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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativittstheorie. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916.
8o (241 x 162 mm). Untrimmed in original tan printed wrappers.
FIRST EDITION, monograph issue. Though presented as a separate publication, this is in fact an offprint from Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, Band 49, 1916 (see lot 1050), and it is so identified on the verso of the title page. The text, though reimposed with different page breaks and pagination, appears to be in the same setting as the journal article. A title page and table of contents have been added, as well as a wrapper that makes no reference to the journal, and the note giving the date when the article was submitted to the journal has been deleted from the end. According to Weil, this paper was the subject of several reprintings or facsimiles. The first edition may, as here, be recognized by the presence of the printer's imprint "Druck von Metzger & Wittig in Leipzig" on the verso of the title and by the shorter imprint "Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig" on the back wrapper. Weil 80a; Norman 696.
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FIRST EDITION, monograph issue. Though presented as a separate publication, this is in fact an offprint from Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, Band 49, 1916 (see lot 1050), and it is so identified on the verso of the title page. The text, though reimposed with different page breaks and pagination, appears to be in the same setting as the journal article. A title page and table of contents have been added, as well as a wrapper that makes no reference to the journal, and the note giving the date when the article was submitted to the journal has been deleted from the end. According to Weil, this paper was the subject of several reprintings or facsimiles. The first edition may, as here, be recognized by the presence of the printer's imprint "Druck von Metzger & Wittig in Leipzig" on the verso of the title and by the shorter imprint "Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig" on the back wrapper. Weil 80a; Norman 696.