Bonhams: FOR ALL MANKIND THE ARTISTIC LEGACY OF EARLY SPACE EXPLORATION: Victor Martin-Malburet Collection, 30739, Paris

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Auction Date: April 28, 2025 - April 28, 2025

Page Size: 449 items in 18 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	NASA	[Project Mercury] THE ICONIC MERCURY SEVEN: NASA's first astronauts introduced to the world	1959	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 307.20
27	NASA	[Project Mercury] PIONEERING ZERO-GRAVITY TRAINING: Mercury astronauts floating in simulated weightlessness for the man-in-space program	1959	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
28	NASA	[Project Mercury] STUNNING PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST THREE AMERICANS IN SPACE: Gus Grissom, John Glenn and Alan Shepard	1961	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 640.00
29	NASA	[Project X-15] ICONIC PORTRAIT OF NEIL ARMSTRONG, THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON, AS A YOUNG NASA X-15 PILOT	1960	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 640.00
30	DeFillips / US Army	[Project Mercury] NIGHT VIEW OF A PRECURSOR TO HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT: early Atlas missile (9B) on the launch stand at Cape Canaveral	1958	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 307.20
31	Bill Taub	[Project Mercury] THE MERCURY SEVEN'S ICONIC PORTRAIT AT LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE: from test pilots to space pioneers	1961-1963.	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 512.00
32	NASA	[Mercury Redstone 2] HAM, THE FIRST CHIMPANZEE IN SPACE	1961	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 896.00
33	Ralph Morse	[Project Mercury] ICONIC PORTRAIT OF THE MERCURY SEVEN: NASA's first astronauts, in silver spacesuits	1962	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,024.00
34	NASA	[Project Mercury] PIONEERING ASTRONAUT TRAINING: Walter Schirra entering the centrifuge trainer	1959	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
35	Bill Taub	[Mercury Redstone 3] THE LAUNCH OF THE FIRST AMERICAN IN SPACE: Alan Shepard Gazing Up at the Redstone Rocket on the Pad (diptych)	1961	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 435.20
36	Bill Taub	[Mercury Redstone 3] ALAN SHEPARD READY TO MAKE HISTORY: the first American in space minutes before launch aboard Freedom 7	1961	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 384.00
37	NASA	[Mercury Redstone 3] THE HISTORIC LIFTOFF OF THE FIRST AMERICAN IN SPACE ALAN SHEPARD ABOARD FREEDOM 7	1961	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 2,176.00
38	Bill Taub	[Mercury Redstone 3] THE BIRTH OF MISSION CONTROL: NASA legend Chris Kraft overseeing America's first manned space mission	1961	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 768.00
39	Dean Conger	[Mercury Redstone 3] COVER OF LIFE: 'A-OK!' THE U.S. IS IN SPACE, iconic helicopter recovery of the first American in space Alan Shepard	1961	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 960.00
40	Dean Conger	[Mercury Redstone 3] 'MAN, WHAT A RIDE!': the triumphant return of the first American in space Alan Shepard after his historic mission aboard Freedom 7	1961	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 332.80
41	NASA	[Mercury Redstone 4] PORTRAIT OF GUS GRISSOM IN FRONT OF THE ILL-FATED LIBERTY BELL 7 BEFORE LAUNCH	1961	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 384.00
42	NASA	[Mercury Redstone 4] THE ILL-FATED LIBERTY BELL 7 PREPARED FOR THE LAUNCH OF THE SECOND U.S. SPACE MISSION	1961	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
43	NASA	[Mercury Redstone 4] COUNTDOWN TO LAUNCH: Capcom Astronauts John Glenn and Alan Shepard at Mission Control for the Second U.S. Space Mission	1961	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 256.00
44	NASA	[Mercury Redstone 4] NEAR-TRAGIC RECOVERY OF LIBERTY BELL 7 (diptych): Gus Grissom, second U.S.. man in space, rescued after almost drowning	1961	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
45	NASA	[Mercury Atlas 4] LAUNCH OF THE FIRST U.S. UNMANNED ORBITAL MISSION	1961	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 1,920.00
46	NASA	[Mercury Atlas 5] PIONEERING ORBITAL VIEW OF EARTH CAPTURED FROM THE CAPSULE CARRYING ENOS, THE FIRST CHIMPANZEE IN ORBIT	1961	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
47	NASA	[Mercury Atlas 6] THE LAUNCH OF THE FIRST AMERICAN IN ORBIT: John Glenn boarding Friendship 7	1962	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 640.00
48	NASA	[Mercury Atlas 6] THE HISTORIC LIFTOFF OF THE FIRST AMERICAN IN ORBIT JOHN GLENN ABOARD FRIENDSHIP 7	1962	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 704.00
49	John Glenn	[Mercury Atlas 6] THE HISTORIC FIRST HUMAN-TAKEN PHOTOGRAPH FROM SPACE: Earth's Horizon Above the African Coast, Captured from Friendship 7	1962	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
50	NASA	[Mercury Atlas 6] HUMANITY'S SPACE JOURNEY BEGINS: John Glenn orbits Earth Aboard Friendship 7	1962	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 768.00

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