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EINSTEIN, Albert and Hermann MINKOWSKI. The Principle of Relativity. Translated by M.N. Saha and S.N. Bose. University of Calcutta, 1920. 8 o. Original cloth (light wear and fading). Articles about Einstein tipped to endpapers (some offsetting). Publisher's compliments slip pasted to the half-title. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of two fundamental papers on relativity: Einstein's "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter K”rper" (1905) and "Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativit„tstheorie (1916). Weil 9b. FREUNDLICH, Erwin. Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie. Foreword by Albert Einstein. Berlin: J. Springer, 1916. 8 o. Original printed wrappers. Provenance : Janus Foundation (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Theodore von K rm n. Anniversary Volume. Pasadena: California Institute of Technology, 1941. 4 o. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth. Includes first appearance of Einstein and the Bargmanns' "On the five-dimensional representation of gravitation and electricity". FIRST EDITION. Weil 207. LECAT, Maurice. Bibliographie de la relativit‚. Brussels: Maurice Lamertin, 1924. 8 o. Original printed wrappers (starting to detach at spine). BORN, Max. Einstein's Theory of Relativity. New York: Dover, 1962. 8 o. Original pictorial wrappers (light rubbing to edges). Provenance : MARIA GOEPPERT-MAYER (presentation inscription). Second edition, revised. PRESENTATION COPY inscribed and signed to Joe and Maria Mayer on the title page. Maria Goeppert-Mayer would share the Nobel Prize in 1963 for her discoveries in the shell structure of nuclear particles; she was a student of Born's at G”ttingen. KAMERLINGH ONNES, H. editor. Het Natuurkundig laboratorium der Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden in de jaren 1904-1922. Leiden: E. Ijdo, 1922. 8 o. Illustrations by Kamerlingh Onnes. Original printed wrappers (light foxing). FIRST EDITION, including Einstein's paper: "Theoretische Bemerkungen zur Supraleitung der Metalle". Weil 128. EINSTEIN, Albert. Investigations on the Theory of the Brownian Movement. Edited by R, F쳌rth. London: Methuen, [1926]. 12 o. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. EINSTEIN, Albert and Leopold INFELD. Physik als Abenteuer der Erkenntnis. Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1938. 8 o. FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN. Weil 201. EINSTEIN, Albert. "Physik und Realit„t" Parts 1-2. In: Zeitschrift f쳌r freie deutsche Forschung, 1 Jahrgang, Nummer 1-2. Paris: Science et Litterature, 1938. 2 volumes, 8 o. Original printed wrappers. LORENTZ, H.A., A. EINSTEIN, et al. The Principle of Relativity. London: Methuen, 1923. 8 o. Original cloth (hinges weak, light fading). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Weil 59a. Die Kultur der Gegenwart. Leipzig and Berlin: Teubner, 1915. 3 Teil, 3 Abteilung, Volume One only. 4 o. Original cloth (minor rubbing). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM of Einstein's articles, "Theoretische Atomistik" and "Die Relativit„tstheorie". Weil 70 & 71. EINSTEIN, Albert. Sidelights on Relativity. New York: E.P. Dutton, [1923]. 12 o. Original cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Weil 111c. Scripta universitatis atque bibliothecae Hierosolymitanarum. Mathematica et physica. Volumen I. Edited by Albert Einstein. Jerusalem, 1923. 4 o. Original printed wrappers. In various languages and Hebrew translation. Includes Einstein and J. Grommer's "Beweis der Nichtexistenz eines 쳌berall regul„ren zentrisch symmetrischen Feldes nach der Feld-Theorie von Th. Kaluza". FIRST EDITION. Weil 136. Zur Relativit„ts Theorie. Issue of: Annalen der Philosophie, 2 Band, 3 Heft. Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1921. 8 o. Original printed wrappers (light creasing and soiling). FIRST EDITION. LEVI-CIVITA, Tullio. Collection of five bound offprints from Rendiconti della R. Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Rome, 1926-34, including: Caratteristiche e bicaratteristiche delle equazioni gravitazionali di Einstein. 4 o. Modern buckram, original printed wrappers preserved. Provenance : United States Air Force Scientific Library (ink stamps). FIRST EDITIONS, offprint issues. EINSTEIN, Albert. H.A. Lorentz: als Sch”pfer und als Pers”nlichkeit. Offprint from: Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natuurwetenschappen, Mitteilung 91. Leiden, 1953. 12 o. Original printed wrappers. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. VILLAMIL, Richard. Newton: The Man. Foreword by Albert Einstein. London: G. Knox, [1931]. 8 o. Original cloth (spine lightly faded). Concerning Newton's library. FIRST EDITION. [ With ]: Photograph of Albert Einstein, Comtesse Noailles, Emile Borel and Paul Painlev‚, ca 1922. 240 x 178 mm. -- And two others. (27).