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Auction Name One Giant Leap: Celebrating Space Exploration 50 Years after Apollo 11 Total Sales (USD) 674,875.00
Auction Date July 18, 2019 - July 18, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 340,500.00
Sale Number #17119 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 501,200.00
Total Lots 147
Sold Lots 101 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 7,677,500.00
% of Lots Sold 68.71% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 10,007,700.00
Unsold Lots 46 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 6.74%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
85

FLOWN ON APOLLO 11 – Apollo 11 Flight Plan, pp 3-17/3-18. NASA/MSC, 1 July 1969.

 1969 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 62,500.00
79

FLIGHT PLAN – Final Apollo 11 Flight Plan, AS-506/CSM-107/LM-5. Houston: NASA/MSC Flight Planning Branch, 1 July 1969.

 1969 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 40,000.00
78

LUNAR LANDSCAPE – National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lunar Planning Chart (LOC – 1, 2, 3, and 4). Aeronautical Chart and Information Center of the USAF for NASA, May 1971.

 1971 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 37,500.00
9

TRANQUILITY BASE – Photograph signed and inscribed ("Tranquillity Base, July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin").

 1969 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 32,500.00
8

LUNAR PLAQUE – NASA test model for the Apollo 11 commemorative lunar plaque. [Manned Spacecraft Center, Technical Services Center, 1969.]

 1969 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 27,500.00
10 ARMSTRONG, Neil and COLLINS, Michael.

ARMSTRONG, Neil and COLLINS, Michael. Photograph signed. Kennedy Space Center, 16 July 1969.

 1969 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 25,000.00
88

FLOWN ON APOLLO 11 – Apollo 11 Flight Plan, page 102C. NASA/MSC, 1 July 1969.

 1969 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 25,000.00
80

MISSION REPORT – Apollo 11 Mission Report (NASA SP-238). Washington: NASA, 1971.

 1971 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 20,000.00
1 ARMSTRONG, Neil (1930-2012).

ARMSTRONG, Neil. Photograph signed ("Neil Armstrong"). [Kennedy Space Center, 19 June 1969.]

 1969 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 18,750.00
77

LUNAR LANDING – Lunar Landing Mission Profile. U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 18,750.00
184

APOLLO 17 – Photograph signed. 1972.

 1972 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 17,500.00
4

LUNAR SURFACE VIEW – LM Descent Monitoring Chart – Sheet 2, 16 July 1969 Launch Date, Landing Site No. 2, Edition 1. Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, USAF for NASA, 1969.

 1969 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 16,250.00
3

LUNAR MODULE – Apollo Spacecraft News Reference. NASA Manned Spacecraft Center and Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. of Bethpage, Long Island, 1966.

 1966 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 13,750.00
93

BUZZ ALDRIN – Photograph signed. 1969.

 1969 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,750.00
105

ALDRIN'S MOONWALK – Photograph signed. 1969.

 1969 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 12,500.00
102

THE U.S. FLAG ON THE MOON – Photograph signed. 1969.

 1969 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 9,375.00
112

APOLLO 11 FLIGHT PATH – Apollo Translunar / Transearth Trajectory Plotting Chart (ATT), Apollo Mission 11. Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, USAF for NASA, 23 June 1969.

 1969 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,375.00
185

APOLLO 17 – Photograph signed. 1972.

 1972 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 9,375.00
83

THE LANDING SITE – [Mare Tranquilitatis. Manned Spacecraft Center, spring 1969.]

 1969 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,125.00
107

RED, WHITE AND BLUE ON THE MOON – Photograph signed. 1969.

 1969 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 8,125.00
108

OLD GLORY ON THE MOON – Photograph signed. 1969.

 1969 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,125.00
187

APOLLO 17 – Photograph signed. 1972.

 1972 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 8,125.00
35

RENDEZVOUS SEQUENCE – Photographic film. 1965.

 1965 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,500.00
65

EARTH RISE – Apollo 8 crew. Four photographs. 1968.

 1968 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 7,500.00
2 ARMSTRONG, Neil.

ARMSTRONG, Neil. Collection of vintage NASA press photographs, 1969.

 1969 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 6,875.00
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  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
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    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
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