Autograph Letters, Manuscripts & Historical Documents
By International Autograph Auctions
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Nov 30, 2022
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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MEDICINE: Selection of individual ink signatures, each to the verso of colour picture postcards addressed to the Italian collector Roland Sensini, by various surgeons, immunologists, physicians, geneticists, virologists, sexologists etc. comprising Christiaan Barnard (2; performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation), Norman Shumway (3; performed the first adult human-to-human heart transplant operation in the United States), Michael DeBakey, Isadore Rosenfeld, Denton Cooley (2; performed the first implantation of a total artificial heart), Michael Woodruff, Georges Mathe (2), Robert Gallo (3; established the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for AIDS), Jordi Casals i Ariet, Richard Gregory (2), Jim Horne, Carl Wood (a pioneer of IVF), Jerome Lejeune, Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, David Hopwood, Remy Chauvin, Marcos Rojkind Matlyuk, Henri Laborit (3), Virginia E. Johnson, William Masters, Hilary Koprowski, Steven Rosenberg (2), Albert Sabin (4; developed the oral polio vaccine), Robert J. White (2) and Maurice Hilleman (3; developed over forty vaccines). Some have added notes etc. in their hands and many have small attached magazine or newspaper portraits etc. Generally VG, 42
