo Astronauts (18) Signed Photograph with (8) Moonwalkers |
N/A | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,670.00 | |
| 5398 | Buzz Aldrin; Alan Bean; Frank Borman; Scott Carpenter; Kris Stoever; Gene Cernan; Gordon Cooper; Walt Cunningham; John Glenn; Gene Kranz; Jim Lovell; Jeff Fluger; Edgar Mitchell; Mike Mullane; Alan Shepard | Astronauts (14) Signed Easton Press Books with Aldrin, Bean, Mitchell, and Shepard |
N/A | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 2,106.00 | |
| 5399 | Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.; William A. Anders; Charles A. Bassett II; Alan L. Bean; Eugene A. Cernan; Roger B. Chaffee; Michael Collins; Ronnie W. Cunningham; Donn F. Eisele; Theodore C. Freeman; Richard F. Gordon, Jr.; Russell L. Schweickart; David R. Scott; C | NASA Group 3 Astronauts (14) and Wives Signed Agency Contract for Rights to "their personal stories of their space flights" - with Aldrin, Collins, Chaffee, Cernan, Anders, Freeman, and Bassett |
1964 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,868.00 | |
| 5400 | Chuck Yeager; Buzz Aldrin; Dick Gordon | Buzz Aldrin, Richard Gordon, and Chuck Yeager Signed Program |
1987 | USD 250.00 - 300.00 | USD 368.00 | |
| 5401 | Apollo 12-17 Original 'Type 1' Photographs (21) - Collection of Red-Numbered NASA Photos |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,960.00 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.