Meaning Relativity by Einstein Albert, First Edition (19 results)

1ere édition, édition originale en français Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur grand In-8 1 vol. - 59 pages Contents, Chapitres : Sur le problème cosmologique - Théorie relativiste du champ non symétrique - Bibliographie et table bords de la couverture à peine brunie, avec de legeres traces de pliures aux coins, notamment au coin du plat inférieur, la couverture reste propre, intérieur propre, papier à peine jauni, coins des pages legerement plissé sans gravité, cela reste un bon exemplaire 150.

1ere édition, édition originale en français, 1960 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur grise grand In-8 1 vol. - 59 pages Contents, Chapitres : Sur le problème cosmologique - Théorie relativiste du champ non symétrique - Bibliographie et table bel exemplaire, bords des plats de la couverture à peine jaunis, sinon comme neuf, intérieur frais et propre 150.

paperbound, 8vo 169 pp. The Stafford Little Lecturesof Princeton University Press, May 1921; first edition was published in 1922 (Methuen); very good condition (almost unused).

Hardcover. Book condition is Near Fine, bound in full, genuine leather with 22kt gold accents, gilt page edges and a hubbed spine. Smyth sewn, interior vaunts moire end papers, acid-neutral paper (won't yellow or become brittle over time) and silk ribbon page marker. Very minimal rubbing and edge wear to exterior. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo. 9"h x 6"w. First Edition in this Format ; Collector's Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. No Jacket. very good first edition of this important work, includes the bound errata slip on page 147, lightly aged, tight, handsome vintage title [science/case].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. MAKES THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY SCIENTIST or MATHEMATICIAN IN THE FAMILY / FAN OF ALBERT EINSTEIN **PLEASE READ: Mahalo for taking the time to look at our listing. We truly appreciate it. We always do our BEST to give you the most accurate description of these beautiful books. If, however, you have any SPECIFIC questions about the SIZE of the book, NUMBER of pages, TYPE of leather, SMELL or FEEL of the book, PLEASE email us through ABEBOOKS mail system BEFORE you bid, and we will be HAPPY to give you more information. We want you to be completely happy with your purchase and keep you as our customers for years to come!** DESCRIPTION: Franklin Library s LONG OUT OF PRINT full-leather binding edition of THE MEANING OF RELATIVITY by ALBERT EINSTEIN. THIS IS A SCARCE VINTAGE HEIRLOOM FRANKLIN WITH GORGEOUS DEEP GILT IMPRESSIONS TO THE BOARDS AND SPINE. IT IS ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY PRIZED EDITIONS/FRANKLINS OWNING TO ITS SCARCITY! PINEAPPLE NOT INCLUDED ABOUT THE BOOK: In 1905, Albert Einstein determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and that the speed of light in a vacuum was independent of the motion of all observers. This was the theory of special relativity.Description DescThe plot revolves around the adventures of a noble (hidalgo) from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. CONDITION: Book is in LIKE NEW condition for its age (41 YEARS OLD) with only a couple of negligible rubs to the gilt page ends (SEE PICS FOR BETTER DETAILS) NO ATTACHED BOOKPLATES, WRITING FROM PREVIOUS OWNER, ETC. It is a SPECTACULAR EDITION. SHIPPING: FREE TO US ADDRESSES ONLY. INTERNATIONAL $ based on location. WE SHIP PRIORITY MAIL & PACK VERY WELL. Please check out our other listings of Easton Press, Franklin Library, Limited Editions Club, First Edition Library, Folio Society and International Collectors Library editions.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Fifth Edition. 166pp. Gray cloth boards, gilt titles on spine. Binding tight, spine straight, corners sharp and square. Unmarked text block, pages free of toning. Previous owner's blind stamp on title page. Jacket is crisp and intact (original $3.75 price on front flyleaf), and shows mild toning to spine and extremities. Mild shelfwear to upper spine end of DJ. The fifth edition is notable for the inclusion of Einstein's revised and simplified Generalized Theory of Gravitation. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First or second issue of this edition published in 1946 at Princeton where Einstein was working and living over on Mercer Street. A very nice copy with the original price of $3.00 on the flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition . [8], 123 pp. + 8 ads. Original Blue gilt cloth In America, the . First printing of Einstein's public lectures at Princeton University, which were met with great fanfare as the American victory tour of the newly crowned king of modern physics. A massive crowd turned out for the first of these lectures, though attendance dwindled in subsequent lectures as it became clear that even this synthesized overview of relativity remained opaque to all but the most advanced scholars. "Neither before nor afterward did he offer a similarly comprehensive exposition that included not only the theory's technical apparatus but also detailed explanations making his achievement accessible to readers with a certain mathematical knowledge but no prior familiarity with relativity theory." - Gutfreund and Renn, *The Formative Years of Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's Princeton Lectures*.

Condition: Fair. 1922. First English Edition. 123 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Four black and white diagrams within. Noticeable cracking to front hinge and to gutters, exposing netting. However binding throughout remains firm with all pages attached. Pages are clean overall, with mild tanning throughout. Previous owner's inscription in blue pencil to front pastedown. Occasional thumb-marking. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping. Visible tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Small splits to spine ends and corners; cloth is slightly frayed. Black marks with faint water staining to both boards. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Minor dents around edges. Book has a slight forward lean.

1st Edition. 1st Edition. First American Edition, in original publisher's Navy Blue Cloth, gilt stamped on spine. First American Edition, printed in the Great Britain at the University Press, Aberdeen. Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University, May 1921. Some minor rubbing on the spine and back and the usual shelf usage. Book is tight and very good condition with toning to the pages with age. The book is over 100 years old. All pages intact. 123 pp including index. Housed in a brown slipcase with E = mc2 embossed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition. Near-fine in dark blue boards a touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners, and crease to bottom corner of flyleaf. Interior clean and tight with no markings. An excellent copy of this scarce title.

First american Edition, first Printing. 18 cm. 123 p, publisher's cloth. First American Edition, printed in the UK. Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University, May 1921. The translation of these lectures into English was made by Edwin Plimpton Adams. Printed in Great Britain at the Aberdeen University Press. Includes index. OCLC:2052552. A fine copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. First English Edition, First Printing. [8], 123 pp. + 8 ads. Orange cloth, deckled fore and tail edges, gilt spine lettering, blind stamped title to front cover. Front hinge and first signature show a bit of play, some handsoil and typical toning to covers, owner's signature (Michael J. Evans?) and bookplate to front endpaper (A. R. Michaelis). Edwin Plimpton Adams trans. First printing of Einstein's public lectures at Princeton University, which were met with great fanfare as the American victory tour of the newly crowned king of modern physics. A massive crowd turned out for the first of these lectures, though attendance dwindled in subsequent lectures as it became clear that even this synthesized overview of relativity remained opaque to all but the most advanced scholars. While Princeton hosted these lectures and held the copyright, Methuen was first to press with the English translation, as they were with Einstein's two previous books. "Neither before nor afterward did he offer a similarly comprehensive exposition that included not only the theory's technical apparatus but also detailed explanations making his achievement accessible to readers with a certain mathematical knowledge but no prior familiarity with relativity theory." - Gutfreund and Renn, *The Formative Years of Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's Princeton Lectures*.

hardcover. Condition: very good. first. First edition with 1923 stated on title page. Book in very good condition, minor rubbing at corners and spine ends, rear end paper detached from binding but not loose and is attached to rear paste-down along gutter with small tear at bottom of paper.

[1950]. 8vo. Original proof-copy (of the latest stage, presumably final proof, in the same format as the printed version and with no corrections), printed on rectos and versos. Stapled twice in left margin. A few marginal creases. A (proof-) number to upper left corner in red ink (297). Pp. 109-148 + tipped-in errata slip at p. 147. Very rare original proof-copy of the two highly important appendices for Einstein's "The Meaning of Relativity", third edition, 1950, the second appendix being one of the most important pieces Einstein ever wrote, namely the appendix "in which he described his most recent work on unification" (Pais), and the work which was hailed by The New York Times under the heading "New Einstein theory gives a master key to the universe". The first appendix, which appeared for the second edition of the work, remained unchanged throughout the history of "the Meaning of Relativity" and was written because "Since the first edition of this little book some advances have been made in the theory of relativity. [.] The first step forward is the conclusive demonstration of the existence of the red shift of the spectral lines by the (negative) gravitational potential of the place of origin" [.] A second step forward, which will be mentioned briefly, concerns the law of motion of a gravitating body." [.] A third step forward, concerning the so-called "cosmologic problem," wiil be considered here in detail." (pp. 109-10). The present 40 pages constitute the final proof-copy of the entire appendices I and II to the Generalized Theory of Gravitation, exactly as they appeared in the third edition (Princeton in 1950). Einstein's "The Meaning of Relativity" was originally published in 1922, on the basis of his "Vier Vorlesungen ueber Relativitetstheorie" given at Princeton in 1921. A second edition, with an appendix (appendix I) appeared in 1945 (several issues and editions of this appeared also), and in 1949 the third edition, with the seminal Appendix II printed for the first time, appears (also appeared in 1950, in Princeton). In 1950 a revised edition of the third edition appears, having Appendix II slightly revised, and in 1953 the heavily revised fourth edition appears. THIS IS THE PROOF-COPY OF APPENDICES I AND II FOR THE "THIRD EDITION, INCLUDING THE GENERALIZED THEORY OF GRAVITATION" (PRINCETON, 1950). The main focus of the work throughout all these editions of the work since 1949 is Appendix II, which deals with Einstein's main interest, the generalization of the Gravitation Theory, which was to unite the general theory of relativity with electromagnetism, recovering an approximation for quantum theory, and presenting us with a theory to explain the universe as a unified entity, the ultimate goal for the greatest physicist that ever lived. "This was Einstein's ultimate response to the mechanical-electromagnetic crisis in physical theory he had first talked about in the opening of his 1905 light quantum-paper." (Nandor, in D.S.B., p. 330). It was indeed Einstein's aim to provide an explanation of the universe through his unified field theory, although he was well aware that his sort of field theory might not exist. However, even the establishing of the non-existence of it could bring us closer to an explanation than we had ever been before. There is no topic of greater importance to Einstein than his theory of unification. "In 1949 Einstein wrote a new appendix for the third edition of his "The Meaning of Relativity" in which he described his most recent work on unification. It was none of his doing that a page of his manuscript appeared on the front page of "The New York Times" under the heading "New Einstein theory gives a master key to the universe". He refused to see reporters and asked Helen Dukas to relay this message to them: "Come back and see me in twenty years"." (Pais, p. 350).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, extremely rare offprint, SIGNED BY THE DAUGHTER OF EINSTEIN'S CLOSE FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE PAUL EHRENFEST (dated 19.V.53), of the famous 'Appendix II' to the fourth edition of 'The Meaning of Relativity' - this Appendix contains Einstein's final attempt at a unification of gravitation and electromagnetism, reported by the New York Times under the sensational headline 'New Einstein theory gives a master key to the universe.' "This [Appendix] was Einstein's ultimate response to the mechanical-electromagnetic crisis in physical theory he had first talked about in the opening of his 1905 light quantum-paper" (DSB). It is in Appendix II that Einstein "described his most recent work on unification" (Pais, Subtle is the Lord). In his own words, "The last step of the theory concerns the unification of the field concept, which is characterized by the transition to non-symmetric fields. The difficulty in the choice of the field laws has been fully overcome only in the last few months. The arguments essential for this are presented in detail in Appendix II." Appendix II did not begin appearing in 'The Meaning of Relativity' until the 1949 third edition; he revised it for the 1950 'third edition, revised' and then heavily revised it for the 1953 fourth edition. This version of Appendix II is definitive and is the only one for which an offprint exists. Only two copies of this offprint have appeared at auction in the last 40 years, both without provenance (Swann Galleries, 1994, $1265; Bonham's, 2017, $1875). Weil 235*. 8vo, pp. 133-165, [1, blank]. Stapled into original yellow printed wrappers (wrappers a bit solied). Signed 'T. Ehrenfest' on front wrapper. This is Paul Ehrenfest's daughter Tatyana ('Tanja') (1905-1984), who became a mathematician. Einstein was very close to Ehrenfest, who committed suicide in 1933, and Einstein was like an uncle to his children.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, with Published 1922 on copyright page and 1923 on title page, very good in the very rare dust jacket, which has some wear and chips, and a big tear at rear panel. Previous owner's bookplate attached to front paste-down. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition, first printing. Near Fine with slight fade to spine cloth, gilt stamping very sharp on front cover. Previous owner bookplate to front paste down with patch of abrasion at nearby gutter. Pages toned, with several hinges just slightly over-opened. In a Very Good dust jacket with a large chip and tear at the top of the spine, toning to spine and edges, and several small edge tears. A very nice copy in the scarce dust jacket.