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1949réf. 057965New York: The Library Of Living Philosophers 1949. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Xvi 781 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. Stated First Edition. First Printing Of Einstein's Autobiography With Text In Both German And English; First Publication Of Major Essays On Einstein And An Important Discussion With Niels Bohr. Near Fine Book Gilt Bright No Marks. Dust Jacket Priced $8.50 Wear Browning Minute Losses At Edges Dust To Rear Panel. The Library Of Living Philosophers hardcover
1949réf. 38664The Library of Living Philosophers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of Einstein's autobiography. Blue cloth. Bookplate to ffep. Glue darkening along hinges. Book is tight and square. Gilt unfaded. The clipped jacket shows wear along edges and shows general toning. ; The Library of Living Philosophers; Vol. 7; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . The Library of Living Philosophers hardcover
1925réf. 140945616Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer 1925. First edition. First edition. xiv 377 1 4 pp. Bound in publisher's orangish yellow boards. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to boards tiny pen squiggle to front board. Contents bright and unmarked. An uncommon German-language physics text with an appendix by Einstein. Verlag von Julius Springer unknown
1925réf. 140945616Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer 1925. First edition. First edition. xiv 377 1 4 pp. Bound in publisher's orangish yellow boards. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to boards tiny pen squiggle to front board. Contents bright and unmarked. An uncommon German-language physics text with an appendix by Einstein. Verlag von Julius Springer unknown books
1932réf. 433001932. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 32 1932. 31pp. 256 x 183 mm. Original printed wrappers a little chipped and darkened small splits in spine. Very good. First edition offprint issue. Einstein's work on semivectors "was stimulated by Ehrenfest's insistence on a better understanding of the relation between single-valued and double-valued representations of the Lorentz group . . . Einstein and Mayer went on to relate semivectors to the Dirac equation and to generalize the formalism to general relativity" Pais Subtle is the Lord pp. 451-452. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 186. unknown
1930réf. 433141930. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1930. Single sheet pp. 1-2. 256 x 184 mm. Upper edge a bit creased light toning but very good. First edition offprint issue. One of Einstein's last papers on Riemann metrics and distant parallelism written the year before he abandonded this approach to constructing a unified field theory. Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 347. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 173. unknown
1930réf. 433141930. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1930. Single sheet pp. 1-2. 256 x 184 mm. Upper edge a bit creased light toning but very good. First edition offprint issue. One of Einstein's last papers on Riemann metrics and distant parallelism written the year before he abandonded this approach to constructing a unified field theory. Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 347. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 173. unknown books
1932réf. 433001932. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 32 1932. 31pp. 256 x 183 mm. Original printed wrappers a little chipped and darkened small splits in spine. Very good. First edition offprint issue. Einstein's work on semivectors "was stimulated by Ehrenfest's insistence on a better understanding of the relation between single-valued and double-valued representations of the Lorentz group . . . Einstein and Mayer went on to relate semivectors to the Dirac equation and to generalize the formalism to general relativity" Pais Subtle is the Lord pp. 451-452. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 186. unknown books
réf. 108243Princeton University Press 1987–1995. 4° XXIII 433 S.; XXII 655 S.; XXXII 644 S.; 4: XVIII 715 S.; 460 S. OLwd. m. OU.; Bd. 6: Broschur Tadell. Sprache: engl. 010 Princeton, University Press, 1987–1995 unknown
1945réf. 617621Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second edition with a new appendix by Einstein and translated by Ernst G. Straus. Octavo. 135pp. Tiny owner name on front fly else fine in uniformly and modestly spine-toned very good dust jacket with nominal soiling. Princeton University Press hardcover
1945réf. 617621Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second edition with a new appendix by Einstein and translated by Ernst G. Straus. Octavo. 135pp. Tiny owner name on front fly else fine in uniformly and modestly spine-toned very good dust jacket with nominal soiling. Princeton University Press hardcover books
1914réf. 1199Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn 1914. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION FULL VOLUME OF THE FRANCK-HERTZ EXPERIMENT: THE FIRST ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT TO CLEARLY SHOW THE QUANTUM NATURE OF ATOMS - PROOF OF THE QUANTIZED MODEL OF THE BOHR ATOM & OF PLANCK'S QUANTUM THEORY. Note that this volume includes both the first and second Franck-Hertz experiment. In the first they demonstrate that atoms can only absorb and be excited by specific amounts of energy; in the second experiment performed the same year they demonstrate that the frequency of the light emitted following the collision of electrons with mercury atoms corresponds precisely with the energy lost by the electrons in the collision. Franck and Hertz received the Nobel Prize for this work specifically "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom" Nobel Prize Committee. Of equal import this volume also contains a paper by Einstein in which he uses the light quantum hypothesis to give new derivations of Planck's radiation law and Nernst's third law of thermodynamics. His "proofs introduced the quantum hypothesis" Calaprice The Einstein Almanac 40. In 1914 James Franck and Gustav Hertz were working together in the Physics Institute of Berlin and were "particularly interested in ionization i.e. in the process in which an electron is removed from an atom" The Harvest of a Century" p. 102-103. The experiment they devised now known commonly as the Franck-Hertz experiment is "a vivid illustration of the quantization of energy" that relied on methodology so simple "that it is now carried out regularly by undergraduates. They accelerated electrons through a low-pressure gas of mercury. When the electrons' energy reach the energy of a stationary state of mercury they gave up a quantum of energy to the mercury resulting in a stepwise shape to the curve of current through the apparatus. This demonstrated that atoms could absorb energy only in discrete amounts" Peacock The Quantum Revolution 40. "Franck and Hertz had not only shown for the first time that electrons lose their kinetic energy to mercury atoms in energy quanta but also that these energy quanta are equal to the energy of the light emitted by the same atoms if interpreted with Einstein's light-quantum hypothesis.This was the first experimental determination of Planck's constant not using blackbody radiation" Brandt 103. CONDITION & DETAILS: Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn. 8vo. Unobtrusive stamp on front paste down and title page. In-text figures throughout. Tightly bound in leather over marbled paper boards; gilt-lettered and tooled at the slightly faded and spotted spine which looks worse in the image due to the bright light than it does to the eye. Unusually beautiful marbled paper edges. Bright and very clean throughout. Near fine. Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn hardcover
1927réf. 5736KBerlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften in commission at Georg Reimer Reichsdruckerei 24th February 1927; 14th February 1928. Near Fine. Imperial 8vo 25 4: 18 2 cm. 12 pages numbered 2-13; 12 pages numbered 235-245 1. Letterpress on machine paper in original publisher’s brochures on orange stock with black title printing. First offprints in the original wrappers of two of Einstein's papers about the interrelations of the General Theory of Relativity and the Law of Motion the 2nd paper conducted with his assistant Jakob Grommer. - Condition: Mint. - Reference: Boni-Russ-L. 171; Schilpp-Shields 212; Weil 155 and 160. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften (in commission at Georg Reimer [Reichsdruckerei]) unknown
1931réf. 5745KBerlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften in commission at Georg Reimer Reichsdruckerei 2nd December 1931; 30th April 1932. Near Fine. Imperial 8vo 25 4: 18 2 cm. 19 1 pages; 12 pages numbered 235-245 1. Letterpress on machine paper in original publisher’s brochures on salmon-coloured and orange stock with black title printing. First offprints in the original wrappers and new pagination of this important two-part paper by Einstein formulating new developments towards Unified Field Theories. - Content: Einstein made several attempts at a five-dimensional unified field theory including this two-part collaboration with Austrian mathematician Walther Mayer nicknamed „Einstein's calculator“ ""in which a new unified field theory was proposed one based on a four-dimensional space-time continuum with a five-dimensional tangent space attached at each point"" Pais Subtle is the Lord p. 492. - Condition: Very well preserved. - Reference: Boni-Russ-L. 207; Printing and the Mind of Man 416 „Principal Work“; Schilpp-Shields 251 and 261; Weil 182 and 185 quotes the paginations of the first separate printings p. 541-557 and 130-137. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften (in commission at Georg Reimer [Reichsdruckerei]) unknown
1923réf. 5730KBerlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften in commission at Walter de Gruyter Reichsdruckerei 28th June 1923. Near Fine. Imperial 8vo 25 4: 18 2 cm. 4 pages numbered 137-140. Letterpress on machine paper in original publisher’s brochure on orange stock with black title printing. First offprint in the original wrappers of this first attempt of Einstein to formulate a unified field theory. - Content: In this important paper Einstein gives his first investigation of ""Affine geometries"" and introduces the notion of ""Distant parallelism"" thus for the first time attempting to formulate a unified field theory based on the research of the German mathematician theoretical physicist and philosopher Hermann Weyl. - Condition: Mint. - Reference: Alicke 113; Norman Library 698; Schilpp-Shields 175; Weil 132. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften (in commission at Walter de Gruyter [Reichsdruckerei]) unknown
1934réf. 180324Princeton: Princeton University Press 1934. First edition offprint issue of the fourth and final paper on Einstein and Mayer's semi-vectors in which they aimed to incorporate the Dirac equation into the general theory of relativity. This last article "was presented foremost as an exercise with exclusively mathematical appeal" Van Dongen p. 106. Large octavo pp. 7. Disbound from wrappers wire-stitched. Nicks and a handful of short closed tears to extremities: a very good copy. Boni 225; Weil 193. Jeroen van Dongen Einstein's Unification 2010. unknown
1933réf. 180322Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen 1933. First edition offprint issue of the second of Einstein and Mayer's four classic papers on semi-vectors in which they aimed to incorporate the Dirac equation into the general theory of relativity. "By introducing semi-vectors Einstein wanted to arrive at a mathematically simpler and more general formulation of spinors. The semi-vector generalization of the Dirac equation was thought to give a unified description of charged elementary particles in particular of the electron and proton. In their second semi-vector paper Einstein and Mayer were on the lookout for the most general Dirac system possible for the semivector" Van Dongen pp. 103-11. Large octavo pp. 20. Original cream wrappers front wrapper printed in black. Wire-stitching sometime removed front wrappers lightly soiled: a very good copy. Boni 222; Weil 191. Jeroen van Dongen Einstein's Unification 2010. unknown
1933réf. 180318Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen 1933. First edition offprint issue of the third of Einstein and Mayer's four classic papers on semi-vectors in which they aimed to incorporate the Dirac equation into the general theory of relativity. "By introducing semi-vectors Einstein wanted to arrive at a mathematically simpler and more general formulation of spinors. The semi-vector generalization of the Dirac equation was thought to give a unified description of charged elementary particles in particular of the electron and proton" Van Dongen pp. 103-5. Large octavo pp. 4. Original cream wrappers front wrapper printed in black wire-stitched as issued. Extremities gently creased short closed tears at spine ends occasional light foxing: a very good copy. Boni 223; Weil 192. Jeroen van Dongen Einstein's Unification 2010. unknown
1926réf. 043474London: Methuen & Co. 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Viii 124 Pp. Green Cloth White Spine Lettering. First Printing In Secondary Binding With White Lettering The First Binding Was Lettered In Gilt. Book Used But Still Near Fine Very Slight Rubbing Lettering Complete With Some Wear Small Areas Of Lightening Of Color On Front Cover Darkening To Lower Corner Of Page "V" First Page Of Preface. No Marks. Lacking The Very Scarce Dust Jacket. Methuen & Co. hardcover
2004réf. 1393704Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 2004. Collector's Editions. Hardcover. Octavos Four Volumes. Bound in brown genuine leather with bright gilt spine titles and gilt motifs on covers. Gilt text blocks. Paper endpapers silk ribbons. In publisher's shrinkwrap. MA consignment. Shelved above Easton Press. 1393704. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover
1924réf. js21524London: Methuen and Co 1924. second edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. a lovely copy of the 2nd edition. the jacket is shelf worn with a little loss at the top of the spine and fraying at the bottom. there is a previous owner's signature and place name. the paper is possibly a little darkened but no real foxing to talk of. square and neat binding. appears very little used. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Methuen and Co hardcover
2004réf. 1393704Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 2004. Collector's Editions. Hardcover. Octavos Four Volumes. Bound in brown genuine leather with bright gilt spine titles and gilt motifs on covers. Gilt text blocks. Paper endpapers silk ribbons. In publisher's shrinkwrap. MA consignment. Shelved above Easton Press. 1393704. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover books
1918réf. 5720KBerlin: Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in commission at Georg Reimer Reichsdruckerei 21st March 1918. Near Fine. Imperial 8vo 26 5: 19 cm. 3 pages numbered 269-272. Letterpress on machine paper in original publisher’s brochure on orange-coloured stock with black title printing. First journal issue in the original printed wrappers of Einstein's early paper on the cosmological implications of general relativity. – Contents: Einstein here criticizes De Sitter's equations for gravitational fields and provides the first proper definition of a space-time singularity. „Einstein never said so explicitly but it seems reasonable to assume that he had in mind that the correct equations should have no solutions at all in the absence of matter. However right after his Einstein's paper »Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie“ mid February 2017 note WoP paper appeared de Sitter did find a solution . Einstein must have been disappointed. In 1918 he looked for ways to rule out the de Sitter solution but soon realized that there is nothing wrong with it.“ Paise Despite Einstein's critique the De Sitter model was the dominant cosmological model until the 1930s at which time Einstein and de Sitter together proposed a ""just right"" cosmological model. The great cosmological debate between Einstein and De Sitter marks the beginning of the modern scientific understanding of the origins of the universe. The Academy's publishing list on the rear cover also announces an offprint of this paper for Reichsmark 0 50. – Condition: Wrappers at margins minimally torn sheet with Einstein's contribution opened and thus cut slighly perforated some pages minimally creased otherwise well preserved partly unopened copy. – Rarity: RBH records 3 copies of this paper at auction 2019 2011 2002 none of them the first separate printing. – Reference: Alicke W. Albert Einstein. An Almost Complete Collection of his Publications and Two Original Manuscripts 91; Boni N.: A bibliographical checklist and index to the published writings of Albert Einstein 108; The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Volume 7 5; Shields M. C.: Bibliography der Schriften Einsteins. In: Schilpp P. A.: Albert Einstein als Philosoph und Naturforscher 117; Weil E.: Albert Einstein. A bibliography of his scientific papers 1901-1930 98; Pais A.: Subtle is the Lord. The Science and Life of Albert Einstein 2005 ed. p. 288. Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in commission at Georg Reimer [Reichsdruckerei]) unknown
1954réf. 042205New York: Crown Publishers 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Vii 377 Pp. Grey Cloth Spine Lettered In Gilt On Maroon Background. First Edition 1954 First Printing No Statement Of Printing Dj Priced $4.00 Publisher's Address As 49 Fourth Avenue On Front And Rear Flaps. Book Fine Spine Edges Crisp. Former Owner's Verified Signature With August 1954 Date No Other Marks. Dj Near Fine Touch Of Rubbing At Corners 1/4" Closed Tear At Bottom Of Front Spine Edge With Associated Rubbing And Another 1/4" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel. Seldom Seen In This Condition Or Better. Crown Publishers hardcover
1938réf. 035775New York: Simon & Schuster 1938. First American Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs Charts and Diagrams. X 319 Pp 1 Pp Ads At Rear. Blue Cloth Gilt Yellow Endpapers. One Of 6000 Copies Of The American First Printing; Publisher's Note On Dj States That The Uk Dutch And American Editions Were Being Issued Simultaneously. Book Is Very Good Gilt Very Bright Cloth Clean Rear Hinge Cracked In Upper 2 3/4" Clean Unmarked Pages; One Quarter Inch Square Area Of Fading At Upper Left Of Spine Panel. With Heraldic Bookplate On Front Pastedown Mostly Under Flap Of Dj. First Issue Dj Priced $2.50 At Bottom Of Rear Flap With Price Much Nearer The Gold Border Than The Bottom Edge; On Later Printings The Price Is Aligned Midway. Dj Clean Spine Lettering Somewhat Browned Light Wear 1/2" Triangular Chip At Top Of Rear Panel Still Present But Loose; Minute Losses At Corners; Browning To Edges Of White Rear Panel But No Browning At All To Front Panel. Simon & Schuster hardcover
