Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1959. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE ADM FORMULATION, A HAMILTONIAN FORMULATION OF GENERAL RELATIVITY THAT PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN QUANTUM GRAVITY AND NUMERICAL RELATIVITY” (Hamber, Quantum Gravitation, 107). “In 1958, Dirac published his formulation of generalized Hamiltonian dynamics for gravitation. [The..... More

London: Royal Astronomical Society, 1969. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, RARE OFFPRINT OF BONDI ON GRAVITATIONAL BOUNCE IN GENERAL RELATIVITY.Hermann Bondi discusses the adiabatic collapse solutions of uniform density spheres under differing assumptions regarding density and central pressure. In discussing the problem of collapse and bounce, Bondi made two assumptions: “first..... More

1962. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, RARE OFFPRINT OF AN IMPORTANT LECTURE DELIVERED BY BONDI AT OXFORD IN MAY OF 1962; this is the first printed version. The following represent just a few scientists whose work Bondi speaks of in his lecture: Michelson-Morley, Milne, Lorentz, Einstein, Maxwell, Wheeler, Feynman, Hogarth, Penrose..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1922. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIVE PAPERS THAT COMPRISE THE EINSTEIN-CARTAN THEORY OF GRAVIATION (ECT). “In theoretical physics, the Einstein-Cartan theory is a classical theory of gravitation similar to general relativity, but relaxing the assumption that the affine connection has vanishing antisymmetric part (torsion tensor), so..... More

Braunschweig: Druck und Vieweg. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (FULL VOLUME) OF THE PAPER IN WHICH EINSTEIN PROVIDES THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE NATURE OF THE REFRACTIVE INDEX FOR X-RAYS, here clearly demonstrating that phase contrast effects are significant. “Inspired by the presence of fringes at the edges of objects in..... More

Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1919. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, BOUND EXTRACT OF ONE OF EINSTEIN'S MORE SIGNIFICANT MODIFICATIONS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY, THIS SPECIFICALLY MARKING THE BEGINNINGS OF HIS UNIFIED FIELD THEORY - an approach he remained committed to for the remainder of his life. "The major interest of this paper..... More

Berlin: Vieweg und Springer, 1924. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF EINSTEIN’S 1924 PAPER ON THE PHYSICS OF RADIOMETERS; EINSTEIN’S TRANSLATION OF BOSE’S SECOND PAPER ON THE BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE (WITH UNTITLED ADDENDUM BY EINSTEIN); & WENTZEL’S SECOND PROPHETIC PAPER ANTICIPATING FEYNMAN’S PATH INTEGRAL APPROACH TO QUANTUM MECHANICS. This volume bears..... More

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1920. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF EINSTEIN’S LEIDEN LECTURE EXPLAINING AT LENGTH HIS THEORY OF THE ETHER ALONG WITH THOSE OF LORENTZ & MAXWELL. Very good + condition. “Einstein’s lecture at the University of Leiden on the occasion of his appointment as a visiting..... More

Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1911. 1st Edition. HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITION OF 5 PAPERS BY ALBERT EINSTEIN. Note that the ORIGINAL FRONT WRAPS ARE BOUND IN. The front wraps of the five issues of Annalen der Physik that are bound here have been retained and are bound at the rear..... More

Leipzig: Barth, 1903. 1st Edition. Bound, full volume FIRST EDITION OF EINSTEIN’S DERIVATION OF ENTROPY FROM THERMODYNAMIC PRINCIPLES. “Einstein showed that the concepts of temperature and entropy follow from the assumption of the energy principle and atomic theory. He required only the foundations of atomic physics but no other physical..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1921. 1st Edition. FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF A 1921 LECTURE BY EINSTEIN ON THE "GEOMETRIZATION OF PHYSICS AND RELATIVITY AND THE RELATION OF MATHEMATICS TO THE EXTERNAL WORLD" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography 4, 330). WEIL 115b. French translation by Maurice Solovince. In the same year in which he..... More

Zurich: Europa Verlag, 1953. First published in 1934, this volume was published in 1953 and is bound in handsome white linen boards gilt-lettered on the front board and at the spine. It is a collection gleaned from Einstein’s speeches and letters across a wide span of his career. The subjects..... More

Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1920. 1st Edition. First edition bound extract of a paper, The Propagation of Sound in Partially Dissociated Gases, “that is a bit off the beaten track for Einstein though its subject, fluids (liquids and gases) is one he dabbled in throughout his life” (Calaprice, Einstein Almanac)..... More