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Fleeing the Nazis After Hitler's Rise, Einstein Rushes to Save Two of his Closest Scientific Colleagues by Albert Einstein

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Title: Fleeing the Nazis After Hitler's Rise, Einstein Rushes to Save Two of his Closest Scientific Colleagues
Author: Albert Einstein
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 5/5/33. Germany as an island of intellectuals is no longer possible, he writes, blaming the fall of his country and exile of his colleagues on poor education, a vestige of Bismarck ""I am almost collapsing under all my responsibilities."" A glimpse into the tragic end to the scientific flowering of pre-Nazi Germany, along with Einstein's explanation for why it all happened A rare letter from a brief but consequential period in Einstein's life: after he left Germany but before he arrived in AmericaEinstein had long been a revered scientist and member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, and was employed by Berlin University. At the beginning of March 1932 he returned to Germany from a visit to the United States where he had discussed heading the soon-to-open Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He determined to accept, and to spend half the year in Berlin and half the year in Princeton. But that year the Nazis were on the rise. It was becoming increasingly obvious to Einstein that his life was in danger. A Nazi organization published a magazine with Einstein’s picture and the caption “Not Yet Hanged” on the cover. There was even a price on his head.In December 1932 Einstein again left Germany to be a visiting professor at CalTech in Pasadena, California. When Hitler was appointed German chancellor on January 30, 1933, the physicist had just arrived in New York on his way to California, to lecture on his theory of relativity. Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany was now open, swift and often violent. Prominent Jews were denounced by Nazi officials, attacked in the media, and subjected to violence and arrest. As a vocal opponent of Nazism and a staunch advocate of pacifism, Einstein was a particularly attractive target. Fortunately, at the time Hitler came to power, Einstein was already in the United States. Nonetheless, the Nazis publicly agitated against Einstein as a symbol of “Jewish degeneracy” and accused him of spreading “atrocity propaganda.” In February and March 1933, the Gestapo repeatedly raided his family’s apartment in Berlin.Despite his own March 15, 1933, declaration of self-imposed exile from Nazi Germany, as well as warnings from friends that it was too dangerous to return, Einstein and his wife decided to travel back to Germany, intending to visit their summer cottage. At the end of March, they arrived in Antwerp on the SS Belgenland, owned by the shipping company Red Star Line. There they learned that Nazis had ransacked their cottage in Caputh, at which point they decided that re-entering Germany was unwise.In April 1933, Einstein discovered that the new German government had passed laws barring Jews from holding any official positions, including teaching at universities. Thousands of Jewish scientists were suddenly forced to give up their university positions and their names were removed from the rolls of institutions where they were employed. Einstein was now without a permanent home, unsure where he would live and work, and equally worried about the fate of countless other scientists still in Germany. He rented a house in De Haan, Belgium, where he lived for a few months. In late July 1933, he went to England for about six weeks, where he was introduced to Winston Churchill. Einstein asked Churchill to help bring Jewish scientists out of Germany. British historian Martin Gilbert notes that Churchill responded immediately, and sent his friend, physicist Frederick Lindemann, to Germany to seek out Jewish scientists and place them in British universities. In October 1933, Einstein returned to the US and took up his position at the Institute for Advanced Study. He had already revoked his German citizenship in Brussels, and handed in his notice at Berlin University. He would never return to Germany.Michele Angelo Besso was a Swiss/Italian engineer. A Sephardic Jew by birth, he was a close friend of Einstein during his years at the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich and then at the patent office in Bern, where Einstein helped him to get a job. Einstein called Besso ""the best sounding board in Europe"" for scientific ideas. In Einstein's original paper on special relativity, he ended the paper stating, ""In conclusion, let me note that my friend and colleague M. Besso steadfastly stood by me in my work on the problem here discussed, and that I am indebted to him for many a valuable suggestion.""After his resignation in 1890, Otto von Bismarck was venerated as unified Germany’s founding father, not only during the remaining twenty-eight years of the monarchy but also, albeit less emphatically, in the Weimar Republic, in Nazi Germany and in the Federal Republic. Throughout Germany, numerous Bismarck statues are testament to the admiration. Hamburg has three. His memorialisation even went beyond Germany; the capital of the US state of North Dakota, for example, is named after him. Einstein was evidently not a proponent of the erstwhile unifier of Germany. As Einstein wrote of Bismarck’s influence, ""The characteristic feature of this mentality is that people place the importance of what Bertrand Russell so tellingly terms “naked power” far above all other factors which affect the relations between peoples. The Germans, misled by Bismarck’s successes in particular, underwent just such a transformation of their mentality—in consequence of which they were entirely ruined in less than a hundred years.""In this letter, he encourages Besso to let him have his suggestions for saving Hermann Weyl from the regime – through substituting him for Einstein on a proposed trip to Spain would seem disastrously tactless. He sends his regards to Anna Besso, with the rueful remark that the German example bodes ill for an intellectual utopia which she had proposed. Weyl would go on work with him at Princeton.These two men were among Einstein's closest friends and colleague - Jewish or closely tied to Jewish relatives. He is rushing to get them out.Typed letter signed, in German, Le Coq-sur-mer, Belgium, May 5th 1933, to Besso. ""Dear Michele!, I was not affected personally, but just about everybody else who is kind of close to me was. Bismarck’s dismal education policy is wreaking havoc again with the German people.""I would love to follow your suggestion regarding Weyl, if I saw any possibility at all, especially since I am almost collapsing under all my responsibilities. Even the slightest attempt to replace me with someone else in Spain, would without a doubt be perceived as extremely upsetting. Have you not thought of that?""Rushed greetings to you, Albert.""He writes a postscript: ""Greetings to Anna from me, and tell her, she can judge herself, based on the current German conditions, what her concept of 'island of intellectuals' would look like.""In July 1933, upon Einstein’s request, a committee of 51 American artists, intellectuals and political leaders came together to form the International Relief Association. Among them were the philosopher John Dewey, the writer John Dos Passos, and the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. Other prominent citizens, including First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, soon joined the effort. Its mission, as The New York Times reported on July 24, 1933, was to “assist Germans suffering from the policies of the Hitler regime.”But Einstein did much more. He tried to persuade political leaders in the United States and Europe to take action to help the Jewish populations at risk, particularly those of his colleagues in Germany's scientific community, which was very hard hit. He worked tirelessly to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis, and to find them places of refuge and employment. Many immigrants to the United States during the mid to late 1930s were Jewish (between 1939 and 1940, more than half of all immigrants were Jews), most of them refugees fleeing persecution in Europe.

Alken's New Sketch Book by ALKEN, Henry

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Title: Alken's New Sketch Book
Author: ALKEN, Henry
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Published by S. and J. Fuller, 1823. Exceptionally Rare Alken Title With Forty Finely Hand-Colored Soft Ground Etchings Depicting Equitation, Hunting and Other Sports ALKEN, Henry. Alken's New Sketch Book. London: Published by S. and J. Fuller, [1823]. First edition. Oblong quarto (8 5/8 x 11 3/8 inches; 220 x 289 mm.). Printed title-page and forty finely hand colored soft-ground etched plates, heightened with gum arabic. The plates depict equitation, hunting and other sports. Thirty of the plates are single-scene illustrations, ten have multi-scene images. Contemporary quarter purple calf over marbled boards, decoratively ruled in gilt, green leather label on upper cover lettered in gilt. Smooth spine with two raised bands at top and bottom, ruled in gilt in compartments, later end-papers. Engraved bookplate of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester on font paste-down. Some rubbing to spine and corners. A near fine copy of this exceptionally rare Alken title. Very rare, Siltzer p. 71; Not located in Biscotti; Not in Dulles (Anderson Galleries NY, Dec 10-12, 1912). We know of only one other copy - and that one is not colored. According to OCLC there is just one copy in libraries and institutions, worldwide: HUV, Huntington Library, Los Angeles, CA. (not colored). Our copy (the only one we could find at auction) was sold at The Duke of Gloucester sale, Christie's, London, January 2006, lot 614 - £1,440). "Henry Alken, senior, was a genius in every respect; his style was admirable and his colouring delightful... [he] was a first-class sportsman who drew from his own experience in field and cover and in fact in every branch of sport excepting hawking. His artistic talents alone could scarcely have produced the charm with which his drawings and prints are imbued, if he had not possessed a practical knowledge of horses and hounds going, harness and craftsmanship, while a gift for composition and a ready appreciation of a comical situation crown his remarkable qualities... It is unfortunate that Alken's value as an artist was not fully recognised sooner, because most of his sets of coloured prints, in brilliant state and in the original wrappers, are now introuvable. Atmospheric dampness and exposure to strong light, combine to ruin framed prints within a very few years; in fact, all those which have been exposed on walls for any length of time will be found to be more or less bleached and to retain very little of their original colouring. Probably the work of no other sporting artist has been imitated so much as that of Henry Alken, senior." (Schwerdt. Hunting, Hawking, Shooting. Volume I, p. 11). Bobins V, 1624; Siltzer. The Story of British Sporting Prints, p.71; Not in Biscotti, Dulles, Schwerdt, Tooley or Widener.

Medical vocabulary - annotated manuscript by Anon.

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Title: Medical vocabulary - annotated manuscript
Author: Anon.
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: France: Unique, ca1850. Contemporary half-leather, marbled paper boards; fore-edge is letter indexed.. Very good.. 4to, appx. 260 pp. Written in a clear French. An unusual alphabetical listing of medical terms that are acompanied with notations to their precise locations in the literature and medical periodicals of the period. The context contains everything from the common, e.g., membrane, to unique, e.g., "mercurialisation". The annotations are detailed and precise.

Demokratie und Bismarck. Ein ehrliches Wort über das Recht auf Arbeit by Gilles, F - ECONOMICS

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Title: Demokratie und Bismarck. Ein ehrliches Wort über das Recht auf Arbeit
Author: Gilles, F - ECONOMICS
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Fine.
Description: Dusseldorf: F Bagel, 1885. First Edition.. Contemporary half leather.. Fine.. 8vo, [4], [1] - 172 pp. The last 6 pages of text are an appendix of contemporary reviews of the author's previous economic writings. Gilles was a journalist and Social Democrat. The book offered here is one of the grand debate in Germany concerning the rights of workers, wages, and the structure of an equitable society. Gilles emigrated to the UK in 1887 and was later to become a founding member of the International Federation of all Trades and Industries.

One Hundred Mushroom Receipts by Sargeant, Kate; Knox, Wm. (introduction)

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Title: One Hundred Mushroom Receipts
Author: Sargeant, Kate; Knox, Wm. (introduction)
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: Cleveland: Charles Orr, 1899. Small octavo (18 x 14 cm.), 52, [4] pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The first cookbook dedicated to mushroom recipes published in the U.S., published at the height of the debate about mushrooms in culinary applications. The recipes, in narrative form, often contain the name of the specific mushroom used, e.g. Boletus Soup, Agaricus Campester Stew, Cantharellus Cibarius Stew, Lycoperdon Giganteum with Tomatoes, etc. The introduction is supplied by William Knox, President of the Mycological Club of Cleveland. A bit of age-toning, otherwise internally clean and sound. In publisher's illustrated pink wrappers, titled and decorated in light and dark brown. Some light edgewear and a small stain to the bottom edge, otherwise very good. With the rubber stamp of the "Table Talk Publishing Company", the Philadelphia-based culinary periodical. Very scarce in the marketplace. [OCLC locates eleven copies; not in Volbracht].

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The January Corpse by Albert, Neil

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Title: The January Corpse
Author: Albert, Neil
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN: 9780802732064
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Walker and Company, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by author on title page. Bound in publisher's original brown boards with spine stamped in purple. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. 195 pages.

Ninth Annual of Advertising Art, Art Directors Club Exhibition May 6 to 29, 1930

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Title: Ninth Annual of Advertising Art, Art Directors Club Exhibition May 6 to 29, 1930
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG/VG Cover shows minor fading. Dj has tearing and shelf wear. Dj also has color fading and staining. ffep has writing from prev
Description: New York: Book Service Company, 1930. Hardbound. VG/VG Cover shows minor fading. Dj has tearing and shelf wear. Dj also has color fading and staining. ffep has writing from previous owner. Green cloth boards. Multi color design dj. 136 pp., followed by ads and indexes, etc. Full of illustrations, mostly black and white but a number of color ads. From advertisements shown at the exhibition of the Art Directors Club, Art Center, New York, May 1930. Index of artists, advertising firms and companies at rear.

Unaccustomed to Fear: a Biography of the Late General Roy S. Geiger by WILLOCK, Roger

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Title: Unaccustomed to Fear: a Biography of the Late General Roy S. Geiger
Author: WILLOCK, Roger
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Quantico: Marine Corps Association, 1987. Facsimile reprint of the privately-published 1968 edition. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xxviii,321pp; illus. Includes bibliography. 4-line ink ownership inscription to front pastedown: "H.S. Claybaugh/Sgt in Geiger's Squadron in France & Belgium/WWI - 1918." Otherwise tight, fine and unmarked. In the pictorial dustwrapper, lightly worn at extremities, Near Fine.

Tempo. The Impact of Television on the Arts by WILSON, Angus

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Title: Tempo. The Impact of Television on the Arts
Author: WILSON, Angus
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Studio Vista, 1964. First Edition. First impression. Quarto (27cm). Cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; [100pp]; illus. Mild bumps at at heel of spine and corners; jacket unclipped (priced 25s net); jacket edges mildly rolled, Very Good.

American Bookplates. by Allen, Charles.

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Title: American Bookplates.
Author: Allen, Charles.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. "A Guide to Their Study. With a Bibliography by E.N. Hewins." Profusely illustrated with bookplate examples. Bound in publisher's blue cloth. With signature and bookplate of bookplate designer Edith Cleaves Bary. Lightly sunned, else very good condition.. 8vo, 20 cm. xiv, 437 pp. b/w plates and ills. in text.

Hellenic Civilization. by Botsford, G W. and E. G. Sihler (Eds.).

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Title: Hellenic Civilization.
Author: Botsford, G W. and E. G. Sihler (Eds.).
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: V G Gilt decorated boards
Description: New York: Columbia University Press, (1915). V G Gilt decorated boards. 23 cm. xiii pp. 719 pp.

The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian

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Title: The Wine-Dark Sea
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780002238267
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Near Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only slight foxing to the text block and light rubbing to the spine foot, else as new and unread. An exceptional copy of this 16th novel in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.

Capitolio Nacional. Habana-Cuba [cover title] by [Cuba]

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Title: Capitolio Nacional. Habana-Cuba [cover title]
Author: [Cuba]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Description: Havana: Imp. “Ninon, 1930. [24]pp. Oblong quarto. Original green pictorial wrappers, string-tied. Cuban Revolution stamp affixed to front cover. Pictorial souvenir of the Capitol Building in Havana, which was inaugurated May 20, 1929. Each image has bilingual descriptive text in English and Spanish on the verso. Images include the exterior of the building, as well as specific locations within such as the Office of the President of the Senate, the Reception Hall, the Statue of the Republic, and the Marti Library. A sticker on the front cover has a border of small Cuban flags around the text, “Our Revolution is NOT Communist. Our Revolution is Humanist. The Cubans only want the right to an education, the right to work, the right to eat without fear, the right to PEACE, JUSTICE, FREEDOM.” Presumably affixed to this earlier souvenir after the start of the Cuban Revolution in 1953. An interesting addition to this piece of promotional literature. OCLC locates six copies.

Edward Allington by ALLINGTON, Edward

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA

Title: Edward Allington
Author: ALLINGTON, Edward
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9781897586020
Description: Manchester, England: Cornerhouse, 1992. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 76 pages. Text in English and German. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A very good in wrappers with a very near fine integral dust jacket and with a small gift inscription on the front free endpaper.

View from the Horse Trail - Bryce Canyon National Park [Real Photo Postcard] by [Utah Parks Company]

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Title: View from the Horse Trail - Bryce Canyon National Park [Real Photo Postcard]
Author: [Utah Parks Company]
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: [Omaha, NE]: [Union Pacific Rail Road], 1935. Real photo postcard [9 cm x 14 cm] Back has a Union Pacific shield and 'Utah Parks Company' vertically, dividing the back. Image is sharp. Image of hoodoos in Bryce from below. This RPPC was produced to promote trips from the Utah Parks Company, which was a subsidiary of U.P., that ran guided loop tours of the parks and monuments of southern Utah and northern Arizona.

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