Historical Documents

JOHN BURROUGHS Signature, "The good wishes of, John Burroughs, Feb 14th 1903." VG. Double matted with a portrait and framed. $100-150

WILLIAM THOMSON 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907), British mathematician & physicist; chief consultant during laying of first Atlantic Cable; propose...

ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955) Theoretical physicist. TLS, "A Einstein", 1p, Sept 4, 1946, 4to, his embossed personal stationery, Princeton, ...

ERNST MACH (1838-1916) Austrian physicist & philosopher; conducted considerable research in the field of ballistics. The "Mach" number...

LEV LANDAU (1908-68) Russian physicist; awarded Nobel Prize for Physics (1962), for theories on condensed matter, especially liquid helium. Signature,

PYOTR KAPITSA (1894-1984) Russian Physicist; director of U.S.S.R.'s Institute of Physical Problems, but dismissed (1946) for refusing to work on...

JULIUS ROBERT OPPENHEIMER (1904-67) American physicist; Executive Director of the Manhattan Project (atomic bomb). DS, check, payable to Oppenheimer f

ARTHUR H COMPTON (1892-1962) American physicist, 1927 Nobel Prize; Program Chief in the Manhattan Project (atomic bomb). TLS, 1p, Feb 9, 1934, 4to, Un

SIGMUND FREUD (1856-1939) Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis. ALS, "Freud", 1p, Jan 24, 1936, 8vo, personal letterhead, Vienn...

SIGMUND FREUD Printed LS, signed "Herr Freud", May, 1936, on 6"X4 1/2" card, sending thanks for remembering his 80th birthday. A...