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Paris, Guillielmum Desboys, 1558. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Contemp. handwritten title on spine. (16),96 leaves (= 224 pp). A stamp on front free endpaper and old owners signature at foot of title-page. With engraved initials, one of these handcoloured. Clean and fine.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. 2 adults in a trunk tree with nest, 1 baby bird shown. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter & Cohn, Imp. Fine and clean. The plate is accompanied with the original textleaf. (2) pp. This is an original plate from Goulds great work "The Birds of Great Britain", issued between 1862 and 1873. The plates in this work were executed by Gould himself, and a few by J. Wolf, H.C. Richer and Hart. Together with Audubon's plates, the Gould-plates are considered the best bird-art ever produced, AND THE PLATES IN HIS "BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN" ARE THE PEAK OF GOULD'S ARTISTIC LIFE. In the foreword Gould stresses the difference from his "Birds of Europe" in the treatment of the illustrations, the inclusion here of the figures of the baby birds and nests, and he comments "Many of the public are quite unaware how the colouring of these large plates is accomplished; and not a few believe that they are produced by some mechanical process or by chromo-lithography. This, however is not the case; every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.". Elsewhere he remarked upon employing "almost all colourists in London." - Wood p. 364. - Nissen No. 372. - Sitwell 102. - Zimmer pp. 261-62. - Not in Jean Anker.

Leipzig, Baumgärtners Buchhandlung, 1827. Small 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. part of spine loosening. remains of gilting. Stamps on title-page. VI,200 pp., 2 folded engraved plates. Toning to title-page. Faint scattered brownspots. First edition.

London, Printed by Taylor and Francis - Published by the Author, (1862-) 73. Folio. Papersize 54,5x36,5 cm. Lithographed and fully handcoloured. Two adults in a tree with flowers, the female on the nest and a wren beneath.Right margin (1 cm) neathly repaired.. J. Gould & H.C. Richter, del. et lith. - Walter, Imp. Fine and clean. The plate is accompanied with the original textleaf. (2) pp. This is an original plate from Goulds great work "The Birds of Great Britain", issued between 1862 and 1873. The plates in this work were executed by Gould himself, and a few by J. Wolf, H.C. Richer and Hart. Together with Audubon's plates, the Gould-plates are considered the best bird-art ever produced, AND THE PLATES IN HIS "BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN" ARE THE PEAK OF GOULD'S ARTISTIC LIFE. In the foreword Gould stresses the difference from his "Birds of Europe" in the treatment of the illustrations, the inclusion here of the figures of the baby birds and nests, and he comments "Many of the public are quite unaware how the colouring of these large plates is accomplished; and not a few believe that they are produced by some mechanical process or by chromo-lithography. This, however is not the case; every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.". Elsewhere he remarked upon employing "almost all colourists in London." - Wood p. 364. - Nissen No. 372. - Sitwell 102. - Zimmer pp. 261-62. - Not in Jean Anker.

(Paris ?, 1802). Uncut in original pink blank wrappers inserted in contemp. stiff marbled wrappers and kept in a custom made box in hmorocco, spine with gilt title. (I-)IV,5-8 pp. A few brownspots. Extremely scarce first edition of the authors napoleonic satire which landed him in jail when printed. It circulated in manuscript, anonymously, before it went into print.

(Paris, Moutard, 1785). 4to. Extracted from "Mémoires fe Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Tome X. Pp. 511-550 a. 2 folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. First appearance of this importent paper by the "greatest geometer of the century" in which he solves some main problems in coordinate geometry, especially he introduced the "distant formula" for three dimensions, years before it was used by Lagrange. He laid the foundation of a completely new branch of mathematics, known as descriptive geometry. The paper was delivered already in 1771, but not published until 1785. "His first important original work was "Memoire sur les développées, les rayons de courbure et différents genres d inflexions des courbes á double courbure" He published an extract from it in June 1769 in the Journal encycyclop´matiques, and in October 1770 he finished a more complete version that he read before the Academie des Sciences in August 1771; the latter, however, was not published until 1785 Mémoires de mathématiques et de physique présentés á ’Academic par divers scavanns. By then some of the most important ideas in the memoir no longer seemed so original, because Monge had employed them in other works published in the intervening years. Nevertheless, this memoir is of exceptional interest, for it presents most of the new conceptions that Monge developed in his later works, as well as his very personal method of exposition, which combined pure geometry, analytic geometry, and infinitesimal calculus."(DSB).

London & New York, Virtue & Co., (1840). 4to. Cont. hcalf, richly gilt back. A few scratches to covers. All edges gilt. Engraved portrait as frontispiece, engraved title and printed. IV,236 pp., many textillustrations in woodcut and 84 fine engraved plates (incl. 1 portrait and 2 maps). A few marginal brownspots, otherwise fine.

Paris, Auguste Picard, 1915. Large 8vo. Bound in 2 solid full cloth. Handwritten paperlabels on spines.(Textvol. + Platevol.). XLIII,621 pp., textillustrations, large folded plan (a tear to folding, no loss) and 339 plates. (all). Stamp to first titlepage. Text and plates clean and fine. First edition of this classic work on Tunisian archeology.

London, Lockyer Davis, 1775. 4to. In recent marbled paper wrappers. Extracted from "Philosophical Transactions". Including title-page of volume. Leaves reinforced in margin. Very light brownspotting through out and light offsetting from folding plate as usual. (2), iii-vii, (1), 495-542 pp. First appearance of Maskelyne's paper constituting the "first convincing experimental demonstration of the universality of gravitation" (DSB), in the sense that it operates not only between the bodies of the solar system but also between the elements of matter of which each body is composed."In a famous experiment of 1774 Maskelyne attempted to determine the earth's density from measurements of the deviation of a plumb line produced by the gravitational attraction of Mt. Schiehallion, in Scotland. By observing the slight difference in the zenith distances of certain stars at two observing stations on the north and south faces of the mountain, and making due allowance for the effect of their latitude difference by means of geodetic measurements, Maskelyne identified the residual displacement of 11.7" with the sum of the deviations in the direction of the vertical to the earth's surface on each side of this conveniently symmetrical mountain." (DSB).

Berlin & Leipzig, Friedrich Luckhardt, 1903-1914. Bound in 12 contemporary half cloth bindings, no spine titles, except for volume 13, which is in orig. full cloth. With numerous textual maps and folding maps. Stamps on titlepages.

London, William Berry, (1689). Ca 58x88 cm. Frame and under plexiglass. Large engraved map of Denmark in contemp.outline colouring. Perhaps the largest engraved map of Denmark from the 17th century. Berry is sometimes called the English Sanson as he copied Sanson's maps and his followers Jaillot, Seller and Senex. This scarce map is a copy of Jaillot's map from 1674 in spite of the printed information "Described by Sanson, corrected and amended by William Berry." The large map shows "Schonen, Blecking, Halland, Dukedom of Sleswick and the Diocess of Holstein." - Bramsen p. 11 (cartouschen) a. p. 120.

Wien, Johann Paul Krauss, 1782. Cont. boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on back. Some repairs to back and lightly rubbed. Stamp on title. LXVI,(2),415,(1) pp. and 4 large folded engraved plates. Broad margins. Internally fine and clean. Scarce first German edition of 17 tracts and memoirs by the discoverer of Photosynthesis. The tracts relates to plant-physiology, chemistry, metallurgy, medicine etc.

Berlin, G. Reimer, 1850. Contemp. hcalf, profusely gilt spine. XXXII,622 pp. In: "Fortschritte der Physik im Jahre 1847. Dargestellt von der physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin". III. Jahrgang. Redigirt von G. Karsten. XLIV,703 pp. Stamp on titlepage. Helmholtz's paper: pp. 232-245. Clean and fine. First printing of Helmholtz's own report on the meeting of the 23rd of July 1847 in the Physical Society of Berlin. In the meeting he presented with great success his groundbreaking paper "Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft". In the paper printed in the "Fortschritte", Helmholtz summarizes the main mathematical and historical features of his Conservation of Energy-principle as it was laid down in "Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft"."On July 21 he (Helmholtz) announced to du Bois-Reymond that he would bring forward his 'Conservation of Energy' on the 23rd at the Physical Society. The meeting was one of the most memorable in the annals of the Society; as du Bois tells us, Helmholtz revealed himself at one bound, to the surprise of all his friends, as a master of mathematical physics. The members of the Physical Society were acquainted with the Law of the Conservation of Energy when it was still unknown to all the rest of the world."(Leo Koenigsberger in "Hermann von Helmholtz", pp. 38).In his groundbreking work Helmholtz announced the first comprehensive statement of the first law of thermodynamics: All modes of energy, heat, light, electricity, and all chemical phenomena, are capable of transformation from one to the other but are indestructible and cannot be created. Helmholtz offered his paper to Poggendorf's 'Annalen', but the editor declined to publish so dangerous a speculation. Helmholtz had it printed at his own expense in a small number in 1847.

Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1759. Small 8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf. raised bands. Richly blindtooled spine. Titlelabel. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on title-page. Engraved title-vignette. (6),186 pp., 1 large folded engraved plate with handcoloured signatures. On good paper. Light soiling to lower right corner of title-page, otherwise clean and fine. First edition.

Franckfurt und Leipzig, Rengerischen Buchhandlung, 1730-32. 8vo. Bound in 2 contemp. full vellum. A stamp on titlepage (Greve Scheel). Engraved portrait. Titlepage in red/black. (18),1934, (44 Register zu alle vier Theile) pp.+ 165,(9) pp. (Kurtzer Unterricht). With 121 folded engraved plates with numerous figs. The work treats 20 different disciplines in mathematical physich, astronomy, mathematics, optics etc. etc.At Halle, Wolff lectured on mathematics and algebra, building and fortification, as well as experimental and theoretical physics; a glimpse of the kind of courses given may be obtained from one of the earliest writings of this period, his popular handbook "Anfangsgründe alter mathematischen Wissenschaften".Poggendorff II:1355.

Paris, Gabriel Quinet, 1680. 8vo. Uniformly bound in four contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Parts of gilting to spines worn off. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-papers. A nice set. (6), 192 pp. + frontispiece; (2), 192 pp.; (2), 192 pp.; (2), 204 pp. Later edition, first published in 1666, of the Countess of Suze and Pellisson’s poetry. The work was reprinted several times during the later half of the 17th century, all editions are rare. Henriette de Coligny de La Suze (1618-1673) was a notable figure in 17th-century French literature and society. She was known for her involvement in poetry and gallantry and her circle included prominent literary and cultural figures of her time such as Ninon de Lenclos, Christine of Sweden and Madeleine de Scudéry. Brunet III, 869.(Tchemerzine VII, pp. 100-102)

Hamburg, König, 1714, 4to. In contemporary full calf. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. "Nostradamus" in gilt lettering to spine. Wormholes to back board. A few worm-tracts throughout, primarily affecting last leaves. (4), 72 pp. The rare first edition of this work which interprets the prophecies of Nostradamus in the context of British history since the Protestant Reformation, focusing on the fates of the British monarchy. It combines prophecy, history and religious commentary. Schröder, Lexikon der hamburgischen Schriftsteller, II, 52, 1.

Augsburg, Johann Georg Hertel, 1759. 4to. Bound in 2 contemp. full calf. Gilt spines, raised bands. Richly gilt spines. Titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of both spines. Stamps on title-pages. Title-pages in red/black. Engraved frontispiece. (30),402,(26);23 pp., 152 engraved plates (many double-page and folding, some with text on verso) - Anhang with 33 folded engraved plates. A few leaves with a faint dampstain in upper right corner. Internally clean and fine.

London, University of London, 1842. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. In "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science", Vol. XXI. July - December, entire volume offered. Spine with wear and lacking bits of the leather especially affecting front hinge. Leather brittle. Front hindge loose. Exlibris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Internally nice and clean. [Darwin's paper:] Pp. 180-88. [Entire volume: viii, 568 pp.]. First appearance of Darwin’s paper on the effects produced by the glaciers of Caernarvonshire. In 1831 Charles Darwin came to Cwm Idwal and failed to perceive the evidence of glaciation there. In 1842, Darwin then went on to describe the glaciation of Cwm Idwal in some detail. He recorded both his first visit with the Cambridge geologist Adam Sedgwick and his second, more aware, visit in his autobiography: “Next morning we started for Llangollen, Conway, Bangor, and Capel Curig. This tour was of decided use in teaching me a little how to make out the geology of a country. Sedgwick often sent me on a line parallel to his, telling me to bring back specimens of the rocks and to mark the stratification on a map. On this tour I had a striking instance of how easy it is to overlook phenomena, however conspicuous, before they have been observed by any one. We spent many hours in Cwm Idwal, examining all the rocks with extreme care, as Sedgwick was anxious to find fossils in them; but neither of us saw a trace of the wonderful glacial phenomena all around us; we did not notice the plainly scored rocks, the perched boulders, the lateral and terminal moraines. Yet these phenomena are so conspicuous that, as I declared in a paper published many years afterwards in the ‘Philosophical Magazine’ [Darwin, 1842], a house burnt down by fire did not tell its story more plainly than did this valley. If it had still been filled by a glacier, the phenomena would have been less distinct than they now are. (Darwin, 1887)” “By 1842, not only had Darwin travelled widely (Herbert, 1991) but Agassiz (1840) had published his theory of glaciation. Darwin was also then apprised of the arguments of the geologist William Buckland. Buckland was known for his penchant for eating every variety of animal, a trait which his son inherited (Burgess, 1967: Chapter 1; Chorley et al., 1964: 100–118; see also Lewry, 2008) but he also developed highly significant ideas on glaciation and the limitations of the diluvial theory (Chorley et al., 1964: 207–210). A key realization is that water-lain flood deposits are normally laid down in stratified layers, with the coarser material below the fine, while the glacial deposits are unstratified and mixed in size. Thus, in contrast to his earlier 1831 lack of glacial observation” (Trudgill, Do theories tell us what to see? The 19th-century observations of Darwin, Ramsay and Bonney on glacial features), Darwin wrote: “Guided and taught by the abstract of Dr. Buckland’s memoir ‘On Diluvio-Glacial Phænomena in Snowdonia and the adjacent parts of North Wales’ I visited several of the localities there noticed, and ... I have been enabled to make a few additional observations. Dr. Buckland has stated that a mile east of Lake Ogwyn there occurs a series of mounds, covered with hundreds of large blocks of stone, which approach nearer to the condition of an undisturbed moraine, than any other mounds of detritus noticed by him in North Wales. By ascending these mounds it is indeed easy to imagine that they formed the north-western lateral moraine of a Trudgill 559 Downloaded from ppg.sagepub.com at PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV on September 16, 2016 glacier, descending in a north-east line from the Great Glyder mountain. But at the southern end of Lake Idwell the phænomena of moraines are presented, though on a much smaller scale, with perfect distinctness. (From the present paper, p. 180)” Darwin then gives a detailed description of the glacial features: “On entering the wild amphitheatre in which Lake Idwell lies, some small conical, irregular little mounds, which might easily escape attention, may be seen at the further end. The best preserved mounds lie on the west side of the great black perpendicular face of rock, forming the southern boundary of the lake. They have been intersected in many places by streams, and they are seen to consist of earth and detritus, with great blocks of rock on their summits. They at first appear quite irregularly grouped, but to a person ascending any one of those furthest from the precipice, they are at once seen to fall into three (with traces of a fourth) narrow straight linear ridges. The ridge nearest the precipice runs someway up the mountain, but the outer one is longer and more perfect, and forms a trough with the mountain-side, from 10 to 15 feet deep. On the eastern and opposite side of the head of the lake, corresponding but less developed mounds of detritus may be seen running a little way up the mountain. It is, I think, impossible for any one who has read the descriptions of the moraines bordering the existing glaciers in the Alps, to stand on these mounds and for an instant to doubt that they are ancient moraines; nor is it possible to conceive any other cause which could have abruptly thrown up these long narrow steep mounds of unstratified detritus against the mountain-sides. (From the present paper, p. 180)”

Königsberg, Goebbels & Unger, 1804. 8vo. Original blank blue wrappers with handwritten title to spine. A very nice copy. Contemporary owner's name to inside of front board (S. Grubbe) and stamp to title-page (Gothenburg Museum, 1861). 204, (4, -advertisements) pp. The rare first edition of Kant's famous posthumously published prize essay, written in 1791, answering the question set by the Berlin Royal Academy of Sciences: What are the Actual Advances Metaphysics Has Made in Germany Since the Time of Leibniz and Wolff? Right after Kant's death in 1804, Friedrich Theodor Rink edited and published parts of drafts Kant had written on this topic; Kant never published a finished version, and this is all that appeared.Warda: 220.

Kiøbenhaffn, u. trykker, 1625. Lille8vo. Senere halvpergamentsbd. med forgyldt skindtitel på ryg. 172 blade (=344 pp.). Nogen bruning af blade og marginer. Bogen har tilhørt Peter Skautrup, men er senere ombundet. Originaltrykket i komplet stanf, ikke eftertrykket fra samme år. Thesaurus II,478. - Bibl. Dan. I,1088.

(Berlin, G. Reimer, 1829). 4to. No wrappers. Extracted from "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Hrsg. von A.L. Crelle", Bd. 4. - Gauss' paper: pp. 232-35. - Abel's papers: pp. 236-278 and pp. 309-348. First printing of probably Gauss' most importent work in physics by presenting his "Principle of Least Action" , which states that the motion of a system of points which are influenced both by each other and by outside conditions is such as to maximize the agreement with free motion, given the existent constraint. The work is based on his Potential Theory."In it (the present paper) Gauss stated that the law of least constraint: the motion of a system departs a little as possible from free motion, where departure, or constraint, is measured by the sum of products of masses times the squares of their deviations from the path of free motion. He presented it merely as a new formulation equivalent to the well-known principle of d'Alembert. This work seems obviously related to the old meditations on least aquares, but Gauss wrote to Olbers on 31 January 1829 thai it was inspired by studies of capillarity and other physical problems." (Kenneth O. May in DSB).The two papers (first printings) by Abel (book-lenghts memoirs) are his last works - he died 1829 and they were published after his death - on the theory of "elliptic functions", the discovery of which he shared with Jacobi. In these papers he mentions also the great discoveries published in his memoir 1826 (Memoire sur une proprieté générale d'un classe très-etendu de fonctions transcendentes), which was not published until 1841.Together with these 3 memoirs is found a paper by Alexander von Humboldt: "Über die bei verschiedenen Völkern üblichen Systeme von Zahlzeichen und über den Ursprung des Stellenwerthes in den indischen Zahlen", 1829. Pp. 205-231.

London, Macmillan & Co., 1923. Royal8vo. Bound with the original wrappers (in the back) in publisher's pictorial cloth. Gilt lettering and Nature's logo to spines and front board. In "Nature", July - December, 1923, Vol. CXII [12]. Entire volumes offered. "Emmanuel College" in gilt lettering to spines. Two library stamps to title-page and first index page. A small tear to top of spine and signs after removal of label to spine. Very slight wear to extremities, otherwise a fine and clean copy. Rare in the publisher's binding. P. 540. [Entire volume: LIV, 960 pp. + advertisements and wrappers]. The important Nature-printing - a summary of his three papers published in "Comptes rendus" the same year - of De Broglie's landmark discovery of the wave nature of matter. "In order to reach an audience wider than the limited readership of the Comptes rendus, de Broglie arranged the publication of a summary of his results in Nature(October 1923)." (DSB).His discovery established a new era in physics by introducing the epochal new principle that particle-wave duality should apply not only to radiation but also to matter and thus creating quantum mechanics. It was extended to form his doctoral thesis of 1924 "Recherches sur la Théorie des Quanta."De Broglie relates "After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein in 1905 should be generalized by extending it to all material particles and notably to electrons" (Preface to his PhD thesis 1924)."He made the leap in his September 10, 1923, paper: E=hv should hold not only for photons but also for electrons, to which he assigns a 'fictitious associated wave'. In his September 24 paper, he indicated the direction in which one 'should seek experimental confirmations of our ideas': a stream of electrons traversing an aperture whose dimensions are small compared with the wavelenght of the electron waves 'should show diffraction phenomena' ."(Pais "Subtle is the Lord", pp. 425-436).In the third paper (October 8) he discusses "The interplay between the propagation of the particle and of the waves could be expressed in more formal terms as an identity between the fundamental variational principles of Pierre de Fermat (rays), and Pierre Louis Maupertuis (particles) as de Broglie discussed it further in his last communication . Therein he also considered some thermodynamic consequences of his generalized wave-particle duality. He showed in particular how one could, using Lord Rayleigh's 1900 formula for the number of stationary modes for phase waves, obtain Planck's division of the mechanical phase space into quantum cells.Louis de Broglie achieved a worldwide reputation for his discovery of the wave theory of matter, for which he received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1929. His work was extended into a full-fledged wave mechanics by Erwin Schrödinger and thus contributed to the creation of quantum mechanics. After an early attempt to propose a deterministic interpretation of his theory, de Broglie joined the Copenhagen school's mainstream noncausal interpretation of the quantum theory."(DSB)."This idea [i.e. de Broglie's that matter might behave as waves] was tested and confirmed by Davisson and Germer in 1927... Thus the duality of both light and matter had been established, and physicists had to come to terms with fundamental particles which defied simple theories and demanded two sets of 'complementary' descriptions, each applicable under certain circumstances, but incompatible with one another." (Printing and the Mind of Man, 417).

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1914. Large 12mo. In publisher's original full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with light wear, primarily affecting head and foot of spine. With previous owner name, "Elisha F. Lee" to front free end-paper. Internally fine and clean. XIII, 248 pp. + 12 plates (of which 8 are coloured) of flies with descriptive tissue guards. First edition of perhaps the most influential 20th century book on how to dress salmon flies. The legendary fly tyer Megan Boyd considered the present work her ‘bible’. Written by an amateur, this is "the most notable book to date on the subject since Kelson. Indispensable to the learner; his flies are distinguished by their beauty and finish and his descriptions are lucid." (Robb, Notable Angling Literature, 1947). The present copy has belonged to Elisha Flagg Lee, one of the most prominent fly-fishers and general advocate for preservation of the Atlantic Salmon. Lee was a Trustee of the New England Aquarium, a Director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Atlantic Salmon Federation, and a member of the Miramichi Salmon Association. He also served as President and on the Board of Directors of Hale Reservation in Westwood, MA. His greatest passion in life was fly fishing for Atlantic Salmon. He was an early advocate of salt water fly fishing, and was greatly interested in efforts to restore Atlantic Salmon to the rivers of Maine. He was a longtime member of both The Fly Casters Club of Boston and the Tihonet Club of Wareham, MA.

New York, Harper Brothers, 1863. 8vo. In the original brown embossed full cloth. Wear to extremities, internally fine and clean. 337, (1), 7, (3) pp. First printing of Kemble's famous anti-slavery work which included the first printing of the word 'vegetarian', stating that: ""If I had had to be my own cook, I should inevitably become a vegetarian". (p. 198). Her book is credited with influencing Britain's position of neutrality during the American Civil War despite the cotton industry's lobbying. Frances "Fanny" Kemble, a notable British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-nineteenth century, married Pierce Mease Butler, an American heir to cotton, tobacco and rice plantations on the Sea Islands of Georgia. Kemble found, to her horror, that she was married to a slaveowner and they spent the winter of 1838-39 at the plantations, and Kemble kept a diary of her observations [the present work]. The journal circulated privately among her friends, but was not published until his husbands death in 1863, by the time of publishing the word probably had become more common. Sabin 37329