Savona: Francesco Silva, 1503. Nani Mirabelli, Domenico (ca. 1455 – after 1528). Polyanthea opus suavissimis floribus exornatum . . . Folio. [12], CCCXXXIX, [1]ff. Title-page and dedication printed in red. Hand-colored woodcut on first leaf of text showing the author surrounded by important religious and secular figures; decorative initials, the...
Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1916. xix, 266, [2]pp. Folding chart, text illustrations. 241 x 155 mm. Original cloth, covers slightly warped, light wear to corners. Traces of bookplate on front endpaper. Very good. First Edition of Härtel's classic textbook of local anesthesia. Härtel is known for "Härtel's method" of treating trigeminal.....
London: Wellington, 1706. 1eng. 8vo. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked retaining original spine. New morocco label. Minor browning and soiling but a very good crisp copy. Signatures of Middleton Beverly and John Richardson.
Leipzig & Berlin: Teubner, 1913. 38pp. 254 x 170 mm. Original printed wrappers, chipped. Library stamps, ownership inscription. Very good. First separate edition. "After his first discussions with Grossmann, Einstein had found the correct starting point for general relativity. The real work could now begin . . . The Einstein-Grossmann...
1923. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Physik 16 (1923). Single sheet, unpaginated. 230 x 155 mm. One corner creased but very good. First edition, offprint issue. Einstein's second response to Friedmann's groudbreaking paper on equations governing the expansion of space, which made a valuable contribution to Einstein’s theory of relativity and...
1923. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1923). Single sheet (pp. 76-77). 265 x 184 mm. A few marginal chips and tiny tears but very good. First edition, offprint issue. The second of the four short papers Einstein published in 1923 on Eddington’s program for a unified field...
1921. Offprint from Sitzungsberichte der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1921). Single sheet (pp. 882-883). 256 x 184 mm. Minor marginal tears, one corner chipped, but very good. First ediiton, offprint issue. "Since, after 1917, Einstein firmly believed that light-quanta were here to stay, it is not surprising that he would...
1930. 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...
1907. Offprint from "Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie" (1907). Single sheet (pp. 41-42). 287 x 206 mm. Chipped, several marginal tears, some toning. Fair. First edition, offprint issue. "In 1907, Einstein published a paper entitled 'Theoretical Observations on the Brownian Motion' in which he considered the instantaneous velocity of a Brownian particle...
1941. 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...
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1921. 19pp. 228 x 147 mm. Original printed wrappers, foxed, lower corner chipped. Some toning but very good. French translation, by M. Solovine, of Einstein's "Geometrie und Erfahrung". Weil 115b.
1938. Offprint from Mitt. Inst. Math. Mech. Kujbyschew Univ. 2 (1938). 53-62 [2]pp. Without wrappers as issued. 220 x 145 mm. Browned but very good. Russian reprint of Einstein and Rosen's paper (first published in the Franklin Institute Journal 223 [1937]: 43-54). Weil *200 (n).
1921. Offprint from "Der Festschrift der Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften zu ihrem 10jährigen Jubiläum" (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921). 50-52pp. 260 x 175 mm. Original printed wrappers, a little chipped. Very good. First separate edition. Title translation: A simple application of Newton's law of gravitation to globular clusters.....
1930. Offprint from Mathematische Annalen 102 (1930). 685-697pp. Original printed self-wrappers. 233 x 157 mm. Very good apart from small split in lower spine. Weil, Albert Einstein Bibliography, 171.
Leipzig & Berlin: Teubner, 1913. 38pp. 254 x 170 mm. Original printed wrappers, chipped. Library stamps. Very good. First separate edition. "After his first discussions with Grossmann, Einstein had found the correct starting point for general relativity. The real work could now begin . . . The Einstein-Grossmann paper, published...
1932. 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...
1907. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). Berichtigung zu meiner Arbeit: “Die Plancksche Theorie der Strahlung etc.” Offprint from Annalen der Physik 22 (1907). Single sheet (p. 800). Unbound as issued. 223 x 145 mm. Lower corner lightly creased, but very good. First Edition, Rare Offprint Issue. Einstein’s important correction to his paper...
1915. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) and Wander Johann de Haas (1878-1960). Notiz zu unserer Arbeit “Experimenteller Nachweis der Ampèreschen Molekularströme.” Offprint from Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft 17 (1915). 1 sheet (p. 420). 228 x 156 mm. Original printed wrappers. Fine copy. First Edition, Offprint Issue. In 1915 Einstein and Dutch...
1911. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). Berichtigung zu meiner Arbeit: “Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen.” Offprint from Annalen der Physik 34 (1911). 591-592pp. 224 x 146 mm. Original printed wrappers, a little chipped, splint in lower spine. Light toning but very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Einstein’s correction to his formula for.....
1906. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). Über eine Methode zur Bestimmung des Verhältnisses der transversalen und longitudinalen Masse des Elektrons. Offprint from Annalen der Physik 21 (1906). 583-586pp. 223 x 145 mm. Original printed wrappers, chipped, spine splitting, minor spotting. Light toning but very good. First Edition, Rare Offprint Issue. In his...
1923. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) and Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933). Zur Quantentheorie des Strahlungsgleichgewichts. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Physik 19 (1923). 301-306pp. Original printed self-wrappers. 230 x 157 mm. Light toning but very good. First Edition, Offprint Issue. In 1916, after publishing his great work on general relativity, Einstein returned to the...
1922. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) and Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933). Quantentheoretische Bemerkungen zum Experiment von Stern und Gerlach. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Physik 11 (1922). 31-34pp. 229 x 155 mm. Original printed self-wrappers. Light toning but fine otherwise. First Edition, Offprint Issue. In 1922 the physicists Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach conducted...
1908. Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) and Jakob Johann Laub (1884-1962). Über die elektromagnetischen Grundgleichungen für bewegter Körper. Offprint from Annalen der Physik, 4th series, 26 (1908). 532-540pp. 225 x 146 mm. Original printed wrappers. Fine. First Edition, Offprint Issue. Einstein’s first paper written jointly with a collaborator, on the relativistic electrodynamics.....
London: 1860. Taylor, Alfred Swaine (1806-80). Portrait photograph of Taylor by Herbert Watkins (1828-1916). London, n.d. (dated “March 1860” in pencil on the verso). Oval image measuring 195 x 149 mm., mounted on card measuring 367 x 273 mm. Some dust-soiling to mount, a few spots, but very good. Watkins’s...
1857. Hedde, Philippe (1801-80). (1) Revendication en faveur de Vaucanson de Grenoble de l’honneur de l’invention du mécanique qui porte aujourd’hui le nom de Jacquard de Lyon. Autograph manuscript signed (“par Mr. Ph. Hedde”). 10pp., on blue paper. N.p., n.d. 1857]. 266 x 208 mm. (2) Notes complementaires au mémoire.....
