Back

Heritage Auctions: Space Exploration Featuring Selections from the Family Collection of Jacques Bracke Showcase Auction

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Space Exploration Featuring Selections from the Family Collection of Jacques Bracke Showcase Auction	Total Sales (USD)	147,331.75
Auction Date	March 29, 2025 - March 29, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	105,680.00
Sale Number	#33166	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	158,520.00
Total Lots	370
Sold Lots	370	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	105,680.00
% of Lots Sold	100.00%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	158,520.00
Unsold Lots	0	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	92.94%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
71019		Apollo 11 Crew-Signed Launch Cover.	USD 720.00 - 1,080.00	USD 5,250.00
71026		Apollo 13 Rare Backup Crew (Young, Swigert, Duke) Signed Launch & Splashdown Cover.	USD 480.00 - 720.00	USD 5,000.00
71025		Apollo 13 Crew-Signed U.S. Navy Recovery Force Splashdown Cover Canceled aboard Recovery Ship U.S.S. Iwo Jima.	USD 640.00 - 960.00	USD 4,250.00
71012		Apollo 8 Rare Backup Crew (Armstrong, Aldrin, Haise) Signed Launch Cover.	USD 640.00 - 960.00	USD 3,750.00
71108	Neil Armstrong	Neil Armstrong Signed, Uninscribed White Spacesuit Color Photo.	USD 1,920.00 - 2,880.00	USD 3,250.00
71004	Neil Armstrong	Neil Armstrong Signed X-15 Flight Cover, His Second Flight, with Photo.	USD 720.00 - 1,080.00	USD 3,000.00
71029		Apollo 15 Flown Flag of Switzerland Originally from the Personal Collection of Mission Commander Dave Scott, Certified and Signed.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 2,500.00
71399		Apollo 17 Vintage NASA "Red Number" Color Photo, Image AS17-148-22727: Blue Marble.	USD 320.00 - 480.00	USD 2,250.00
71294		Apollo 11 Moonwalkers: Lunar Surface "Visor" Color Photo Signed by Armstrong and Aldrin on the Mat Below.	USD 960.00 - 1,440.00	USD 2,187.50
71307		Apollo 14 Moonwalkers: Lunar Surface Flag Color Photo Signed by Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell, with Added Mission, Location, and Date.	USD 480.00 - 720.00	USD 2,000.00
71027		Apollo 14 Crew-Signed "Type One" Insurance Cover.	USD 720.00 - 1,080.00	USD 1,875.00
71368		Apollo 11 Vintage NASA "Red Number" Color Photo, Image AS11-44-6563: Earthrise Across Mare Smythii.	USD 320.00 - 480.00	USD 1,875.00
71313		Apollo 17 Flown Flag on Presentation Certificate.	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,625.00
71011		Apollo 8 Crew-Signed Launch Cover (Post Card).	USD 640.00 - 960.00	USD 1,500.00
71067	Michael Collins	Michael Collins Signed Book: Carrying the Fire.	USD 240.00 - 360.00	USD 1,500.00
71020		Apollo 11 Rare Backup Crew (Lovell, Anders, Haise) Signed Launch Cover.	USD 640.00 - 960.00	USD 1,375.00
71400		Apollo 17 Vintage NASA "Red Number" Color Photo, Image AS17-134-20384: Mission Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt with Flag.	USD 320.00 - 480.00	USD 1,375.00
71280		Mercury Seven Astronauts: Color Group Photo Signed by Cooper, Grissom, Schirra, Shepard, & Slayton with Signatures on Cards of Glenn & Carpenter and an Embroidered NASA Mission Insignia Patch, in Framed Display.	USD 640.00 - 960.00	USD 1,250.00
71191	Fred Haise	Fred Haise Autograph Collection: Nine Signed Apollo 13 Covers.	USD 240.00 - 360.00	USD 1,187.50
71367		Apollo 11 Vintage NASA "Red Number" Color Photo, Image AS11-40-5875: Aldrin and the Flag.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 1,125.00
71006		Gemini 12 Crew-Signed Large Captain's Recovery Cover from the U.S.S. Wasp.	USD 320.00 - 480.00	USD 1,062.50
71016		Apollo 10 Crew-Signed Large U.S. Navy Recovery Force Cover from the U.S.S. Princeton.	USD 160.00 - 240.00	USD 1,062.50
71283		Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle Access Badges: Collection of Ten Including Two Related to Apollo 11 and One Related to STS-51L.	USD 240.00 - 360.00	USD 1,062.50
71385		Apollo 15 Vintage NASA "Red Number" Color Photo, Image AS15-88-11866: Jim Irwin's Flag Salute.	USD 320.00 - 480.00	USD 1,062.50
71369		Apollo 11 Vintage NASA "Blue Number" Color Photo, Image AS11-40-5903: The Legendary Buzz Aldrin "Visor" Shot.	USD 320.00 - 480.00	USD 1,000.00

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.
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

Ask Questions