Signature Collection (page 92)

Eugen Langen, German engineer C016 / 8869
Eugen Langen (1833-1895), German engineer. Langen worked on early internal combustion engines with Nikolaus Otto, and their Otto-Langen engine won the Grand Prize at the 1867 Paris World Exhibition

Peter Hewitt, US electrical engineer C016 / 8851
Peter Cooper Hewitt (1861-1921), US electrical engineer. Hewitt invented a mercury-vapour lamp (patented 1901) and built the first mercury arc rectifier (1902)

Bellanca pilots and aeroplane, 1920s C018 / 0618
Bellanca pilots and aeroplane. Italian-US aircraft engineer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca (lower centre, 1886-1960) with two Bellanca pilots and a Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker aeroplane named Rosemarie

Heat-sensitive paints C014 / 0288
Heat-sensitive paints. Heat signature of a human hand left on surfaces coated with heat sensitive paints

George Downing Liveing, British chemist
George Downing Liveing (1827-1924), British chemist. Liveing studied at St Johns College, at the University of Cambridge. He went on to become a Fellow of the College and later its President (1911)

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), French chemist. In 1804, Gay-Lussac made balloon ascents to measure changes in magnetism and air composition with altitude

William Henry Harvey, Irish botanist C017 / 7985
William Henry Harvey (1811-1866), Irish botanist. Harvey specialised in the study of algae (phycology), describing over 750 species

Paul Tissandiers balloon license, 1904
Paul Tissandiers balloon license, issued by the Aero-Club de France on 7 January 1904. French aeronaut Paul Tissandier (1881-1945)

Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist C016 / 5259
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), British naturalist, in middle age. Wallace organised expeditions to the Amazon and Malaysia and was the first European to see orang-utans in the wild

Robert Brown, Scottish botanist C016 / 5117
Robert Brown (1773-1858), Scottish botanist. Brown was the naturalist on the Flinders expedition to Australia, arriving in 1801 and returning in 1805 with thousands of specimens

William Carpenter, British naturalist C016 / 5058
William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885), British naturalist. Carpenter trained as a physician, but published widely in many fields

Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist C013 / 6595
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), British naturalist. Wallace organised expeditions to the Amazon and Malaysia and was the first European to see orang-utans in the wild

Lionel de Latour Wells, MFB Chief Officer
Lionel de Latour Wells RN, Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade from 1896 to 1903. Cabinet photo by H & R Stiles, Kensington High Street, London

British physician. Stipple engraving, English, 1838
JAMES BLUNDELL (1790-1877). British physician. Stipple engraving, English, 1838

English physician. Steel engraving after a painting by Allan Ramsay
RICHARD MEAD (1673-1754). English physician. Steel engraving after a painting by Allan Ramsay

Woodward Tablecloth

Letter addressed to James and Anne Sowerby
Thank you letter from C. Reynolds to the Sowerbys, dated 1831. Reverse side

Spain. Kingdom of Alfonso XII. Constitution of 1876 with kings signature. SPAIN. Madrid. Congress Palace

DOMINGUEZ BECQUER, Joaqu�(1818-1879). The Moroccan
DOMINGUEZ BECQUER, Joaqu� (1818-1879). The Moroccan Peace. Meeting between general O Donnell and the prince Muley-el-Abas

Spain (1492). Reconquest. Taking of Granada. Capitulation and signature of Boabdil. Signed in Anadarax (8th July 1492). SPAIN. Simancas. General Archives of Simancas

SPAIN. Madrid. Congress Palace. Spain (1812). Constitution of Cᤩ z (18th March, 1812)

XIRGU, Margarita (1888-1969). Photo with dedication in Catalan to the director Enric Jim鮥 z (5th June 1911)

COURT, Joseph D鳩r頨1797-1865). Portrait of
" COURT, Joseph D鳩 r頨 1797-1865). Portrait of Balzac. mid. 19th c. Portrait of Honor頂 alzac with the writers signature, published in " Balzac" by Rene Benjamin

Paris International Exhibition (1937). Floor of the Spanish Pavilion, with the signature of the architects Josep Llu� Sert and Luis Lacasa. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Hist󲩣 o Nacional

Spain (1985). Signature of the Treaty of Accession of Spain to the European Common Market at the Royal Palace in Madrid

GERARD, Fran篩s (1770-1837). Signature of the

COLLINS, William Wilkie (1824-1889). British writer. Collins signature in an edition of My Miscellanies (london, 1875). Litography

Gwf Cambridge / Col Litho
GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK CHARLES, 2nd DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE Military Date: 1819 - 1904

Abraham Lincoln / Lawyer
ABRAHAM LINCOLN As a young lawyer, circa 1848 Date: 1809-1865

Chopin / Anon Etching
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician Date: 1810 - 1849

Berlioz Berlin
HECTOR BERLIOZ the French composer in middle age Date: 1803 -1869

Chester Alan Arthur, President of the United States
Chester Alan Arthur (1829-1886), 21st President of the United States (1881-1885). Date: circa 1881

Albeniz, Isaac (Camprodon, 1860-Cambo-les-Bains, 1909). Spanish composer and pianist. The Alhambra. N. 1 La Vega. (end of the work). Manuscript signed in Paris, February 1897

Antarctic Dream cocktail, signature drink of Antarctic Dream cruise ship

Title page of Thomas Pownalls A Memorial Addressed to the Sovereigns of America, published at London, 1783
BRITISH PAMPHLET, 1783. Title page of Thomas Pownalls A Memorial Addressed to the Sovereigns of America, published at London, 1783

(1732-1794). American Revolutionary statesman. Steel engraving, American, 1861, after a painting by Alonzo Chappel
RICHARD HENRY LEE (1732-1794). American Revolutionary statesman. Steel engraving, American, 1861, after a painting by Alonzo Chappel

Last page of the Treaty of Alliance between France and the United States, concluded in Paris, 6 February 1778
TREATY OF ALLIANCE, 1778. Last page of the Treaty of Alliance between France and the United States, concluded in Paris, 6 February 1778, and bearing the signatures of Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane

Signature page of the Olive Branch Petition, adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775
OLIVE BRANCH PETITION, 1775. Signature page of the Olive Branch Petition, adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775, to prevent further conflict with Great Britain. The petition was rejected

Last page of the duplicate of the Treaty of Paris, signed 3 September 1783
TREATY OF PARIS, 1783. Last page of the duplicate of the Treaty of Paris, signed 3 September 1783

Document from the session of the Virginia Council of State, 10 November 1778
VIRGINIA COUNCIL, 1778. Document from the session of the Virginia Council of State, 10 November 1778

Page two of the report of the session of the Virginia Council of State, 23 December 1778
VIRGINIA COUNCIL OF STATE. Page two of the report of the session of the Virginia Council of State, 23 December 1778, signed by James Madison and three other members

Article ten of the Treaty of Alliance between France and the United States, concluded in Paris, 6 February 1778
TREATY OF ALLIANCE, 1778. Article ten of the Treaty of Alliance between France and the United States, concluded in Paris, 6 February 1778

Real name: William Alexander. American revolutionary officer
LORD STIRLING (1726-1783). Real name: William Alexander. American revolutionary officer

Frontispiece and title page of a 1717 edition of Logic; or, the Art of Thinking, by Antoine Arnaud and Pierre Nicole
ARNAULD & NICOLE: LOGIC. Frontispiece and title page of a 1717 edition of Logic; or, the Art of Thinking, by Antoine Arnaud and Pierre Nicole

Membership certificate of the American Philosophical Society issued to Benjamin Henry Latrobe
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Membership certificate of the American Philosophical Society issued to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and signed by Thomas Jefferson, 1799

Commission assigning justices of the peace, signed by Benjamin Franklin while President of Pennsylvanias Supreme
FRANKLIN: COMMISSION, 1787. Commission assigning justices of the peace, signed by Benjamin Franklin while President of Pennsylvanias Supreme Executive Council, 1787

James Madisons commission as a colonel in the Virginia militia, signed by Governor Edmund Pendleton, 1775
MADISON: COMMISSION, 1775. James Madisons commission as a colonel in the Virginia militia, signed by Governor Edmund Pendleton, 1775

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