Beautiful black-and-white photograph by the celebrated photographer Hermann Landshoff, signed and inscribed by Einstein. More about Photograph Signed
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the official report of the proceedings of the 1927 Fifth Solvay Conference, generally considered the most important gathering in the history of physics. More about Electrons et Photons. Rapports et Discussions du Cinquieme Conseil de Physique Tenu a Bruxelles...
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FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY EINSTEIN in ink on the half-title: “Albert Einstein. Princeton 1954.”. More about Albert Einstein: Maker of Universes
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HANDSOME BUST-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF EINSTEIN LATE IN LIFE, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED IN THE MARGIN BENEATH THE IMAGE: “Fur Frau Nina Rubinstein A. Einstein. 54.”. More about Photograph Signed and Inscribed
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INSCRIBED BY EINSTEIN on front free endpaper in German: “Dir dies zu senden hätt ich nicht gewagt, nun thu ich's doch, weil's die Weibsen gesagt. Herzliche grüsse”; English translation: “To send you this I wouldn't have dared / if the wife hadn't so declared / Best wishes / from /..... More about The Universe and Dr. Einstein. With a Foreword by Albert Einstein
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FIRST EDITIONS IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the papers documenting the “Einstein-de Haas” effect, Einstein’s greatest experimental success. More about Experimenteller Nachweis der Ampèreschen Molekularströme [Experimental Proof of Ampère’s...
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LARGE VINTAGE GELATIN SILVER PHOTOGRAPH by Martin Vos of the historic meeting between the Nobel laureates Einstein and Tagore on July 14, 1930. More about Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph
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ORIGINAL SEPIA PHOTOGRAPH BY LOTTE JACOBI, SIGNED "Albert Einstein 46" More about Photograph Signed
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SIGNED BY EINSTEIN ON THE TITLE-PAGE: “Albert Einstein”. Second Revised Edition. More about Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and Gravitation: A Selection of Material from the Essays...
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the introduction of the Einstein-de Sitter cosmological model, the foundation for relativistic cosmology for most of the twentieth century. More about On the relation between the expansion and the mean density of the universe
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Photograph signed and inscribed by Einstein in the bottom margin: “To Mrs. R.M. Morison /Albert Einstein 45.”. More about Photograph Signed
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SCARCE FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF EINSTEIN’S REPORT OF THE CONFIRMATION OF GENERAL RELATIVITY; PRECEDING THE FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. More about Zuschriften an die Herausgeber: Prüfung der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie [Communication to...
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FIRST EDITION IN SCARCE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Einstein’s discussion of ‘Mach’s Principle,’ what he identified as one of the three pillars of General Relativity. More about Prinzipielles zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie [On the Foundations of the General Theory of...
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FIRST EDITION, PROOF COPY of Einstein’s first paper on distant parallelism (also called absolute parallelism or teleparalleism), a mathematical concept he devised independently in order to construct a new geometrical framework in which to formulate a unified field theory. More about Riemann-Geometrie mit Aufrechterhaltung des Begriffes des Fernparallelismus
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FIRST EDITION, EXTREMELY RARE OFFPRINT of Einstein’s paper outlining a thought experiment to suggest that the uncertainty principle requires the acknowledgement of an indeterminate past. More about Knowledge of Past and Future in Quantum Mechanics
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EINSTEIN RESPONDS TO A STUDENT, EXPLAINING A CENTRAL TENET OF RELATIVITY. More about Typed Letter Signed
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FIRST PRINTING IN EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Einstein’s important paper on the mass-energy equivalence, a crucial paper in the development of his most famous equation, with his first use of E=mc2 (although with different symbols). More about Über die vom Relativitätsprinzip geforderte Trägheit der Energie [On the Inertia of Energy...
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STUNNING GELATIN SILVER LIMITED EDITION PHOTOGRAPH; one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. More about Photograph
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FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY EINSTEIN on recto of frontispiece: “A. Einstein.”. More about The Drama of Albert Einstein: An Intimate Portrait of the Man Whose Work Has Changed Our World
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FIRST EDITION IN EXTREMELY SCARCE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of two important papers on special relativity: Einstein’s discovery of the transverse Doppler effect as a test for special relativity and his response to Paul Ehrenfest on “the difficulty of applying Lorentz transformations to rigid bodies” (Pais). More about Über die Möglichkeit einer neuen Prüfung des Relativitätsprinzips [On the Possibility of a...
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FIRST EDITION of one of the most discussed and debated papers of modern physics. More about Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?
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VINTAGE GELATIN SILVER PRINT BY LOTTE JACOBI AND SIGNED BY JACOBI in pencil in the lower right corner. More about Photograph by Lotte Jacobi
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FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT, of Einstein’s breakthrough work on general relativity: the famous “Entwurf” paper. More about Entwurf einer verallgemeinerten Relativitätstheorie und einer Theorie der Gravitation. [Outline...
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FIRST EDITION IN EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the theoretical basis of Einstein’s “Little Machine”. More about Über die Gültigkeitsgrenze des Satzes von thermodynamischen Gleichgewicht und über die...
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FIRST EDITION IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of a critical paper in the development of general relativity; of “considerable interest in the history of general relativity because it contains Einstein’s first treatment of a gravitation theory in which general covariance is strictly obeyed ... and particularly notable for its new derivation..... More about Die Nordströmsche Gravitationstheorie vom Standpunkt des absoluten Differentialkalküls...
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