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ALS signed “Ernest,” three pages, 8.5 x 11, Finca Vigia letterhead, February 7, 1953. Letter to Charles Poore, a New York Times literary critic who wr

Signed book: Dali de Draeger. First edition, limited issue of 1500. France: Draeger, 1968. Hardcover with dust jacket, 11.5 x 12. Impressively signed

One-of-a-kind red leatherbound travel diary kept by J. Paul Getty at age 11–12 in 1904–1905, 4.25 x 6.25, consisting of 57 full pages of diary entries

Victorian light-and-dark green ebonised tub armchair personally-owned and -used by Joseph Merrick, 'the Elephant Man.’ The custom-made armchair,...

Collection of three pieces of correspondence related to a claim by the family of a young man lost in the Titanic disaster, consisting of a letter by h

Exceptionally rare 3.5 x 5.5 real photo postcard of the Wright brothers standing side by side, boldly signed in the lower border in ink, “Orville Wrig

Vintage matte-finish 4.5 x 6.5 portrait of the elder Wright brother by New York’s White Studios, affixed to its original studio mount, signed and insc

Superlative vintage sepia pearl-finish 10 x 8 photo of Lindbergh clad in a suit and tie and posing with the Spirit of St. Louis in a hangar at the Mex

Von Braun’s handwritten notes in pencil on the requirements for a spacecraft destined for Mars, unsigned, four pages, no date. The first page is heade

Rare flown panel fragment from the Mercury-Atlas 1 space capsule. The ribbed exterior panel measures approximately 21.25 x 19.75. In expected conditio

An extraordinary hydraulically powered robot dummy designed for NASA to use in testing space suits, circa 1963–1965, produced by the IIT Research Inst

TLS, one page, 8 x 10.5, NASA letterhead, stamp-dated June 23, 1969. Letter of thanks to a woman in Honolulu, Hawaii, written just three weeks before

Magnificent lunar map of the Apollo 11 landing area near the southern edge of Mare Tranquillitatis, 9.75 x 12.5, inscribed in the lower left in printe

Beautiful official color 10 x 8 NASA lithograph of the Apollo 11 prime crew in their white space suits, boldly signed in blue and black felt tip by Ne

Incredible leather-bound guest book flown aboard Richard Nixon’s Air Force One (Boeing VC-137C SAM 26000), 12 x 9, signed inside by a variety of polit

Exceedingly rare metal replica of the first lunar plaque left on the moon by the Apollo 11 crew, 7.75 x 5.75, engraved in the lower border, “President

Michael Collins’s flown sterling silver Apollo 11 Robbins Medal, approximately 1? in diameter, with a raised early design on the face of the iconic Ap

Dave Scott’s flown Apollo 17 Robbins medal, approximately 1.25? in diameter, with a raised design on the face featuring the mission insignia. The reve

1951 Bowman Jets, Rockets, and Spacemen original card set with 20 original one-of-a-kind artboards, two original one–cent wax packs (one GAI graded an

One-of-a-kind archive of hundreds of documents and letters related to the finances of Walt Disney Productions and Disneyland, dated from 1946 to 1965,