Sotheran's “Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica”

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MESSRS. Sotheran, Ltd., have issued a first supplement to their Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica which was published in two volumes in 1921, and have again laid all students of science and technology under a debt of gratitude. The work pretends to be no more than a bookseller's catalogue, and does not, therefore, aim at completeness, but in fact it contains a most representative list of works, to the number of more than seven thousand items, of old writers in all branches of science, and a number of standard modern works. It is rendered of permanent reference value by the fact that the title-pages in the majority of cases are transcribed in full, and by the unusual wealth and scope of the notes that accompany most of the entries. One of the most interesting items (presumably to be sold as a whole) is a collection of more than eight hundred books from Newton's library, including copies of the first and second editions of the Principia with corrections, cancellations, and additions in Newton's handwriting many of which were not incorporated in the later editions and would thus be of the utmost interest as showing the progress of Newton's thought an annotated copy of Euclid, and many other works with Newton's autograph.