Fine Selection of Autographs - Session 2

(1769 - 1821) The "Little Corporal" whose brilliance in the field of battle and as Emperor of France has made him perhaps the most importa...

(1769 - 1852) British general and statesman, called the "Iron Duke", he crushed French forces under Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo. A...

(1852 - 1931) French marshall and commander in chief of the French armies in World War I, victorious at the battle of the Marne. Excellent I.S.P. 4 1

(1915 - 1981) Israeli general and politician who gained decisive victories in Sinai and Gaza during the Suez War, later planned and commanded the 196

VICTOR R. GURNEY. Cavalrymen and one of 600 members of the Light Brigade who lost 40% of their men at Balaklava during the Crimean War and immortalize

A great piece of German propaganda from World War I, attempting to foment French distrust of England by accusing the French President Raymond Poincar

An interesting letter with period photographs from a Methodist missionary stationed in northern China in the early days of the short-lived Chinese Re

A fine 1830's French militia sword with leather scabbard, measuring 34 1/2" from the pommel to the tip of the blade. No maker's marks ...

A nice 1850 English cavalry saber without scabbard, measuring 35 1/2" from the pommel to the tip of the blade. No maker's marks are presen...

(1827 - 1912) English surgeon and medical scientist greatly influenced by Pasteur, leading to his founding of antiseptic surgery. A.L.S. on mourning

(1847 - 1931) American inventor of the electric light, phonograph, typewriter, and microphone, to name a few. Considered perhaps the greatest invento

(1875 - 1965) French physician and theologian, a Nobel Prize winner and specialist in tropical medicine. Good content, late L.S. 2pp. 8vo., Lambarene

(1747 - 1826) German astronomer best known for his popularization of Bode's law, or the Titius-Bode rule, an empirical mathematical expressio...

(1847 - 1931) American inventor of the electric light, phonograph, typewriter, and microphone, to name a few. Considered perhaps the greatest invento

(1810 - 1879) English engineer and naval architect, a close associate of Brunel who influenced ship design by developing the hull testing tank, also

(1908 - 1968) Russian physicist who studied low-temperature physics, atomic and nuclear physics and plasma physics. His explanation as to why liquid

(1806 - 1878) American engineer, served as chief engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio RR, laying out the line between Washington and Baltimore, ai...

(1894 - 1989) German rocket pioneer who aided in the development of the V1 and V2, later brought to America by Von Braun. Good lot of three items, in

(1853 - 1942) English Egyptologist who studied the ancient remains of Stonehenge, the pyramids at Giza, and excavated Tanis, founder of the British

(1785 - 1850) English chemist and physician, studied the digestive system and determined that the stomach contained hydrochloric acid, postulated tha