A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 1

ALBERT EINSTEIN: (1879 - 1955) American physicist whose Theory of Relativity and studies of mass and energy relationships revolutionized the field of

ALBERT EINSTEIN: (1879 - 1955) American physicist whose Theory of Relativity and studies of mass and energy relationships revolutionized the field of

JOSEPH-IGNACE GUILLOTIN: (1738 - 1814) French physician and politician, a defender of capital punishment who proposed the use of the beheading machine

ANDRE AMPERE: (1775 - 1836) French mathematician, chemist and physicist who formulated the basis for electrodynamics and developed a law on the force

JEAN M. CHARCOT: (1825 - 1893) French neurologist and world-renowned teacher whose most famous student was Sigmund Freud. Scarce A.L.S. "Charco...

THOMAS A. EDISON: (1847 - 1931) American inventor of the electric light, phonograph, typewriter, and microphone, to name a few. Considered perhaps the

THOMAS A. EDISON: (1847 - 1931) American inventor of the electric light, phonograph, typewriter, and microphone, to name a few. Considered perhaps the

GEORGE W. GOETHALS: (1858 - 1928) American army officer and engineer appointed by Theodore Roosevelt to supervise construction of the Panama Canal. A.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER: (1875 - 1965) French physician and theologian, a specialist in tropical medicine. Very fine content A.L.S. 1p. 4to., Lambarene, Apr

HOWARD R. HUGHES: (1905 - 1976) American industrialist and aviator, an eccentric billionaire who controlled RKO, founded the Hughes Tool Corp., and bu

DOUGLAS CORRIGAN: Wrong-Way Corrigan", American aviator of the Thirties who set out in his plane promising to fly west and ended up making a tr...

DOUGLAS MAWSON: (1882 - 1958) British Antarctic explorer, a member of Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, accompanied Edgeworth David's sledding...

CHARLES A. LINDBERGH: (1902 - 1974) American aviator who, in his "Spirit of St. Louis", was the first to fly solo non-stop across the Atla...

CHARLES A. LINDBERGH: (1902 - 1974) American aviator who, in his "Spirit of St. Louis", was the first to fly solo non-stop across the Atla...

AMELIA EARHART: (1897 - 1937) American aviator, the first woman to cross the Atlantic, first solo across the Atlantic and first Hawaii-Mainland solo;

ORVILLE WRIGHT: (1871 - 1948) American inventor and a pioneer of flight, Wright, with his brother Wilbur, made the first successful flight of a motor-

(APOLLO 11 SIGNED "INSURANCE" COVER): Exceedingly rare commemorative postal cover signed by the three Apollo 11 astronauts, NEIL ARMSTRONG...

APOLLO 15 MOON-FLOWN $20 BILL: An excessively rare, superb Apollo 15 relic, a United States $20.00 bill, signed by the entire crew of Apollo 15, inclu

APOLLO 15 FLOWN JAPANESE FLAG: An exceptional Apollo 15 flown relic, a 3 1/2" x 2 1/2" cloth Japanese flag carried aboard the Apollo 15 mi...

(APOLLO 11): A superb Apollo 11 association piece, an official oversize NASA collage photo 13" x 11" color, commemorating the historic Apo...