STEPHENSON GEORGE: (1781-1848) English civil engineer whose pioneering of rail transport was one of the most important technical inventions of the...

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, ...

DOLOMIEU DEODAT GRATET DE: (1750-1801) French geologist after whom the mineral and the rock dolomite were named. A supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte...

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

TYLOR EDWARD BURNETT: (1832-1917) English anthropologist. An interesting A.L.S., Edward B. Tylor, four pages (the last bearing a few lines of cros...

DELAMBRE JEAN-BAPTISTE: (1749-1822) French Mathematician and Astronomer. Director of the Paris Observatory. An excellent A.L.S., `Delambre´, one p...

SCHIAPARELLI GIOVANNI: (1835-1910) Italian Astronomer and science Historian. Well-known for his studies of Mars. An excellent A.L.S., `G. Schiapar...

HUGGINS WILLIAM: (1824-1910) British astronomer. A.L.S., William Huggins, one page, 8vo, Upper Tulse Hill, London, 20th June 1899, to a gentleman....

BERTHOLLET CLAUDE LOUIS: (1748-1822) French chemist, the first to demonstrate the bleaching action of chlorine gas, and the first to develop a sol...

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

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. A ...

BUCHNER HANS ERNST: (1850-1902) German Bacteriologist. His brother Eduard was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in 1907. Buchner was a pi...

BHATNAGAR SHANTI SWAROOP: (1894-1955) Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator, revered as the ‘father of research laboratori...

DHAR NIL RATAN: (1892-1986) Indian professor of soil science and chemistry, remembered for his discovery of thermal and photo-chemical fixation of...

GOLDSCHMIDT BERTRAND: (1912-2002) French chemist, considered one of the fathers of the French atomic bomb, which was tested for the first time in ...

TYNDALL JOHN: (1820-1893) Irish physicist. A.L.S., John Tyndall, one page, 8vo, n.p. (London), n.d. (‘Saturday, 12.45’), to [William] Bowman, on t...

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...

KRISHNAN K. S.: (1898-1961) Indian physicist, a co-discoverer of Raman scattering. Manuscript D.S., K S Krishnan, one page, 4to, n.p., 22nd Januar...

BAUER EDMOND: (1880-1963) French physicist, a student of Marie Curie and Paul Langevin who made studies on radiation early in his career. Manuscri...

ANDRADE EDWARD: (1887-1971) English physicist, known for the work he made with Ernest Rutherford that first determined the wavelength of a type of...

LI SHU-HUA: (1890-1979) Chinese biophysicist. Manuscript D.S., Li Shu Hua, one page, 4to, n.p., 20th November 1952, in French. Li responds to a re...

LEVY PAUL: (1886-1971) French mathematician, active in probability theory. Manuscript D.S., P. Levy, one page, 4to, n.p., 2nd April 1954, in Frenc...

STORMER CARL: (1874-1957) Norwegian mathematician and astrophysicist. Manuscript D.S., Carl Stormer, one page, 4to, n.p., 7th March 1954. Stormer ...

HENKIN LEON: (1921-2006) American logician and mathematician whose works played a strong role in the development of logic. Autograph statement sig...

GRAMONT ARMAND DE: (1879-1962) 12th Duke of Gramont. French nobleman, scientist and industrialist. Gramont’s mother-in-law, Elisabeth de Riquet de...

GUTH EUGENE: (1905-1990) Hungarian-American physicist who made contributions to polymer physics and to nuclear and solid state physics. Manuscript...

NERVI PIER LUIGI: (1891-1979) Italian Engineer and Architect. Nervi is worldwide known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete and his tin s...

GAUSS CARL FRIEDRICH: (1777-1855) German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science....

POISSON SIMEON DENIS: (1781-1840) French mathematician and physicist. Manuscript D.S., Poisson, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p., n.d. (January 1830), i...

SOLOVINE MAURICE: (1875-1958) Romanian philosopher and mathematician, remembered for his friendship with Albert Einstein with whom he was a founde...

FERRI ANTONIO: (1912-1975) Italian scientist who was prominent in the field of aerodynamics and specialised in hypersonic and supersonic flight. T...

BERNARD CLAUDE: (1813-1878) French physiologist. A.L.S., Claude Bernard, two pages, small 8vo, St. Julien par Villefranche, 9th October 1877, to [...

LISTER JOSEPH: (1827-1912) British surgeon, a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. Ink signature (‘Joseph Lister’) and three additional words in his han...

SCHWEITZER ALBERT: (1875-1965) Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher & physician, Nobel Peace Prize winner 1952. Blue fountain pen ink signat...

CHARCOT JEAN-MARTIN: (1825-1893) French neurologist who worked on hypnosis and hysteria and is considered ‘the founder of modern neurology’. A.L.S...

SCIENCE: A United States First Day of Issue cover commemorating the Unite Nations Science and Technology Conference in Geneva, 1963, individually ...

SCIENCE: Selection of individually signed oblong 8vo cards (and a few smaller) by a miscellaneous selection of scientists, inventors, astronomers,...

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

BRAZZA PIERRE SAVORGNAN DE: (1852-1905) Italian-French explorer of Central Africa. A.L.S., P S. de Brazza, three pages, 12mo, n.p., 21st June 1882...

PEARY ROBERT: (1856-1920) American Rear Admiral and explorer who claimed to have been the first to reach the geographic North Pole with his expedi...

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

PICCARD JACQUES: (1922-2008) Swiss oceanographer and engineer. Signed Christmas greetings card, the small oblong 8vo folding card featuring a mono...