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WE have received a copy of Catalogue 54 published by E. P. Goldschmidt and Co., of 45 Old Bond Street, W.I, containing 307 items of old works dealing with a great variety of subjects. Attention may be directed to the following: Jacques Legrand's “Sophologium”, a popular handbook of useful knowledge, possibly printed by Caxton, not later than 1473; Naude's work on the principles of librarianship and library organization (1627); Bec-caria's treatise on crimes and penalties (1766); Sir Edwin Chadwick's “Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain” (1842); Patissier's work on factory hygiene and the diseases to which miners, industrial workers and others are exposed (1822); Schreiber's sixteenth century book on practical arithmetic, the first German book on the subject; Jerome de Monteux's treatise on hygiene, which contains chapters on dietetics, the care and nourishment of children, and a section on cosmetics (1559); Bernard Palissy's discourse on the nature of waters, fountains, rains, metals, salts, stones, earths and fire (1580), which entitles him to be regarded as one of the pioneers of modern chemistry and geology; Neander's “Tabacologia” (1626), the most important early work on tobacco; Villafranca's “Methodus refrigerandi” (1550), the earliest work on artificial refrigeration; and the first edition of Linnaeus's book on the increase of the habitable earth (1744) bound up with the second edition of his oration on travelling in one's own country (1743).
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Old Books on Social Sciences. Nature 145, 508 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145508e0
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