Query: non-fiction 1839 books
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Conchologist's First Book
A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony
American Slavery As It Is
Bouvier's Law Dictionary
Monographia Chalciditum
Evidence from documents: The Conchologist's First Book: '''''The Conchologist's First Book''''' (sometimes subtitled with ''Or, A System of Testaceous Malacology'') is an illustrated textbook on conchology issued in 1839, 1840, and 1845.
American Slavery As It Is: '''''American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses''''' is a book written by the American abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, his wife Angelina Grimké, and her sister Sarah Grimké, which was published in 1839.


A key figure in the abolitionist movement, Weld was a white New Englander.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary: ''''Bouvier's Law Dictionary''''' is a set consisting of two or three books with a long tradition in the United States legal community. The first edition was written by John Bouvier.
Monographia Chalciditum: '''''Monographia Chalciditum''''' by Francis Walker, published in two volumes in 1839, was a founding work of entomology, introducing new genera of chalcidoid Hymenoptera later to be ranked as families.