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Auction archive: Lot number 40

EINSTEIN, Albert. Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie (Gemeinverständlich) [ Sammlung Vieweg , part 38]. Braunschweig: Friedr[ich] Vieweg & Sohn, 1919. 8° (221 x 140mm). Three diagrams. (Last two leaves detached.) Original yello...

Auction 08.06.2004
8 Jun 2004
Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,827 - US$2,741
Price realised:
£1,673
ca. US$3,057
Auction archive: Lot number 40

EINSTEIN, Albert. Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie (Gemeinverständlich) [ Sammlung Vieweg , part 38]. Braunschweig: Friedr[ich] Vieweg & Sohn, 1919. 8° (221 x 140mm). Three diagrams. (Last two leaves detached.) Original yello...

Auction 08.06.2004
8 Jun 2004
Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,827 - US$2,741
Price realised:
£1,673
ca. US$3,057
Beschreibung:

EINSTEIN, Albert. Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie (Gemeinverständlich) [ Sammlung Vieweg , part 38]. Braunschweig: Friedr[ich] Vieweg & Sohn, 1919. 8° (221 x 140mm). Three diagrams. (Last two leaves detached.) Original yellow printed wrappers (covers detached and worn at corners, spine worn). Provenance: presentation copy to an unidentified recipient (inscription on verso of title: 'Mit fruendl[ichen] Grüssen. , Quälen Sie sich nicht zu sehr! , Ihr Einstein')--partial frank marks on upper wrapper. Fourth edition. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY EINSTEIN. After the appearance of Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie in Annalen der Physik in 1916, this closely-related paper, further refining Einstein's concept of special and general relativity, followed in 1917, in part 38 of the journal Sammlung Vieweg; its importance was such that it had gone through fourteen editions by the end of 1922. Weil 90.

Auction archive: Lot number 40
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jun 2004
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

EINSTEIN, Albert. Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie (Gemeinverständlich) [ Sammlung Vieweg , part 38]. Braunschweig: Friedr[ich] Vieweg & Sohn, 1919. 8° (221 x 140mm). Three diagrams. (Last two leaves detached.) Original yellow printed wrappers (covers detached and worn at corners, spine worn). Provenance: presentation copy to an unidentified recipient (inscription on verso of title: 'Mit fruendl[ichen] Grüssen. , Quälen Sie sich nicht zu sehr! , Ihr Einstein')--partial frank marks on upper wrapper. Fourth edition. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY EINSTEIN. After the appearance of Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie in Annalen der Physik in 1916, this closely-related paper, further refining Einstein's concept of special and general relativity, followed in 1917, in part 38 of the journal Sammlung Vieweg; its importance was such that it had gone through fourteen editions by the end of 1922. Weil 90.

Auction archive: Lot number 40
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jun 2004
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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