First English language edition, translated from the second revised German edition. viii, 80, 8pp, with black and white plate illustrations and diagrams etc in text. Deep green cloth-covered boards, titles blind stamped on upper panel and gilded on spine. 8vo. Cloth is a little worn, gently rubbed and rounded on corners and spine tips. A little spotting and toning to endpapers, gutter slightly strained ahead of half title page, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
First English edition of this ground-breaking work on atoms, electrons and the composition of matter. Born won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1954 for his research in quantum mechanics and analysis of wave function.
