first edition
1909 · Leipzig
by Born, Max
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1909. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. 571-584 pp. Bound in publisher's tan wraps lettered in black. In the original German. Very Good. Fragile with separating joints, tanning to covers, light creasing to corners, and "1840" red marking to front cover. A scarce author's offprint of a treatise on force and relativity in response to Albert Einstein's 1905 Annus mirabilis papers, early in his career. Born later won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954. Title translates to Inert Mass and the Principle of Relativity. Scarce.
(Inventory #: 140947259)