[SLAVERY]: A very interesting document, one page, large 17 x 12 folio, given at Matanzas, Cuba, n.d., in Spanish. The partially printed document, ...

FURNESS WILLIAM HENRY: (1802-1896) American Clergyman, Theologian & Abolitionist. A.L.S., W H Furness, two pages, 8vo, Pine Street, [Philadelphia]...

CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. A.L.S., with his initials HC, on...

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. T.L.S., Alfred W. Fryzer, by t...

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. CARTER MARTHA JOYCE (c.1836-19...

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. A.L.S., el Rais Ahmed Kirgar (...

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. ALBA DUKE OF (1878-1953) Jacob...

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. LYONS HENRY GEORGE (1864-1944)...

[EGYPTOLOGY]: Collection of A.Ls.S., T.Ls.S., memoranda etc., by a variety of Egyptologists and other individuals, including Etienne Drioton (1889...

[EGYPTOLOGY]: MASPERO GASTON (1846-1916) French Egyptologist. A good collection of Ls.S., T.Ls.S., some signed documents etc. by Maspero, forty-ni...

[EGYPTOLOGY]: Collection of A.Ls.S. and T.Ls.S., memoranda etc. by various Egyptologists and other individuals, most addressed to the Director Gen...

GROTIUS HUGO: (1583-1645) Dutch Humanist, Diplomat, Lawyer, Theologian, Jurist, Poet & Playwright. A rare A.L.S., H Grotius, one page, folio, n.p....

PEABODY GEORGE: (1795-1869) American financier and philanthropist. Vintage signed sepia carte-de-visite photograph, the albumen print by John Jabe...

JAMES WILLIAM: (1842-1910) American Philosopher and Psychologist. A leading Thinker, widely considered the "Father of American psychology", and fo...

CAVENDISH GEORGIANA: (1757-1806) Duchess of Devonshire. English Aristocrat, a famed beauty and leader of fashionable style who was notorious for h...

Madame du Barry makes a payment to Marie Antoinette’s dressmaker  BERTIN ROSE: (1747-1813) French Marchande de modes (milliner), known as the dres...

MICHEL LOUISE: (1830-1905) French Anarchist and medical Worker, a leading figure in the Paris Commune. She used the pseudonym ''Clémence'' and was...

LESSEPS FERDINAND DE: (1805-1894) French diplomat and developer of the Suez Canal. A.L.S., Ferd. de Lesseps, one page, 8vo, La Chenaie, Vatan, Ind...

STRATTON CHARLES S.: (1838-1883) American Entertainer, known as General Tom Thumb, who achieved fame under the circus pioneer P. T. Barnum. Vintag...

LACENAIRE PIERRE FRANCOIS: (1803-1836) French criminal, murderer and poet. A rare A.L.S., Lacenaire, one page, 8vo, La Conciergerie (Paris), 26th ...

PIERREPOINT ALBERT: (1905-1992) English hangman, responsible for the execution of 200 people who had been convicted of war crimes in Germany and A...

PURVIS MELVIN: (1903-1960) American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who captured more designated public e...

HOOVER J. EDGAR: (1895-1972) American law enforcement administrator, the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 1924-72. A la...

OSWALD LEE HARVEY: (1939-1963) American private with the United States Marine Corps, the assassin of John F. Kennedy. A rare A.L.S., Lee, two page...

FAMOUS MEN: Selection of individual ink signatures, the majority to the verso of colour picture postcards addressed to the Italian collector Rolan...

FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: An unusual and interesting selection of A.Ls.S., T.Ls.S., various signed maxims etc., by a variety of famous men and women, th...

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: A rare original United States of America war department diploma, one page, oblong 4to, Washington D.C., 6th August 1945. The ...

[FERMI ENRICO]: (1901-1954) Italian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1938. Regarded as the 'architect of the atom bomb', F...

BOHR NIELS: (1885-1962) Danish physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1922. A member of the Manhattan Project, Bohr was credited as being 'a s...

EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921. A very fine letter, dated the day before the...

MEITNER LISE: (1878-1968) Austrian-Swedish physicist who, with her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, discovered nuclear fission in 1938. Meitner declined...

FRISCH OTTO ROBERT: (1904-1979) Austrian Physicist. Designer of the first mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb. A key figure in the firs...

PEIERLS RUDOLF: (1907-1995) German-born British Physicist. Peierls played a major role in the Manhattan Project. His co-authored 1940 memorandum w...

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: ROSSI BRUNO (1905-1993) Italian experimental physicist who worked on radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War I...

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: THOMAS CHARLES ALLEN (1900-1982) American chemist, an important figure in the Manhattan Project during World War II, coordina...

BRADBURY NORRIS EDWIN: (1909-1997) American Physicist and Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory 1945-70. Bradbury succeeded Oppenheimer w...

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: KERST DONALD WILLIAM (1911-1993) American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory during W...

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: CREUTZ EDWARD (1913-2009) American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project at the Metallurgical Laboratory and the Los ...

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: WILSON ROBERT R. (1914-2000) American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory during World...

[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: ULAM STANISLAW (1909-1984) Polish-American scientist in the fields of mathematics and nuclear physics. Ulam participated in t...

TELLER EDWARD: (1908-2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist, known as 'the father of the Hydrogen bomb'. An important member of the Manhattan ...

‘In fact……the first B-29 ever to appear at Wright Field was the one for the Manhattan District project’   RAMSEY NORMAN: (1915-2011) American phy...

TIBBETS PAUL: (1915-2007) American Brigadier General in the United States Air Force, pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic ...

TIBBETS PAUL: (1915-2007) American Brigadier General in the United States Air Force, pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic ...

CARON GEORGE: (1919-1995) American pilot, Tail Gunner of the Enola Gay during the historic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, 6th August 1945. Book sign...

ENOLA GAY: A multiple signed colour 24 x 18 print by three crew members of the Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft which drop...

ENOLA GAY: Signed 10 x 8 photograph by two crew members of the Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft which dropped an atomic bo...

[HIROSHIMA]: HAMAI SHINZO (1905-1968) Japanese official who was the first popularly elected Mayor of Hiroshima, serving from 1947-55 and 1959-67. ...

GROVES LESLIE R.: (1896-1970) American Lieutenant General with the United States Army Corps of Engineers who directed the Manhattan Project during...

BUSH VANNEVAR: (1890-1974) American engineer and inventor, chairman of the United States Office of Scientific Research and Development during Worl...

CHADWICK JAMES: (1891-1974) British physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1935. Chadwick was head of the British team that worked on the Manh...

PENNEY WILLIAM: (1909-1991)Baron Penney. English Mathematician. Penney was at the head of the British delegation working in the Manhattan Project,...

PENNEY WILLIAM G.: (1909-1991) English mathematician and physicist who, as part of the British mission, became a group leader within the Manhattan...

A month after the bombing of Hiroshima, Conant writes – ‘The bomb was indeed better than some of us had anticipated…..’  CONANT JAMES B.: (1893-19...

OPPENHEIMER J. ROBERT: (1904-1967) American theoretical physicist, often credited as 'the father of the atomic bomb', The director of the Manhatta...

Oppenheimer, ‘father of the atomic bomb’, gives his most evocative and accurate assessment ever of the evolution of nuclear weapons, illustrating ...

CHAMBERLAIN NEVILLE: (1869-1940) British Prime Minister 1937-40. T.L.S., N Chamberlain, one page, 4to, Eaton Square, London, 1st July 1931, to Lor...

MONTGOMERY B. L.: (1887-1976) British Field Marshal of World War II. T.L.S., Montgomery of Alamein, one page, 8vo, Isington Mill, Alton, Hampshire...

MONTGOMERY B. L.: (1887-1976) British Field Marshal of World War II. Small group of one A.L.S. and two T.Ls.S., Montgomery of Alamein, three pages...

RIDGWAY MATTHEW: (1895-1993) American General of World War II who later served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe 1952-53 and Chief of Staff of th...