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1931rif. 28370Berlin Gruyter & Co. 1931. 4to. Orig. printed orange wrapper. Offprint/Sonderausgabe aus Sitzungsberichten.pp. 1-19. Fine fresh copy. First edition in the rare Offprint with separate printed title and separate pagination. Se Weil No. 182 where this is not mentioned. Weil No. 182 with an asterix denoting a major work.The early Offprints from "Sitzungsberichten." are called "Sonderabdruck" up to Weil No.165 including this. From Weil 166 they are called "Sonderausgabe.". - Before 161 up to 160 the Offprints do not have separate title and pagination the pagination follows the numbering in the periodical. From 166 the Offprint has both separate printed title and pagination. - So Weil Nos 161-165 is still "Abdruck" but with separate title and pagination. These facts are not mentioned in the bibliographies. unknown
1913rif. 47060Leipzig S. Hirzel 1913. Royal8vo. Uncut unopened in the original wrappers. In "Physikalische Zeitschrift" Vol. 14 1913. Entire issue offered. Front wrapper detached and lower right corner is missing. Extremities with nicks otherwise very fine and clean. Rare unopened. Pp. 1249-1266. Discussion; Pp. 1262-66. Entire volume: XXXI 1 1312 pp. LVI plates. First printing the famous address that Einstein gave on the occasion on the 85th Congress "Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte zu Wien" in their meeting September 23 1913 together with the ensuing discussion. In it he compared the development of the various theories of gravitation with the development of successive concepts of electricity.Weil No. 54. unknown
1923rif. 28357Berlin Gruyter & Co. 1923. 4to. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Offprint/Sonderabdruck aus "Sitzungsberichteder Preus.pp. 137-40. Fine fresh copy. First edition in the rare Offprint still called "Abdruck". Weil No. 132 with an asterix denoting a major work. - Here Einstein gives his first investigation of the "Affine geometries" and introduces the notion of "Distant parallelism".The early Offprints from "Sitzungsberichten." are called "Sonderabdruck" up to Weil No.165 including this. From Weil 166 they are called "Sonderausgabe.". - Before 161 up to 160 the Offprints do not have separate title and pagination the pagination follows the numbering in the periodical. From 166 the Offprint has both separate printed title and pagination. - So Weil Nos 161-165 is still "Abdruck" but with separate title and pagination. These facts are not mentioned in the bibliographies. unknown
1930rif. 81582Paris: Calmann Lévy 1930. Fine. Calmann Lévy Paris 1930 22 x 27.50 cm broché First edition of this issue of this important journal dealing notably with archaeology fine arts and ethnography and whose principal editors were Georges Bataille and Carl Einstein. A small tear at the foot of the spine a slight tear without loss at the foot of pages 21-22. Contributions by Heinrich Ehl: ""L'heure de naissance de l'art européen occidental"" Georges Bataille ""La mutilation sacrificielle et l'oreille coupée de Vincent Van Gogh"" Michel Leiris: ""Le ""caput mortuum"" ou la femme de l'alchimiste"" Jean Bourdeillette: ""Franz Xaver Messerschmidt"" Zdenko Reich: ""Le massacre des porcs"" Carl Einstein: ""L'enfance néoloithique Hans Arp"" Jacques Prévert Maurice Leenhardt. Issue illustrated with photographs by Jacques-André Boiffard. Calmann Lévy unknown
1954rif. 044237New York: Crown Publishers 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Vii 377 Pp. Grey Cloth Spine Lettered In Gilt On Maroon Background. First Edition 1954 First Printing No Statement Of Printing Dj Price Clipped But Exactly Same As First And Came With This Book Publisher's Address As 419 Fourth Avenue On Front And Rear Flaps. Book Near Fine Spine Edges Bumped No Marks. Dj Good Rubbing At Corners With Small Losses 2 1/2" Closed Tear At Bottom Of Front Spine Edge 3 1/2" Tear Across Top Left Corner Of Rear Panel 1 1/4" Closed Tear Bottom Of Rear Panel No Loss Of Lettering Slight Fading Of Yellow Lettering On Spine Panel. Crown Publishers hardcover
1938rif. 043366Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. ppX 319. 1st printing. The Cambridge Library of Modern Science Series. Prior owner details to FPD. DJ shows loss to head of upper cover is grubby and in protective plastic. Cambridge University Press hardcover
1920rif. 023653London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1920 pp.xiii 140 including Index Bibliography and 3 Appendixes plus 8-page publisher's catalogue at thr back. Illustrated with a Frontis portrait of the author. Red cloth with gilt title on slightly faded and darkened spine. Very slight fading to top and fore edge of front board. Black ink stain to top edge of rear board and tiny black ink spot to top spine corner of front board. Front and rear free endpapers lightly tanned and two small very light splash marks to blank verso of Contents page. Otherwise pages are clean. Methuen & Co. Ltd. hardcover
1933rif. 020348Paris: International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation- League of Nations 1933 pp 59. Translated to English from the original German by Stuart Gilbert. Cream coloured card covers with folding end flaps. Covers a bit soiled and rubbed with wear to corners and chipped at spine so part of the title is illegible. There is also a small brown water stain at bottom front spine corner and a small brown splash mark near bottom front edge. Page edges untrimmed. This is number 581 of a Limited Edition numbered consecutively from 1 to 2000. Together with a League of Nations single sheet leaflet describing on one side The Open Letters Series and on the other side a description of the first 2 volumes of the series Vol. 1 A League of Minds. Vol.2 Why War The League of Nations panels on either side of "why War" on the front cover are visible but did not come out in the picture. International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation- League of Nations paperback
1928rif. 270901928. S.Ber. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1928/17. - Berlin Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften 1928 8° 7 S. orig. Broschur. First Edition; the rare off-print from the "Sitzungsberichte". 'The general relativity theory splendidly justified his work. In this mathematical apparatus developed from Riemann's address Einstein found the frame to fit his physicals ideas his cosmology and cosmogeny; and the spirit of Riemann's address was just what physics needed: the metric structure determined by physical data'. -cf. DSB XI 447-456 Riemann Weil No.161; Schilpp-Shields No. 217; Alicke No. 139. unknown
1944rif. 556012New York: The American Christian Palestine Committee 1944. Softcover. Very Good. First separate edition. Small octavo. 12pp. Stapled self-wrappers. Slight age-toning on the wrappers and very tiny nicks soiling and light wear very good or better. Two articles jointly written by Einstein and Kahler in response to two articles laying out anti-Zionist testimony given by Dr. Philip Hitti of Princeton before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. Both of Hitti's articles and the Einstein and Kahler articles were all published in The Princeton Herald. This publication doesn't include the Hitti articles but summarizes them in the Einstein and Kahler rejoinders. Scarce. The American Christian Palestine Committee unknown
1923rif. 20260506001New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1923. Hardcover. Good. 23 cm. Dodd Mead and Company Published 1923. Hardcover viii 216 pp.; 23 cm; First Edition dated 1923 on title page with no additional printings; with seven diagrams; printed at the University Press Aberdeen. In Good condition lacking the dust jacket. Blue cloth-covered boards with the original printed paper label on the spine bearing the title and authors. Mild to moderate shelf wear with some color loss along the edges and soiling and toning to the spine cloth. The paper spine label has chipping along the right edge with loss to the upper right corner. A few razor-thin cracks to the binding but the text block remains very solid in the boards. Pages mildly toned with heavier toning to the endpapers and pastedowns. Otherwise unmarked.The first English-language collection of original memoirs on the special and general theory of relativity. Translated by W. Perrett and G. B. Jeffery from the German collection "Des Relativitätsprinzip" Teubner 4th ed. 1922 with notes by A. Sommerfeld. Gathers key papers in the development of modern physics including Einstein's "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" 1905 Minkowski's "Space and Time" 1908 Einstein's "The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity" 1916 and Weyl's "Gravitation and Electricity" along with contributions by Lorentz on Michelson's interference experiment and electromagnetic phenomena.Contents: Michelson's Interference Experiment by H. A. Lorentz; Electromagnetic Phenomena in a System Moving with Any Velocity Less Than That of Light by H. A. Lorentz; On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies by A. Einstein; Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy-Content by A. Einstein; Space and Time by H. Minkowski; On the Influence of Gravitation on the Propagation of Light by A. Einstein; The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity by A. Einstein; Hamilton's Principle and the General Theory of Relativity by A. Einstein; Cosmological Considerations on the General Theory of Relativity by A. Einstein; Do Gravitational Fields Play an Essential Part in the Structure of the Elementary Particles of Matter by A. Einstein; Gravitation and Electricity by H. Weyl. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover
1902rif. 38799Leipzig Ambrosius Barth 1902. Contemp. hcloth. First hinge broken. = "Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 9." VIII1344 pp. and 5 plates. The Einstein Paper: pp. 417-435. Internally clean and fine. The whole volume offered. First edition of Einstein's third paper. - Weil No 3. - The volume contains 2 papers by Max Planck originally published in "Jubelband für H.A. Lorentz" und Jubelband für J. Bosscha: "Ueber die von einem elliptisch schwingenden Ion emitterte und absorbierte Energie;" und "Ueber die Verteilung der Energie zwischen Aether und Materie;" pp. 619-628 und pp. 629-641. hardcover
1909rif. 47376Braunschweig Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn 1909. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In "Verhandlungen der Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft" 11 Jahrgang 1909. Reprinted same year in "Physikalische Zeitschrift 10". Bound with "Berichte der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft" 7 Jahrgang 1909. Capitals and hindges with wear. Internally very fine and clean. Pp. 482-500. Entire volume: 2 749 3 VII 450 pp. First printing of Einstein's famous lecture in which he anticipated the discovery of black-body radiation and famously stated that: "the next phase in the development of theoretical physics will bring us a theory of light which may be regarded as a sort of fusion of the undulatory and emission theories of light" The present paper Pp. 482-3. He furthermore stated that the electromagnetic fields that constitute light will no longer appear to be states of a hypothetical medium but rather independent entities emitted by the sources of light exactly as in the Newtonian emission theory of light. The paper was delivered as a lecture before the 81st assembly of the 'Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher' in Salzburg on 21st September 1909.The occasion was important for Einstein since he for years had been working in scientific exile. Among those who attended Einstein's lecture were some of the world's foremost physicists such as; Max von Laue Max Born Arnold Sommerfeld. All published papers of their own in the present volume. Weil No. 30. unknown
rif. Z1-R-028-01463Bibliobazaar. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day.Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Bibliobazaar unknown
1981rif. 1BislDb0036New York: Da Capo Press Inc. 1981. Book. Like New. Decorative Hardcover Canvas. © 1981. 8vo or 8° Medium Octavo: 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 343 pp. A rare hard-to-find out-of-print collectible gem! A wonderful copy! An excellent spotlessly clean copy! Clean fresh sharp tight essentially flawless copy with crisp pages clean text and very light shelf wear. No dust jacket. Da Capo Press, Inc. Hardcover
1997rif. 091521-KSeattle WA.: University of Washington Press 1997. Book. Illus. by Susan Einstein. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. 1st. Edition 1997 Black cloth hardcover with silver lettering to the front board and spine 223 page book. Photo illustrated in color plates by Susan Einstein . Edward Bohlin was the Western Leather and Silver designer maker to all the top western actors and studios . Inscribed by James H. Nottage to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley signed on the title page . A very scarce book on this artist and signed by the author to the Mayor of LA. Condition : FINE Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. University of Washington Press Hardcover
1949rif. 041384New York: The Library Of Living Philosophers 1949. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. 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. Book Is Near Fine Gilt Brilliant Lightly Used Previous Owner's Name Under Front Flap. Dust Jacket Priced $8.50 Very Worn Interior And Exterior Clear Tape Reinforcement Along Front Spine Edge Entirely Separated Along Rear Spine Edge Small Chips And Tears With Chipping Removing Part Of Einstein's First Name And Most Of Volume Number On Spine No Other Losses Of Lettering. The Library Of Living Philosophers hardcover
2013rif. 110056Folio Society 2013. Hardcover. New. 9x6x1. Brand new 2013 Folio Society hardcover in slipcase as issued. oversized and overweight.D25 Please email for photos. Folio Society hardcover
1914rif. 50425Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth 1914. 1 Einstein Albert 1879-1955 and A.driaan D.aniël Fokker 1887-1972. Die Nordströmsche Gravitationstheorie vom Standpunkt des absoluten Differentialkalküls. In Annalen der Physik 44 10: 321-328. 2 Born Max 1882-1970. Zur Raumgitter theorie des Diamanten. In Annalen der Physik 44 12: 605-642. 3 Schrödinger Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander 1887-1961. Zur Dynamik elastisch gekoppelter Punktesysteme. In Annalen der Physik 44 14: 916-934. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth 1914. Whole volume: viii 1272 pp. 22 plates Numbered Taf. I-XXII. Taf. I-IX: b/w/ silver photos; Taf. XI w/ one b/w silver photo; Taf. XII is folding and XIII XIV are b/w silver photos; Taf. XV and XVI are large folding tables; Taf. XVII XVIII XIX b/w/ silv.photos; and Taf.XX--XXII are photographs of X-ray images. Figs. Text-illust. 210 x 140 mm. Red cloth gilt lettering on spine. Very good. Along the margin of p. 802 written in pencil are the words: "Mallock R.S. 1910" probably written in Lord Rayleigh's hand most likely in reference to the title "The dampening of sound by frothy liquids" by A. Mallock in Proc. R.S. Lond ser. A vol. 84: 391-94. London 1911. A.D. Fokker 1887-1972 was a Dutch physicist and cousin to aeronautical engineer Anthony Fokker 1890-1939. He was musically inclined having invented the 31EDO pipe organ. He earned his doctorate in 1913 continuing his studies with Albert Einstein Ernest Rutheford 1871-1937 and William Bragg 1862-1942. In his 1913 thesis he derived the Fokker-Planck equation with Max Planck 1858-1947. Fokker made contributions to special relativity and general relativity particularly the effects of the curvature of space-time formally called "geodetic precession". Wikipedia. . Johann Ambrosius Barth unknown
1923rif. 433151923. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1923. 359-364pp. 254 x 184 mm. Original printed wrappers. Very good. First Edition offprint issue. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 137. unknown
1948rif. 6625Chicago: The Atomic Scientists of Chicago 1948. Original edition. Ex-library. Very Good. 28 cm; 384 pages. Cloth-bound volume of 12 issues. Duplicate surplus stamp of Library of Congress on front free endpaper. Later owner's stamp on free endleaves blacked out. Lively forum of discussion of various scientific social and political implications of atomic energy as the post-war radioactive dust settled over the Pacific and wherever else open-air tests of atomic weaponry took place. Opens with Einstein's "Plea for International Understanding." Issue #2 features a written debate between Einstein and four Soviet scientists Semyonov Vavilov Frumkin and Ioffe. A scenario describes the potential effect of an atomic bomb on Washington DC. Justice William O. Douglas contributes "Democracy and Communism." Harry Truman presents a "Message to the Atomic Scientists." Other contributors include Cardinal Cushing Thomas E. Dewey Max von Laue and many other scientists and statesmen involved in the post-war debates The Atomic Scientists of Chicago hardcover
1941rif. 433111941. Offprint from Universidad Nacional de Tucuman Revista Serie A 2 1941. 11-15pp. 270 x 179 mm. Original printed wrappers. Very good. "Address to joint meeting of the American Physics Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers Princeton Dec. 29 1941 under the title: 'Solutions of finite mass of the gravitational equations'" Weil. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 208. unknown
1946rif. 1576McGraw-Hill 1946. 1st Edition. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS THE FIRST PUBLICATION BY EINSTEIN OF THE FAMILIAR EQUATION E=mc2 IN THAT SPECIFIC FORM. Eight months after Hiroshima the editors of Science Illustrated turned to Albert Einstein to explain "the form of the energy that destroyed Hiroshima;" "to explain in his own words what takes place in the operation of his law" Science Illustrated 1 1 pp. 17 April 1946. The editors believed that given the deployment of two nuclear weapons "average citizens" wanted at least a layman's understanding of the mathematical law that enabled atomic explosions so that they were better able to understand the destruction the bombs unleashed ibid. The mathematical equation or law in question was one Einstein published in 1905 in his Theory of Special Relativity but the form in which it was then written was longer and more complex. In the paper offered here Einstein presents the equation we all now know a shorter more understandable derivation of his equation based upon the law of the conservation of momentum the pressure of radiation and the aberration of light: E = mc2. In layman's terms Einstein also explains the equivalence of mass and energy and discusses the profound 'urgent' implications of his principle ibid. In this article Einstein writes: "'What takes place can be illustrated with the help of our rich man. The atom M is a rich miser who during his life gives away no money energy. But in his will he bequeaths his fortune to his sons M' and M'' on condition that they give to the community a small amount less than one thousandth of the whole estate energy or mass. The sons together have somewhat less than the father had the mass sum M' M'' is somewhat smaller than the mass M of the radioactive atom. But the part given to the community though relatively small is still so enormously large considered as kinetic energy that it brings with it a great threat of evil. Averting that threat has become the most urgent problem of our time" ibid. CONDITION & DETAILS: Complete issue bound in its original wrappers. 4to. pp. 1-128. Very slighy scuffing to the front wrap. There are no address labels. Bright and very clean throughout. McGraw-Hill unknown
1929rif. 6551Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommision bei Walter de Gruyter U. Co 1929. First separate edition. Fine. 6 pages in printed wraps. Not exactly an "offprint" since the pages are numbered from 1 and the pamphlet is given its own title page this is considered the first separate edition of a paper Einstein published in the periodical of the Prussian Academy. It is considered Einstein's initial effort having established general and special relativity to find a unified theory uniting gravity and electromagnetism a problem he struggled with for his remaining life. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommision bei Walter de Gruyter U. Co paperback
1938rif. 165146Paris 1938. paperback. Pp. 5-19 IN: Zeitschrift fur Freie Deutsche Forschung. Jahrgang 1 Nummer 1. Herausgegeben von der Freien Deutschen Hochschule in Paris. 168p. printed wrappers. Paris Juli 1938. First number of this scarce short-lived exile publication featuring German & Austrian writers and scholars. Fine. unknown