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19562092902140302645David company 1956. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 David company paperback
1946mon0000573743Cassell 1946-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover. Cassell hardcover
19698990293Cassell & Company 1969. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item750grams ISBN:0304924830 Cassell & Company hardcover
19842-8875921334Ricordi 1984. Paperback. New. French language. 9.37x6.30x1.42 inches. Ricordi paperback
19539553SCPrinceton NJ: Princeton University Press 1953. 165 pp. Original gray cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Light pencil notes on pp. 1-5. Previous owner's name in pencil on fpde. DJ has some wear to edges. Light stains to front cover. Includes an index. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good-. Princeton University Press Hardcover
192732327Berlin: Verlag Bruno Cassirer. As New. 1927. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Pages 365 - 404 text of entire issue; in German. Many lovely black and white illustrations of the artist's works. Includes essays and commentary by Thomas Mann Heinrich Mann Th. Heine H. Woelfflin; A. Stix and many others. -- with a bonus offer-- . Verlag Bruno Cassirer paperback
1954195551954. in German black ink. Signed “A. Einsteinâ€. A poem written by Einstein to his colleague and collaborator Ernst Straus and his son Daniel.<br /> <br /> “Dear Strausse both!<br /> <br /> My best wishes and greetings in poetic form.<br /> <br /> It brings even more happiness<br /> If it has been anticipated for so long<br /> also in one’s circle of friends<br /> the event is doubly appreciated. <br /> <br /> This is what I wish:<br /> Let Daniel be like his father<br /> thoroughly intelligent and not less joyous<br /> so few humans are like that.<br /> <br /> Many - alas - are born<br /> few are chosen<br /> to bring light and joy.<br /> Let such gift be his drive.<br /> <br /> Yours A. Einsteinâ€<br /> <br /> In German “Strauss†means bunch bouquet etc. or ostrich and “Strausse†is plural.<br /> <br /> Ernst G. Straus 1922-1983 was a mathematician who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions. He was Einstein’s assistant and collaborator both at Princeton and afterwards when he moved to become a professor of mathematics at UCLA. His son Daniel is a professor of chemistry at Cal State San Jose. unknown
195516110Boston: Little Brown and Company 1955. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8.30 x 5.60 x 1.50 inches. This is a hardcover edition of ""Man and His Gods"" by Homer W. Smith featuring a foreword by Albert Einstein. Published in 1955 by Little Brown and Co. the book is in Very Good condition without a jacket. The vivid indigo blue cloth-covered boards with white spine lettering are in great shape though there are indents and a few very small splits at the spine ends. The binding is square and tight and there is light abrasion to the front flyleaf. Inside the interior pages are clean and unmarked.Rest assured the book will be carefully packaged for shipment ensuring protection from the elements. An USPS electronic tracking number will be issued free of charge. If you require more information or additional pictures of the book please feel free to contact me. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
1952GB0006AT0D2I5N01Little Brown 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Little Brown hardcover
1952GB0006AT0D2I3N01Little Brown 1952. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Little Brown hardcover
1952GB0006AT0D2I3N00Little Brown 1952. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Little Brown hardcover
1931SKU1139774Simon and Schuster 1931. Hardcover. Good. New York 1931; black boards with gold cover titles and spine titles; mild corner and edge wear; some discoloration at edges; orange dust jacket with black cover titles and spine titles; light chipping at jacket edges; parts of jacket edges taped over; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; "ex libris" sticker on front pastedown; rest of interior is clean and unmarked. 333 pages. Simon and Schuster hardcover
191229311Leipzig 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. <br/><br/><em>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. </em> hardcover
191249779Leipzig Barth1912. 8vo. No wrappers. In: "Annalen der Physik IV Bd. 38" No 7. Pp.249-472 a. 3 plates. Entire issue offered. Einstein's papers: pp. 355-369 and pp. 443-458. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>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. </em> unknown
1912011596Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth 1912. In bound volume of Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge Band 38 pp. 355-69. Volume also includes 1 Einstein "Nachtrag zu meiner Arbeit:: 'Thermodynamische Begrundung des photochemischen Aquivalentgesetzes" pp. 881-84; 2 "Antwort auf eine Bermerkung von J. Stark p. 888; and 3 "Relativitat und Gravitation Erwiderung auf eine Bermerkung von M. Abraham" pp. 1059-64. Paper label on spine top of which is worn; library bookplate; perforated stamp on half-title and title page. First Edition. Library Buckram. Good. Johann Ambrosius Barth Hardcover
1912008413Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth 1912. Small pieces missing from spine; rear wrapper carefully reattached; ink stamp on front wrapper; small piece of paper stuck to first page. . First Edition. Original Printed Wrappers. Good. Johann Ambrosius Barth Paperback
1993R3215France: Éditions du Seuil Collection Science ouverte 1993 ÉPUISÉ mais DISPONIBLE. « La correspondance du couple s'étend de 1897 à 1903 peu après leur mariage. Ces lettres révèlent un Einstein peu connu optimiste confiant et heureux malgré les difficultés familiales et professionnelles qu'affronte le jeune couple. Mileva y montre une forte personnalité - « mon égal » dit Einstein qui admire sa maturité affective et intellectuelle. Elle contribuera de façon essentielle aux succès scientifiques d'Einstein.». Couverture souple. Comme neuf. Éditions du Seuil (Collection Science ouverte) paperback
1979P-18052Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. With the reeata slip laid in. First publication of these letters by Einstein. A clean unmarked and unclipped copy. Princeton University Press hardcover
193391965Paris: Hermann & Cie 1933. Fine. Hermann & Cie Paris 1933 16 x 25 cm Broché First edition of the French translation illustrated with a photographic portrait of Albert Einstein as frontispiece. A small loss at the foot of the spine which also shows rubbing along the joints upper right corner of the front board starting to come loose a slight marginal tear just below pleasant internal condition manuscript bookplate at the head of a flyleaf. Annotations and markings in red pen on pages 8 and 9. Work illustrated with figures in the text. Hermann & Cie unknown
192749047Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth A.-G 1927. First edition. Good- to fine condition. 176/330. 41 1pp. 42 plates with printed tissue guards. Original quarter vellum over brown paper-covered boards with gilt vignette on cover gilt lettering on spine. Title page with publisher's device and black double frame. Cover design by Lucian Zabel. With an introduction on Russian culture the tradition of ballet and theater set and costume design by Carl Einstein. Many of the plates with dates ranging from 1910 to 1923 including motifs created during the war. The motifs of the plates range from close-up figure drawings to simple folk costumes elaborate gowns for members of the Court mystical figures and various set designs.<br /> <br /> Illustrated with forty-two plates nineteen of them fully or partially colored by hand or pochoir some heightened in gilt or silver three b/w one sepia-toned lithograph and nineteen plates reproduced in high quality offset printing. The title page calls for forty-two plates and six illustrations in the text. Our copy is illustrated with seven tipped-in color offset reproductions and one b/w lithograph as endpiece on page seventeen.<br /> <br /> In addition the work is extra-illustrated with five color offset reproductions: one full-page embossed color plate with extensive hand-applied gilt overlay facing page seven Le Roi a full-page embossed color offset reproduction with extensive silver overlay facing plate one Phedre Thesee dated 1923 and three full page color offset reproductions facing plates fifteen L'Amazone with black overprinting twenty-five Scheherazade embossed and heightened in silver and Lampe d'Aladin multicolor overprint and thirty-six La Sultane embossed and overprinted in gilt facing the same image though with greater detail.<br /> <br /> The copies listed in OCLC vary in publication dates all calling for 42 plates and six in-text illustrations. Auction records call for 1925. One auction record for the 1925 edition calls for the lithograph line drawing in the text. Our copy contains two plates dated 1922 in addition to others dated 1917. We've been unable to find any bibliographic record that describes seven in-text illustrations or the five additional illustrations facing four of the plates and the first page of the text as described.<br /> <br /> Text in German. Binding with light wear along edges but vellum smudged and variously discolored. Block lightly starting at a few plates 11 15 19 27 30 42. A couples of tissue guards for plates loose but present. Binding in overall good- plates in very good to fine condition. Leon Bakst 1866-1924 was a Russian painter costume and set designer. Bakst studied art at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle. In 1893 he moved to Paris for four years studying at the Academy Julian. He founded the magazine 'Mir Iskusstva World of Art' with his friends Alexander Benois Sergei Diaghilev and Valentin Serov. Bakst is best known for his work in set and costume design for the Ballet Russes. Ernst Wasmuth A.-G unknown
1987AME_9780135280508PrenticHall 1987. 1st. Paperback. New/New. PrenticHall paperback
1944020487Montreal / London 1944 and 1945: Free World Inc 1944. First Editions . Printed Wrappers. Very Good. Drawings and Other Artwork. Six Issues. The French Language Edition Of "The Free World". No. 1 Has Chipping At Lower Corner Of Front Cover And Adjacent Pages Adjacent To Spine; Others Are Vg To Near Fine. <br/> <br/> Free World Inc unknown
1921009633Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1921 12mo 19 cm XXII 120 pp. Printed wrappers wrappers slightly stained and frayed; small portions of paper missing from the spine; paper toned inside. Early French edition of Einstein's celebrated popular exposition of the theory of relativity intended to make the fundamental ideas of both the special and the general theory accessible to non-specialists. With a preface by the renowned mathematician Émile Borel who emphasizes the scientific importance of Einstein's work and its profound implications for modern physics. Einstein's text explains the essential concepts of space time motion gravitation and the structure of space-time in clear largely non-technical language presenting the empirical and conceptual foundations of relativity to a broad readership. The French translation was prepared by Maurice Solovine one of Einstein's close early collaborators and an important mediator of his ideas to the French-speaking public. Boni-Russ-Laurence 91.B. Gauthier-Villars paperback
19122508Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1912. First edition. Original wrappers custom box. Very Good. RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF THE REPORTS FROM THE HISTORIC FIRST SOLVAY CONFERENCE "THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN PHYSICS EVER ORGANIZED" AND A CRITICAL MOMENT IN THE BIRTH OF QUANTUM PHYSICS. In the short time that followed Planck's hypothesis of the universal constant that would bear his name the greatest minds in physics were largely at a loss about how to deal with the bizarre theoretical results that followed let alone the experimental results which confirmed them!. Much of the focus at the time was on black-body radiation including work by Planck himself as well as Lorentz Rayleigh and Jeans. However shortly before the first Solvay conference a young Einstein had also started investigating the related question of materials' specific heat. Kuhn. "The purpose of the first Solvay Conference was thus two-fold: first there was the need to examine whether classical theories molecular-kinetic theory and electrodynamics could in some undiscovered ways provide an explanation of the problem of black-body radiation and of the specific heat of polyatomic substances at low temperatures; secondly to consider phenomena in which the theory of quanta could be successfully used." Mehra.<br /> <br /> Underlying these questions was the more fundamental mystery of how to interpret the existence of the Planck constant. There were two camps both of which were represented at the conference. Planck's took the constant to indicate some fundamental constraint on the radiative processes of emission and absorption. For example "Sommerfeld introduced a version of the quantum hypothesis which he considered to be compatible with classical electrodynamics. He postulated that in 'every purely molecular process' a quantized quantity of action is exchanged." Staumann. Einstein's camp on the other hand took the quantum of action to represent the physicality of a perhaps pseudo-corpuscular theory of energy exchange - his photons of light.<br /> <br /> Although the debates that followed the lectures included in the proceedings did not rise to the famous heated exchange that Einstein would have with Bohr at the 1927 Solvay conference we do see some of the young Einstein's hotheadedness as he opens the debate following Planck's plenary lecture: "What I find strange about the way Mr. Planck applies Boltzmann's equation is that he introduces a state probability W without giving this quantity a physical definition. If one proceeds in such a way then to begin with Boltzmann's equation does not have a physical meaning." As translated by Straumann.<br /> <br /> It would take another 14 years for quantum mechanics to be fully formalized but the first Solvay conference represents a pivotal point in quantum history:<br /> <br /> "During 1911 the situation changed quickly. Articles that applied the quantum to other topics then outnumbered those on blackbody radiation for the first time and some were backed by impressive experimental evidence. In part because of that evidence physicists like Planck and Lorentz who had previously taken the constant h to be characteristic only of the radiation problem began to consider additional areas in which others had earlier staked quantum claims." Kuhn.<br /> <br /> Albert Einstein and the Solvay Conference:<br /> <br /> Among the most renown scientists of the day - including Ernest Rutherford Marie Curie and Max Planck - Einstein made quite an impression. At age 32 he was the second youngest participant in the conference. The youngest was British physicist Frederick Lindemann later to become scientific adviser to Winston Churchill.<br /> <br /> Although "Einstein had already published so many masterpieces none had actually been put to the test and his theories were looked on rather as tours de force than as definitive additions to knowledge. But his pre-eminence among the twelve greatest theoretical physicists of the day was clear to any unprejudiced observer." Frederick Lindemann quoted in Brian.<br /> <br /> References: Headline quote from the Solvay Institute website. Kuhn T. 1978 Black Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity 1894-1912. University of Chicago Press. Mehra J. 1975 The Solvay Conferences on Physics: Aspects of the Development of Physics Since 1911. Straumann N. 2011. On the first Solvay Congress in 1911. The European Physical Journal H 363 379-399. Denis Brian Einstein: A Life p.82.<br /> <br /> Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1912. Octavo original wrappers; custom box. Splits to top and bottom joint of upper wrapper two creases to front wrapper. Text in fine condition largely unopened. <br /> <br /> FIRST PRINTINGS IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE. Gauthier-Villars unknown
19502946629Buenos Aires.: Emecé. 1950. Hardcover. Cubierta deslucida. Good. 19 cm. 215 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial. Cubierta deslucida. Física.530.12 530 Emecé. hardcover
