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1922réf. 139418Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès & Cie 1922. 32p. 48 b&w plates text in French pencil notes denoting country/region of origin of the artworks first edition in worn 10x7 inch paper boards with inkstains rough chipping to spine else good condition. Questo Volume è Apparso Nello Serie Orbis Pictus. Les Éditions G. Crès & Cie unknown books
1996réf. 1418697New York: George Braziller 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 92 pages. In Very Good condition and housed in publisher's Very Good blue cloth and tan paper slip case. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with tan lettering to spine. Minor shelf wear. Small indentations on top of first few pages. Shelved on the Front Table. 1418697. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. George Braziller hardcover books
2018réf. 1416142Santa Clara CA / Fullerton CA: Triton Museum of Art / Grand Central Press California State University 2018. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 287 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with white lettering. General shelf wear. Textblock clean. Shelved in Artist Monographs. 1416142. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Triton Museum of Art / Grand Central Press California State University hardcover books
1976réf. 1411777Washington: Library of Congress 1976. Hardcover. Quarto oblong 11 pages unpaged facsimile ca. 91 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine is black with gold print. Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and blue paper to boards; slight shelf wear. Illustrated: b&w facsimile. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area Netdesk Column QB ND-QB. 1411777. FP New Rockville Stock. Library of Congress hardcover books
1930réf. 37422Berlin: Akad. Wiss 1930. Weil 170. Offprint from S. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Akad. Wiss unknown books
1971réf. 186152Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press 1971. Hardcover. Good/Good Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine inside front and rear covers ffep and block. Overall light shelfwear to boards and block. Binding is tight and pages are otherwise clear. Three volumes bound in burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering; tan dust jackets with mylar covers. Illustrated title pages bw illustrations throughout each volume. Text in English songs in Italian with English text translations. Vol. 3 contains "Texts of songs revised and translated by Antonio Illiano and Howard E. Smither" and scores of 97 madrigals. Princeton University Press hardcover books
1931réf. 37423Berlin: Akad. Wiss 1931. Akad. Wiss unknown books
1922réf. 1415530London UK: Methuen & Co 1922. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo 60 10 pages. In Good Plus condition. Bound in publisher's blue fabric with gilt lettering on spine. Light general shelfwear. Agetoning to spine and top edge of front board. Small spots of discoloration on back board spine hinges and front board. Mild foxing to text block and paste downs. Pencil marks from previous owner in text block concentrated in first section. Shelved in Case 10. 1415530. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Methuen & Co hardcover books
1917réf. 6547Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg 1917. Ninth printing. Acceptable. 23 cm; iv. 79 pages. Three figures in text along with numerous equations. In original printed wraps. Acceptable only with paper peeling from the spine and sewing tender. Paper cover is completely detached in front and hanging by a thread in back. The pages are yellowed. There is an ownership autograph of one E. Bodländer. That said a clean unmarked copy in original state. The original German edition of Einstein's epoch-making "On the Special and General Theory of Relativity. Friedrich Vieweg paperback books
1971réf. 212282Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press 1971. Hardcover. VG. Jackets and volumes are clean and unmarked. Jackets in mylar. Quarto Hardcover. Three volumes bound in burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering; tan dust jackets with mylar covers. Illustrated title pages bw illustrations throughout each volume. Text in English songs in Italian with English text translations. Vol. 3 contains "Texts of songs revised and translated by Antonio Illiano and Howard E. Smither" and scores of 97 madrigals. Princeton University Press hardcover books
1949réf. 88051Princeton: Princeton University Press 1949. First English Language Edition. Three quarto volumes. Burgundy cloth hardcovers in publisher's slipcase; xvi1-476; 477-8773; x333pp. A fine set in the original cloth bindings; slipcase is mildly rubbed and sunned with small paper loss to open edge still Very Good. Einstein's monumental study was the first scholarly treatise of its kind in any language and remains one of the essential works on early Italian secular music. Volumes I & II provide scholarly background on the history and evolution of madrigal form while the third volume compiles nearly 100 compositions produced between 1470 and 1650 including works by Tromboncino Verdalot De Rare Gabrielli and others. An uncommonly well-preserved set. Princeton University Press unknown books
1930réf. 10508Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/good. First edition of Roosevelt: His Mind in Action by Lewis Einstein in scarce dust jacket. Octavo vii 5 259pp. Maroon buckram cloth title printed on label affixed to cover and spine. Some leaves unopened. Uncut outer edge. No additional printings mentioned on copyright page. Previous ownership inscription on front free endpaper. In publisher's scarce dust jacket $3.00 retail price on front flap long closed tear to front cover large chipping to spine and back panel archival repair to verso bright illustrations. A rare find in the publisher's dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1950réf. 617622New York: Philosophical Library 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Fine in very slightly toned near fine dust jacket. Philosophical Library hardcover books
1916réf. 140945574Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer 1916. First edition. First edition. 64 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with slightly toned wraps tiny stain to back wrap slightly bumped corners bookplate on verso of front wrap. An early German language work on Einstein's theory of gravitation with a foreword by the man himself. Freundlich's first book. Verlag von Julius Springer unknown books
1977réf. 18100501n.p.: Margaret Shepherd 1977. Limited Edition. No binding. Fine. One of 200 copies broadside inscribed by Margaret Shepherd. Margaret Shepherd is a prominent artist and teacher of calligraphy with a career spanning forty-five years; Shepherd has published numerous books about the history of calligraphy and correspondence as well as instructional books on the art form itself and has taught classes and workshops at the Rhode Island School of Design and Stanford University among others n. b. from the website of Margaret Shepherd. This broadside features her elegant lettering with the large "T" foil-stamped the text printed by photo-offset depicting a quote from Albert Einstein; per the artist about 200 were printed and were used as gifts and professional examples with "a few sold occasionally". ___DESCRIPTION: Broadside with photo-offset printed red and black calligraphy with a large initial "T" decorated wtih an acorn and oak leaf embossed and foil stamped in gilt bottom edge uncut; 15.5" by 11.5" one of 200 copies unnumbered inscribed in pencil "for Ruth Shelby" dated 2011 by Margaret Shepherd. ___CONDITION: Fine clean with bright colours without wear. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Margaret Shepherd unknown books
1927réf. 374151927. Offprint from S. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Weil 155. unknown books
1950réf. 6682New York: Philosophical Library 1950. First edition. Very Good in pretty good dust jacket. 21 cm; 279 pages portrait frontispiece. Turquoise cloth in plain cream-colored dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped at top of spine. Of the variant dust jackets and issues this is the one with the fewest number of titles advertised on the rear and the price of $4.75 on the inside flap. Philosophical Library hardcover books
1926réf. 39022Berlin: Das Kunstarchiv Verlag 1926. First edition. Softcover. g. Quarto. 36pp. Original printed wrappers. Catalog published on the occasion of an exhibition of paintings and drawings by George Grosz held during the Spring of 1926 in Berlin at the Galerie Alfred Flechtheim. This catalog features 24 duo-tone and b/w photographic reproductions. Includes a poem by Gottfried Benn and four essay on the artist and his work by Carl Einstein Marc Neven Max Herrmann and Florent Fels. Some age-wear and moderate soiling on wrappers. Upper corners bumped thus slightly affecting pages throughout. Text in German gothic script with one of the four essays in French. Wrappers in overall good- to good interior in good to very good condition. Alfred Flechtheim 1878-1937 was a German art dealer art collector journalist and publisher. Flechtheim appeared in the art world shortly after 1900 with a collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne; French Avant garde early works of Pablo Picasso Georges Braque and André Derain; paintings of Wassily Kandinsky Maurice de Vlaminck Alexej von Jawlensky Gabriele Münter and the Rhein Expressionists Heinrich Campendonk August Macke Heinrich Nauen de and Paul Adolf Seehaus de. Flechtheim opened his first gallery in Düsseldorf in 1913 followed by galleries in Berlin Frankfurt Cologne and Vienna. Flechtheim served in the German Army during World War I but not at the front. His art business collapsed during the war but he re-opened in Düsseldorf in 1919. In 1921 he founded "Der Querschnitt" the Cross Section a cultural magazine. Legendary glamorous parties in Flechtheim's gallery overflowed with the glitterati of the new Berlin: movie stars titans of finance prizefighters and artists of every stripe. As Hitler rose to power in the late 1920s and early 1930s Flechtheim became a bête noire because of the art he espoused and championed. In 1933 Sturmabteilung men broke up an auction of Flechtheim's paintings. The Nazis aryanized Flechtheim's gallery as they would many other Jewish businesses and turned it over to Flechtheim's business manager Alex Vömel. After the war former party member Vömel said he didn't even remember who Flechtheim was. The Nazis seized and sold off Flechtheim's private collection as well as the contents of his gallery. Emigration and Death Six months after the Nazis came to power in 1933 Flechtheim penniless fled to Paris and tried to find work with his former business partner Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Flechtheim subsequently organized exhibits in London of the paintings of exiled German artists. In London Flechtheim slipped on a patch of ice was taken to a hospital punctured his leg on a rusty nail in his hospital bed developed septicemia leading to amputation of his leg and died. Das Kunstarchiv Verlag unknown books
1908réf. 50421Leipzig 1908. 1 Planck Max 1858-1947. Zur dynamik bewegter systeme. In Annalen der Physik 26 6: 1-34 pp. 2 Einstein Albert 1879-1965 and Jakob Laub 1882-1962. Über die elektromagnetischen grundgleichungen für bewegte Körper. In Annalen der Physik 26 8: 532-40 pp. Boni 22 Weil 22. 3 Einstein A. and J. Laub. Über die im elektromagnetischen felde auf ruhende Körper ausgeubten ponderomotorischen Krafte. In Annalen der Physik 26 8: 541-50 pp. Boni 23 Weil 23. Red cloth gilt lettering on spine. Figs. Text-illust. 230 x 141 mm. Whole volume: viii 1032 pp. 8 plates 3 folding 3 b/w silver photos. Spine a little worn but still Very Good. Approximate English translations of titles: 1 "On the dynamics of moving systems". 2 "On the fundamental electromagnetic equations for moving bodies;" and 3 "On the ponderomotive forces exerted on bodies at rest in the electromagnetic field." "Einstein wrote no. 2 above and "Elementary theory of Brownian motion" in Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie und angewandte physikalische Chemie 14 1908: 235-239 pp. in a three-week period with Jakob Laub his first scientific collaborator to address the problems of formulating relativistically invariant equations for electromagnetic fields in moving media first raised by Hermann Minowski the year before." Calaprice An Einstein Encyclopedia. 2015. A correction to this paper no. 2 was published later in the year in vol. 27 1908: 232 and a supplement for the following year in vol. 28 1909: 445-447. Elaborating on the relativistic transformation of Maxwell's vacuum equations . . . Einstein and Laub also consider the displacement vector D and the magnetic induction B. Weil's Einstein Bibliography nos. 22 23. Boni's Einstein Checklist nos. 22 23. Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck 1858-1947 was a German theoretical physicist who was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta" nobelprize.org. Planck revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes as the originator of the quantum theory. Jakob Laub 1882-1962 was a physicist who is best known for his work in the early period of special relativity having worked alongside Albert Einstein during that time. . unknown books
1915réf. 14657Leipzig and Berlin: B.G. Teubner 1915. With frontispiece portrait of Minkowski and text figures. Boards spine and corners frayed and cracking. Sammelband containing the original papers on the special and general theories of relativity with a foreword by O. Blumenthal. It is in Minkowski's famous paper Raum und Zeit Space and time that he proposes the concept of time as the fourth dimension and initiates a mathematical study that became the basis of the later development of the theory. Included here is the re-issue of that work by Einstein and Lorentz with notes by A. Sommerfeld published after Minkowski's untimely death along with other papers by the two scientists whose works led to the abandonment of space and time as separate entities. Weil 59; see Printing & the Mind of Man 401. B.G. Teubner unknown books
1927réf. 433031927. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1927. 235-245pp. 255 x 183 mm. Original printed wrappers. Fine. On the problem of motion in general relativity theory; a follow-up to his and Grommer's paper of the same title published earlier in 1927. Weil Albert Einstein Bibliography 160. unknown books
1945réf. 1292Princeton: Princeton University Press 1945. Second edition first printing. 1945 LANDMARK SUMMARY OF NOBELIST ALBERT EINSTEIN'S THEORIES THAT ESTABLISHED MODERN PHYSICS--COPY OF NOBELIST CARLETON GAJDUSEK WHO DISCOVERED KURU THE FIRST PRION DISEASE. 8 inches tall hardcover gray cloth binding gilt title to spine decorative bookplate of D. Carleton Gajdusek to front paste-down signature of D. Carleton Gajdusek to front free endpaper vi 135 pp near fine in very good unclipped jacket with faint splash mark to cover light wear to spine ends and corners in protective mylar sleeve. This first printing of the second edition contains an appendix added by the author discussing advances in the theory of relativity since the first edition in 1921. ALBERT EINSTEIN 1879 – 1955 was a German-born theoretical physicist widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. Relativity and quantum mechanics are together the two pillars of modern physics. In 1922 he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University May 1921 is a book published by Princeton University Press in 1922 that compiled the 1921 Stafford Little Lectures at Princeton University given by Albert Einstein. The lectures were translated into English by Edwin Plimpton Adams. The lectures and the subsequent book were Einstein's last attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of his theory of relativity and is his only book that provides an accessible overview of the physics and mathematics of general relativity. The book is made of four lectures. The first is titled "Space and Time in Pre-Relativity Physics". The second lecture is titled The Theory of Special Relativity and discusses the special theory of relativity. The third and fourth lectures cover the general theory of relativity in two parts. Einstein added an appendix to update the book for its second edition published in 1945 offered here. PROVENANCE: DANIEL CARLTON GAJDUSEK 1923-2008 was an American medical doctor and researcher who was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for his work in Kuru the first prion disease. Gajdusek graduated from Harvard Medical school at age 23 served as head of virological and neurological research at the National Institute for Health in 1958; and inducted into the National Academy of sciences in 1974. Gajdusek's best-known work focused on kuru. This disease was rampant among the South Fore people of New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s. Gajdusek connected the spread of the disease to the practice of funerary cannibalism by the South Fore. With elimination of cannibalism kuru disappeared among the South Fore within a generation. He proved his hypothesis by successfully transmitting the disease to primates and demonstrating that it had an unusually long incubation period of several years. This was the first demonstration of the infectious spread of a noninflammatory degenerative disease in humans. Subsequently additional human agents belonging to the same group were discovered. They include sporadic familial and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Gajdusek recognized that diseases like Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease were caused by a new infectious agent that had not yet been identified. Princeton University Press hardcover books
réf. 08777Np; 1923. First Edition. Fine. offprint from Sitzungsberichten der Presussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Sitzung der physikalishch-mahematischen klasse vom 31 mai XVII. p. 137-140 bound in original orange printied wraps; quarto 254 x 184mm. Einstein's first investigation of Weyl's ideas published in the present work introduced the notion of distant parallelism; however Einstein later rejected Weyl's theory. Housed in a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. A fine copy. unknown books
1975réf. 161331Burbank CA: NBC 1975. Final Draft script for the twelfth episode of the thirteen episode 1975 comedy and variety show television series SIGNED on the front wrapper "Tom & Dick" by Tom and Dick Smothers with an inscription on the top left partially lost due to dampstaining "illegible Wishes from the Smothers Brothers." Copy belonging to uncredited cast or crew member David Carroll with manuscript marker and pencil annotations of his name or partial name "David C." on the top of the title page and two other pages with manuscript ink and marker annotations on 32 pages marking music cues. NBC's tamer and largely unsuccessful revival of CBS's 1967-1969 variety series "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" which aired for thirteen episodes January 13 through May 19 1975. The episode on offer here was the penultimate episode which was taped on March 28 1975 and aired on May 12 1975 featuring guests Florence Henderson and David Gates. Of note the script is labeled as "Production #011 / Air Sequence #11" with a manuscript marker annotation of "12" over the air date of "May 5 1975." The May 5 episode of the series featured guests Kris Kristofferson Rita Coolidge and Arlo Guthrie and the episode found here featuring Henderson and Gates was aired as the twelfth episode on May 12 1975. Front wrapper integral with title page dated March 26 1975 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered 77. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow and green revision pages throughout undated. Pages Very Good with dampstaining throughout and silverfish damage to the extremities of the first three leaves. NBC unknown books
1944réf. 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 books
