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Mon, Mar 30, 2026 06:00PM EDT
Lot 33

THE EVOLUTION OF PHYSICS BEARING SIGNATURE READING 'ALBERT EINSTEIN'

Estimate: $100,000 - $120,000

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A red cloth hardcover edition of The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta, authored by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld; the book features the publisher's red cloth binding with gilt-stamped title on the spine and a geometric publisher's emblem stamped in gold on the front cover; the interior front free endpaper bears a handwritten ink mark reading "Albert Einstein" together with the equation "E = mc2," executed in dark ink; the pages are otherwise clean with the text block intact, and the volume retains its period binding structure; the overall presentation reflects a typical mid-twentieth-century scientific publication associated with Einstein's efforts to explain modern physics concepts to a broader audience.

Note: Einstein's theories of relativity fundamentally transformed the understanding of space, time, and energy. His equation E = mc2 remains one of the most recognizable formulas in science.