Query: non-fiction books from 1798 or 1879
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities
Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio
The Diary of a Public Man
Euclid and His Modern Rivals
Kojiki-den
Practical Education
Begriffsschrift
Progress and Poverty
The Coffee Planter of Saint Domingo
The Life of Erasmus Darwin
The Unsex'd Females
Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Hawthorne (book)
Reisehaandbog over Norge
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Evidence from documents: Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities: '''''Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities''''' is a compendium of fraternities and sororities in the United States and Canada first published in 1879. It covers national and international collegiate general (social), professional, and honor fraternities, including defunct organizations, with an overview of each society's history and traditions, ideals and symbols, and membership information. The 20th and most recent edition, published in 1991, was over 1200 pages long.
Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio: '''''Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio''''' is a two volume book of scientific illustrations published by subscription between the years 1879 and 1886
The Diary of a Public Man: ''The Diary of a Public Man''' was first published anonymously in the ''North American Review'' in 1879.
Euclid and His Modern Rivals: '''''Euclid and His Modern Rivals''''' is a mathematical book published in 1879 by the English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), better known under his literary pseudonym "Lewis Carroll".
Kojiki-den: The ''Kojiki-den'' was completed in Kansei 10 (1798).
Practical Education: Title page from the first edition
'''''Practical Education''''' is an educational treatise written by Maria Edgeworth and her father Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Published in 1798
Begriffsschrift: '''''Begriffsschrift''''' (German for, roughly, "concept-script") is a book on logic by Gottlob Frege, published in 1879, and the formal system set out in that book.
Progress and Poverty: an 1879 book by social theorist and economist Henry George. It is a treatise on the questions of why poverty accompanies economic and technological progress and why economies exhibit a tendency toward cyclical boom and bust.
The Coffee Planter of Saint Domingo: a 1798 manual for building and operating a coffee plantation in Jamaica. It was written by Pierre Joseph Laborie, a planter from Saint Domingue. Writing the book for novice English planters, Laborie devoted much attention to the exploitation of slave labor.
The Life of Erasmus Darwin: the 1879 biography of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) by his grandson Charles Darwin and the German biologist Ernst Krause.
The Unsex'd Females: '''''The Unsex'd Females, a Poem''''' (1798), by Richard Polwhele, is a polemical intervention into the public debates over the role of women at the end of the 18th century. The poem is primarily concerned with what Polwhele characterizes as the encroachment of radical French political and philosophical ideas into British society, particularly those associated with the Enlightenment. These subjects come together, for Polwhele, in the revolutionary figure of Mary Wollstonecraft.
Dictionnaire de l'Académie française: * ''Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise'' (5th edition), Paris, 1798
* ''Dictionnaire de l'Académie française'' (6th edition), Paris, 1835
* ''Dictionnaire de l'Académie française'' (7th edition), Paris, 1879
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan: '''''From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan: Letters to the Homeland''''' (Pre-reform Russian: «Изъ пеще́ръ и де́брей Индоста́на: пи́сьма на ро́дину»; tr. ''Iz peshcher i debrei Indostana: pis'ma na rodinu'') is a literary work by the founder of the Theosophical Society Helena Blavatsky. She published it under the pen name Radda Bai in serial installments (letters) from 1879
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: '''''Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes''''' (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature.
Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: '''''Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman''''' (1798) is William Godwin's biography of his late wife Mary Wollstonecraft.
Hawthorne (book): '''''Hawthorne''''' is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1879.
Reisehaandbog over Norge: a Norwegian travel guide book first published in 1879 by Yngvar Nielsen.
An Essay on the Principle of Population: The book '''''An Essay on the Principle of Population''''' was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus. The book warned of future difficulties, on an interpretation of the population increasing in geometric progression (so as to double every 25 years) while food production increased in an arithmetic progression, which would leave a difference resulting in the want of food and famine, unless birth rates decreased.