AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AUCTION

KEARTON CHERRY: (1871-1940) British naturalist and wildlife photographer. T.L.S., Cherry Kearton, one page, 4to, New Cavendish Street, London, 6th...

BUCKLAND WILLIAM: (1784-1856) English geologist, palaeontologist and theologian who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur. Ink signatu...

LYELL CHARLES: (1797-1875) Scottish geologist, a close friend of Charles Darwin who significantly contributed to Darwin's thinking on the processe...

DOLLINGER IGNAZ: (1770-1841) German doctor, anatomist and physiologist who was one of the first professors to understand and treat medicine as a n...

SHARPEY WILLIAM: (1802-1880) Scottish anatomist and physiologist, known as the ‘father of British physiology’. A.L.S., W Sharpey, one page, 8vo, B...

HUXLEY THOMAS HENRY: (1825-1895) English biologist and anthropologist, a strong advocate of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. A.L.S., T. H. Hu...

KEITH ARTHUR: (1866-1955) British anatomist and anthropologist. A.L.S., Arthur Keith, one page, 8vo, Downe, Farnborough, Kent, 4th October 1944, t...

RAMALINGASWAMI VULIMIRI: (1921-2001) Indian medical scientist and pathologist. T.L.S., V. Ramalingaswami, two pages (separate leaves), 4to, Ansari...

VOLTA ALESSANDRO: (1745-1827) Italian physicist and chemist, a pioneer of electricty and power who is credited with inventing the electric battery...

LAENNEC RENE: (1781-1826) French physician who invented the stethoscope in 1816 and pioneered its use in diagnosing various chest conditions. A ra...

LODGE OLIVER: (1851-1940) British physicist involved in the development of radio. A.L.S., Oliver Lodge, two pages (written to the first and final ...

EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921. An impressive, large signed 17.5 x 23 silksc...

EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921. A good A.L.S., Einstein, to one side of a pl...

CURRAN SAMUEL: (1912-1998) British physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. T.L.S., Sam...

COMFORT ALEX: (1920-2000) British scientist and physician known for his nonfiction sex manual The Joy of Sex (1972). A brief T.L.S., Alex Comfort,...

LEGENDRE ADRIEN-MARIE: (1752-1833) French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics. A fine, rare A.L.S., Legendre, two pages, ...

BERTRAND JOSEPH: (1822-1900) French mathematician. A.L.S., J Bertrand, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Monsieur l'administrateur, in French. Bertran...

BRUNEL ISAMBARD KINGDOM: (1806-1859) British civil engineer, one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution. A good A.L.S., I K Brunel, ...

EDISON THOMAS: (1847-1931) American inventor of the phonograph and light bulb among many other items. A fine, bold black fountain pen ink 'umbrell...

CROOKES WILLIAM: (1832-1919) British chemist and physicist, a pioneer of vacuum tubes. T.L.S., William Crookes, one page, 12mo, Kensington Park Ga...

VORONOFF SERGE: (1866-1951) Russian-French surgeon who gained fame for his technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue on to the testicles of men...

VORONOFF SERGE: (1866-1951) Russian-French surgeon who gained fame for his technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue on to the testicles of men...

SPOCK BENJAMIN: (1903-1998) American pediatrician, remembered for his book Baby and Child Care (1946). Spock also won an Olympic gold medal in row...

SCORESBY WILLIAM: (1789-1857) English Arctic explorer, whaler and scientist. A.L.S., W Scoresby, one page, 8vo, Whitby, 26th April 1847, to Mr. T....

SHACKLETON-ROWETT EXPEDITION: An extremely rare group of eighteen signatures by various members of the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition 1921-22, toget...

HEDIN SVEN: (1865-1952) Swedish geographer, topographer & explorer. Vintage signed postcard photograph of Hedin seated in a three-quarter length p...