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[EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)]. -- BARNETT, Lincoln (1909-1979). Het Heelal en Dr Einstein [translation: The Universe and Dr. Einstein]. With a foreword by Einstein. The Hague: W.P. van Stockum en Zoon, 1950.
8vo. Original cream cloth; original unclipped dust jacket (extremities sunned with some spotting, some edgewear).
FIRST DUTCH EDITION, PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION from the author to Anne Goodman. Originally published in 1948 as a layman’s introduction to the theory of relativity, the work was praised by Einstein as being the clearest and most readable expositions of relativity theory. Laid in with a 2pp. TLS from Barnett to Anne.