(Leipzig: Verlag Von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1906).

FIRST EDITION LANDMARK WORK OF ALBERT EINSTEIN as originally published in Number 4, band 21 of the  Annalen der Physik , one of the most important and influential scientific journals of the twentieth century. This volume contains Albert Einstein s,  Über eine methode zur bestimmung des verhaltnisses der transversalen und longitudinalen masse des Elektrons an important correction to his prior statement (in his famous paper on relativity) of how mass increases with velocity. Also in this volume are 55 other significant papers in physics by such noteworthy authors as Heinrich Schnell, Max Toepler, Karl Fuchs and others. Item #19109

First edition. The volume is illustrated with nine plates, two of which are double page and 4 of which are folding, also numerous diagrams, tables and other such illustrations throughout the text. 8vo, in the original publisher s blue cloth ruled and lettered on the spine in gilt. viii, 1056 A fine copy, very bright and clean, the binding and endpapers only with the lightest of mellowing, a few index leaves towards the end just a touch dusty at the upper right edges.