Soundings from the Atlantic. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Main entry:

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.

Title & Author:

Soundings from the Atlantic. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Edition:

1st edition.

Publication:

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1864.

Description:

468 pages illustrations 19 cm

Notes:
Articles, with the exception of the last, published originally in the Atlantic monthly.
Bread and the newspaper -- My hunt after "The captain" [his son, O.W. Holmes] -- The stereoscope and the stereograph -- Sun-painting and sun-sculpture -- Doings of the sunbeam -- The human wheel, its spokes and felloes -- A visit to the Autocrat's landlady -- A visit to the asylum for aged and decayed punsters -- The great instrument -- The inevitable trial.

Summary:

This volume is a compilation of articles, with the exception of the last, published originally in the Atlantic monthly.

Subject:

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935.
Gait in humans.
Artificial Limbs 19th Century
Gait
Literature, Modern
Photography 19th Century
Warfare Civil War
Démarche.
Photography.

Form/genre:

History.
Essays.
Advertisements.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 15819
Call No.: PS1972.S7 (PO717)
Status: Available

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