FABRE JEAN HENRI: (1823-1915) French Naturalist and Entomologist. A pioneer in Ethologie. Fabre was best known for his popular books on the lives ...

EVANS HERBERT MCLEAN: (1882-1971) American anatomist and embryologist, best known for co-discovering Vitamin E. Manuscript Document, unsigned, one...

GILLES DE LA TOURETTE GEORGES: (1857-1904) French neurologist and the namesake of Tourette syndrome, whose main contributions in medicine were in ...

BEST CHARLES H.: (1899-1978) American-Canadian medical scientist, one of the co-discoverers of insulin. D.S., Charles H. Best, two pages, 4to, n.p...

SELYE HANS: (1907-1982) Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist, considered the first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress. T.L.S., Hans S...

PÉAN JULES-EMILE: (1830-1898) French Surgeon, one of the most reputed surgeons of the 19th century. Péan was the first surgeon to make a successfu...

 ‘….taking just enough to enable the bone to be replaced:antiseptic management being of course assured’ LISTER JOSEPH: (1827-1912) British surgeon...

PASTEUR LOUIS: (1822-1895) French chemist and microbiologist, renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination and pasteurisation. A ...

PASTEUR LOUIS: (1822-1895) French chemist and microbiologist, renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination and pasteurisation. An...

                       `…I cannot accept it because you have not been bitten…´ PASTEUR LOUIS: (1822-1895) French Chemist & Microbiologist. An exce...

COUE EMILE: (1857-1926) French psychologist and pharmacist. A.Q.S., E. Coue, on a small oblong 12mo card, n.p., n.d. In blue fountain pen ink Coue...

FREUD ANNA: (1895-1982) Austrian-British Psychoanalyst. Youngest child of Sigmund Freud. Considered, alongside Melanie Klein, the founder of psych...

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

BREGUET LOUIS: (1804-1883) French Physicist and Watchmaker. Grandson of Abraham Louis Breguet, founder of the watch manufacturing company Breguet....

BRANLY EDOUARD: (1844-1940) French inventor and physicist, known for his early involvement in wireless telegraphy. A.L.S., Edouard Branly, one pag...

Einstein signs his scientific equations, noting that they are ‘From the graveyard of buried hopes’ EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born theore...

EINSTEIN ELSA: (1876-1936) Cousin and the second wife of Albert Einstein, married from 1919-36. A brief A.L.S., Elsa Einstein, one page, 8vo, n.p....

MAUPERTUIS PIERRE LOUIS: (1698-1759) French Mathematician and Philosopher. Maupertuis was the first President of the Prussian Academy of Sciences ...

CONDORCET NICOLAS DE: (1743-1794) Marquis de Condorcet. French philosopher & mathematician. D.S., Condorcet, in his capacity as Permanent Secretar...

MALUS ETIENNE-LOUIS: (1775-1812) French Officer, Engineer, Physicist and Mathematician. Malus participated in Napoleon´s expedition to Egypt. He i...

‘I would not have been so rudely offended by the rigorous application of the law of the last Budget’ LEGENDRE ADRIEN-MARIE: (1752-1833) French ma...

POINCARÉ HENRI: (1854-1912) French Mathematician, Physician and Engineer. A Polymath widely regarded as ''The Last Universalist''. Poincaré was th...

FEKETE MICHAEL: (1886-1957) Hungarian-Israeli mathematician. Manuscript D.S., M. Fekete, one page, 4to, n.p. (Jerusalem, Israel), 19th November 19...

KARMAN THEODORE VON: (1881-1963) Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist. Autograph statement signed, Th Karman, one pa...

FREUDENTHAL HANS: (1905-1990) Jewish-German-born Dutch mathematician who made substantial contributions to algebraic topology. Concluding third (a...

BRUNEL MARC ISAMBARD: (1769-1849) French-British engineer who constructed the Thames Tunnel. Father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. A.L.S., Mc. I. Bru...

DROVETTI BERNARDINO: (1776-1852) Italian-born French Diplomat, Politician, Archaeologist and antiquities collector. Drovetti is best-remembered fo...

BAIRD JOHN LOGIE: (1888-1946) Scottish inventor & electrical engineer who demonstrated the world's first live working television system in January...

ECONOMISTS: Selection of individual ink signatures, each to the verso of colour picture postcards addressed to the Italian collector Roland Sensin...

LA CONDAMINE CHARLES MARIE DE: (1701-1774) French Explorer, Geographer and Mathematician. He measured the length of a degree latitude at the equat...

HUMBOLDT ALEXANDER VON: (1769-1859) German polymath, geographer, naturalist and explorer. Autograph envelope, unsigned, addressed in Humboldt's di...

ROHLFS FRIEDRICH GERHARD: (1831-1896) German Explorer, Geographer and Author. A.L.S., `Gerhard Rohlfs´, one page, small 4to, Weimar, 15th January ...

PARRY WILLIAM EDWARD: (1790-1855) Anglo-Welsh explorer of the Arctic who attempted one of the earliest expeditions to the North Pole in 1827. A.L....

CHARCOT JEAN BAPTISTE: (1867-1936) French Polar Scientist and Doctor. A.L.S., `J.B.Charcot´, one page, 4to, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 25th January 1912, ...

EVANS EDWARD R.G.R.: (1880-1957) 1st Baron Mountevans. British Admiral and Antarctic explorer, second-in-command on Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fate...

HILLARY EDMUND: (1919-2008) New Zealand mountaineer, the first man, with Tenzing Norgay, to reach the summit of Mount Everest, 1953. Black ink sig...

DUSE ELEONORA: (1858-1924) Italian actress. The personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card of Duse, unsigned, featuring her printed name to the ce...

LUMIERE LOUIS: (1864-1948) French engineer who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema. The personal printed oblong 12mo Vi...

DELIBES LEO: (1836-1891) French Romantic composer known for his ballets and operas. A.L.S., Leo Delibes, to two sides of his personal printed oblo...

MASSENET JULES: (1842-1912) French composer of the Romantic era. The personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card of Massenet, unsigned, featuring h...

CHARPENTIER GUSTAVE: (1860-1956) French composer, remembered for his opera Louise. A.N.S., with his initials G. Ch., to one side of the personal p...

ELGAR EDWARD: (1857-1934) English composer. A.N.S., with his initials E.E., to the recto and verso of Elgar's personal printed oblong 12mo Visitin...

DE FALLA MANUEL: (1876-1946) Spanish composer. The personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card of Falla, unsigned, featuring his printed name to th...

STRAUSS RICHARD: (1864-1949) German composer. The personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card of Strauss, unsigned, featuring his printed name to t...

STRAVINSKY IGOR: (1882-1971) Russian composer, pianist and conductor. A.N.S., with a truncated form of his signature I Str, to one side of his per...

EIFFEL GUSTAVE: (1832-1923) French civil engineer whose company designed and built the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris. Th...

BARTHOLDI FREDERIC AUGUSTE: (1834-1904) French sculptor, the designer of the Statue of Liberty ('Liberty Enlightening the World'). A.N.S., with hi...

RODIN AUGUSTE: (1840-1917) French sculptor. Autograph Note, unsigned, to one side of his personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card, featuring his...

BOUGUEREAU WILLIAM-ADOLPHE: (1825-1905) French painter. A.N.S., with his initials WB, to one side of his personal printed black edged oblong 12mo ...

MORANDI GIORGIO: (1890-1964) Italian painter and printmaker. The personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card of Morandi, unsigned, featuring his pr...

CHERET JULES: (1836-1932) French painter and lithographer, a master of Belle Epoque poster art who is regarded as the father of the modern poster....

[GALLE EMILE]: (1846-1904) French artist and designer who worked in glass, considered one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau moveme...

[BRONTE CHARLOTTE]: (1816-1855) English novelist and poet. The personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card of Charlotte Bronte, unsigned, featuring...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Fils (1824-1895) French author and playwright. The personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card of Dumas, unsigned, featuring his p...

ZOLA EMILE: (1840-1902) French novelist, journalist & playwright, a major figure in the Dreyfus affair. A.N.S., Emile Zola, on one side of his per...

LEBLANC MAURICE: (1864-1941) French novelist and writer of short stories, creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin. A.N...

LAGERLOF SELMA: (1858-1940) Swedish author, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1909. The personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card of Lagerlof, u...

ROLLAND ROMAIN: (1866-1944) French dramatist & novelist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1915. The personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card o...

FRANCE ANATOLE: (1844-1924) French poet, journalist & novelist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1921. The personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting...

PIUS XI: (1857-1939) Pope of the Catholic Church 1922-39. The personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card of the future Pope, unsigned, featuring h...