• Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.

RR Auction: Space Exploration, 716, Amherst

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 17, 2025 - April 17, 2025
Page Size: 381 items in 16 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
7001 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Typed Letter Signed, Correcting the Record on the 'Evolution of the Hydraeroplane'

1912 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,208.00
7002 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Typed Letter Signed on Hydroplane Experiments: "These experiments were made before anyone, excepting ourselves and Santos Dumont, had succeeded in getting off of the ground with a flying machine"

1912 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,816.00
7003 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Signed 'First Flight' Photograph - Uncommonly Large Example Presented to an Italian WWI Ace

1903 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,500.00
7004 Wilbur Wright

Wilbur Wright Oversized Signed Photograph - Wright Flyer Sets an Altitude Record in 1908

1908 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,589.00
7005 Wilbur Wright

Wilbur Wright in France: Archive of (15) Original Photographs (c. 1908)

1908 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,794.00
7006 Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh Autograph Letter Signed After His Son's Kidnapping, Ordering Reporters to Leave: "Our roads are blocked and communication made extremely difficult under present circumstances I am asking that everyone leave our farm"

1932 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,981.00
7007 Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh: Donald Albert Hall's Spirit of St. Louis Time Sheet and Movie Consulting Notes

1927 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
7008

Wright Flyer: Original Photograph of Leon Bollee

1908 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 875.00
7009

Hindenburg Correspondance Archive with (20+) Letters from Airship Notables like Lakehurst's Charles E. Rosendahl and Zeppelin's Hugo Eckener

1937 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 625.00
7010 Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart Signature

1929 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 875.00
7011

Daniel B. Burnett, Jr.'s Engineering Archive for the 40th Anniversary Reproduction of Charles Lindbergh's 'Spirit of St. Louis'

1927 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 250.00
7012 Calbraith Perry Rodgers

Calbraith Perry Rodgers (3) Original Photographs

1911 USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
7013 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Typed Letter Signed, Suggesting a Noted Canadian Explorer "to give a talk on the Wright brothers' contribution to Arctic and other exploration"

1938 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,250.00
7015 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Signed Check

1919 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 405.00
7016 Wilbur Wright and Leon Bollee

Wilbur Wright and Leon Bollee Original Photograph

1908 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,004.00
7017 Wilbur Wright and Leon Bollee

Wilbur Wright and Leon Bollee Original Photograph

1908 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,004.00
7018 Wilbur Wright

Wilbur Wright Cigar Box Label Proof

USD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
7019

Wright Brothers (5) Original Photographs

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 795.00
7020

Wright Flyer: Original Photograph of Leon Bollee

1908 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 875.00
7022 Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager Signed Poster (Ltd. Ed. #155/1000)

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 303.00
7023 Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong Signature

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,305.00
7024

Mercury Astronauts: Complete Set of (7) Signed Recovery Covers

1961-1963, USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 15,368.00
7027

Alan Shepard: MR-3 FAI Report in Russian, Annotated by Sergei Korolev, the 'Father of the Soviet Space Program'

1961 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
7028

The Astronauts

NY 1960 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,646.00
7030

Mercury Astronauts: Complete Set of (6) Signed Launch Covers

1961-1963 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
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