1954. 1 page. in German, black ink. Signed “A. Einstein”. A poem written by Einstein to his colleague and collaborator Ernst Straus and his son Daniel. “Dear Strausse both! My best wishes and greetings in poetic form. It brings even more happiness If it has been anticipated for so long..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921. 8vo. xiii, [i], 168 pp., including half-title and index. THIRD EDITION. With frontispiece portrait Einstein dated 1920. Blue cloth, small tear at top of spine, corners slightly worn, no dust wrapper; front hinge a bit loose, otherwise a very clean copy. From the..... More
Leipzig and Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1915. 8vo. [iv], 89, [1] pp. 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..... More
Leipzig: J.A Barth, 1916. 8vo. 64 pp. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Original printed wrappers on rippled paper; wrappers and interior soiled and spotted, mostly likely with minor water damage. From the library of Einstein protege Dr. Kurt Eisenmann with his siganture and stamps. First separate printing of Einstein’s classic paper. Not..... More
Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1917. 4to. xi, [i], 604 pp. (the entire volume offered). FIRST EDITION. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, preserved in a morocco slipcase. An excellent clean copy. First edition of this classic work on the quantum theory of radiation by Einstein in which he predicts the existence..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1938. 8vo. x, 319 pp. FIRST EDITION, THIRD PRINTING. Original cloth; interior clean. A newspaper article pasted onto the paste-down plus the flaps from the dust jacket pasted in. Ownership signature of Charles Schuchert (1858-1942), American paleontologist that was the leader in the development of..... More
Los Angeles: 1933. 320 x 244 mm. (Frame: 520 x 420 mm). Signed by the photographer, [Aaron] Tycko of Los Angeles. Prominently signed “Albert Einstein. 1933” below image. Rarely seen photograph of the famous scientist, taken during his last visit to Southern California in January 1933, the month Hitler took..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905. 8vo. viii, 1020 pp. FIRST EDITION. Line-block and halftone text illustrations, one folding table, 3 halftone plates, 1 collotype plate. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, title and date in gilt on spine; an excellent copy with the small stamp of the University of Basel on the..... More
Berlin: Verlag der Akademia der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei Walter de Gruyter, 1929. 4to. 8 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed orange wrappers; a fine copy, unopened, and bound into morocco-backed cloth boards, spine labeled in gilt. First edition, first issue, in the rare author’s offprint form with a newly set..... More
