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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Collection of 94 OFFPRINTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF HIS SON HANS ALBERT EINSTEIN EACH WITH PRINTED PRESENTATION STATEMENT "Ueberreicht vom Verfasser" from Annalen der Physik , Physikalische Zeitschrift , Die Naturwissenschaften , Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften and other publications. All FIRST EDITIONS, (as noted) all dated and numbered in chronological order in an unidentified hand (possibly Albert or Hans Albert Einstein), all with an ink stamp "Dr. H.A. Einstein 1090 Creston Road Berkeley 8 Calif." Various 8 o sizes, original wrappers (light chipping and splitting to some spines and edges); early board portfolio with cloth ties. Provenance : HANS ALBERT EINSTEIN (1904-1973), son of Albert Einstein and his first wife Mileva Einstein-Maric. Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, an accomplished scholar, engineer, and teacher. In 1938 Hans Albert immigrated to the United States where he continued his research on the transport of sediment, first at Clemson, South Carolina (1938-1943), and later (1943-1947) at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Einstein joined the faculty of the University of California in 1947. 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, and he had a huge number of requests for offprints from a wide variety of people. As a result he may have ordered larger numbers of offprints of some papers than were customary. Furthermore publishers of the journals in which his articles appeared realized that they could offer some of these papers for sale separately. Thus some of the later offprints by Einstein that were published in larger printings may be less scarce than the ones published before 1916, though many of them are extremely difficult to find. 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 (minor chipping to spine and edges). FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "16. XII. 00") on the front wrapper. Einstein's first published paper, which deals with intramolecular forces. Pais "Subtle is the Lord"... (p. 57) notes that this paper "shows how, from the start, Einstein was groping for universal principles, in the present case for a relation between molecular forces and gravitation." In the paper Einstein concludes, "It should be noted that the constant C increases in general but not always with increasing weight. Therefore, the question if and how our [intramolecular] forces are related to gravitation must for the time being be kept completely open." EXTREMELY RARE: Only the Plotnick copy of this offprint has appeared at auction in the last twenty-five years according to ABPC. BRL 1; Weil 1. 1902 Kinetische Theorie des Wärmegleichgewichtes und des zweiten Hauptsatzes der Thermodynamik. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik , 4 Folge, Band 9. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1902. 8 o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "26. VI. 02") on the front wrapper. BRL 3; Weil 3. 1904 Zur allgemeinen molekularen Theorie der Wärme. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik , 4 Folge, Band 14. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1904. 8 o. FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION OFFPRINT ISSUE with printed presentation statement ("A. Einstein. Überreicht vom Verfasser," dated "27. III. 04") on the front wrapper. BRL 5; Weil 5. 1905 Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie