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EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Separat-Abdruck aus den Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 49. Leipzig: [Metzger & Wittig for] Johann Ambrosius Barth 1916. 8vo, 223 x 145 mm. (8 13/16 x 5 3/4 in.), original printed buff wrappers, small neat repair to backstrip at top, 2 tiny tears to edges of upper wrapper, upper fore-corner creased, small dampstain at upper margin of front cover, small adhesive spot in blank margin of lower cover; green morocco fitted folding case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the printed presentation heading "A. Einstein Überreicht vom Verfasser" above the title on upper cover. 24 leaves (collation: 50 6 51-52 8 53 2), pp. 769-822.
THE RARE FIRST PRINTING OF THE EARLIEST COMPLETE EXPOSITION OF EINSTEIN'S GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY, THE FUNDAMENTAL WORK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHYSICS
One of a very small number of preliminary offprints of Einstein's essay, printed from the same setting of type as the journal (vol. 49, fourth series, no. 7 of the Annalen der Physik), i.e., in April or May 1916, but before publication, indeed before the final composition of the issue (vol. 49, no. 7) had been definitively settled. Printed for the author for presentation to his friends and colleagues, this first issue is extremely rare, and was unknown to Einstein's bibliographer E. Weil. The second issue was the journal itself, which is paginated [769]-880: cf. Grolier/Horblit 26c, Norman 695; PMM 408 and Weil 80; while the third issue, the commonest issue on the market, was a commercially published offprint, easily distinguishable from the present pre-publication issue by its larger size, by the absence of the presentation heading on the wrapper and by its revised pagination (pp. [1]-64; the offprint includes a new introduction): cf. Honeyman sale, lot 936; Norman 695 and Weil 80a.
In the general theory of relativity, Einstein incorporated the effects of gravity into his special theory of relativity. "The remarkable success of this theory derived from its automatic explanation of two features of gravitation: Why is the inertial mass equal to the gravitational mass? And why is gravitation a universal property acting on everything in the universe? The answer is that the two masses are equal because they are one and the same, since they appear in the theory uniquely as the cause of the curvature of space-time. Gravitation is a universal manifestation because it is the property of space-time, and hence everything that is in space-time (which is, literally, every thing) must experience it." --DSB.
Provenance: (John Howell, bookseller, sold on 28 March 1979 to) -- Haven O'More, The Garden, Ltd., bookplate (sale, Sotheby's New York, 9-10 November 1989, lot 204).
THE RARE FIRST PRINTING OF THE EARLIEST COMPLETE EXPOSITION OF EINSTEIN'S GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY, THE FUNDAMENTAL WORK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHYSICS
One of a very small number of preliminary offprints of Einstein's essay, printed from the same setting of type as the journal (vol. 49, fourth series, no. 7 of the Annalen der Physik), i.e., in April or May 1916, but before publication, indeed before the final composition of the issue (vol. 49, no. 7) had been definitively settled. Printed for the author for presentation to his friends and colleagues, this first issue is extremely rare, and was unknown to Einstein's bibliographer E. Weil. The second issue was the journal itself, which is paginated [769]-880: cf. Grolier/Horblit 26c, Norman 695; PMM 408 and Weil 80; while the third issue, the commonest issue on the market, was a commercially published offprint, easily distinguishable from the present pre-publication issue by its larger size, by the absence of the presentation heading on the wrapper and by its revised pagination (pp. [1]-64; the offprint includes a new introduction): cf. Honeyman sale, lot 936; Norman 695 and Weil 80a.
In the general theory of relativity, Einstein incorporated the effects of gravity into his special theory of relativity. "The remarkable success of this theory derived from its automatic explanation of two features of gravitation: Why is the inertial mass equal to the gravitational mass? And why is gravitation a universal property acting on everything in the universe? The answer is that the two masses are equal because they are one and the same, since they appear in the theory uniquely as the cause of the curvature of space-time. Gravitation is a universal manifestation because it is the property of space-time, and hence everything that is in space-time (which is, literally, every thing) must experience it." --DSB.
Provenance: (John Howell, bookseller, sold on 28 March 1979 to) -- Haven O'More, The Garden, Ltd., bookplate (sale, Sotheby's New York, 9-10 November 1989, lot 204).