EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Collection of 94 OFFPRINTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF HIS SON HANS ALBERT EINSTEIN EACH WITH PRINTED PRESENTATION STATEMENT "Ueberreicht vom Verfasser" from Annalen der Physik, Physikalische Zeitschrift, Die Naturwissenschaften, Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften and other publications. All FIRST EDITIONS, (as noted) all dated and numbered in chronological order in an unidentified hand (possibly Albert or Hans Albert Einstein), all with an ink stamp "Dr. H.A. Einstein 1090 Creston Road Berkeley 8 Calif." Various 8o sizes, original wrappers (light chipping and splitting to some spines and edges); early board portfolio with cloth ties.

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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Collection of 94 OFFPRINTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF HIS SON HANS ALBERT EINSTEIN EACH WITH PRINTED PRESENTATION STATEMENT "Ueberreicht vom Verfasser" from Annalen der Physik, Physikalische Zeitschrift, Die Naturwissenschaften, Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften and other publications. All FIRST EDITIONS, (as noted) all dated and numbered in chronological order in an unidentified hand (possibly Albert or Hans Albert Einstein), all with an ink stamp "Dr. H.A. Einstein 1090 Creston Road Berkeley 8 Calif." Various 8o sizes, original wrappers (light chipping and splitting to some spines and edges); early board portfolio with cloth ties.

Provenance: HANS ALBERT EINSTEIN (1904-1973), son of Albert Einstein and his first wife Mileva Einstein-Maric. Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, an accomplished scholar, engineer, and teacher. In 1938 Hans Albert immigrated to the United States where he continued his research on the transport of sediment, first at Clemson, South Carolina (1938-1943), and later (1943-1947) at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Einstein joined the faculty of the University of California in 1947.

Offprints by Einstein published before the General Theory of Relativity in 1916 tended to be issued in small quantities such as 25-50 copies, and most are extremely rare on the market. After the worldwide publicity surrounding the confirmation of the general theory of relativity with the eclipse expedition of 1919, Einstein became the most famous scientist in the world, and he had a huge number of requests for offprints from a wide variety of people. As a result he may have ordered larger numbers of offprints of some papers than were customary. Furthermore publishers of the journals in which his articles appeared realized that they could offer some of these papers for sale separately. Thus some of the later offprints by Einstein that were published in larger printings may be less scarce than the ones published before 1916, though many of them are extremely difficult to find.

The collection includes:

1900/01
Folgerungen aus den Capillaritätserscheinungen. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 4. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1901. 8o. Original tan printed wrappers (minor chipping to spine and edges). FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "16. XII. 00") on the front wrapper. Einstein's first published paper, which deals with intramolecular forces. Pais "Subtle is the Lord"... (p. 57) notes that this paper "shows how, from the start, Einstein was groping for universal principles, in the present case for a relation between molecular forces and gravitation." In the paper Einstein concludes, "It should be noted that the constant C increases in general but not always with increasing weight. Therefore, the question if and how our [intramolecular] forces are related to gravitation must for the time being be kept completely open." EXTREMELY RARE: Only the Plotnick copy of this offprint has appeared at auction in the last twenty-five years according to ABPC. BRL 1; Weil 1.

1902
Kinetische Theorie des Wärmegleichgewichtes und des zweiten Hauptsatzes der Thermodynamik. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 9. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1902. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "26. VI. 02") on the front wrapper. BRL 3; Weil 3.

1904
Zur allgemeinen molekularen Theorie der Wärme. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 14. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1904. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "27. III. 04") on the front wrapper. BRL 5; Weil 5.

1905
Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 17. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "11. V. 05") on the front wrapper. BRL 8; Weil 8.

Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 18. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1905. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "27. IX. 05") on the front wrapper. "A few months after first publishing the theory of relativity, Einstein discovered something that particularly intrigued him; the relation between inertial mass and energy. He wrote to Conrad Habicht during the summer of 1905: 'One more consequence of the paper on electrodynamics has also occurred to me. The principle of relativity, in conjunction with Maxwell's equations, requires that mass be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light carries mass with it. A noticeable decrease of mass should occur in the case of radium. The argument is amusing and seductive, but for all I know the Lord might be laughing over it and leading me around by the nose.' "The idea that inertial mass is associated with electromagnetic energy was often discussed before 1905. Around the turn of the century, it was suggested that all mechanical concepts might be derivable from those of electromagnetism. In particular, there were attempts to derive the entire inertial mass of the electron from the energy associated with its electromagnetic field.... "Einstein argued that, as a consequence of the relativity principle, intertial mass is associated with all forms of energy. He was only able to establish this result for a process involving the emission of electromagnetic radiation by a system, but argued that the result is independent of the mechanism by which the system loses energy. In addition, he was only able to show that a change in energy is associated with a change in inertial mass equal to the change in energy divided by c2 " (Stachel,Einstein's Miraculous Year, 117-18). THIS IS EINSTEIN'S FIRST PROOF OF THE RELATION THAT WOULD LATER BE STATED IN THE FORMULA E = MC2. BRL 10; Weil 10.

1905/06
Zur Theorie der Brownschen Bewegung. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 19. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1906. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "19. XII. 05") on the front wrapper. BRL 11; Weil 11.

1906
Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 20. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1906. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "13. III. 06") on the front wrapper. BRL 12; Weil 12.

Das Prinzip von der Erhaltung der Schwerpunktsbewegung und die Trägheit der Energie. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 20. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1906. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "17. V. 06") on the front wrapper. BRL 13; Weil 13.

Über eine Methode zur Bestimmung des Verhältnisses der transversalen und longitudinalen Masse des Elektrons. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 21. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1906. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "4. VIII. 06") on the front wrapper. BRL 14; Weil 14.

1906/07
Die Planck'sche Theorie der Strahlung und die Theorie der spezifischen Wärme. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 22. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1907. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "9. XI. 06") on the front wrapper. BRL 15; Weil 15.

Über die Gültigkeitsgrenze des Satzes von thermodynamischen Gleichgewicht und über die Möglichkeit einer neuen Bestimmung der Elementarquanta. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 22. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1907. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "9. XI. 06") on the front wrapper. BRL 16; Weil 16.

1907
Über die vom Relativitätsprinzip geforderte Trägheit der Energie. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 23. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1907. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "14. V. 07") on the front wrapper. BRL 19; Weil 19.

Theoretische Bemerkungen über die Brownsche Bewegung. Offprint from: Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie. Nr. 6. Halle, 1907. Single sheet. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "I. 1907") on the front wrapper. BRL 21; Weil 20.

1908
EINSTEIN, A. and J. LAUB. Über die im elektromagnetischen Felde auf ruhende Körper ausgeübten ponderomotorischen Kräfte. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 26. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1908. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein u. J. Laub. Überreicht von den Verfassern," dated "7. V. 08") on the front wrapper. BRL 23; Weil 23.

1909
EINSTEIN, A. and J. LAUB. Bemerkungen zu unserer Arbeit: "Über die elektromagnetischen Grundgleichungen für bewegte Körper". Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 28. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1909. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein u. J. Laub. Überreicht von den Verfassern," dated "19. I. 09") on the front wrapper. BRL 22.1; Weil 26.

Über die Entwicklung unserer Anschauungen über das Wesen und die Konstitution der Strahlung. Offprint from: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, XI Jahrgang, Nr. 20. Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1909. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "21. IX. 09") on the front wrapper. BRL and Weil only record the following entry.

Über die Entwicklung unserer Anschauungen über das Wesen und die Konstitution der Strahlung. Offprint from: Physikalische Zeitschrift, Jahrgang 10. N.p., 1909. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "14. X. 09") on the front wrapper. BRL 28; Weil 30.

Theorie der Opaleszenz von homogenen Flüssigkeiten und Flüssigkeitsgemischen in der Nähe des kritischen Zustandes. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 33. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1910. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "8. XI. 10") on the front wrapper. BRL 31; Weil 36.

1910/11
Bemerkung zu dem Gesetz von Eötvös. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 34. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1911. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "30. XI. 10") on the front wrapper. BRL 35; Weil 38.

Eine Beziehung zwischen dem elastischen Verhalten und der spezifischen Wärme bei festen Körpern mit einatomigem Molekül. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 34. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1911. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "30. XI. 10") on the front wrapper. BRL 36; Weil 39.

1911
Berichtigung zu meiner Arbeit: "Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen." Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 34. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1911. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "21. I. 11") on the front wrapper. BRL 6.2; Weil 41.

Elementare Betrachtungen über die thermische Molekularbewegung in festen Körpern. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 35. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1911. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "4. V. 11") on the front wrapper. BRL 38; Weil 42.

Über den Einfluss der Schwerkraft auf die Ausbreitung des Lichtes. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 35. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1911. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "21. VI. 11") on the front wrapper. BRL 39; Weil 43. (2 copies).

1912
Thermodynamische Begründung des photochemischen Äquivalentgesetzes. [and Nachtrag]. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 37 and 38. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1912. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "18. I. 11" and "12.V.12") on the front wrapper. BRL 42; Weil 46.

Lichtgeschwindigkeit und Statik des Gravitationsfeldes. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 38. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1912. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "26. II. 12") on the front wrapper. BRL 43; Weil 47.

Zur Theorie des statischen Gravitationsfeldes. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 38. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1912. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "23. III. 12") on the front wrapper. BRL 44; Weil 48.

1913
Entwurf einer verallgemeinerten Relativitätstheorie und einer Theorie der Gravitation. Offprint from: Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik. 62 Band, 3. Heft. Leipzig: Teubner, 1913 (wrapper dated 1914). (Dated "30. I. 14") on the front wrapper. BRL 50; Weil 58.

EINSTEIN, A. and O. STERN. Einige Argumente für die Annahme einer molekularen Agitation beim absoluten Nullpunkt. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 40. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1913. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein u. O. Stern. Überreicht von den Verfassern," dated "5. I. 13") on the front wrapper. BRL 51; Weil 53.

Max Planck als Forscher. Offprint from: Die Naturwissenschaften, I Jahrgang, Heft 45. Berlin, 1913. FIRST EDITION, offprint issue (dated "7. XI. 13"). BRL 54; Weil 56.

1914
Prinzipielles zur verallgemeinerten Relativitätstheorie und Gravitationstheorie. Offprint from: Physikalische Zeitschrift. 15. Jahrgang. Leipzig: Hirzel, 1914. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "24. I. 14") on the front wrapper. BRL 63; Weil 64.

Beiträge zur Quantentheorie. Offprint from: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, XVI Jahrgang, Nr. 16. Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1914. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "24. VII. 14") on the front wrapper. BRL 59; Weil 67.

Die formale Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Offprint from: Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. XLI. Berlin, 1914. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "29. XI. 14") on the front wrapper. BRL 65; Weil 68.

1915
Ein einfaches Experiement zum Nachweis der Ampèreschen Molekularströme. Offprint from: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft. Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1915. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "25. II. 15") on the front wrapper. Weil 82.

Antwort auf eine Abhandlung M. v. Laues "Ein Satz der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und seine Anwendung auf die Strahlentheorie." Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 47. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1915. 8o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "24. VI. 15") on the front wrapper. BRL 71; Weil 72.

Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Offprint from: Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. XLVII. Berlin, 1915. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "18. XI. 15") on the front wrapper. BRL 75; Weil 76.

1916
EINSTEIN, Albert. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. Early edition, monograph issue. dated "1916." According to Weil, this paper was the subject of several reprintings or facsimiles. "The better one," may be recognized by the presence of the printer's imprint "Druck von Omnitypie-Ges." on the verso of the title and by the shorter imprint "Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig" on the back wrapper. BRL 78.1; Weil 80a.

And 54 others including BRL (1916) 79; 81; 85; 86; 88; 95; 97; (1918) 101; 73.1; 92; 102; 105; 106; 108; 109; (1919) 111; 112; (1920) 115.B; 119; (1921); 122.B; 122; 123; 125; 126; (1922) 127; 128; 131; 132; 133; (1923) 135.1; 136; 140; 141; 142; 144; (1924) 149; 150; 151; (1925) Weil 71 (2nd Ed.); 155; 156; (1926) 158; 159; 160; 164; 166; 170; (1927) 171; (1928) 167 (English edition); (1928) 178; CASTINEIRAS, Julio R. La vista de Professor Alberto Einstein. Buenos Aires, 1925; Elsbachs Buch: Kant und Einstein. N.p., 1924. (94)

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