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1941réf. 43508New York; German-Jewish Club Inc 1941. with no dust jacket. 1st edition. Original Illustrated Wrappers. 8vo. 192 pages. 23 cm. Illustrated. In German and English. Photographic and line illustrations in text includes many advertisements as well as a black and white frontispiece portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Includes foreword of endorsement by Albert Einstein. Handbook for recently arrived German-Jewish exiles from Nazi Germany with information and instruction on Jewish-German immigrant associations citizenship classes American life and customs particularly in New York City the text of The Star Spangled Banner and God Bless America and the meaning of such vernacular expressions as the 'Bronx cheer' and 'sawbucks.' Produced by the editors of the monthly magazine Aufbau which began publishing in 1934. A copy sold for $2000 with buyers commissions at auction in 2018. Subjects: Almanacs American -- New York State OCLC: 970939227 248298786 243425010 959348607. OCLC Locates 4 copies in North America HUC JHU NYHS LBI plus a copy at the US Holocaust Museum which they keep in their Rare Book Room. "L. T. Edelberg" penned on title page. Covers laminated and spine rebacked. German-Jewish historical institute stamps Otherwise Good condition. B HOLO2-110-12-RESA. New York; German-Jewish Club, Inc unknown
2009réf. 345j1635New York: St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 0312362285 . "Focuses on correcting a widely accepted story that Einstein was a major supporter a 'champion' of the state of Israel - a story told and retold primarily by the mainstream media. While Einstein was a secular Jew had mixed feelings about Zionism and supported the goal of a Jewish 'homeland' within Palestine he never wavered from arguing forcefully for equal rights and equal power for the Arabs - whom he called 'kinfolk' of the Jews. Some of these essays and letters covering the years from 1919 to 1955 have never been translated or published." - dust jacket. "It's a pity that the Zionist movement as embodied in the State of Israel took a direction so divergent from the path advocated by the Jewish people's greatest intellect." - Michael Palumbo. "While sadly it seems Einstein's fear that Israel would become a 'captive of narrow nationalism' has been realized his humanism and call for equal rights and equal power between Jews and Palestinians in Israel/Palestine remain an inspiration and model today." - Adam Horowitz. xviii 334 pp. Bibliography List of Sources Notes Index. Occasional tiny marginal pencil marks otherwise book tight and clean with very light wear. Moderate wear to complete dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example of this important study. ; 8vo . St. Martin's Press hardcover
1950réf. 060426New York: Philosophical Library 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 282 Pp. Dark Blue Cloth Gilt. First Edition By Basic Points But Issued In A Variety Of Bindings And Dust Jackets Priced $4.75. Pages Of This Copy Are Same As Issue In Light Blue Boards Including Title And Copyright Pages "1" On Copyright Page But Binding Is Cloth. No Frontispiece; That Portrait Is Printed In Red On The Rear Panel Of The Dust Jacket. Dj On Heavy Paper Priced $4.75 Same As Issue In Blue Boards But Dj Is Gray Red-Brown And White With Author In Red-Brown And Title In White. Book Is Fine No Damage Bookplate Of A Prominent Military Cryptographer. Dj Is Also Fine. A Review By Harlow Shapley Is Discussed On The Front Flap Of The Dj; Note That W We Had Another Exactly Similar Fine Copy In Original Dust Jacket Which Came With A Book Club News Brochure Also Discussing The Harlow Review; It Is Possible That This Is A Book Club Issue Simultaneous Or Nearly So With Other Issues But Definitive Information Is Not Available To Us. Philosophical Library hardcover
1926réf. 029292New York: E. P. Dutton and Company 1926. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair DJ. 124 Pp. Brown Cloth Gilt. First American Edition No Date Printing Statement Indicates 1926 British Sheets Were Used. Book Is Somewhat Worn And Has Small Areas Of Fraying At Corners Hinges Solid Small Previous Owner's Name On Front Free Endpaper. Dj Worn Bottom 40% Of Spine Chipped Away But Title And Author Remain Small Edge And Corner Chips. E. P. Dutton and Company hardcover
réf. W-005Rare first edition from 1955 signed by Mays. Condition of book very good condition of dust jacket good plus. hardcover
1922réf. EINSTEIN017518Methuen London. 1922. First English edition. Translated by G.B. Jeffery and W. Perrett. Octavo. pp iv 56 8 adverts. Contains two addresses "Ether and Relativity" and "Geometry and Experience'. Spine and cover edges a little faded. Lower corners slightly bruised. Endpapers and edges spotted. Very good in the scarce and fragile dustwrapper which is good chipped at edges a bit rubbed starting to split at the joints and missing a piece of about an inch in the centre of the spine. Methuen, London. unknown
1923réf. 7029The Meaning Of Relativity by Albert Einstein first edition hardcover Publisher: Princeton University Press 1923 Condition: Very Good- - some wear to the spine and covers name written on the front end paper no other writings tight binding Princeton University Press hardcover
1933réf. 144376Société des Nations Institut Société des Nations Institut de Coopération Intellectuelle, 1933. Collection correspondance à tirage limité, In-8 broché, couverture à rabats de 63 pages. Exemplaire N° 113 imprimé sur papier de Châtaignier. Très petite déchirure sans manque à la charnière en queue et infimes salissures sans aucune gravité, corps de l'ouvrage en très bel état, absence totale de taches ou rousseurs.. Correspondance entre les deux grands hommes à la demande de l'Institut de Coopération Intellectuelle pour le dialogue au service de la paix. Le titre de la publication fût choisi par S. Freud. Bel exemplaire, rare dans cette condition
1912réf. 29311Leipzig Barth 1912. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Backstrip taped. Kept in a cloth-box. In: "Annalen der Physik IV Bd. 38" pp. 355-369 and pp. 443-458. The whole issue present= Bd. 38 Heft 2 pp.249-472. Both papers in first edition and they are considered as the first appearance of a Nonlinear Field Equation for Gravitation. - "Einstein published two remarkable memoirs in 1912 which were efforts to construct a complete theory of gravitation incorporating the equivalence principle. In these memoirs Einstein supposed that the gravitational field can be characterized completely by one function the local speed of light analogous to the Newtonian description where only the gravitational potential appears. By an extraordinary argument he extended the potential equation of Newton.In his second Memoir in 1912 he used the equivalence principle to show the influence of a static gravitational field on electromagnetic and thermal processes." DSB IV p.320 ff. - Weil No. 47 and 48. hardcover
1912réf. 29311(Leipzig, Barth, 1912). 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Backstrip taped. Kept in a cloth-box. In: ""Annalen der Physik IV, Bd. 38"" pp. 355-369 and pp. 443-458. (The whole issue present= Bd. 38, Heft 2, pp.249-472).
1906réf. 32820369Contemporary half dark green roan. Rubbed some chipping separation at upper joint. Library markings. FIRST EDITION of "On the Theory of Light Production and Light Absorption" pp. 199-206. This classic in the history of physics is Einstein's second paper on the photoelectric effect. Einstein reconciles his and Planck's independent derivations of the blackbody formula E=hν. Planck's derivation of this formula ascribed it to a restriction on the energy changes possible when radiation is produced or absorbed by matter which implied no restriction on the energies of either matter or radiation. Einstein's 1905 derivation ascribed it to a restriction on the energy of radiation alone but in this paper he proposes the modern idea that the energies of both matter and radiation are quantized which led to his work on quantum specific heats. and FIRST EDITION of "The Principle of Conservation of Motion of the Center of Gravity and the Inertia of Energy" pp. 627-633. In this "ingenious thought experiment involving energy transport in a hollow cylinder Einstein returned to the relationship between inertial mass and energy giving more general arguments for their complete equivalence" Calaprice The Einstein Almanac. This is the first statement that the conservation of mass is a special case of the conservation of energy. Annalen der Physik
1926réf. 043114London: Methuen & Co. 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. 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 Fine No Rubbing Lettering Complete And Entirely Strong. Spanish Owner's Name With His 1948 Receipt From H. K. Lewin For The Book Laid In Loosely. Lacking The Scarce Dust Jacket. Methuen & Co. hardcover
1950réf. 046941New York: Philosophical Library 1950. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Frontispiece. 282 Pp. Green Cloth Lettered In Gilt On Front CoverAlso Lettered In Gilt In Spine Stamped On Two Blocks Of Dark Blue Background. Dust Jacket Priced $4.75 With Only 15 Titles On Rear Panel Two First Published In 1950 The Others First Published By Philosophical Library 1942 To 1949. Frontispiece Portrait Of Einstein By Lotte Jacobi. There Are Many Issues With Identical Pagination In Cloth Or Boards Of Various Colors All With Later Post-1950 Publications Indicated On The Rear Panel In Both The Plainer Dust Jacket As On This Copy And In A More Elaborate Jacket; We Believe This Is The First Issue Only By A Process Of Elimination Not Having Seen Many Different Bindings And Dust Jackets. Book With Light Wear Gilt Brilliant No Marks. Dust Jacket With Wear Small Losses/Chips At Corners Not Price Clipped Slight Browning To Spine Panel. Philosophical Library hardcover
1921réf. 5726KBerlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften in commission at Walter de Gruyter Reichsdruckerei 3rd February 1921. Near Fine. Imperial 8vo 25 4: 18 2 cm. 8 pages. Letterpress on machine paper in original publisher’s brochure on orange stock with black title printing. First offprint in the original wrappers of Einstein's Celebratory Lecture given at the Prussian Academy on the occasion of the anniversary of King Frederick II it's founder. – Edition: Given in the year when he was awarded the Nobel Prize Einstein in this lecture summarised his views on the geometrization of physics. According to Pais Einstein in present lecture in particular explained why in 1912 he had abandoned Euclidean geometry in favour of Riemannian to proceed successfully with his theory of general relativity. Furthermore Einstein in this lecture presented his view on the place of mathematics in physics. He questioned whether human reasoning even without direct experience could lead to an understanding of the properties of real things merely through thought. Regarding the question of why mathematics should be so well adapted to describing the physical world he concluded 'As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality they are not certain; and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality.' – Condition: Mint very probably unread. - Rarity: Very rare. According to Weil early offprints of Einstein’s papers may also be qualified as original and also highly collectable editions however they were printed in a certain but still small print run for commercial use mainly to sell them to fellow natural scientists: „No doubt the first appearance in a periodical is the „original edition“ but I have to leave it open for collectors librarians and others to decide whether these offprints in wrappers mostly with a printed title on them especially in the »Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften« are also „original editions“. These offprints are printed from the same setting as the text but often with new pagination.“ p. 4 As of March 2nd 2024 no other copy of this offprint is for sale. – Reference: Reference: Boni N.: A bibliographical checklist and index to the published writings of Albert Einstein 136; The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Volume 7 52 also referred to as Einstein 1921b; Shields M. C.: Bibliography der Schriften Einsteins. In: Schilpp P. A.: Albert Einstein als Philosoph und Naturforscher 122; Weil E.: Albert Einstein. A bibliography of his scientific papers 1901-1930 114; Pais A.: Subtle is the Lord. The Science and Life of Albert Einstein 2005 ed. p. 214. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften (in commission at Walter de Gruyter [Reichsdruckerei]) unknown
1940réf. 3293321940. Black and white photographic print. 6 1/2 x 4 7/8 in. Fine. Black and white photographic print. 6 1/2 x 4 7/8 in. unknown
1950réf. 32820558In this portrait Sternberger shows Einstein dressed informally. Einstein was keenly aware of his public image and often attempted to show a cheerful visage. The common backgrounds of the two men helped the photographer to put Einstein in a relaxed state and to capture him in a more vulnerable pose. Marcel Sternberger and Albert Einstein had known each other in Europe long before the two met again in Princeton New Jersey for this session. Before the men left Europe Einstein had furnished the preface to a book written by Sternberger. After a warm welcome and lemonade the men settled in for the sitting. They discussed various topics including World War II and the state of American education. Although some photographs from the session show Einstein with a telltale twinkle in his eye here the great scientist appears fatigued. The seriousness of their conversation seems to have worn him down. Still the conversation had its moments of levity. At one moment Sternberger asked Einstein to remove his suspenders. Einstein replied "I am going to lose my trousers! I can't." Einstein instead put on one of his trademark sweatshirts. Here modern science's greatest mind is forever immortalized as only Sternberger could. He has found a depth of personality exceeding photographs produced without regard to the sitter's inner psychological state. Gelatin silver print 16 x 20 in. Archivally framed. Estate Edition a limited edition of 20 copies embossed and numbered. $1250 unframed; framed: $1650
1940réf. 3293321940. Black and white photographic print. 6 1/2 x 4 7/8 in. Fine. Black and white photographic print. 6 1/2 x 4 7/8 in. unknown books
1949réf. 140941039Evanston IL: The Library of Living Philosophers Inc 1949. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with toning to pages offsetting to endsheets former owner name to front free endpaper and small sticker ghost to front paste down. In a Very Good dust jacket with fraying and chip at bottom spine end and short closed tear at head light edge wear toning and soiling to rear panel. The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc unknown
1949réf. 140941039Evanston IL: The Library of Living Philosophers Inc 1949. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with toning to pages offsetting to endsheets former owner name to front free endpaper and small sticker ghost to front paste down. In a Very Good dust jacket with fraying and chip at bottom spine end and short closed tear at head light edge wear toning and soiling to rear panel. The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc unknown books
1921réf. 17649Berlin: Verlag Von Julius Springer 1921. First Trade Edition. Wraps. Very good. The first trade edition of Geometrie Und Erfahrung Geometry and Experience by Albert Einstein from the collection of Einstein's English translator Dr. Wilfrid Perrett. Octavo 20pp. Publisher's original wraps bound with two staples. Light soiling and wear on wraps internally clean. Includes two illustrations advertisements on verso of rear flap. Staples showing rust some wear to edges of original wraps. Weil 115 Schlipp-Shields 143 This copy is signed by Wilfrid Perrett on the front cover. This work first appeared in the Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften accompanied by an "author's offprint" which was bound in orange wrappers. Weil 114. This work is the first separate trade edition. The recipient of this copy Dr. Wilfrid Perrett worked with Dr. George Barker Jeffery to translate many of Einstein's most notable works into English. Perrett was a "distinguished German scholar" and would "overlook the literary side of the work" while Jeffery would oversee the mathematical translations. The two worked together on Das Relativitätsprinzip On the Relativity Principle beginning in 1922 and numerous other works by Einstein over his career. Jammer 113-114. Verlag Von Julius Springer unknown
1926réf. 6414Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften 1926. First edition. First edition very rare author's presentation offprint extremely rare author's presentation offprint not to be confused with the much more common trade separate - see below from the library of the great German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld of the notorious Einstein/Rupp experiments which demonstrated the wave-theory of light contrary to Einstein's expectations. . SCIENTIFIC FRAUD: THE EINSTEIN-RUPP EXPERIMENTS. First edition extremely rare author's presentation offprint not to be confused with the much more common trade separate - see below from the library of the great German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld of the notorious Einstein/Rupp experiments. "In the fall of 1926 Albert Einstein published the outline of two experiments in the Proceedings of the Berlin Academy. They addressed one of the most urgent questions in physics at the time: the experiments were to show if the emission of light was a process that was extended in time or if instead light emission occurred in an instantaneous act. Of course the first possibility would confirm a traditional oscillator-and-wave-like view whereas the second possibility would cohere well with Einstein's own ideas on light quanta. It is quite surprising that these experiments are so unfamiliar today. Apart from addressing a central question and being proposed by no lesser figure than Einstein they also circulated at a crucial moment in the history of quantum theory. Still the experiments are not mentioned in any of the standard Einstein biographies and there is no substantial treatment of them in histories of the quantum theory . The likely cause for this lack of attention is at least as surprising: the experiments were-supposedly-conducted by Emil Rupp yet a decade later Rupp was exposed as a scientific fraudster; the results obtained by Rupp in close consultation with Einstein and published back-to-back with the latter's theoretical paper were in the end generally believed to have been fabrications" Van Dongen. As Walter Gerlach of Stern-Gerlach fame said in an interview with Thomas Kuhn in 1963 "Rupp in the late twenties early thirties was regarded as the most important and most competent physicist. He did incredible things. . Later it turned out that everything that he had ever published everything was forged. This had gone on for ten years ten years!" Nevertheless "these experiments played a substantial role in developments in 1926. Most importantly they confirmed a wave picture of light when many including Einstein himself initially expected a particle-like instantaneous picture of light emission to be confirmed. After all only a few years before Compton scattering had been shown and as little as a year before the Einstein-Rupp experiments Walther Bothe and Hans Geiger had done the experiments that dismissed the BKS theory. But the experiments of Einstein and Rupp also influenced events in other ways. For instance their initial interpretation was most likely of direct importance for Max Born when he proposed the probabilistic interpretation of the wave function. The experiments further played a role in the thinking of Werner Heisenberg as he formulated his uncertainty relations . these experiments deserve renewed attention and their current obscure status is not warranted by their historical importance" Van Dongen. OCLC locates only three copies two in Switzerland one in Germany but it is unclear which of these if any are author's presentation offprints. The presentation offprint was not present in the collection of Einstein's son Hans Albert Christie's 2006 but it was in Einstein's own collection of his offprints Christie's 2008. Provenance: Arnold Sommerfeld 1868-1951 his characteristic numbering '46' in red pencil on front cover. "The son of a physician Sommerfeld was educated at the University of Königsberg. After teaching briefly at the universities of Göttingen Clausthal and Aachen he was appointed professor of physics at the University of Münich in 1906. Sommerfeld should have retired in 1936 in favour of his pupil Werner Heisenberg. Opposition from the Nazi party to Heisenberg's appointment prolonged Sommerfeld's tenure and it was not in fact until late 1939 that he finally retired to be succeeded not by Heisenberg but by Wilhelm Müller a Nazi aerodynamicist without a single publication in physics to his credit. Although Sommerfeld and Heisenberg were not Jewish they were regarded by the Nazis as Jewish sympathizers. Sommerfeld however survived the war and returned to his Münich chair in 1945 continuing to work at physics until he died in a car accident in 1951" Oxford Reference. "Arnold Sommerfeld was one of the most distinguished representatives of the transition period between classical and modern theoretical physics. The work of his youth was still firmly anchored in the conceptions of the nineteenth century; but when in the first decennium of the century the flood of new discoveries experimental and theoretical broke the dams of tradition he became a leader of the new movement and in combining the two ways of thinking he exerted a powerful influence on the younger generation. This combination of a classical mind to whom clarity of conception and mathematical rigour are essential with the adventurous spirit of a pioneer are the roots of his scientific success while his exceptional gift of communicating his ideas by spoken and written word made him a great teacher" Max Born p. 275. "Born in 1898 Rupp began his career in the 1920s studying canal rays beams of positive ions and atoms formed between an anode and cathode the latter punctured with holes or "canals" in a gas discharge tube. When these rays shoot through the canals and into a vacuum chamber the ions rapidly lose and gain charge emitting visible light that becomes less intense at the other end of the canal. "In his first experiments in the mid-1920s Rupp measured the coherence length of light - the distance over which the light maintains a consistent phase - emitted by hydrogen and mercury atoms in the canal rays. He measured these lengths as 62 centimeters for hydrogen and 15.2 centimeters for mercury. These were blockbuster results: A moving hydrogen atom was expected to stay coherent over a much smaller distance. "What's more Rupp's extra-long hydrogen canal ray seemed like it could be used to test one of physics' biggest questions at the time: Is light a particle or a wave Einstein had devised experiments to test if light was emitted instantaneously or over time but he needed a light with an extra-long coherence length - and only Rupp had achieved it. "After reading Rupp's 1926 paper Einstein published his own "Proposal for an Experiment on the Nature of the Elementary Process of Radiation Emission" and reached out to Rupp directly to discuss a collaboration. But because Rupp's boss at Heidelberg University the physicist Philipp Lenard was "a fervent anti-relativist - and anti-Semite" writes van Dongen Einstein chose to forgo a visit to the institution and sent instructions for Rupp to do the experiments on his own. "There were red flags from the start. In one instance Rupp appeared to have altered the mirrors in his interferometer the instrument he used to study interference just so into an arrangement that would obtain desired outcomes. In another instance when Einstein corrected the settings Rupp reported using for another instrument Rupp chalked the mistake up to a typo. There were other 'alarming discrepancies' in Rupp's calculations van Dongen writes and Einstein's letters show that he pushed back on several occasions. Each time Rupp responded with new results that perfectly explained the oddities Einstein questioned. "Initially Einstein expected to find that light was emitted instantaneously. But as the collaboration stretched on he began to expect the experiments would confirm the alternative the 'classical' theory. 'One of the reasons for his changing position likely was that that outcome had inadvertently already been corroborated by Rupp' van Dongen writes. "When Rupp furnished Einstein with a final set of results supporting the classical emission picture Einstein facilitated their publication in the proceedings of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. They were published back-to-back with a paper by Einstein explaining the theory behind the experiments in which Einstein cited Rupp's work. Einstein even helped Rupp draft his paper's abstract. "The association with Einstein rocketed Rupp to scientific prominence and in 1928 he accepted a position in the research labs of German electronics company AEG 'a kind of counterpart to General Electric' writes MIT physicist Anthony French in his 1999 retrospective of Rupp's case. "However scientists had begun voicing skepticism about Rupp's canal ray work. Among them were British spectroscopist Robert d'Escourt Atkinson who doubted Rupp's extraordinary coherence lengths and a researcher named Harald Straub who tried and failed to replicate Rupp's measurements in 1930. Rupp came down hard on Straub with a rebuttal sending photographs that supposedly showed his interference fields and forcefully defending his work in the same journal where Straub published his. Straub wrote that he had nothing else to add and the matter appeared settled. "But Rupp's reputation was bruised in the episode and his letters from the time indicate that his funding at AEG was drying up. He published work on electron scattering then took up experiments with positrons producing them by pounding lithium with protons. In a 1934 paper Rupp claimed to have accelerated protons at potential differences of 500 kV. This was impossible for him to have done - he simply did not have the requisite accelerator in his lab. "In December 1934 two of Rupp's fellow scientists at AEG brought the glaring problem to the attention of the institute's director who launched an investigation and subsequently fired Rupp. In January 1935 Rupp published the retraction statement appended to his doctor's note claiming he had no knowledge of or control over the fabrications. And later that year experimentalists Walther Gerlach and Eduard Rüchardt published 'On the Coherence Length of Light emitted by Canal Rays' which essentially confirmed that Rupp's early canal ray work was also erroneous. Amid this public humiliation Rupp experienced a nervous breakdown and spent time in a sanatorium. He never worked in physics again. "Einstein however escaped from the episode unscathed. Historians like van Dongen think his credulousness was an honest mistake underpinned by his desire to see his theories confirmed by experiments. Rupp's work and life are now a footnote but following his downfall it appears that German scientists mentioned his name often. According to French 'for a number of years afterward the word 'geruppt' became an epithet among German physicists to describe questionable work'" Jooss. This author's presentation offprint is of extreme rarity and must be distinguished from other so-called 'offprints' of papers from the Berlin Sitzungsberichte many of which are commonly available on the market. The celebrated bookseller Ernst Weil 1919-1981 in the introduction to his Einstein bibliography wrote: "I have often been asked about the number of those offprints. It seems to be certain that there were few before 1914. They were given only to the author and mostly 'Überreicht vom Verfasser' Presented by the Author is printed on the wrapper. Later on I have no doubt many more offprints were made and also sold as such especially by the Berlin Academy." If the term 'offprint' means as we believe it should a separate printing of a journal article given only to the author for distribution to colleagues then 'offprints' were not commercially available. Although there is certainly some truth in Weil's remark in our view it requires clarification and explanation. Until about 1916 most of Einstein's papers were published in Annalen der Physik; from 1916 until he left Germany for the United States in 1933 most were published in the Berlin Sitzungsberichte. The Sitzungsberichte differed from other journals in which Einstein published in that it made separate printings of its papers commercially available. These separate printings have 'Sonderabdruck' printed on the front wrapper the usual German term for offprint but they are not offprints according to our definition. They were available to anyone; indeed a price list of these 'trade offprints' is printed on the rear wrapper. True author's presentation offprints can be distinguished from these trade separates by the presence of 'Überreicht vom Verfasser' on the front wrapper. In the period 1916 to 1919 or 1920 the Sitzungsberichte trade separates are themselves rare. After 1919 or 1920 however the trade separates become much more common although the author's presentation offprints are still very rare. The reason for this change is that it was only in 1919 that Einstein became famous among the general public. It might seem obvious that Einstein's fame dates from 1905 his 'annus mirabilis' in which he published his epoch-making papers on special relativity and the light quantum. However these works did not make him immediately well known even in the physics community - many physicists did not understand or accept his work and it was two or three years before his genius was fully accepted even by his colleagues. Einstein did not secure an academic position until 1908. Among the general public Einstein became well known only in late 1919 following the success of Eddington's expedition to observe the bending of light by the Sun which confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity. This was front-page news and made Einstein universally famous. See Chapter 16 'The suddenly famous Doctor Einstein' in Pais Subtle is the Lord for an account of these events. Before 1919 the trade separates of Einstein's papers would probably only have been purchased by professional physicists; after 1919 everyone wanted a memento of the famous Dr. Einstein whether or not they understood anything of theoretical physics and the trade separates of his papers were printed and sold in far greater numbers than before to meet the demand. It is telling that when these post-1919 trade separates appear on the market they are often in mint condition - they were never read simply because their owners were unable to understand them. BRL 160; Weil 153. Born 'Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld 1868-1951' Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 8 1952 pp. 275-296. French 'The strange case of Emil Rupp' Physics in Perspective 1 1999 pp. 3-21. Joosse 'December 1934: Emil Rupp's research which fooled even Einstein is exposed as fraud' APS News Nov. 14 2023. Van Dongen 'Communicating the Heisenberg uncertainty relations: Niels Bohr complementarity and the Einstein-Rupp experiments' Scientia Danica. Series M Mathematica et physica 1: One Hundred Years of the Bohr Atom Proceedings 2015 pp. 310-343. 8vo 252 x 180 mm pp. 334-340; 341-351. Original printed wrappers portion of ink postmark stamp on lower cover just into text of publisher's advertisements light vertical crease for posting. Akademie der Wissenschaften unknown
1921réf. 17649Berlin: Verlag Von Julius Springer 1921. First Trade Edition. Wraps. Very good. The first trade edition of Geometrie Und Erfahrung Geometry and Experience by Albert Einstein from the collection of Einstein's English translator Dr. Wilfrid Perrett. Octavo 20pp. Publisher's original wraps bound with two staples. Light soiling and wear on wraps internally clean. Includes two illustrations advertisements on verso of rear flap. Staples showing rust some wear to edges of original wraps. Weil 115 Schlipp-Shields 143 This copy is signed by Wilfrid Perrett on the front cover. This work first appeared in the Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften accompanied by an "author's offprint" which was bound in orange wrappers. Weil 114. This work is the first separate trade edition. The recipient of this copy Dr. Wilfrid Perrett worked with Dr. George Barker Jeffery to translate many of Einstein's most notable works into English. Perrett was a "distinguished German scholar" and would "overlook the literary side of the work" while Jeffery would oversee the mathematical translations. The two worked together on Das Relativitätsprinzip On the Relativity Principle beginning in 1922 and numerous other works by Einstein over his career. Jammer 113-114. Verlag Von Julius Springer unknown books
1955réf. 21242781955. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1955. offered with:BLACKETT Patrick Maynard Stuart. The Atom and the Charter. London and Hereford: the Hereford Times for 'Fabian Publications ltd in conjunction with Victor Gollancz Ltd'. September 1946. offered with:BLACKETT Patrick Maynard Stuart. The Atom and the Charter. London and Hereford: the Hereford Times for 'Fabian Publications Ltd in conjunction with Victor Gollancz Ltd'. September 1946.8vo. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine in yellow dust-jacket printed in red and black; pp. 22 2 blank; maps and tables in the text spine of jacket sunned a little spotting to back cover small closed tear to back flap hinge c. 10 mm lettering to spine rubbed small chip to upper joint; very good; contemporary Foyles label to pastedown 'P. M. S. Blackett' see below with Blackett's ownership inscription in blue ink to front free endpaper.First English edition with a preface by Einstein of this work arguing for nuclear disarmament translated by the gardener novelist and anarchist Edward Byams this copy from the library of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Patrick Blackett whose own work is discussed at length in the book.Jules Moch 1893-1985 worked as a French Resistance organiser during the war later became a senior minister in several post-war governments and was France's delegate to the UN Disarmament Committee for 1951-1960. It was this latter role that informed the principles he sets forth in Human Folly which argue for multilateral nuclear disarmament. Divided into two parts the first examines the destructive capacities of modern warfare before tracing the recent history of disarmament negotiations. Moch attempts to represent both Soviet and Western positions with fairness concluding that the divisions between the two are gradually narrowing. Though he does not regard the situation as entirely hopeless he presents it as one of pressing urgency. The preface by Albert Einstein one of Moch's most eminent supporters makes clear peace can only arise from political will: 'Those who do not believe in the possibility of the attainment of a lasting and assured peace or have not the courage to act accordingly are ripe for destruction' p. 8. Provenance: front free endpaper with the ownership inscription of Patrick Blackett 1897-1974 with his occasional underlining throughout and one word 'Target' in pencil to the top of p. 10. Blackett was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work in nuclear physics and cosmic radiation including experiments demonstrating nuclear transmutation and important early research into the positron. During the Second World War he headed Operational Research at the Admiralty where his statistical criticism of the RAF blanket bombing campaigns led to increasing ostracism from the military authority. His opposition to mass destruction later informed his belief that Britain should not develop nuclear weapons. Combined with his openly socialist views this attracted the attention of MI5 and led to his inclusion on George Orwell's list of alleged 'crypto-communists' contributing to his marginalisation by the post-war Labour government. Blackett's book The Military and Economic Consequences of Atomic Energy 1948 is discussed at length by Moch pp. 117-19. Written before the development of second-generation thermonuclear weapons Blackett had estimated that thousands of atomic bombs would be required to destroy the United States or the Soviet Union when at the time only a few dozen existed. As Moch observes on p. 121 however 'today a few dozen thermonuclear bombs would produce the same results'. It is particularly notable that Blackett has not annotated the passages explicitly discussing his work. This copy of Human Folly is offered with Blackett's pamphlet The Atom and the Charter which discusses the extent to which 'the advent of atomic bombs necessitates changes in the procedure for the application of sanctions under the Charter of the United Nations Organisation' issued by Victor Gollancz and the socialist Fabian Society on behalf of the Association of Scientific Workers a scientific trade union of which Blackett was president. hardcover
1920réf. 1870Budapest: A Pesti Lloyd-Társulat Könyvsajtója 1920. First separate edition. Offprint of Természettudományi Közlöny. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Cover chipped at extremities. Restored rear panel replaced with cardboard similar to original. Old ownership inscriptions on front panel. Contemporary notes and underlines throughout in pen and pencil. Pages discolored due to the acidic paper. Overall in good condition. First separate edition. Offprint of Természettudományi Közlöny. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 2 19 1 p. First Hungarian edition of Einstein’s Über die spezielle und allgemeine Relativitätstheorie Braunschweig 1917 published as an extract. Offprint of Természettudományi Közlöny. One of the earliest Hungarian publications of Einstein’s works. . A Pesti Lloyd-Társulat Könyvsajtója unknown
1944réf. 182569London: The Jewish Agency for Palestine 1944. First separate edition of Einstein's appeal for Zionism. Einstein was one of the most prominent international supports of Zionism. He argues Palestine is the only place historically spiritually and culturally tied to the Jewish people. Whereas the Arabs with many homelands the Jews have nowhere else to go. Their claims are rooted not in conquest or nationalism but in justice and survival. The article was originally published in the Princeton Herald earlier that year. This publication prints the article alongside other speeches and letters by Einstein extracted from his 1930 About Zionism. Provenance: Jews' College Library London with their shelf mark to the front wrapper and their stamp to the front wrapper verso. Octavo. Original wrappers. Library markings see note a little creased and spotted. A good copy. unknown
