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Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie

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Sale 311: Rare Books & Manuscripts, including Exploration & Voyages (#311) 06/16/2005 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #47 Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$2,125

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

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Title:

Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie

Author:

Einstein, Albert

Place Published:

Leipzig

Publisher:

Johann Ambrosius Barth

Date Published:

1916

Description:

64 pp. Offprint from Annalen der Physik, Band 49. 9½x6½, original printed wrappers. First Printing, Offprint Issue.

First printing, with "Druck von Metzger & Wittig in Leipzig" on the title-page verso and "Metzger & Wittig" on back wrapper. The first appearance in print of a cornerstone of Einstein's research. "The authorized version of Einstein's general theory of relativity. The theory's impact upon twentieth-century science and thought can hardly be overstated" (Norman). Norman 696; PMM 408; Weil 80a.

Condition:

Wrappers laminated over worn backstrip, lamination in inner margin of title and final page, some tape re-insertion of gatherings; this copy with pencil signature on front wrapper and one page of manuscript pencil equations laid in.

Item#:

159562
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