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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5174 | Rusty Schweickart | Rusty Schweickart Signed Oversized Photograph |
1969 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 303.00 | |
| 5177 | Gene Cernan; John Young; Tom Stafford | Apollo 10 Signed $1 Dollar Bill |
1969 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 303.00 | |
| 5179 | Apollo 10 Saturn V Flight Manual (SA-505) |
1969 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 493.00 | ||
| 5180 | Tom Stafford | Tom Stafford Signed $2 Dollar Bill |
1953B | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5181 | Gen. Tom Stafford | Tom Stafford Autograph Letter Signed: "Due to my efforts, the USAF has had the only stealth strike force in the world for 30 years" |
2016 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5182 | Tom Stafford | Tom Stafford Signed Oversized Photograph |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 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 | ||
| 5184 | Neil Armstrong; Michael Collins; Buzz Aldrin | Apollo 11 Signed 'Type 1' Insurance Cover |
Houston, Texas | 1969 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 9,074.00 |
| 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 | ||
| 5187 | Apollo 11 Original Oversized NASA Photograph (AS11-40-5868) - Buzz Aldrin Descends the Lunar Module Eagle |
N/A | USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 5188 | Neil Armstrong; Gene Cernan | Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan Signed Oversized Photograph Display - From the Personal Collection of Gene Cernan |
1969 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5189 | Neil Armstrong; Michael Collins; Buzz Aldrin | Apollo 11 Signed Photograph |
N/A | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,970.00 | |
| 5191 | Neil Armstrong; Buzz Aldrin; Michael Collins | Apollo 11 (3) Signed Photographs |
N/A | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 2,888.00 | |
| 5192 | Neil Armstrong; Buzz Aldrin; Michael Collins | Apollo 11 Crew-Signed $1 Dollar Bill - PSA NM-MT 8 |
1969B | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,495.00 | |
| 5193 | Neil Armstrong; Buzz Aldrin; M. Collins | Apollo 11 Signed Invitation for a Post-Quarantine Luncheon at Houston's Rice Hotel (August 12, 1969) |
Houston, Texas | 1969 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,654.00 |
| 5194 | Neil Armstrong; Buzz Aldrin; Michael Collins | Apollo 11 Signed 'Lockheed C-141 Starlifter' Poster - "To the 63rd Military Airlift Wing, Apollo 11's thanks for a most professional job" (23.25˝ x 19.25˝) |
N/A | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5196 | Apollo 11 Original 'Type 1' Photograph - Buzz Aldrin's Bootprint on the Moon |
N/A | USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,806.00 | ||
| 5197 | Neil Armstrong | Neil Armstrong Signed Boston Herald Traveler Newspaper (Monday, July 21, 1969) |
1969 | USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5201 | Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr. | Buzz Aldrin Signed Oversized Photograph as "Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr." |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,709.00 | |
| 5202 | Buzz Aldrin | Buzz Aldrin Typed Letter Signed |
1972 | USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5203 | Buzz Aldrin | Buzz Aldrin Signed Life Magazine - Special 30th Anniversary Edition |
1969 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,489.00 | |
| 5205 | Buzz Aldrin | Buzz Aldrin Signed Photograph |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 875.00 | |
| 5206 | Buzz Aldrin | Buzz Aldrin Signed Photograph |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 723.00 | |
| 5207 | Buzz Aldrin | Buzz Aldrin Signed Photograph |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 491.00 | |
| 5208 | Buzz Aldrin | Buzz Aldrin Signed Photograph |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 491.00 |
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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.