The Evolution of Physics:The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta.

EINSTEIN, Albert & Infeld.

Item Number: 2053

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1938.

First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth. Inscribed by Albert Einstein and dated in 1939. Contemporary name on the front endpaper (the recipient of the inscription from Einstein), else near fine in a very good early issue dust jacket.

On publication The Saturday Review of Literature praised Evolution of Physics as "masterly Einstein and Infeld’s book should do much to spread an understanding and appreciation one of the great dramas in the evolution of human thought."