[Rarebooks] FS: Rare Einstein Lecture

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Einstein, Albert. ABSTRACTS OF THREE LECTURES ON RELATIVITY DELIVERED 
AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY BY ALBERT EINSTEIN MAY 11-13, 1921. 
Summarized and trans. by Almar Naess and Philip Franklin. Princeton: 
n.p. 1921. 11 leaves (title and 10 pp). 8.5 x 14 inches (23 x 36 cm). 
Unbound. (See Weil 124). First edition. Typewritten text mimeographed 
on sulfite paper with handwritten mathematical formulas and figures

Only a few copies were printed. On the title page: "These notes are 
not official and are prepared by the translators for private 
circulation, not for sale to the public." This copy has a pencil 
inscription on the title page: "From Prof. Edward Kasner's library," 
(see below). OCLC shows only a single copy at Princeton. Only one has 
come to auction, this copy, at Sotheby's in 1962, and purchased by 
Eric Sexton, noted collector of incunabula. Listed even then as rare.

Einstein's first trip to America occurred in 1921 and "evoked the 
sort of mass frenzy and press adulation that would thrill a touring 
rock star. The world had never before seen, and perhaps never will 
again, such a scientific celebrity superstar..." (Isaacson. Einstein, 
p. 289). Einstein delivered a week long series of lectures at 
Princeton from 9 May to 13 May 1921. The first two lectures were 
popular, the last three, of which this is the abstract, were 
technical. They were later published in book form as "The Meaning of 
Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University." 
Einstein's first appearance before a scientific gathering in America 
(rather than his lecturing for Zionism) however, occurred on 
Thursday, April 14, 1921 when he came to the City College of New York 
to listen to an account of his theory of gravitation by Edward 
Krasner. "Prof. Einstein complimented Krasner for his clear and 
elegant presentation," (Morris Cohen, "A Review of the Einstein 
Lectures at City College, April 1921). Kasner (1878-1955), a graduate 
of City College of New York in 1896, was the first Jew appointed to a 
faculty position in the sciences at Columbia University

Folded, top fold (of three folds) of first ten leaves torn from the 
edge, approximately two inches in on the left and one inch on the 
right, last leaf completely torn through on top fold with some of its 
edges a bit ragged, paper clip impression on top edge of all leaves, 
with some rust stain to title leaf. Leaves lightly browned. Text 
quite clean.  [33777] $1500.00

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