26 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 43, PICCADILLY, W. 



COMMERCIUM EPISTOLICUM, continued : 



12563 NEWTON (Sir Isaac, P.R.S.) : COMMERCIUM EPISTOLICUM : SECOND ISSUE OF THE SECOND 



EDITION, with diagrams, 8vo. old calf (joints cracked], WITH 7 PP. OF MS. NOTES AT END IN AN 



XVIII. CENTURY HAND, HEADED ' ADDENDA', 1. 10* Londini, J. TonsonetJ. Watts, prostant 



venales apud Jacobum Mack-Euen, Bibliopolam Edinburgensem, 17*22 



The second edition, besides being a complete reprint of that of 1712, contains a new address to the reader (pp. (5), a 

 ' Recensio Libri qui inscriptus est Commercium Epistolio.um ' (pp. 59), an Appendix (pp. 2), and an ' Annotatio' (pp. 4). 

 The address and Recensio were written by NEWTON himself a fact first announced by Prof, de Morgan, and confirmed by 

 Sir David Brewster. The latter did not know of the edition of 1722, and only mentions (Life of Newton, v. II, p. 75) that 

 ' in the year 1725, a new edition of the Commercium was published.' 



12569 EDITIONIS SECUND^E REIMPRESSIO ; with diagrams, 8vo. old calf (back torn), with W pp. 



of MS. Index added (RARE), 1. 12s 6d ibidem, J. Tonson et J. Watts, 1725 



FIUST ISSUE OF THE 1725 REPRINT, which agrees with that of 1722, but has a new and much fuller title. 



12570 SECOND ISSUE OF THE 1725 EDITION-, with diagrams, 8vo. old hf. calf (one joint 



cracked) ; VERY RARE, 2. 2s ib., apud eosdem, 1725 



This v-as the last issue of the last edition published (save for the French reprint), and is of great interest for a cancellation 

 in Newton's preface. In all the previous issues of the 1722 and 1725 editions occurs the passage : ' Quae novas Principiorum 

 editioni pnemissa sunt, Xewtonus non vidit antequam Liber in lucem prodiit. Quoe de Qusestionibus Philosophicis 

 disputata sunt D. Des Maizeaux a D. Leibnitio et aliis accepit et in lucem edidit,' with a note referring to Leibniz's letters 

 to Des Maizeaux. In the above issue however the passage 'a. D. Leibnitio et aliis accepit' and the note is cancelled. 

 This was probably done at the time when Newton decided to leave out of the third Edition of 1726 the Scholium referring 

 to Leibniz (vide note to No. 12510). 



' It is due to historical truth to state, that Newton supplied all the materials for the Commercium Epistolicum, and that, 

 though Keill was its editor, and the committee of the Royal Society the authors of the Report, Newton was virtually 

 responsible for its contents.' Sir David Brewster. 



12571 COMMERCIUM EPISTOLICUM . . . ou CORRESPONDANCE de J. Collins et d'autres Savants 



celebres dii XVII 6 Siecle relative a 1'ANALYSE SUPERIEURE, reimprimee sur 1'Edition Originate 

 de 1712, avec 1'Indication des Variarites de 1'Edition de 1722, completee par une COLLECTION de 

 PIECES JUSTIFICATIVES et de DOCUMENTS, et publie"epar J. B. BIOT et F. LEFORT ; with diagrams, 

 4to. hf. calf, 10s (p. F. 15 nett sewn) 1856 



The 'pieces justificatives' are letters that seemed to support Leibniz's claims in the opinion of the editors, as well as 

 excerpts from Cavalieri, Descartes, Fermat, Hudde, Bicci, Barrow, and Sluze, which ultimately led to the discovery 

 ol the infinitesimal calculus. At end is a chapter by Lefort (pp. U) : ' Caractere des publications du Commercium 

 Epistolicum faites en 1712 et en 1722, etc. etc.' 



MINOR WORKS : 



PRESENTATION COPY BY THE EDITOR: 



12572 [ ] ANALYSIS per QUANTITATUM SERIES, FLUXIONES, ac DIFFERENTIAS : cum Enum- 



eratione Linearum Tertii Ordinis [edente GULIELMO JONES, S.R.S.]. editio princeps ; with vig- 

 nettes and numerous diagrams, 4to. old calf, with inscr. by the Editor, WILLIAM JONES, F.R.S., 

 friend of Newton (1675-1749), as below (RARE). 1. 5s Londoni, 1711 



' To Dr. Cockburn by his humble Servt. Wm: Jones.' Inscr. on flyleaf. 



12573 ANOTHER COPY, with 2 engraved tables of curves by J. Senex ADDED, old calf gilt, 



1.2* 6^7 



First edition of Newton's Treatises on the higher mathematics, containing his discovery of the differential calculus. 

 It comprises: ' De Analyst per JKquationes Infinitas' (containing the JJinomial Theorem), ' Fragmenta Epistolarum ad D. 

 Oldenburgum ', ' De Quadrature Curvarum ', ' Enumeratio Linearum Tertii Ordinis ', and ' Methodus Differential '. 



' In his Latin preface Jones gives notes of the earliest applications of Newton's method, no doubt with some reference 

 to the contest with Leibnitz which was then preparing'. D. N. B. 



12574 The CHRONOLOGY of ANCIENT KINGDOMS AMENDED, with Short Chronicle from the 



First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great, first 

 edition, with engraved vignette and 3 folding plates, 4to. boards, uncut, 10* 1728 



12575 A LARGE PAPER COPY, printed on thick paper, roy. 4to. old hf. calf (one joint cracked) : 



RARE, 155 



'Containing an attempt to determine the dates of ancient events from astronomical considerations . . . Newton 

 indicates the manner in which astronomy might be used to verify the views on the chronological points derived in the main 

 from Ptolemy, which were held in his time. These views have since that date been proved, by the Babylonish and 

 Egyptian records, to be on the whole correct.' R. T. Glazcbrook, F.R.S. 



12576 : EXCERPTA quaidam e NfiWTONi PRINCIPIIS PuiLOSOPHlAE NATURALIS, cum Notis 



Variorum ; with 12 folding plates, 4to. old calf (binding damaged), 4s 



Cantabrigice, Typis academicis, 1765 



12577 ANOTHER COPY, contemporary hf. calf, uncut, with auto, of, and MS. notes and problems 



by, John North, Caius Coll., Cantab., Is Qd 



The above work was edited by JOHN JEBB, pr., M.D., F.R.S., GEORGE WOLLASTON, D.D., F.R.S., and*RoBERT THORP. It 

 has a long list of subscribers. 



12578 - : NEUTONI GENESIS CURVARUM per UMBRAS, seu Perspective Universalis Elementa; 

 Exemplis Coni Sectionum et Linearum Tertii Ordinis illustrata [cura PATRICK MURDOCH, D.D.] ; 

 with Infolding plates, 8vo. old calf. Is Qd Londini, 1748 



12579 -The METHOD of FLUXIONS and INFINITE SERIES: with its APPLICATION to the 

 GEOMETRY of CURVE-LINES, translated from the Latin Original not yet made publick; with a 

 Perpetual Comment, consisting of Annotations, Illustrations, and Supplements, by JOHN COLSON, 

 F.R.S., first edition, with front, on copper of shooting flying, and diagrams, 4to. old rough calf 

 (joints cracked), ivith old armorial bookplate of ' Parkinson ' (RARE), 1. 1* H. Wood fall, 1736 



12580 ANOTHER COPY, old calf (title and front, mounted), with bookstamp of Prof. Lloyd 



Tanner, F.R.S., 17s 6d 



The first edition of Newton's complete treatise on the calculus, originally written in 1671. It includes a valuable 

 preface by the editor (pp. 15), and a ' commentary ' (pp. 143-339). It was reprinted in 1737 in 8vo. 



