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15. Ehrenberg, C. & F. Hemprich
Symbolae Physicae seu Icones et descriptiones Avium, quae ex
itinere per Africam Borealem et Asiam Occidentalem. (Pars Zoologica,
Aves, Decas secunda). Berlin 1829. Folio size portfolio containing
10 fine hand-coloured lithographs of birds. Original printed boards
with linen spine and cloth ties. $ 2100
= The rare second part of birds from Ehrenberg and Hemprich’s famous Symbolae
Physicae. This part was printed and coloured in 1829, but not distributed at the time,
thus it is missing in many library sets of the Symbolae. The portfolio contains 10
beautifully hand-coloured lithographs of such magnificent birds as the Ibis, Vultur,
Falco, etc. They were drawn by Wilhelm Müller and Friedrich Bürde. A very good
copy, one plate with a faint stain, colouring still very bright. Nissen IVB, 290; Junk
rara p. 138.
16. Einstein, A.
Annalen der Physik. Publ. by Planck and Wien. Folge IV vols.
1-85 (1900-1928), but without volume 17 & 49. The first 65 volumes
bound in fine red half calf, remainder in half cloth. $ 14,900
= This set contains 42 Einstein articles published between 1901 and 1922, plus 9
articles by Einstein in collaborarion with other authors and one answer to Einstein.
Volume 23 contains the first explicit statement of Einstein’s energy-mass equation
E=mc 2 . But other volumes also contain noteworthy contributions, for example the
first published work by Einstein (a paper on Phenomena of Capillarity), in volume 4,
and his doctorial thesis in volume 19. Then there are other Nobel prize winners such
as Heisenberg, Planck, Bohr, Hahn, a.o. Some volumes with a handstamp to inner
board or first blanc. Apart from one volume which is bound in later cloth, this set is
bound in a very nice h. calf binding and is crisp & clean on the inside.
Einstein’s Nobel Prize winning paper.
17. Einstein, A.
Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden
heuristischen Gesichtspunkt. Leipzig, 1905. pp. 132-148, in:
Annalen der Physik, 4e Folge, Band 17 no. 6. We offer the complete issue
no. 6 of vol. 17 which has a total of 196 pp. In a recent hardcover paper
binding with cloth title label and gilt lettering on front. $ 5200
= In 1905 Einstein shook the scientific world with three papers that would change
the basis of modern physics. This is the first of those three papers and it was the one
that directly resulted in his 1921 Nobel Prize, although the official citation stated
that the prize was also awarded for his contributions to theoretical physics. Einstein
suggests in this paper that, from a thermodynamic perspective, light can be described
as if it consists of independent quanta of energy. This hypothesis, which had been
proposed by Max Planck a few years earlier, directly challenged the then-common
wave picture of light. Einstein used this interpretation to explain the photoelectric
effect, by which certain metals emit electrons when illuminated by light with a given
frequency. Einstein’s theory, and his subsequent elaboration of it, formed the basis
for much of quantum mechanics. Some vague library stamps throughout, otherwise
a neat copy. We also have in stock a near complete set (missing only 3 vols) of the 4th
and 5th series of the Annalen der Physik (1900-1943) with another 41 Einstein articles
and many articles by Heisenberg, Planck, Bohr, Hahn and others. If interested please
inquire. Printing and the Mind of Man, 391.