Samuel Gellibrand

{{Short description|English bookseller}}

Samuel Gellibrand (1614–1675) was a London bookseller and son of physician Henry Gellibrand (1568–1615)Henry Plomer (1907) A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667{{cite web |title=Henry Gellibrand - Biography |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gellibrand/ |website=Maths History |publisher=St Andrews University |access-date=26 September 2020 |language=en}} and Mary Faversham, along with brothers John, Edward, Thomas and Henry, a mathematician appointed Gresham Professor of Astronomy.{{cite web |title=Gellibrand, Henry |url=https://words.fromoldbooks.org/Chalmers-Biography/g/gellibrand-henry.html |website=words.fromoldbooks.org |publisher=Fromoldbooks.org |access-date=26 September 2020}} Samuel apprenticed under Henry Featherstone from 1630 to 1637, set up shop at the sign of the Brazen Serpent in St. Paul's Churchyard and published Mathematical Magick in 1648.