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EINSTEIN (ALBERT) Relativity. The Special & The General Theory, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, Methuen, [1920]
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EINSTEIN (ALBERT)
Relativity. The Special & The General Theory, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Robert W. Lawson, frontispiece portrait, illustrations in the text, 8pp. of advertisements at end, light pencil markings in the margins, publisher's red cloth, lettered in blind on upper cover, in black on spine (slightly dulled), publisher's orange dust-jacket (later issue, "5/- net" on spine but advertising the "eighth edition" of 1924 on front flap), 8vo, Methuen, [1920]
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The first English edition of Einstein's pioneering work expounding his "theory of relativity".
Provenance: "E.K.M. Court from ?C.H. 23.8.[19]20", ownership inscription inside upper cover.

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