W Perrett Translator (2 results)
More imagesPublished by Methuen & Co, London, UK 1922
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, United KingdomBookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet)
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Good
£ 150.00
£ 5.00 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 1st Edition. First English language edition, first printing.[4], 56, [4], 8pp, with occasional small illustrations in text. Blue cloth-covered boards with black lettering and rules on upper panel, black lettering to spine. Printed on heavy stock paper. Slim 12mo. Cloth is a… little worn, faded around edges and over spine, gently rubbed on edges in places and on corners and spine ends. Upper text block edge dust darkened, remaining edges very slightly toned. Some spotting and browning on first and last few pages, lightly so throughout. Previous owner's name neatly inked on front paste down; three instances of inked marginal notes on pp 13, 18 and 19. Neat, clean and tightly bound. First English language edition of Einstein's Spotlights on Relativity (following Relativity: The Special & the General Theory - A Popular Exposition, 1920), containing two of his addresses relating to the theory of relativity: (i) Ether and Relativity and (ii) Geometry and Experience.
More imagesThe Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory of Relativity
Einstein, Albert; H. A. Lorentz; H. Minkowski; H. Weyl; W. Perrett [Translator]; G. B. Jeffrey [Translator]
Published by Methuen & Co, London 1923
- First Edition
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 1,161.66
Free ShippingShips within U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First British edition, first printing. viii, 216, [8, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in blind on front board and in gilt on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading, light wear and soiling to covers. Evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown, offsetting t…o free endpapers, rear hinge starting. Contents lightly toned with foxing to first and last few pages and textblock edges. An influential collection of eleven papers on relativity. Seven are authored by Einstein, two by Henrik Lorentz, and one each by Hermann Minkowski and Hermann Weyl. The first edition of this translation of Das Relativitaetsprinzip, taken from the fourth German edition.
