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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955) and Marcel GROSSMAN (1878-1936). [Entwurf einer Verallgemeinerten Relativitstheorie und einer Theorie der Gravitation. 1. Physikalischer Teil von Albert Einstein ... II. Mathematischer Teil von Marcel Grossman. Leipzig and Berlin: Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner, 1913]. Large 8vo (241 x 160mm). Offprint, pp. 3-38 (lacks all before p.3). Later half cloth and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, original lower wrapper with printed advertisements bound in at the end (lacking the upper wrapper with printed title and imprint). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of the "Entwurf" paper, an offprint from "Zeitschrift fuer Mathematik und Physik", vol. 62. Einstein's contribution runs from p.3-22; Grossman's from p.23-38. Norman 693: "One of the turning-points in the development of relativity theory"; Weil 59a.