- Lot 1
Einstein as a newly married man
Bern, late January 1903
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 17,500Closed - Lot 2
'You learn a lot by teaching'
Zurich, 17 November 1909
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 35,000Closed - Lot 3
'The solution of the quantum question'
Zurich, 31 December 1909
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 23,750Closed - Lot 4
The completion of the general theory of relativity
Berlin, 21 December 1915
EstimateUSD 18,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 150,000Closed - Lot 5
'The great success of gravitation'
Berlin, 3 January 1916
EstimateUSD 30,000 - 50,000Price realisedUSD 125,000Closed - Lot 6
After a meeting in Zurich
Zurich, 21 April 1916
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 7
The breakdown of his marriage, and a joke about quanta
Berlin, 14 July 1916
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 8
On field equations in rotation
Berlin, 31 July 1916
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 20,000Closed - Lot 9
'I'm living a quiet and contented life'
Berlin, 26 September 1916
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 6,000Closed - Lot 10
Einstein and the 'eternal riddle-maker'
Berlin, 9 March 1917
EstimateUSD 25,000 - 35,000Price realisedUSD 43,750Closed - Lot 12
During WW1: 'Is old Jehovah still alive?'
Berlin, 13 May 1917
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 14
'Reason against passion!'
Lucerne, 15 July 1917
EstimateUSD 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 16,250Closed - Lot 15
Conversations with a priest
Veringenstadt, Germany, 3 September 1917
EstimateUSD 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed - Lot 16
On the mathematician Hermann Weyl
Berlin, 23 June 1918
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 27,500Closed - Lot 17
The chaos of post-war Germany
Berlin, 4 December 1918
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 15,000Closed - Lot 18
The redshift of spectral lines
Berlin, 6 January 1920
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 25,000Closed - Lot 19
A 'dazzling demonstration' of the theory of general relativity
Berlin, 26 July 1920
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 20,000Price realisedUSD 62,500Closed - Lot 20
Confirmation of the Einstein shift
New York, 28 May 1921
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 37,500Closed - Lot 21
'An interesting experiment about light emission'
Florence, 20 October 1921
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 22
A postcard from Bologna
Bologna, 26 October 1921
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed - Lot 23
Plans to meet up with Besso
Zurich, 3 October 1922
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 5,625Closed - Lot 24
Rearranging a meeting with his friend
Zurich, 4 October 1922
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 4,375Closed - Lot 25
'Understanding the reality of quanta'
Berlin, 5 January 1924
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 40,000Closed - Lot 26
An attempt at a new unified theory
Geneva, 28 July 1925
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 87,500Closed - Lot 27
'The exploration of the electron question'
Kiel, 4 August 1925
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 28
The 'incredibly boring' League of Nations
Montana-Vermala, 31 July 1926
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed - Lot 29
Sad news of the suicide of a young relative
Montana-Vermala, Switzerland, 6 August 1926
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 3,500Closed - Lot 30
Sympathy for a family tragedy
Montana-Vermala, Switzerland, 6 August 1926
EstimateUSD 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedUSD 4,000Closed - Lot 31
Quantum equations
Zurich, 11 August 1926
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 81,250Closed - Lot 32
His solitary working methods and a new unified field theory
Gatow, near Berlin, 5 January 1929
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 50,000Closed - Lot 33
On the future of Jewish settlement in Palestine
Berlin, 4 November 1929
EstimateUSD 3,500 - 4,500Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 34
Speculation on the age of the universe
Caputh, near Berlin, 1 March 1931
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 50,000Closed - Lot 35
Quantum mechanics, field theory and relativity
Berlin, 30 October 1931
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 68,750Closed - Lot 36
Fears for his younger son, Eduard
Caputh, near Berlin, 21 October 1932
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 8,750Closed - Lot 37
On the Nazi rise to power
Le Coq-sur-Mer, Belgium, 5 May 1933
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 4,000Closed - Lot 38
On 'the mathematical imp'
Princeton, 16 February 1936
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 37,500Closed - Lot 39
On America and the Jewish character
Princeton, 8 August 1938
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 43,750Closed - Lot 40
Work is the only comfort in a chaotic world
Princeton, 10 October 1938
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 18,750Closed - Lot 41
A dense exposition of unified field theory
Princeton, August 1942
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 20,000Price realisedUSD 52,500Closed - Lot 42
'God's creation of the world was presumably only a pointless luxury'
Princeton, 14 December 1946
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 27,500Closed - Lot 43
'I am very ignorant'
Princeton, 8 August 1949
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 16,250Closed - Lot 44
God does not play dice
Princeton, 30 November 1949
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 137,500Closed - Lot 45
Deep thought as an approach to God
Princeton, 15 April 1950
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 47,500Closed - Lot 46
On his philosophical approach to science
Princeton, 15 June 1950
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 35,000Closed - Lot 47
Intuition and logic
Princeton, 20 March 1952
EstimateUSD 1,400 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 20,000Closed - Lot 48
On the nature of time, relativity and quantum theory
Princeton, 10 September 1952
EstimateUSD 18,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 56,250Closed - Lot 49
On the generalised theory of relativity
Princeton, 22 September 1953
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 25,000Closed - Lot 50
Equations for a case in general relativity
Princeton, 14 May 1954
EstimateUSD 15,000 - 25,000Price realisedUSD 75,000Closed
