Geometrie Und Erfahrung

Description

The first trade edition of Geometrie Und Erfahrung [Geometry and Experience] by Albert Einstein, from the collection of Einstein’s English translator, Dr. Wilfrid Perrett.

Octavo, 20pp. Publisher’s original wraps, bound with two staples. Light soiling and wear on wraps, internally clean. Includes two illustrations, advertisements on verso of rear flap. Staples showing rust, some wear to edges of original wraps.

(Weil, 115) (Schlipp-Shields, 143)

This copy is signed by Wilfrid Perrett on the front cover.

This work first appeared in the Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, accompanied by an “author’s offprint,” which was bound in orange wrappers. (Weil, 114). This work is the first separate trade edition.

The recipient of this copy, Dr. Wilfrid Perrett, worked with Dr. George Barker Jeffery, to translate many of Einstein’s most notable works into English. Perrett was a “distinguished German scholar,” and would “overlook the literary side of the work,” while Jeffery would oversee the mathematical translations. The two worked together on Das Relativitätsprinzip [On the Relativity Principle] beginning in 1922, and numerous other works by Einstein over his career. (Jammer, 113-114)