May 1, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Archive of Apollo-Suyuz, Skylab I-III, and the 1976 Tehran F.A.I. Conference
[SPACE - IRAN]
An interesting archive of photographs and signed items commemorating the Apollo-Suyuz mission, Skylab I, II & III, and the 1976 Tehran F.A.I. Conference. [Various places: 1972-1978]. The archive comprising: One personally assembled spiral bound album commemorating the F.A.I. conferences from 1972-78, with a special focus on Tehran 1976 (the others Paris, Dublin, Sydney, Ottawa, Baden, Rome, and Santiago). The Tehran section including inscriptions to Reno Chalian from each Apollo-Soyuz astronaut including Thomas Stafford, Deke Slayton, Vance Brand as well as the Russians (these with small ink drawings) including Kubasov, Klimluk, Sevastyanov, and Leonov, also present here are several signed photographs of Slayton and Brand, this spiral bound album also containing dozens of color and black and white photographs of the conferences, the album 14 x 10 1/2 inches (36 x 27 cm); Three color photographs inscribed on the mount, including one signed by all five members of the Apollo-Soyuz crew; one signed by the American Apollo-Soyuz astronauts; one showing Skylab II inscribed by Alan Bean; and one other showing Tehran from Skylab III; these each 11 x 14 inches (28 x 36 cm); a group of about 20 NASA issued color reproductions of photographs of the Skylab mission and Apollo-Soyuz (a few with signatures including Stafford and Brand); an Apollo-Soyuz mission patch and some other printed NASA and F.A.I. ephemera. Some minor handling wear but very well preserved overall. Provenance: Reno Ivani Chalian, a founder of the Imperial Aero Club of Iran and Iranian delegate to the F.A.I. conferences; thence by descent.
The interesting archive of Reno Ivani Chalian, an Iranian delegate to the Federation Aeronautique Internationale conferences in the mid-1970s. This was a ripe period for the F.A.I. (established 1905) and the contents of this archive celebrate the three Skylab missions as well as the diplomatic accomplishments of the Apollo-Soyuz mission, the first joint space flight between the United States and the Soviet Union. This archive contains several personalized inscriptions to Chalian from those astronauts, including a drawing of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts coming together by the Russian cosmonaut P. I. Klimuk. An archive such as this is certainly uncommon in the United States after the 1979 cultural revolution.
[SPACE - IRAN]
An interesting archive of photographs and signed items commemorating the Apollo-Suyuz mission, Skylab I, II & III, and the 1976 Tehran F.A.I. Conference. [Various places: 1972-1978]. The archive comprising: One personally assembled spiral bound album commemorating the F.A.I. conferences from 1972-78, with a special focus on Tehran 1976 (the others Paris, Dublin, Sydney, Ottawa, Baden, Rome, and Santiago). The Tehran section including inscriptions to Reno Chalian from each Apollo-Soyuz astronaut including Thomas Stafford, Deke Slayton, Vance Brand as well as the Russians (these with small ink drawings) including Kubasov, Klimluk, Sevastyanov, and Leonov, also present here are several signed photographs of Slayton and Brand, this spiral bound album also containing dozens of color and black and white photographs of the conferences, the album 14 x 10 1/2 inches (36 x 27 cm); Three color photographs inscribed on the mount, including one signed by all five members of the Apollo-Soyuz crew; one signed by the American Apollo-Soyuz astronauts; one showing Skylab II inscribed by Alan Bean; and one other showing Tehran from Skylab III; these each 11 x 14 inches (28 x 36 cm); a group of about 20 NASA issued color reproductions of photographs of the Skylab mission and Apollo-Soyuz (a few with signatures including Stafford and Brand); an Apollo-Soyuz mission patch and some other printed NASA and F.A.I. ephemera. Some minor handling wear but very well preserved overall. Provenance: Reno Ivani Chalian, a founder of the Imperial Aero Club of Iran and Iranian delegate to the F.A.I. conferences; thence by descent.
The interesting archive of Reno Ivani Chalian, an Iranian delegate to the Federation Aeronautique Internationale conferences in the mid-1970s. This was a ripe period for the F.A.I. (established 1905) and the contents of this archive celebrate the three Skylab missions as well as the diplomatic accomplishments of the Apollo-Soyuz mission, the first joint space flight between the United States and the Soviet Union. This archive contains several personalized inscriptions to Chalian from those astronauts, including a drawing of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts coming together by the Russian cosmonaut P. I. Klimuk. An archive such as this is certainly uncommon in the United States after the 1979 cultural revolution.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, May 1, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on May 1, 2024 Totals $1.2 Million
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A Medieval Manuscript Rules of St. Augustine Achieves $102k
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Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions
NEW YORK, NY -- Competitive bidding at Doyle’s May 1, 2024 auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps drove strong prices and a sale total that topped $1.2 million, surpassing expectations.
Featured in the sale was a fascinating selection of early manuscripts that achieved exceptional results. Highlighting the group was a 14th century manuscript of the Rules of St. Augustine from an English priory that soared over its $8,000-12,000 estimate to realize a stunning $102,100. The Rule of St. Augustine is among the earliest of all monastic rules, created about 400, and it was an influence on all that succeeded it. Other notable results included a 14th century Etymologiae of St. Isidore estimated at $5,000-8,000 that achieved $51,200 and a 15th century Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier estimated at $10,000-15,000 that sold for $28,800.
A first edition of John James Audubon's octavo Birds of America sold for $41,600, far over its $25,000-35,000 estimate. Published in 1840-1844 in seven volumes, the first octavo edition was the final Birds of America publication overseen by Audubon in his lifetime.
The Fred Rotondaro Collection offered rare books and manuscripts on a range of subjects touching the African American experience in the United States over three centuries. A first edition copy of Frederick Douglass’ 1876 speech at the unveiling of the Freedman's Monument in Washington realized $12,800, far exceeding its $3,000-5,000 estimate. A first edition of the first issue of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin from 1852 also achieved $12,800.
Highlighting the range of offerings from the Ken Harte Collection of Natural History was a first edition Richard Bowdler Sharpe’s beautifully illustrated monograph of Kingfishers, 1868-71, that sold for $14,080, doubling its $6,000-8,000 estimate. It was accompanied by an inscribed copy of the rare unfinished chapter on the anatomy of the kingfisher by James Murie.
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