The goal of this paper is to determine what are the trends in publishing for the works of which N. Tesla is the subject or author of, if there is a dominant topic in these works, and if the most works are of a scientific or popular scientific nature. The purpose of this paper is to provide the data which could help make a conclusion about the publishing activity in the Republic of Croatia regarding scientific, popular scientific and works about famous scientists such as Nikola Tesla. An additional purpose would be to gain insight about the relationship between society, science and scientist in the context of a publishing plan and reader’s interests. This paper is divided in two parts, the first of which contains an overview of the basic knowledge of bibliographies that includes basic concepts and types of bibliographies as well as a brief depiction of their historical development. The second part of the paper deals with the bibliography of works either written personally by the scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla or in which he is the main subject. The data for the paper was collected in the Croatian National Bibliography (current and retrospective), from the catalogue of the National and University Library in Zagreb, Zagreb City Libraries and from the Central Library for Physics. The search strategy included a search by author, subject and keywords. The collected data was organized by type of publication, chronologically and alphabetically. The alphabetical indexes and analysis of the publications by number, type, language and location of their initial release are written at the end of the bibliography. The data analysis determined that there is a substantial number of publications that deal with N. Tesla as well as those of which he is the author and that there is a growing trend in these kind of publications since the turn of the century. The prevalent number of publications are popular scientific works from Croatia, of which most are biographies.