- Lot 1
Evaluating energy in thermodynamics
Berne, 17 March 1903
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed - Lot 3
On conductivity, collision time and radiation
Prague, 21 October 1911
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 16,250Closed - Lot 4
On residual rays – and guilt about an old girlfriend
Prague, 26 December 1911
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 16,250Closed - Lot 5
On the earth's radius and residual rays
Prague, 4 February 1912
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 16,250Closed - Lot 6
Closing in on general relativity
Zurich, March 1914
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 106,250Closed - Lot 7
'Gravitation. Redshift of spectral lines...'
Berlin, 12 February 1915
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed - Lot 8
His 'boldest dreams' of general relativity
Berlin, 10 December 1915
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 106,250Closed - Lot 9
Calling to see Besso
Zurich, late April 1916
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed - Lot 10
A postcard from Lucerne
Lucerne, 22 April 1916
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 6,000Closed - Lot 11
Is there a finite universe?
Berlin, 14 May 1916
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed - Lot 12
A friendship in danger
Berlin, 21 July 1916
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 8,750Closed - Lot 13
'A glorious idea'
Berlin, 11 August 1916
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed - Lot 14
On gravitational waves and Planck's formula
Berlin, 24 August 1916
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed - Lot 15
Einstein ‘hibernates’
Berlin, 24 August 1916
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed - Lot 16
'Light quanta are confirmed'
Berlin, 6 September 1916
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 27,500Closed - Lot 17
Quantum theory, and a political assassin
Berlin, 29 April 1917
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 11,875Closed - Lot 18
His physical break-down
Berlin, 15 June 1917
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 19
Delight at returning to Switzerland
Berlin, 24 June 1917
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed - Lot 20
Gratitude to his friends
Lucerne, 1 August 1917
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed - Lot 21
Quantum theory and illness
Berlin, 22 September 1917
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 7,500Closed - Lot 22
Einstein's bank statements
20 October 1917 - 23 January 1918
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed - Lot 23
'The sum (she + I) didn't work out'
Berlin, 26 November 1917
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed - Lot 24
Confined to bed, but still working
Berlin, 5 January 1918
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,000Closed - Lot 25
'Like Don Quixote's windmills'
Berlin, January-February 1918
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed - Lot 26
Financial provision for his family
Berlin, February 1918
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed - Lot 27
Resolving his family affairs
Berlin, 11 March 1918
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed - Lot 28
News of his divorce
Ahrenshoop, 9 July 1918
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,500Closed - Lot 29
Grappling with the cosmological constant
Ahrenshoop, 29 July 1918
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 35,000Closed - Lot 30
'The universe only exists in one example'
Ahrenshoop, 20 August 1918
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 106,250Closed - Lot 31
The empirical versus the speculative in physics
Berlin, 8 September 1918
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed - Lot 32
Fretting over the finite universe
Berlin, 12 December 1919
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed - Lot 33
On holiday with his sons
Wildenstein (Germany), 16 October 1920
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed - Lot 34
A stop in Berne on the way to Japan
Berlin, 26 September 1922
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 2,750Closed - Lot 35
A postcard from Japan
Nara (Japan), 19 December 1922
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 11,250Closed - Lot 36
Working on 'the quantum problem'
Kiel (Germany), 24 May 1924
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 9,375Closed - Lot 37
A lightning visit to Switzerland
Lucerne, 1 October 1924
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed - Lot 38
Further work on the quantum problem
Berlin, 5 June 1925
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 18,750Closed - Lot 39
Schrödinger's 'wonderful papers'
Berlin, 1 May 1926
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 40,000Closed - Lot 40
A pen-portrait of Besso
Berlin, 21 December 1926
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed - Lot 41
Plans for meeting in Geneva
Geneva, 23 July 1927
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 4,000Closed - Lot 42
His reverence for Aurel Stodola
Berlin, 27 April 1929
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 3,500Closed - Lot 43
A tribute to an inspiring teacher
Berlin, early May 1929
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed - Lot 44
Seeking 'the whole basis for physics'
25 September 1930
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 10,000Closed - Lot 45
Returning to Zurich
Zurich, 1 November 1930
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed - Lot 46
The excessive demands on his time
Caputh (near Berlin), 8 June 1931
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 10,625Closed - Lot 47
The Great Depression – and a new paper
Berlin, 19 November 1931
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 7,500Closed - Lot 48
Einstein's regrets at the passage of time
Princeton, 9 June 1937
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 25,000Closed - Lot 49
'Stubborn and undeterred'
Princeton, 11 November 1940
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 6,000Closed - Lot 50
The madness of the war
6 September 1945
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 37,500Closed - Lot 51
The 'scientific demon' and the sad state of the world
Princeton, 21 April 1946
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 11,875Closed - Lot 52
On Ernst Mach and the origins of theories
Princeton, 6 January 1948
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 40,000Closed - Lot 53
'Fascinated by work'
Princeton, 24 July 1949
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 20,000Closed - Lot 54
'What is logically simple is so difficult mathematically'
Princeton, 16 August 1949
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 35,000Closed - Lot 55
Quantum theory and field theory
Princeton, 2 January 1950
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed - Lot 56
'One can be dazzled by success'
Princeton, 9 February 1950
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 11,250Closed - Lot 57
'What are light quanta?'
Princeton, 12 December 1951
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 11,875Closed - Lot 58
Memories of his brilliant youth
Princeton, 6 March 1952
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 27,500Closed - Lot 59
On the subjective nature of time
Princeton, 13 July 1952
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 43,750Closed - Lot 60
A meditation on mortality
Princeton, 17 July 1952
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 8,750Closed - Lot 61
On the meaning of physics
Princeton, 9 August 1952
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed - Lot 62
The flaw in quantum theory
Princeton, 8 October 1952
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 40,000Closed - Lot 63
The cult of beauty
Princeton, 7 June 1954
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed
