SIXTUS V: (1521-1590) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1585-90. Sixtus V is credited with crucial important changes and works during his short te...

GREGORY XIV: (1535-1591) Pope of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States 1590-1591. During his brief pontificate which lasted only ten m...

ALEXANDER VII: (1599-1667) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Ruler of the Papal States 1655-67. Born Fabio Chigi, he was a member of the very ...

JOHN PAUL II: (1920-2005) Pope of the Catholic Church 1978-2005. Canonized in 2014. T.L.S., Jan Pavel II, to the inside of a small oblong 8vo fold...

FRANCIS DE SALES: (1567-1622) Saint of the Catholic Church. Bishop of Geneva. Known for his writings such as the Introduction to the Devout Life a...

BOSCO JOHN: (1815-1888) Don Bosco. Italian Roman Catholic Priest, Educator and Writer. He developed teaching methods based on love rather than pun...

PIO OF PIETRELCINA: (1887-1968) Italian Priest & Mystic, famous for bearing the stigmata for most of his life, causing much controversy. Padre Pio...

MATA HARI: (1876-1917) Margaretha Geertruida Zelle. Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy, executed by a firing squad in France during World War ...

MICHEL LOUISE: (1830-1905) French anarchist and teacher, an important figure in the Paris Commune. A.L.S., L Michel, two pages, 8vo, London, 28th ...

ADDAMS JANE: (1860-1935) American settlement activist & reformer, an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the Un...

COBBE FRANCES POWER: (1822-1904) Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and women's suffrage campaigner. A.L....

CHRISTIE ETHEL: (1898-1952) English wife of murderer John Reginald Halliday Christie, herself one of his victims who was later discovered strangle...

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist, discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. An unusual A.L.S. by a John Water...

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. ALBA DUKE OF (1878-1953) Jacob...

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. A.L.S., Abdelal Ahmed Said, by...

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. A.L.S., Ibrahim Khalil Ibrahim...

CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist, discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. A.L.S., Howard (a somewhat hurried ...

CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist, discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. An excellent group of three typescr...

CRISP QUENTIN: (1908-1999) English raconteur and gay icon, famous for his autobiography The Naked Civil Servant (1968). Signed and inscribed 4 x 5...

TRAIN GEORGE FRANCIS: (1829-1904) American entrepreneur who was involved in the Union Pacific Railroad and also organised the clipper ship line th...

FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Selection of signed pieces, cards, album pages (a few matted beneath images), signed photographs of various sizes (8 x 10 and ...