Ripley Auctions: PICKERS EXPRESS Timed Auction of Industrial, Scientific & Pop Culture Collectibles XXIV, 61626, Indianapolis

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 16, 2026 - June 16, 2026
Page Size: 120 items in 5 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
11 Hubbard Elbert

A Message to Garcia

1916 Not Available USD 31.25
13

8 Books, including: Record label album listing pamphlets

c. 1940 Not Available USD 18.75
16

Collection of vintage travel guides, pamphlets, rail road time tables, bus service information, and maps

c. 1930 Not Available USD 18.75
18

5 Books, including: Cunningham Radio Tubes advertising magazine

1939; 1941; 1922 Not Available USD 18.75
20

6 Books, including: Radio and Television catalogue

1930s-1941 Not Available USD 18.75
22

Collection of early 1900’s radio product marketing material and pamphlets

N/A Not Available USD 18.75
23

John Deere Farmers Pocket Ledger

early 1900s Not Available USD 31.25
24

Collection of early 1900’s advertising and promotional material

early 1900s Not Available USD 18.75
38

Collection of 1920s/30s era advertisements and brochures

1920s/30s Not Available USD 18.75
41 Hodges Albert R.; Yates Raymond Francis; Ghirardi Alfred A.

Radio Receivers; Everyman’s Guide to Radio Vol. III; Radio Field Service Data

1935; 1926; 1936 Not Available USD 12.50
43

4 Books, including: 1977 Executive Planner

1977 Not Available Not Sold
45

Group of 1930s radio craft periodicals

1930s Not Available USD 12.50
47

1930s and 40s periodicals, catalogues, and magazines

1930s; 1940s Not Available USD 12.50
50

Black and white photographs from 1920s and 30s era advertising and products

1920s; 1930s Not Available USD 62.50
56

11 antique reference books

N/A Not Available USD 12.50
58 Atkinson Philip

Electricity for Everybody

1895 Not Available USD 112.50
62

6 Books, including: The Experimenter

1919-1929 Not Available USD 43.75
63

Group of Modern Radio publications

1932-33 Not Available USD 12.50
66

Group of 1940s Radio catalogue and periodicals

1940s Not Available USD 75.00
68

Television, the future of the new art and it's a recent technical developments

1936 Not Available USD 50.00
70

5 Books, including: Aircraft compass publication

1932 Not Available USD 31.25
71

12 months of Radio Engineering

1931 Not Available USD 62.50
72

12 issues of Radio Engineering

1930; 1932 Not Available USD 43.75
73

11 issues of Radio Engineering

1933 Not Available USD 43.75
75

6 Books, including: Radio age promotional material

1930s Not Available USD 37.50
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • 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