Cold War Entropy – presentation copies of Soviet astrophysics

Lot 41
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Lot 41 | Cold War Entropy – presentation copies of Soviet astrophysics
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£ 600 – 900
[Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)].

Three works of Soviet astrophysics presented to Stephen Hawking.

N.V. Volovich, V.N. Frolov (et al., translators). Novosti fundamentalnoiy fiziki. Vipusk 9. Chernie diri (News of fundamental physics. Issue 9. Black holes [translated from English into Russian]). Moscow: Mir, 1978.

First edition of a compilation of Russian translations of the most salient contributions to black hole research in English. Octavo (198 x 140mm). Original yellow printed wrappers (spine spotted and rubbed, edges a little worn). Provenance: presentation inscription from the translator V. N. Frolov to ffep ‘To Professor Hawking with best regards. Frolov’.

Il’a Grigor'evich Kolchinsky, Alla Alekseevna Korsun and Modest Geraklifovich Rodriges. Astronomy. biograficheskij spravochnik (Astronomy. A biographical directory). Kiev: Naukova dumka, 1986.

Second, augmented edition of an astronomy biographical dictionary, complemented with a timeline of the most salient discoveries in the field since pre-history, a timeline of the most important astronomic studies foundations, and list of scientists whose names are recorded on planets’ maps. Octavo (198 x 123mm). With numerous printed photographic portraits of scientists throughout. Original cloth-backed blue and black printed boards, spine lettered and decorated in blue and black (upper corner slightly bumped, very light soiling). Provenance: presentation inscription signed by all three authors ‘To Professor S. W. Hawking with best wishes from the authors… Kiev, Main Astronomical Observatory of the Ukranian Academy of Sciences, August 15, 1986’.

N.V. Mitskevich. Fizicheskie polya v obshchei teorii otnositel'nosti. (Physical Fields in the General Theory of Relativity). Moscow: Nauka, 1969.

First and only edition. Octavo (260 x 170mm). (Gutter of titlepage glued to gutter of ffep.) Original grey buckram, gilt decoration and black lettering to the upper side, spine lettered in black. Provenance: presentation inscription from the author on ffep ‘To Professor S. W. Hawking with kind compliments and friendly feelings from the author… September 1973, Moscow’. All three works from the estate of Professor Stephen Hawking.
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