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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5524 | Vladimir Dezhurov | ISS Expedition 3/STS-103/STS-109 Flown $1 Dollar Bill, Signed by Vladimir Dezhurov |
1995 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5526 | Kenneth Bowersox; Nikolai Budarin; Donald Pettit; Yuri Malenchenko; Ed Lu | ISS Expedition 6 and 7 Flown Crew-Signed Letter and Flown Cover |
N/A | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5528 | Yuri Malenchenko | ISS Expedition 32/Soyuz TMA-05M Flown Letter by Yuri Malenchenko |
2012 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5529 | Sergey Zalyotin; Aleksandr Kaleri | Soyuz TM-30/MIR-28/TMA-1/ISS Flown $1 Dollar Bill, Signed by Sergey Zalyotin and Aleksandr Kaleri |
1995 | USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5530 | Sergei Zalyotin; Frank De Winne; Yury Lonchakov | Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34/ISS (2) Flown 10 Ruble Bills, Signed by Sergei Zalyotin, Frank De Winne, and Yury Lonchakov |
1997 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 614.00 | |
| 5531 | Sergei Zalyotin; Frank De Winne; Yury Lonchakov | Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34/ISS Flown 5 Euro Bill, Signed by Sergei Zalyotin, Frank De Winne, and Yury Lonchakov |
2002 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 599.00 | |
| 5534 | R. H. Goddard | Robert H. Goddard Typed Letter Signed on His Time in Princeton, where "a large part of the high-altitude rocket theory was worked out" |
1929 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 4,065.00 | |
| 5535 | Robert H. Goddard | Robert H. Goddard: First Edition of Rockets (1946) |
NY | 1946 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 5537 | R. H. Goddard | Robert H. Goddard Signature |
N/A | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 3,873.00 | |
| 5539 | Tsiolkovsky | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Autograph Letter Signed |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 963.00 | |
| 5540 | Ranger Program Three-Volume Collection of (550) Photographs |
1964; 1965 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,505.00 | ||
| 5546 | Martin Marietta: Paul E. Hogan Aerospace Engineering Archive - Titan, Viking, Skylab, and Space Shuttle (1962–1982) |
1962-1982 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 250.00 | ||
| 5561 | Sergey Prokopyev; Dmitri Petelin; Francisco Rubio; Nicole Mann; Koichi Wakata; Anna Kikina; Josh Kassada; Stephen Bowen; Warren Hoburg; Sultan Al-Nejadi; Andrey Fedjajev | ISS Expedition 68 Flown Cover, Signed by (11) |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 723.00 | |
| 5562 | Butch Wilmore; Sunita Williams; Jeanette Epps; Michael Barratt; Matthew Dominick | SpaceX Dragon Crew-9 Flown Cover Signed by (7) |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 686.00 | |
| 5564 | Mike Melvill; Brian Binnie | SpaceShipOne Flown $2 Dollar Bill, Signed by Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie - PMG CU 64 |
2003 | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,251.00 | |
| 5565 | Blue Origin NS-13 Flown $2 Dollar Bill |
1976 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 5566 | Edwin Hubble | Edwin Hubble Signature |
Mt. Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California, U.S.A. | N/A | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,048.00 |
| 5567 | Ch. Nungesser | Charles Nungesser Letter Signed as a Student Pilot: "The wind blows all day and the officers do not let us go out" |
1914 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 275.00 | |
| 5568 | Clyde W. Tombaugh | Clyde Tombaugh Autograph Letter Signed: "I calculated the models of the solar system and galaxy" |
1976 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 5569 | Clyde W. Tombaugh | Clyde Tombaugh Signed Photograph |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 5573 | Pavel Popovich; Andrian Nikolaev; Gherman Titov; Valentina Tereshkova; Yuri Gagarin; Valery Bykovsky | Vostok Cosmonauts (6) Multi-Signed Photograph |
1964 | USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5574 | Alexei Leonov | Alexei Leonov (10) Signed Prints - 'First Walk' - Each 20˝ x 16.5˝ |
1991 | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 795.00 | |
| 5575 | Yuri Gagarin; Pavel Popovich; Gherman Titov; Andrian Nikolayev | Cosmonauts Signed Postcard with Gagarin, Popovich, Titov, and Nikolayev |
c. 1963 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 676.00 | |
| 5576 | Yuri Gagarin; Pavel Popovich; Gherman Titov; Andrian Nikolayev | Cosmonauts Signed Cover with Gagarin, Popovich, Titov, and Nikolayev |
c. 1966 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 491.00 | |
| 5577 | Yuri Gagarin | Yuri Gagarin Signed Postcard |
c. 1961 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 619.00 |
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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.