‎Address at the University of Nottingham.‎

‎New York, The Science Press, 1930. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary black full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Science"", Vol. 71, 1930. Small stamp to lower part of front free end-paper. Otherwise a very fine and clean copy. Pp.608-10. [Entire volume: VIII, 670 pp + advertisements].‎

‎First printing. Einstein was invited to give a lecture at the University of Nottingham by a lecturer there, Henry Brose, who also acted as interpreter. Einstein came with his wife Elsa on 6th June 1930. He was due to start the lecture at 3.45pm but did not arrive until 6.30 as he took a detour to visit the birth place of Isaac Newton. The blackboard on which he wrote was quickly varnished over when the lecture was over and is still preserved in the university. While in Nottingham Einstein commented on George Green's contribution to mathematics, saying that he had been 20 years ahead of his time.Weil no 174a.‎

‎Ather und Relativitätstheorie. Rede gehalten am 5. Mai 1920 an der Reichs-Universität zu Leiden -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎Berlin, Springer, 1920, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, 15pp.‎

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE**1944/ARM4‎

‎Bietet die Feldtheorie Möglichkeiten für die Lösung des Quantenproblems?‎

‎Berlin, 1923. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Back strengthend with matching paper. Fresh copy. Offprint/Sonerabdr. aus ""Sitzungsberichte"". pp. 369-364.‎

‎First edition. Weil No. 137.‎

‎Come io vedo il mondo‎

‎Milano, Giachini 1954 157pp., 2nd ed., text in italian, softcover, good condition, F33618‎

‎Einstein A. Teoriya otnositelnosti. Berlin: Slovo, 1921. /Einstein A. Theory of ‎

‎In Russian. Short description: Einstein A. Teoriya otnositelnosti. [Theory of Relativity]. Public presentation. Translated from German by G.B. Itelson. Berlin: Slovo, 1921. - 150, [2] p., 1 sheet portrait. Publisher's cover. Format 215x140 mm. Lifetime edition of one of the founders of modern physics, Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein (1879-1955). First Russian edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS001965 kn_nat‎

‎Elementare Theorie der Wasserwellen und des Fluges. - [EINSTIN ON AIRCRAFTS]‎

‎Berlin, Julius Springer, 1916. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Die Naturwissenschaften"", 4 Jahrgang, 1916. A very nice and clean copy. Pp. 509-510. [Entire volume: XIV, 866 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Einstein's only paper on aircrafts. In it he proposed a new shape for aircraft wings. Disappointed that nobody took up his idea he took it to an airline in Berlin. A prototype was constructed but it performed poorly and it was never put into service.‎

‎La géométrie et l'expérience. Traduit par M. Solovine‎

‎P., Gauthier-Villars, 1934; . P., Gauthier-Villars, 1934; in 8, (2), 20pp., br. Deuxième édition revue‎

‎La théorie de la relativité restreinte et générale. Exposé élémentaire - La relativité et le problème de l'espace. Traduit de l'allemand par Maurice Solovine -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE‎

‎P., Gauthier-Villars, 1954, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, 6pp., 179pp.‎

‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE**1945/M6DE‎

‎Neue Möglichkeit für eine einheitliche Feldtheorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität.‎

‎Berlin, 1928. Orig. printed wrappers. Spine strengthend with matching paper. Fresh copy. Offprint/Sonderabdr. aus ""Sitzungsberichte"". pp. 1-6.‎

‎First edition. Weil No. 162.‎

‎Sur l'électrodynamique des corps en mouvement. Traduit par M. SOLOVINE‎

‎P., Gauthier-Villars, 1955, un volume in 8 broché couverture imprimée, 1 portrait d'Einstein, (2), 56pp.‎

‎---- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE - Nouveau tirage ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE**7146/M4‎

‎Vier Vorlesungen ¥ber Relativitätstheorie gehalten im Mai 1921 an der Universität Princeton -- EDIION ORIGINALE -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1922; un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, (2), 70pp., (1). ‎

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- Four lectures delivered at Princeton University in the spring of 1921 . (Norman N° 697)**1943/ARM1D-ARM4‎

‎Vier Vorlesungen über Relativitätstheorie gehalten im Mai 1921 an der Universitat Princeton. Mit vier Abbildungen.‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1922. Uncut and unopened in orig. printed wrappers. (4),70 pp.+ Publisher's announcements (2) pp. In mint condition.‎

‎First edition. An abstract in English was published the year before. These four lectures were published the same year as ""The Meaning of Relativity"".Weil 124,‎

‎Zu Kaluzas Theorie des Zusammenhanges von Gravitation und Elektrizität. Erste und zweite Mitteilung.‎

‎Berlin, 1927. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Back strengthend with matching paper. Fresh copy. Offprint/Sonderabdr. aus ""Sitzungsberichte"". pp. 23-30.‎

‎First edition. Weil No. 156.‎

‎Zum gegenwärtigen Stande des Gravitationsproblems.‎

‎Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1913. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Physikalische Zeitschrift"", Vol. 14, 1913. Entire issue offered. Binding with wear, front hinge loose. Front free end-paper and title page with library stamps. Internally fine and clean. 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.‎

‎Zum gegenwärtigen Stande des Gravitationsproblems.‎

‎Leipzig, 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.‎

‎Zur einheitlichen Feldtheorie.‎

‎Berlin, 1929. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Back strengthend with matching paper. Fresh copy. Offprint/Sonderabdr. aus ""Sitzungsberichte"". pp. 1-8.‎

‎First edition. Weil No. *165 - with asterics (denoting major work). Printing and the Mind of Man 416.‎

‎Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie. Gemeinverständlich. Zweite Auflage.‎

‎Braunschweig, Fridr. Vieweg. & Sohn, 1917. (""Heft 38 sammlung Vieweg""), 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. Title page with ink note and owners name. Some underlinings in ink. IV,70 pp.‎

‎Second printing of the original from the same year. Weil No. 90.‎

‎Über eine Methode zur Bestimmung des Verhältnisses der transversalen und longitudinalen Masse des Elektrons.‎

‎Leipzig, Ambrosius Barth, 1906. 8vo. In contemporary halv calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. In ""Annalen der Physik"", Vierte Folge, Band 21. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page. Wear to extremities. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 583-86. [Entire volume: 1055, VIII pp.].‎

‎First printing of Einstein's paper on a method for the determination of the transversal and longitudinal mass of the electron. This eventually caused a major breakthrough in Weil no. 14 ‎

‎Sidelights on Relativity. I. Ether and Relativity. II. Geometry and Experience. Translated by G. B. Jeffery, D.Sc., and W. Perrett, Ph. D.‎

‎London: Methuen & Co.Ltd, 1922, sm. in-8vo, 2 leaves (halftitle & titlepage) + 56 p. + 2 leaves + 8 p. publicity on diff. paper, printed on heavy paper, slightly yellowed, Ex-Libris ‘Edward Wilder Playfair’, full cloth publisher’s binding, blind-stamped title to front, gilt title to spine, spine sunned.‎

‎This two lectures were delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden. Its importance was immediately recognized and it was translated into Italian, French, English, Polish, Russian and Hungarian in quick succession. for the first ed. in German cf. Weil 111; Schlipp-Shields n° 131; Alicke 97. ‎

‎Über die Interferenzeigenschaften des durch Kanalstrahlen emittierten Lichtes [Einstein] (+) Über die Interferenzeigenschaften des Kanalstrahllichtes [Rupp]. Offprint from ""Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften"", XXV, 1926. - [THE GREATEST SCANDAL IN PHYSICS - AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE]‎

‎1926. Royal8vo. Author's presentation offprint with the printed presentation statement on top of frontwrapper ""Überreicht von den Verfassern"" [i.e. ""Given by the authors""]. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper loose, but fully intact. ""Chilpp 202"" and ""Recdese 160"" written in hand to top of front wrapper. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 334-351.‎

‎First edition, in the scarce author's presentation offprint issue, of this important paper, which contains Einstein's theories on wave-particle duality and German physicist Rupp's work on the same subject, seemingly to corroborating Einstein's theories. Rupp's experimental results later turned out to have been falsifications, and today he is mainly known as the protagonist in one of the biggest scandals in physics in the 20th century.Rupp published a number of papers on the interference properties of light emitted by canal ray sources. These articles, particularly the present that came into being in close collaboration with Albert Einstein, attracted quite a lot of attention, as they probed the wave versus particle nature of light. They also significantly propelled Rupp's career, even though they were considered highly controversial to begin with.In April 1926, Albert Einstein proposed to Emil Rupp to carry out two experiments that were to prove the wave nature of light versus the particle nature of light: the so-called 'Wire Grid Experiment' and the 'Rotated Mirror Experiment', experiments that Einstein had worked on theoretically and now would like to gain confirmation of through experiments. Rupp, at the time regarded as one of the most important and most competent experimental physicists, gladly took up the challenge. Rupp's observations - though highly controversial - confirmed Einstein's theory. Due to the surprising outcome of the experiments, Einstein was interested in exactly how it they were conducted, as Rupp's initial descriptions did not convince him that the results were feasible.""Rupp stood by his observations and suggested yet other circumstances that might explain them. Did Einstein now realize that there was something rather dubious about Rupp's work? He had seen him change his data repeatedly-and each time in better accordance with his own criticism, and on one occasion in no less than two days. He had had to accept that Rupp claimed to earlier have ""unknowingly"" or ""unconsciously"" rotated a mirror, and he will likely have seen that Rupp's work was highly controversial amongst experimentalists, leading to very public criticism in Die Naturwissenschaften. He himself was now also convinced that, in fact, Rupp's results were incomprehensible. So, did Einstein choose to suspend the publication of Rupp's piece, so that an additional round of checks and balances could take place? The answer is no: Rupp's paper was presented by Einstein to the Prussian Academy in a session on 21 October 1926, and it appeared in print in the Academy's proceedings in November of 1926-the articles by Einstein and Rupp came out back to back, and reprints circulated with both papers bound together, with a joint cover page that displayed both titles. Einstein referred in his article to Rupp's claims and he had even written the abstract of Rupp's paper"" (Dongen: ""Emil Rupp, Albert Einstein and the Canal Ray Experiments on Wave-Particle"").The first clear indication that Rupp's work was impossible to recreate came in 1930 in a paper published by Staub - nothing was wrong with Einstein's theory but Rupp's work was simply impossible: ""Rupp immediately set out to respond to Straub's publication. On 12 July 1930 he sent a first draft to Einstein, to whom he also announced his intention of redoing his canal ray experiments-Straub was dismissed as a clumsy graduate student with a lousy apparatus. Einstein suggested inviting Straub once Rupp had his experiment up and running again, but cautioned him not to engage the polemic in too sharp a tone"". Rupp managed to convince the physics society and continued to publish the new few years. In 1934 various different physicians pointed out that Rupp's work was impossible to recreate, and in 1935 the final blow to Rupp's career came about, when the German Physical Society's decided not to allow any citations of Rupp's work. This seems to have had very severe consequences, as today it is almost impossible to find any quotations - or even mentioning of Rupp in general, let alone his fraud - in any historical studies of either quantum theory or of Einstein.Despite the unquestionable fraud by Rupp, his experiments and collaboration with Einstein might have had a positive influence on the further progression to quantum mechanics. The two present papers became of seminal importance in the discussions between Bohr and Heisenberg, which eventually in 1927 resulted in Heisenberg publishing his landmark thesis on the uncertainty principle. When Max Born received the Nobel Prize in physics he stated that: ""An idea of Einstein gave me the lead [From the present paper]. He had tried to make the duality of particles-light quanta or photons-and waves comprehensible by interpreting the square of the optical wave amplitudes as probability density for the occurrence of photons.""Boni 160" Weil 153.‎

‎LÉvolution des Idées en Physique. Des premiers concepts aux théories de la relativité et des quanta.‎

‎Paris, France-Loisirs/Flammarion Hardcover in-8, 319 p., fig. in-t., rel. cart. décor. éd.‎

‎Préface dI. et de G. Bogdanoff. [TX-3] ‎

‎Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie und Bewegungsgesetz.‎

‎Berlin, 1927. Orig. printed orange wrappers. Back strengthend with matching paper. Fresh copy. Offprint/Sonderabdr. aus ""Sitzungsberichte"". pp. 2-13.‎

‎First edition. Weil No. 155.‎

‎"Albert Einstein. Comment je vois le monde : EMein Weltbilde. Traduit de l'allemand par Maurice Solovine"‎

‎"Flammarion Doullens, impr. Sévin" "A7555 TIRAGE DE 1963 BROCHE"‎

‎APPENDIX FOR THE SECOND EDITION [of The Meaning of Relativity] + APPENDIX II. GENERALIZED THEORY OF GRAVITATION. - [ORIGINAL PROOF-COPY]‎

‎[1950]. 8vo. Original proof-copy (of the latest stage, presumably final proof, in the same format as the printed version and with no corrections), printed on rectos and versos. Stapled twice in left margin. A few marginal creases. A (proof-) number to upper left corner in red ink (297). Pp. 109-148 + tipped-in errata slip at p. 147.‎

‎Very rare original proof-copy of the two highly important appendices for Einstein's ""The Meaning of Relativity"", third edition, 1950, the second appendix being one of the most important pieces Einstein ever wrote, namely the appendix ""in which he described his most recent work on unification"" (Pais), and the work which was hailed by The New York Times under the heading ""New Einstein theory gives a master key to the universe"". The first appendix, which appeared for the second edition of the work, remained unchanged throughout the history of ""the Meaning of Relativity"" and was written because ""Since the first edition of this little book some advances have been made in the theory of relativity. [...] The first step forward is the conclusive demonstration of the existence of the red shift of the spectral lines by the (negative) gravitational potential of the place of origin"" [...] A second step forward, which will be mentioned briefly, concerns the law of motion of a gravitating body."" [...] A third step forward, concerning the so-called ""cosmologic problem,"" wiil be considered here in detail..."" (pp. 109-10). The present 40 pages constitute the final proof-copy of the entire appendices I and II to the Generalized Theory of Gravitation, exactly as they appeared in the third edition (Princeton in 1950). Einstein's ""The Meaning of Relativity"" was originally published in 1922, on the basis of his ""Vier Vorlesungen ueber Relativitetstheorie"" given at Princeton in 1921. A second edition, with an appendix (appendix I) appeared in 1945 (several issues and editions of this appeared also), and in 1949 the third edition, with the seminal Appendix II printed for the first time, appears (also appeared in 1950, in Princeton). In 1950 a revised edition of the third edition appears, having Appendix II slightly revised, and in 1953 the heavily revised fourth edition appears. THIS IS THE PROOF-COPY OF APPENDICES I AND II FOR THE ""THIRD EDITION, INCLUDING THE GENERALIZED THEORY OF GRAVITATION"" (PRINCETON, 1950). The main focus of the work throughout all these editions of the work since 1949 is Appendix II, which deals with Einstein's main interest, the generalization of the Gravitation Theory, which was to unite the general theory of relativity with electromagnetism, recovering an approximation for quantum theory, and presenting us with a theory to explain the universe as a unified entity, the ultimate goal for the greatest physicist that ever lived. ""This was Einstein's ultimate response to the mechanical-electromagnetic crisis in physical theory he had first talked about in the opening of his 1905 light quantum-paper."" (Nandor, in D.S.B., p. 330). It was indeed Einstein's aim to provide an explanation of the universe through his unified field theory, although he was well aware that his sort of field theory might not exist. However, even the establishing of the non-existence of it could bring us closer to an explanation than we had ever been before. There is no topic of greater importance to Einstein than his theory of unification. ""In 1949 Einstein wrote a new appendix for the third edition of his ""The Meaning of Relativity"" in which he described his most recent work on unification. It was none of his doing that a page of his manuscript appeared on the front page of ""The New York Times"" under the heading ""New Einstein theory gives a master key to the universe"". He refused to see reporters and asked Helen Dukas to relay this message to them: ""Come back and see me in twenty years""."" (Pais, p. 350).‎

‎Beiträge zur Quantentheorie‎

‎Braunschweig, Vieweg & Sohn, 1914. Later full cloth. A stamp to the general titlepage. IX,1072"414 pp., textillustrations. ""Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft im Jahre 1914. Sechzehnter Jahrgang. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel."" Einstein paper pp. 820-828. Internally clean and fine. The whole volume offered‎

‎First edition. In this paper ""Contributions to quantum theory"" two considerations are given which are interrelated by a common goal, inasmuch as it is attempted to derive two of the most importent achievementss of quantum theory, viz. Planck's radiation law and Nernst's third law of thermodynamics, in a new manner. The proofs do not involve Boltzmann's equation and are thus based enterely on macroscopic thermodynamics. They do introduce, however, the quantum hupothesis. (Einstein points out that the alleged 'proofs' which try to derive the theorem of Nernst from the mere fact that the heat capacity of all substances goes to zero at absolute zero temterature, are not genuine). (Cornelius Lanczos).- Weil No 67.‎