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(JERUSALEM.)
Bird’s Eye View of Holy Jerusalem. Odessa, 1902
This vibrant chromolithograph bird’s eye view was published in Odessa for the tourist market.
The foreground is dominated by the Dome of the Rock, behind the wall of the Old City of Jerusalem. In the background appear houses of the Old City and the holy sites. Captions in Russian describe selected sites. The title of the lithograph appears in the margins, in Russian, English and French.
$2,400
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EINSTEIN, ALBERT
“Allgemeinen molekulare Theorie der Wärme” in Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, Band 14. Leipzig, Annalen der Physik, 1904
FIRST EDITION of Einstein’s fifth published paper, “On the General Molecular Theory of Heat” (pp. 354-362). Weil 5.
$400
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EINSTEIN, ALBERT
“Ueber die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Waerme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Fluessigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen” in Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, 17 Band, No. 8. Leipzig, 1905
FIRST EDITION. “On the Movement of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid Demanded by the Molecular Kinetic Theory of Heat” appears here on pp. 549-560. This landmark paper on Brownian motion is one of the three great papers from 1905, Einstein annus mirabilis.
$3,500
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EINSTEIN, ALBERT
“Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption” [and] “Prinzip von der Erhaltung der Schwerpunktsbewegung und die Trägheit der Energie” in Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, Band 20. Leipzig, 1906
FIRST EDITION of “On the Theory of Light Production and Light Absorption” and “The Principle of Conservation of Motion of the Center of Gravity and the Inertia of Energy.”
$1,200
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(AVIATION.)
Le Conquête de l’Air. Paris: Le Petit Journal, 1909
This spectacular color lithograph commemorates the Grande Semaine d’Aviation of 1909, the first international public flying event and a turning point in aviation history. The powered aircraft featured at the event dominate the center. Surrounding it are portraits of pioneering figures in flight (including Wright, Curtiss, Latham, Fournier, and Blériot) and vignettes from aviation history.
$2,500
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(EINSTEIN, ALBERT.) FREUNDLICH, ERWIN
Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Gravitationstheorie. Mit einem Vorwort von Albert Einstein. Berlin: Springer, 1916
FIRST EDITION. This work on Albert Einstein’s theory of gravitation contains a foreword by Einstein. Freundlich is best known for his attempts to experimentally test the general theory of relativity using astronomical observations based on the gravitational redshift.
$250
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(ANTISEMITISM)
The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion – Translated from The Russian to the English Language for the Information of all True Americans & to Confound Enemies of democracy & The Republic also to Demonstrate the Possible Fulfillment of Biblical Prophecy as to World Domination by The Chosen People. New York: Beckwith, 1920
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, roughly simultaneous with the Boston edition.
$2,500
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BOSE, SATYENDRA NATH and ALBERT EINSTEIN.
“Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese” in Zeitschrift fuer Physik, vol. 25-26. Braunschweig and Berlin, 1924
“With their work Bose and Einstein established the field of quantum statistics one year before the appearance of quantum mechanics” (Brandt, The Harvest of a Century)
$800
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KEYNES, JOHN MAYNARD
A Treatise of Money. London: Macmillan, 1930
FIRST EDITION of “Keynes’s most ambitious and weighty work” (New Palgrave). The ensuing criticism of A Treatise On Money spurred Keynes to create his major theoretical work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, in which he more fully developed concepts he first expressed in A Treatise. “Nevertheless, [A Treatise on Money] was the outstanding performance in its field and day” (Schumpeter).
$950
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(ZIONISM.) FRIEDLANSKY, ARYE
A collection of manuscripts and typescripts written by a member of the Revisionist Zionist movement.. Palestine, 1930-1943
$6,500