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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 100

EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955) Collection of 130 offprints of ...

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150.000 $ - 250.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
314.500 $
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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Collection of 130 offprints of his own scientific papers, the most important and comprehensive collection extant, several with autograph additions and corrections and most with printed presentation statement "Ueberreicht vom Verfasser."
EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Collection of 130 offprints of his own scientific papers, the most important and comprehensive collection extant, several with autograph additions and corrections and most with printed presentation statement "Ueberreicht vom Verfasser." EINSTEIN'S OWN SET OF REFERENCE COPIES. A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF EINSTEIN'S WORK CONTAINING ALL OF HIS KEY PAPERS IN THE FIELDS OF QUANTUM THEORY, THE THEORIES OF SPECIAL AND GENERAL RELATIVITY, AND THE UNIFIED FIELD THEORY. "WHEN EINSTEIN'S TOTAL WORK IN PHYSICS IS CONSIDERED, IT CAN BE SAID THAT HIS ACHIEVEMENTS ARE RIVALED ONLY BY THOSE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON. Both scientists were guided in their work by unique insights into the nature of physical reality and both represent the utmost fulfillment of the creative imagination in science" ( DSB ). Einstein's own collection of the offprints of his writings, charts the breadth and depth of one of the most penetrating of scientific minds. Much of Einstein's work was first published in journals, particularly the Annalen der Physik, and the collection offers 26 of 30 offprint issues published before 1910. 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. Futhermore, due to their fragile nature, many of these offprints are becoming increasingly scarce on the market. The collection includes Einstein's first and last papers, the two Nobel Prize papers, and amongst the offprints from the Annalen der Physik, published in 1905 Einstein's "annus mirabilis," are all three ground-breaking papers in separate fields: "Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt" (9 June 1905); "Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen" (18 July 1905); and "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper" (26 September 1905). The first of these proposed that light should be considered as a collection of individual particles of energy, which Einstein termed "light quanta;" from this hypothesis he extrapolated solutions to unsolved questions of black-body radiation, fluorescence, photoionisation and the photoelectric effect. So important were the ideas proposed in this paper that it was for this, together with his 1906 paper "Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption" (also present in Einsteins collection), that Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. All FIRST EDITIONS, OFFPRINT ISSUES (as noted below). Various 8 o sizes, original wrappers (some chipping and splitting to edges, some covers detached, a few covers missing); 2 half morocco folding cases. The collection was bound by Dukas in 4 buckram binders, and disbound by the present owner, to better preserve the individual offprints. Provenance : ALBERT EINSTEIN; HELEN DUKAS (1896-1982), Einstein's secretary since 1928, and legatee of Einstein's estate, who had the set bound in 4 volumes; Gerald Holten, (who received the collection from Helen Dukas in recognition for his work on the archive of Einstein's sienctific correspondence, with Dukas gift inscription preserved: "To my 'adviser' and invaluable helper with thanks, Princeton N.J. August 3, 1964, Helen Dukas"); unnamed consignor (Sotheby's New York, sale 17 December 1992, lot 84). The collection includes: 1900/01 "Folgerungen aus den Capillaritätserscheinungen." Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 4. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1901. 8 o . Original tan printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. ßerreicht vom Verfasser,") on the front wrapper. Einstein's first published pape

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 100
Auktion:
Datum:
17.06.2008
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
17 June 2008, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Collection of 130 offprints of his own scientific papers, the most important and comprehensive collection extant, several with autograph additions and corrections and most with printed presentation statement "Ueberreicht vom Verfasser."
EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Collection of 130 offprints of his own scientific papers, the most important and comprehensive collection extant, several with autograph additions and corrections and most with printed presentation statement "Ueberreicht vom Verfasser." EINSTEIN'S OWN SET OF REFERENCE COPIES. A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF EINSTEIN'S WORK CONTAINING ALL OF HIS KEY PAPERS IN THE FIELDS OF QUANTUM THEORY, THE THEORIES OF SPECIAL AND GENERAL RELATIVITY, AND THE UNIFIED FIELD THEORY. "WHEN EINSTEIN'S TOTAL WORK IN PHYSICS IS CONSIDERED, IT CAN BE SAID THAT HIS ACHIEVEMENTS ARE RIVALED ONLY BY THOSE OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON. Both scientists were guided in their work by unique insights into the nature of physical reality and both represent the utmost fulfillment of the creative imagination in science" ( DSB ). Einstein's own collection of the offprints of his writings, charts the breadth and depth of one of the most penetrating of scientific minds. Much of Einstein's work was first published in journals, particularly the Annalen der Physik, and the collection offers 26 of 30 offprint issues published before 1910. 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. Futhermore, due to their fragile nature, many of these offprints are becoming increasingly scarce on the market. The collection includes Einstein's first and last papers, the two Nobel Prize papers, and amongst the offprints from the Annalen der Physik, published in 1905 Einstein's "annus mirabilis," are all three ground-breaking papers in separate fields: "Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt" (9 June 1905); "Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen" (18 July 1905); and "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper" (26 September 1905). The first of these proposed that light should be considered as a collection of individual particles of energy, which Einstein termed "light quanta;" from this hypothesis he extrapolated solutions to unsolved questions of black-body radiation, fluorescence, photoionisation and the photoelectric effect. So important were the ideas proposed in this paper that it was for this, together with his 1906 paper "Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption" (also present in Einsteins collection), that Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. All FIRST EDITIONS, OFFPRINT ISSUES (as noted below). Various 8 o sizes, original wrappers (some chipping and splitting to edges, some covers detached, a few covers missing); 2 half morocco folding cases. The collection was bound by Dukas in 4 buckram binders, and disbound by the present owner, to better preserve the individual offprints. Provenance : ALBERT EINSTEIN; HELEN DUKAS (1896-1982), Einstein's secretary since 1928, and legatee of Einstein's estate, who had the set bound in 4 volumes; Gerald Holten, (who received the collection from Helen Dukas in recognition for his work on the archive of Einstein's sienctific correspondence, with Dukas gift inscription preserved: "To my 'adviser' and invaluable helper with thanks, Princeton N.J. August 3, 1964, Helen Dukas"); unnamed consignor (Sotheby's New York, sale 17 December 1992, lot 84). The collection includes: 1900/01 "Folgerungen aus den Capillaritätserscheinungen." Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4 Folge, Band 4. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1901. 8 o . Original tan printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. ßerreicht vom Verfasser,") on the front wrapper. Einstein's first published pape

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 100
Auktion:
Datum:
17.06.2008
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
17 June 2008, New York, Rockefeller Center
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