Fine Selection of Autographs and Manuscripts

(1864 - 1943) Black-American botanist and the son of slaves, Carver worked his way through school to become a leader in agricultural research and fou

(1858 - 1928) American army officer and engineer appointed by Theodore Roosevelt to supervise construction of the Panama Canal. Uncommon A.L.S. as Ch

(1837 - 1932) American surgeon, a pioneer in brain surgery. Rare T.L.S. 2pp. 4to., Philadelphia, Dec. 18, 1897 to ""Margaret"",...

(1803 - 1873) German chemist considered the father of agricultural chemistry, he discovered the chemical workings of various plants, their derivation

(1868 - 1953) American physicist, first to isolate the electron and measure its charge, investigated cosmic rays, Nobel Prize winner for physics (192

(1835 - 1909) American astronomer and mathematician who secured the adoption of a system of astronomical constants, first president of the American A

(1875 - 1964) Nobel Prize-winning French physician and theologian, a specialist in tropical medicine. A.N.S. at the bottom of a letter from a Dutch n

(1865 - 1923) American electrical engineer who the law of hysteresis and the theory of alternating current. Partly-printed D.S. ""Charles...

(1843 - 1920) Russian physician, a pioneer of physiology. Very rare I.S.P. 2 1/2"" x 3/12"" b/w, with mat 6"" x 9&quo...

"A nice grouping of seven autographs by explorers and scientists in different formats, including: EDWARD TELLER (S.P.); ALEX AGASSIZ (A.L.S.); ...

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

(1897 - 1937) American aviator, the first woman to cross the Atlantic, first solo across the Atlantic and first Hawaii-Mainland solo; lost in an arou

(d. 1993) American aviator who gained fame both as a racing pilot and as leader of the first air raid on Tokyo during World War II. T.L.S. on "...

American aviator. Signature on a narrow slip, mounted. 1989

(1919 - 1959) French mountaineer, one of the first women to climb as an equal with men. In 1949 she lead-climbed the south ridge of Aiguille Noire de

(1890 - 1973) American aviator and World War I ace credited with 26 ""kills"", later president of Eastern Air Lines. Fine conte...

(1890 - 1973) American aviator and World War I ace credited with 26 ""kills"", later president of Eastern Air Lines. Good conte...

A fine association of important and quite scarce aviators, being signatures on a pale green album page of: WILEY POST (1899 - 1935) American aviator

Exceptional NASA-issued S.P. 10"" x 8"" color, an image of a well-illuminated full moon signed by twelve Apollo program astrona...

(d. 1986) American astronaut, a civilian teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, killed in the fiery explosion of the Challenger space shuttle. Rare, bo