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1938. No Binding. Near Fine. No Binding. Letter, 8 1/2 in x 11 in. 1-2/3 pages. 8.5'' x 11'', pen. Except for marginal punch holes and folds in fine condition. ---- In this remarkable letter, Einstein clearly condemns Great Britain and France for their "rascally" rule in the Munich Agreement. On September 30, 1938, France and Great Britain signed a treaty that betrayed their alliance with Czechoslovakia and allowed Adolf Hitler to annex the Sudetenland. Albert Einstein had left Nazi Germany in 1933 to emigrate to the United States, and his son, the physicist Hans Albert Einstein, who specialized in hydrodynamics, had just done the same in 1938 by moving to South Carolina: " ... Es ist gut, dass du von Zürich weg bist. MAN SIEHT AN DER TSCHECHOSLOWAKEI ALLZU DEUTLICHER WIE MORSCH DAS EUROPA GEWORDEN IST. DIES ALLES BETRÜBT MICH SEHR, HAUPTSÄCHLICH DIE SCHUFTIGE HALTUNG ENGLANDS UND FRANKREICHS, DIE SICH OFFENBAR ZU EINER ART AUSVERKAUF DES FREMDEN GUTES ENTSCHLOSSEN HABEN. (It is good that… Read More

Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 1475. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 30 October 1475. Folio (285 x 210 mm). 263 (of 294) unnumbered leaves, including two final blanks, but lacking 31 text leaves (f.1-15, 24-26, 34-35, 129-136, 153, 287-288 including entire gatherings b and p). With 9 (of 12) full-page woodcut illustrations, all in original hand-color, each opening the chapters 3 to 5 and 7 to 12 (lacking the first two and that to chapter 6); two- to three-line Lombard initials printed in outline, five- to eight-line hand-colored woodcut Maiblumen-initials opening each chapter. Signatures: [a2 b12 c-i10 k8 l6 m-o10 p-r8 s-z10 A-C10 D-E8 F-G10 H-I8 (-a2, b12, c1, c10, d1-2, d10, e1, p8, s1, I1-2). All leaves uncut with the deckle edges entirely preserved. [Bound with II.] Regimen sanitatis - Das ist von der ordenung der gesuntheyt. Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 13 November 1475. 46 (of 52) leaves (lacking first blank a1, the register a2, text leaves b8,… Read More

Rome: Antonii de Rubeis apud Pantheon in via Seminarii Romani, 1754. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. [BENVENUTI, Carlo]. I. De lumine dissertatio physica quam in seminario Romano ad disputandum proposuit d. Joseph Joachimus a Vereterra, et Agurto e marchionibus Castagnagae ejusdem seminarii convictor, atque academicus redivivus. Rome: Antonii de Rubeis apud Pantheon in via Seminarii Romani, 1754. [2], XCI [1] pp. Signatures: [pi]1 A-L4 M2. Woodcut device to title-page, 2 folding engraved plates, errata on final leaf. [Bound with:] II. [BENVENUTI, Carlo]. Synopsis physicae generalis quam in Seminario Romano ad disserendum proposuit d. Joseph Joachimus a Vereterra, et Agurto e Marchionibus Castagnagae ejusdem seminarii convictor, atque academicus redivivus. Rome: Antonii de Rubeis apud Pantheon in via Seminarii Romani, 1754. [2], LXXXI, [3] pp. Signatures: [pi]1 A-I4 K5. Woodcut device to title-page, 1 folding engraved plate, errata on final leaf.… Read More

Nürnberg: J. Petreius, 1550. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio (309 x 201 mm). [36], 371 [1] pp. Roman type, italic marginalia. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut portrait of the author on title verso, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, blank leaf D6. Signatures: A-C4 D6 a-z4 aa-yy4 zz6. 204 leaves. Bound in 20th-century half-vellum and pastepaper boards. Text quite crisp and clean throughout with only minor occasional spotting. Last 10 gatherings with light waterstaining to inner margins; small marginal tears to title; p. 195 with text corrections in contemporary hand. Provenance: old ownership entry at head of title-page; Former Redemptorist order, Hennef-Geistingen* (ink stamp "Bibl. Prov. Germ. Inf. C.SS.R" on title page). A very good, tall copy. ---- EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FIRST EDITION OF CARDANO'S MOST CELEBRATED WORK. This encyclopaedia of natural science "represents the most advanced representation of physical knowledge up to his time… Read More

Paris: Henry Le Gras, 1658. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 4to (197 x 148 mm). 78; [2], 294, [26] pp., woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, half-titles for "La dioptrique" and "Les météores" (the former outside pagination), woodcut text illustrations and diagrams throughout (some full page). Signatures: a4 b-k4 A-Z4 Aa-Rr4. Bound in contemporary untouched rigid full vellum with yapp edges, spine hand-lettered and initials "B.C." on upper board, sprinkled edges, original endpapers (boards slightly bent outwards, vellum soiled and spotted, head of spine slightly damaged with cap gone). Text with even light browning throughout, occasional very minor spotting; minor pale dampstaing to fore-margin of a few leaves at beginning; a few ink marginals and text markings, rear free endpaper torn off, light dust-soiling of final text page. A very good+ copy in untouched binding. ---- RARE SECOND EDITION in French and the first published in France, of this famous work by… Read More

Stuttgart and Tübingen: Verlag der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1836. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1836-1844. Eight volumes bound in four (all published). 12mo (177 x 110 mm). xvi, 256; viii, 282, [2]; vi, 330; [4], 151 [1], 197 [1], [2]; [4], 340; [6], 326; [8], 116, 235 [1]; [2], 108, 254 pp., including 2 (1 folding) lithographed plates, 1 coloured engraved map, 2 folding engraved tables, 1 folding letterpress table, several illustrations and diagrams in text. Bound in contemporary uniform half cloth with gilt-lettered spines (little rubbing and chipping to extremities). Text little age-toned only, occasional minor foxing and brown spotting, light dampstaining to second part of vol. 1839, otherwise generally quite crisp and clean. Provenance: Teyler Museum, Haarlem* (ink stamps "Bibliotheque Musée Teyler Haarlem to title pages and upper and lower edges); Dieter Schierenberg b.v. (acquired from them in 1986). A very good copy, rarely… Read More

Stuttgart und Tübingen: Cotta, Krais & Hoffmann, 1845. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. Volume 1 to 5. Stuttgart und Tübingen: Cotta, 1845-1862. 8vo (210 x 129 mm). Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos. Stuttgart: Krais & Hoffmann, [1851]. Oblong folio (283 x 337 mm). Text volumes: xvi, 493 [1]; [2], 544; [2], 644, [2]; [2], 649 [1]; [2], 1297 [1] pp. Vol. III with folding letterpress table facing p. 570 and final errata leaf. Atlas volume: [6], 136 pp. With 42 numbered plates, including 39 hand-colored lithographs (nos. 1-34, 38-42), 3 steel-engravings (nos. 35-37) and few text illustration. Text volumes uniformly bound in contemporary half calf over percaline boards, spines lettered and ruled in gilt and with raised bands, corners reinforced with brass caps, yellow endpapers (minor wear of extremities with partial chipping of cloth over board edges, corners bumped and scuffed). The text… Read More

Paris: Charles Angot, 1666. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 1666-1667. Three volumes. 4to (222 x 168 mm). [24], 540; [16], 564, [4]; [24], 646 pp., titles with woodcut device, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut text illustrations and diagrams throughout. Bound without final blank leaf 4M4 in vol. III. Contemporary uniform sprinkled calf, spines with 5 raised bands each, gilt-lettered and gilt-decorated in compartments, sprinkled edges, original endpapers (minor rubbing to extremities). Text somewhat browned (some gatherings stronger), occasional minor spotting. First pp. of vol. I with minor brown-staining to outer margins, upper corner of first flyleaf and text leaf H3 of vol. I torn off not affecting text; short wormtrack at lower inner blank margin of vol. III. Provenance: from a French private collection. In all a very good, textually complete set. ---- VERY RARE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF THE LETTERS OF DESCARTES, by Claude Clerselier. FIRST EDITION FOR VOLUME… Read More

Augsburg: S. Grimm & M. Wirsung, 1519. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 15 June 1519. Folio (315 x 214 mm). 125, [1] leaves (Roman numbers). Signatures: a-x6. Title-page with large arms of the dedicatee (Georg von Limburg, Bishop of Bamburg), attributed to H. Weiditz or H. Burgkmair. Last leaf blank except for large armorial device of Grimm and Wirsung, by Weiditz. Two half-page and numerous smaller woodcut diagrams in text, floriated woodcut initials. Bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards with 2 catches (rubbed and bumped, staining and worming, some loss of pigskin to front cover, spine shortened and aslope, lacking clasps). Quite crisp and bright internally with only little browning to few pages, title soiled, occasional faint dampstains to upper and lower blank margin, final two gatherings with small wormholes mostly at outer margins (a single wormhole running up to first half of book), light crease near upper corner… Read More

Amsterdam: Querido, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (200 x 133 mm). 269 [1] pp. Original publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and in blind on spine, printed dust-jacket (dust jacket clightly chipped at head of spine and upper corners). Pages uncut. Text crisp and bright throughout. A near fine copy. ---- FIRST EDITION, WITH THE RARE DUST-JACKET. Written during the early years of the Nazi regime, Einstein's "Mein Weltbild" (View of the World) contains thoughts, aphorisms and observations; from various periods of his Life, concerned with politics, pacifism, the Jewish question, and the role of science. His early impressions of the US are particularly interesting. References: Weil (appendix), p.41; Sternfeld-Tiedemann p.115; Exilarchiv 1203. - Visit our website to see more images!

Venice: Johannes Alvisius, 1499. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 18 May 1499. Chancery folio (302 x 197 mm). 268 unnumbered leaves. 57 lines plus headline, initial spaces, most with printed guides. Types 2:83R, 3:180G. Signatures: a-e8 f6 g-z8 &8 A-I8 K6. Colophon on K6r reads "C. Plynii Secundi de naturali historia libri .xxxvii. Ex castigationes Hermolai Barbari diligentissime Recogniti. Impressi Venetiis per Ioannem Aluisium de Varisio Mediolanensem anno a Natali Cristiano M.CCCCLXXXXIX. die .xviii. Maii." Text upto leaf n5 with large initials painted in red. Bound in 18th century Italian plain vellum, spine reinforced with broad vellum band in early times (vellum soiled and stained, corners worn and bumped), sprinkled edges, original endpapers. Text very little browned (just a few pages stronger), pale waterstaining to outer margins of gathering a and stronger at lower outer corner of final 4 gatherings, few marginal wormholes in first 3 gatherings, title… Read More

Venice: Jacobi Hertz, 1696. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Venice: Jacobi Hertz, 1696-1697. 3 volumes, 4to (232x163 mm). [16], 1036; [12], 903, [9]; [16], 512, 333 [1] pp. Half-title and title printed in red and black with title vignette in vol. I, engraved portrait, 12 engraved plates of which 11 folding, woodcut head- and -tail pieces and initials, occasional light browning. Contemporary vellum, morocco label (extremities rubbed, some staining). Erased inscriptions on titles (pasted over with paper), old shelf mark labels on spine of 2 vols. A handsome copy, internally bright and virtually unspotted. ---- Fulton, 242. - FIRST EDITION of the collected works in Latin. Quite rare.

Venice: per Gregorium de Gregoriis expensis Benedicti Fontanae, 1496. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. July 13, 1496. Folio (311 x 215 mm). [4], 403 (i.e., 503), [1] leaves. Signatures: aa4 a-g8 h6 i-s8 t6 u-x8 y6 z8 &8 [cum]8 [rum]8 A8 B-C6 D-N8 O6 P-OO8 PP-QQ6. 44 lines and headline, types 135G, 110R; printer's device and colophon on QQ6r, leaf h6 blank, several pagination errors (page numbering jumps from 199 to 100). 351 woodcut diagrams in text, ornamental and historiated woodcut initials on black ground. Occasional rubrication in dark red with initial strokes and partly filled woodcut initials. Several deckle edges preserved. Copiously annotated in Latin and Greek in at least four different contemporary hands using red, brown and black ink. Bound in contemporary (original) calf over wooden boards, richly blind-stamped in a checked pattern with additional blind ruling, original brass clasps, catches and leather straps. Spine ends chipped,… Read More

London: Thames And Hudson, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (215 x 138 mm). [6], 282 pp., frontispiece photographic portrait. Publisher's blue cloth, printed dust jacket (somewhat frayed at head, 5 cm long tear without loss at foot of lower wrapper, extremities a bid rubbed). Text clean and bright throughout. Provenance: C. Sharp (bookplate to front pastedown). A near fine copy. ---- FIRST EDITION, WITH THE RARE DUST-JACKET. This wide-ranging collection of short essays indicates that Albert Einstein's life and work are not confined to the problems of science alone; he is endowed with the awareness of the most urgent questions of modern society: Social, religious, education and racial relationships such as "The Negro Question" and "Why Do They Hate the Jews?" The London edition is much rarer than the New York edition (Philosophical Library) published the same year. This book was released in a number of cloth and dust jacket variants… Read More

Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, 1494. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Sammelband of 7 Editions, all printed in Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis: (1) [Physica:] Phisicorum siue De phisico auditu libri octo. 31 January 1494/95. - (2) [Metaphysica:] Aureus liber Methaphisice & Diuisus in libros. xiij. 18 December 1494. - (3) De Anima libri tres. De Intellectu et Intelligibili libri duo. 7 November 1494. - (4) [De meteoris] Liber methaurorum. 25 February 1494/95. - (5) Liber de generatione et corruptione. 10 June 1495. -(6) De mineralibus liber. 22 June 1495. - (7) De celo et mundo. 6 July 1495. ---- Chancery folio (311x213 mm). Double column, 65 lines; the Gregoriis' printer's devices in all but the seventh item; all with quire registers. COLLATIONS: (1) Physica: po4; a-v6 x4: 128 leaves, a1-x4 foliated 1-124. - (2) Metaphysica: po4; a-z6 &8: 150 leaves, a1-&8 foliated 1-146; red-printed heading, a1r. - (3) De anima: po2;… Read More

Rome: ex typographia Varesij, 1663. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two parts in one volume. Folio (329 x 230 mm). 148, 23 [1] pp., including woodcut with motto of Kircher on title page, woodcut initials, one engraved folding plate and two letterpress folding tables, appendix with separate pagination. Bound in contemporary vellum over thin boards, spine with faint ink lettering, original endpapers (corners slightly bumped, first flyleaf frayed toward corners). Internally very little browning (few pages and the engr. plate a bit stronger), occasional light brown spotting, blank lower margin of title with minor loss from ink corrosion repaired, pale dampstain to upper blank margin of two leaves S1-2, otherwise quite crisp and clean. Provenance: old ownership inscriptions on title erased in ink. A fine copy in untouched binding. ---- FIRST EDITION AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE. In this work, which greatly influenced Leibniz, Kircher presents an… Read More

Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1644. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Principia philosophiae. Amsterdam: L. Elzevir, 1644. [22], 310 pp., printer's device on title, woodcut initials, several woodcut illustrations in text, some full page, bound without the blank leaves b4 and 2Q4. [Bound with:] Specimina philosophiae: seu Dissertatio de methodo recte regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: Dioptrice et Meteora. Ex Gallico translata, & ab auctore perlecta, variisque in locis emendata. Amsterdam: L. Elzevier, 1644. [16], 331 [1] pp., printer's device on title, woodcut initials, several woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, 10 full page. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to (200 x 155 mm). Contemporary full vellum with yapp edges, spine lettered in manuscript, marbled pastedown, flyleaves gone (some soiling and spotting of vellum). Text generally crisp and clean with only very minor occasional spotting, some light dampstaining in places, short clean tear in two leaves, first… Read More