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Lot 1Evaluating energy in thermodynamics
Berne, 17 March 1903
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=a0214ac488a836a952784f81569daaa4e1bf8f25)
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Lot 3On conductivity, collision time and radiation
Prague, 21 October 1911
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 16,250Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=4efff28ea579ad48b708ab4f9d21624ac69655f4)
Lot 4On residual rays – and guilt about an old girlfriend
Prague, 26 December 1911
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 16,250Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=7c4201b2ac844e824f45c429aa8c83abdcdf9faa)
Lot 5On the earth's radius and residual rays
Prague, 4 February 1912
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 16,250Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=295395370aa733c3b8fce22d527c82b4deaf3b7f)
Lot 6Closing in on general relativity
Zurich, March 1914
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 106,250Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=41ef92fae443a605ee59a1dc72ca75d3f7260feb)
Lot 7'Gravitation. Redshift of spectral lines...'
Berlin, 12 February 1915
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=b3984fe84b3dd4a72d7a2902d412e869687ebf04)
Lot 8His 'boldest dreams' of general relativity
Berlin, 10 December 1915
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 106,250Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=81638d241a432e7fc72710aace2b27d4ed1ab427)
Lot 9Calling to see Besso
Zurich, late April 1916
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=78eb83fc95aeb90bab01efbd5806d4173d126eff)
Lot 10A postcard from Lucerne
Lucerne, 22 April 1916
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 6,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=ff81b35e729e548fc6cda1e4ed6f2521cb33e279)
Lot 11Is there a finite universe?
Berlin, 14 May 1916
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=280e51ca6dc8bb96f95d208975823a0a118a4446)
Lot 12A friendship in danger
Berlin, 21 July 1916
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 8,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=1333883d41d32fda071fea1abe83160275405754)
Lot 13'A glorious idea'
Berlin, 11 August 1916
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=ff33a8223d56b5122ab604eebd68781f9f98f881)
Lot 14On gravitational waves and Planck's formula
Berlin, 24 August 1916
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 32,500Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=a047f236c3c7b858489e9953dc261a61940e6581)
Lot 15Einstein ‘hibernates’
Berlin, 24 August 1916
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=f11884f3ca39e4da2e42c2820df329fa43b8dce3)
Lot 16'Light quanta are confirmed'
Berlin, 6 September 1916
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 27,500Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=d1631d634ee371ac545ff62dfbf395fbed5b2db1)
Lot 17Quantum theory, and a political assassin
Berlin, 29 April 1917
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 11,875Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=ba20387310a4800aa13318db45e715dacc5efaed)
Lot 18His physical break-down
Berlin, 15 June 1917
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=90867917839d7ac70cbdc08472568c0c9c9287b4)
Lot 19Delight at returning to Switzerland
Berlin, 24 June 1917
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=482ae8f7ad8fb1425b0bc5fc0c6cd1533431a5f3)
Lot 20Gratitude to his friends
Lucerne, 1 August 1917
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=28e99fcff047ad61ca2b0b27ad6e86e1c9473b67)
Lot 21Quantum theory and illness
Berlin, 22 September 1917
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 7,500Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=74511c71e77af33bbc6fc7ae0d15d03f522e0b1e)
Lot 22Einstein's bank statements
20 October 1917 - 23 January 1918
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=2503c92cab62eaadc81c76ee54f39a867cfcfe48)
Lot 23'The sum (she + I) didn't work out'
Berlin, 26 November 1917
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=f2d6c0d0bae22eeee077818c338e70476c3195ca)
Lot 24Confined to bed, but still working
Berlin, 5 January 1918
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 4,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=6f3cec4841f17a3bdbc4fa8cd384103aff4093a0)
Lot 25'Like Don Quixote's windmills'
Berlin, January-February 1918
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 6,250Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=1f7ef0436d37b6af619af1adbd40944374ee8cf7)
Lot 26Financial provision for his family
Berlin, February 1918
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=f91e4d4c24a739da4ccdffe7ae462a7d46a50a5a)
Lot 27Resolving his family affairs
Berlin, 11 March 1918
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=c393fff2fc57ba2df4487a16579317e54725c83c)
Lot 28News of his divorce
Ahrenshoop, 9 July 1918
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 3,500Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=c132e8d9e8eb299ba3e6dbd1e49cb4831f9d095a)
Lot 29Grappling with the cosmological constant
Ahrenshoop, 29 July 1918
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 35,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=d04eb22ede1fd4c8f37fa9be8950aba25e04c7b0)
Lot 30'The universe only exists in one example'
Ahrenshoop, 20 August 1918
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 106,250Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=b1f0238724aaef4efdd58cacf5dfcdf31480d7dc)
Lot 31The empirical versus the speculative in physics
Berlin, 8 September 1918
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 8,125Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=48546332a78ab397594efceba95491ae8e92209f)
Lot 32Fretting over the finite universe
Berlin, 12 December 1919
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 30,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=3a78bddff03a6d7dc5f85c53d65094e56507d443)
Lot 33On holiday with his sons
Wildenstein (Germany), 16 October 1920
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=4e5e551a714f7ac10b75e08967c8db75e88063ae)
Lot 34A stop in Berne on the way to Japan
Berlin, 26 September 1922
EstimateUSD 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedUSD 2,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=88baa50dfb9f08bb57caad278516b8f60bffb548)
Lot 35A postcard from Japan
Nara (Japan), 19 December 1922
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 11,250Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=faf8509956585a04a6fb73aaa74a5a5ad5f9cd03)
Lot 36Working on 'the quantum problem'
Kiel (Germany), 24 May 1924
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 9,375Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=ef00fe4964faae52b0a4d3b02a965ec0c07b32fa)
Lot 37A lightning visit to Switzerland
Lucerne, 1 October 1924
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 5,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=dccaa3053faa93f845b1a6477fac474d8ddc32b4)
Lot 38Further work on the quantum problem
Berlin, 5 June 1925
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 18,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=f9bee1592e5cf864eb50beb144248d9631c96799)
Lot 39Schrödinger's 'wonderful papers'
Berlin, 1 May 1926
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 40,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=ee735df5c256ff8efb7f85258fbee9b7a524fb22)
Lot 40A pen-portrait of Besso
Berlin, 21 December 1926
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 6,875Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=d7da89d7fd5232e5a5a0cc26d7d6e7bf9c137edd)
Lot 41Plans for meeting in Geneva
Geneva, 23 July 1927
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 4,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=963903a2c0548ef612c3c22762e9dd4ec4f9c351)
Lot 42His reverence for Aurel Stodola
Berlin, 27 April 1929
EstimateUSD 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedUSD 3,500Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=fa6a576db42806f73d83fc38d183ac9c778a3c28)
Lot 43A tribute to an inspiring teacher
Berlin, early May 1929
EstimateUSD 7,000 - 10,000Price realisedUSD 13,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=ca767fdf667bed6d0e35d9c0cc83c9ca26bb457a)
Lot 44Seeking 'the whole basis for physics'
25 September 1930
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 10,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=d6569e3cfe35b7b20d51e90d1838a44ab94737be)
Lot 45Returning to Zurich
Zurich, 1 November 1930
EstimateUSD 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedUSD 3,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=240ca7239121893bd59de52b38b7f28dd7d5a236)
Lot 46The excessive demands on his time
Caputh (near Berlin), 8 June 1931
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 10,625Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=71118f150d7b79c6061a90a855b793d3bc9984e8)
Lot 47The Great Depression – and a new paper
Berlin, 19 November 1931
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 7,500Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=5dcb0a1cd4ad0cc17c695edd518ca1d695ef15f1)
Lot 48Einstein's regrets at the passage of time
Princeton, 9 June 1937
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 25,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=89249adcc9154ebf89c1b0e7bca3567d146e870f)
Lot 49'Stubborn and undeterred'
Princeton, 11 November 1940
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 6,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=c611f0af16bfaf0ed9f85e70295478a4087279ce)
Lot 50The madness of the war
6 September 1945
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 37,500Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=b94192e2263459ae4373a35d9c7a7638188b5a4f)
Lot 51The 'scientific demon' and the sad state of the world
Princeton, 21 April 1946
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedUSD 11,875Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=ae000300608c74968a3e29e735f01857da99f815)
Lot 52On Ernst Mach and the origins of theories
Princeton, 6 January 1948
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 40,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=d55ea460da589290c8cc9edd7344a0ff766c5db1)
Lot 53'Fascinated by work'
Princeton, 24 July 1949
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 20,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=e9e8d619ae3e816bc1c51268bf5a569fbe1e726b)
Lot 54'What is logically simple is so difficult mathematically'
Princeton, 16 August 1949
EstimateUSD 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedUSD 35,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=17933102d2b881ebe8d5ad1b58c474a8503c1f14)
Lot 55Quantum theory and field theory
Princeton, 2 January 1950
EstimateUSD 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=e6b95ab95adabb4e4ba850df8ba1a949f5a64de6)
Lot 56'One can be dazzled by success'
Princeton, 9 February 1950
EstimateUSD 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedUSD 11,250Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=b3c09af222dc35d4e1f35aef5210bdfe941c705e)
Lot 57'What are light quanta?'
Princeton, 12 December 1951
EstimateUSD 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedUSD 11,875Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=1ef84a1c7a0cee148315a98861880617f3afbf28)
Lot 58Memories of his brilliant youth
Princeton, 6 March 1952
EstimateUSD 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedUSD 27,500Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=c69a9ad8d1749f47b78f05c30fcc2aafd008c70c)
Lot 59On the subjective nature of time
Princeton, 13 July 1952
EstimateUSD 6,000 - 9,000Price realisedUSD 43,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=0c3a63ba85c90bd9ddf0366905c63f2c8dccb426)
Lot 60A meditation on mortality
Princeton, 17 July 1952
EstimateUSD 5,000 - 7,000Price realisedUSD 8,750Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=8b174b34f9a39a41c63e8374a60471c8d3d0151e)
Lot 61On the meaning of physics
Princeton, 9 August 1952
EstimateUSD 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedUSD 5,250Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=b1c2082367bb3cbe84460cb06499d3480be9b8f3)
Lot 62The flaw in quantum theory
Princeton, 8 October 1952
EstimateUSD 12,000 - 18,000Price realisedUSD 40,000Closed.jpg?mode=max&w=1&hash=422bf79abfa79f7b5b7531fc321d21361ff29039)
Lot 63The cult of beauty
Princeton, 7 June 1954
EstimateUSD 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedUSD 4,750Closed
