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Contemporary half red calf. Plates foxed as usual. Light wear. Very good.
FIRST EDITION in book form with the vignetted engraved title page dated 1850. A superb association copy from the library of novelist E. M. Forster, author of A Room with a View, A Passage to India, Howards End, and others. Forster's Aspects of the Novel (1927) discusses Dickens.
E.M. Forster's father died early in his youth and his childhood was dominated his mother, aunts and cousins. Among the most prominent was his paternal great-aunt Marianne Thornton, whose ₤8000 legacy was invaluable to Forster. Her niece Edith was the first owner of this book which was read by the young Forster cousins. The Forster family copy of David Copperfield
became a part of E. M. Forster's library where it remained until his death. Upon E.M. Forster's death his library was divided between King's College, his friends and a sale catalog by W. Heffer and Sons booksellers. The present volume was lot 88 in that catalog.
"Of all Dickens's… Read More

151 pp. Original half red leather, cloth boards. Very good.
FIRST EDITION of this standard work on the history of Chinese currency. Edkins was a British Sinologist and Protestant missionary who spent 57 years in China, 30 of them in Beijing. Edkins published a much shorter book, totaling 29 pages, under the same title in 1890.

In this portrait Sternberger shows Einstein dressed informally. Einstein was keenly aware of his public image, and often attempted to show a cheerful visage. The common backgrounds of the two men helped the photographer to put Einstein in a relaxed state and to capture him in a more vulnerable pose.
Marcel Sternberger and Albert Einstein had known each other in Europe long before the two met again in Princeton, New Jersey for this session. Before the men left Europe Einstein had furnished the preface to a book written by Sternberger.
After a warm welcome and lemonade, the men settled in for the sitting. They discussed various topics including World War II and the state of American education. Although some photographs from the session show Einstein with a telltale twinkle in his eye, here the great scientist appears fatigued. The seriousness of their conversation seems to have worn him down.
Still, the conversation had its moments of levity. At one moment, Sternberger asked Einstein to… Read More

FIRST EDITION. "On the Movement of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid Demanded by the Molecular Kinetic Theory of Heat" appears here on pp. 549-560. This landmark paper on Brownian motion is one of the three great papers from 1905, Einstein annus mirabilis.
Although most physicists and chemists accepted the idea of atoms as a useful concept in 1905, many still questioned whether they actually existed. Einstein later claimed that "my major aim in [this research] was to find facts which would guarantee as much as possible the existence of atoms of finite size."
In 1827, botanist Robert Brown had used a microscope to look at dust grains floating in water. He found that the floating grains were moving about erratically, a phenomenon that became known as "Brownian motion." In this paper Einstein proved the reality of these molecules and their motions by producing the first statistical physics analysis of Brownian motion. French physicist Jean Perrin used Einstein's results to… Read More

Original wrappers. Near fine.
First edition in English, one of 2000 numbered copies. Translated from the German by Stuart Gilbert.
Einstein initiated this correspondence with Freud as part of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation's effort to promote dialogue among leading thinkers to promote peace. At the time Einstein and Freud were perhaps the most famous thinkers in the world.
Laid in is a 2pp leaflet advertising this publication and noting the various formats and their prices.

Brown buckram. Library markings.
FIRST EDITION of Einstein's fifth published paper, "On the General Molecular Theory of Heat" (pp. 354-362).

This photograph shows a reunion of friends. The Sternbergers and Einstein had known one other in Europe and met again in Princeton. Ilse was Sternberger's wife, collaborator, and perennial foil. She was a constant source of warmth during sometimes-contentious sittings. She also helped document their life, publishing several articles on Sternberger's work and their sessions with famous sitters after his death.Gelatin silver print (20 x 30 in.). Archivally framed. Estate Edition, a limited edition of 10 copies, embossed and numbered.
$2500 unframed; framed: $3,000

Contemporary half dark green roan. Rubbed, some chipping, separation at upper joint. Library markings.
FIRST EDITION of "On the Theory of Light Production and Light Absorption" (pp. 199-206). This classic in the history of physics is Einstein's second paper on the photoelectric effect. Einstein reconciles his and Planck's independent derivations of the blackbody formula E=hν. Planck's derivation of this formula ascribed it to a restriction on the energy changes possible when radiation is produced or absorbed by matter, which implied no restriction on the energies of either matter or radiation. Einstein's 1905 derivation ascribed it to a restriction on the energy of radiation alone, but in this paper, he proposes the modern idea that the energies of both matter and radiation are quantized, which led to his work on quantum specific heats.
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FIRST EDITION of "The Principle of Conservation of Motion of the Center of Gravity and the Inertia of Energy" (pp. 627-633). In this "ingenious… Read More

FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy inscribed by Einstein's longtime assistant Helen Dukas: "For Lisa Ben Samuel with kindest regards and Shalom Helen Dukas Princeton N.J. March 1980."
Helen Dukas became Einstein's secretary in 1928 and, after his death in 1955, served as a trustee of his literary estate and archivist of his papers. This volume prints letters and documents selected by Dukas over the years to shed light on Einstein's character and personality.Original cloth and dust jacket. Some rubbing to jacket, else very good.

Original wrappers. Price neatly blacked out at lower corner. Tiny chip from back wrapper. Very good.
FIRST EDITION.
This scarce collection of Einstein's writings on war and peace was published in 1933, the year the Nazis took power in Germany and the year Einstein left Germany for the United States. In his prefatory note, Einstein writes, "Mr. Lief [the editor, Alfred Lief] has taken great trouble in collecting utterances of mine having pacifistic content and he presents them with my authorization. … I consider it my duty to confess my pacific conviction publicly. May the seriousness of my purpose be transferred to you, my readers! A. Einstein."

Original wrappers. Very good.
FIRST EDITION. This work on Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation contains a foreword by Einstein. Freundlich is best known for his attempts to experimentally test the general theory of relativity using astronomical observations based on the gravitational redshift.Freundlich worked as an assistant at the University Observatory in Berlin at the time he published this work. In 1920 he moved to the Astrophysical Observatory in Potsdam, where he was director from 1921-33

Original brown cloth, top edge gilt, publisher's slipcase. Very fine, with the fragile slipcase in excellent condition. A superb copy.
FIRST EDITION. One of 760 numbered copies signed and dated by Einstein.
This important volume contains Einstein's autobiography, specially written for the book, a bibliography of his works, twenty-five scientists' discussions of Einstein's work and achievements, with Einstein's replies. Contributors of essays include Niels Bohr, Max Born, Wolfgang Pauli, and Kurt Godel.
I. I. Rabi's review in Science hailed this as a "most important and significant volume. It is most difficult to get scientists to write simply and clearly about the fundamentals of their science and the leading philosophical ideas that guide them. … In this book there is played out a great scientific drama of the last two decades. … The book starts with an intellectual autobiography by Einstein himself. He satirically calls it his obituary. I know of no other to compare with it. Neither… Read More

Original yellow cloth. Near fine dust jacket supplied from another copy. Early typed slip stating "Professor Albert Einstein / Princeton, New Jersey 1950" mounted to top of front free endpaper. Light soiling. Very good Signed and dated 1950 by Albert Einstein on the front free endpaper.
This is the English translation of Einstein's Mein Weltbild, first published in German in 1934 and then in English as The World As I See It
in the same year. This abridged edition of 1949 omits the scientific essays, preserving the extensive essays concerning philosophy, religion, Judaism, economics, current events, government, politics, war, and peace.

Three albumen prints: two CDVs and one cabinet card.

A collection of three albumen print portraits of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two volumes. Original cloth. Light fraying to spine ends, else a fine set.
First American edition. A splendid presentation copy inscribed by Ralph Waldo Emerson to his brother: "Wm. Emerson from his brother Waldo."
The inscription is in pencil in the second volume. Emerson used this intimate signature only with his immediate family. Page 270 of the first volume bears a pencil correction apparently in Emerson's hand.
Emerson paid his greatest tribute and service to his friend Thomas Carlyle in arranging for this first American publication of The French Revolution. Thus Emerson was responsible for establishing in America the view of the French Revolution that has "molded popular conception of the French Revolution down to the present day" (Printing and the Mind of Man 304). The French Revolution "is a prose epic, a work of creative genius, in which the facts of history are illumined by the imagination of a poet" (Cambridge History).
"I know nobody among my contemporaries except Carlyle who… Read More