Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-06-26

with Several thousand Engravings and Maps.
The work originally published under the title of
The NEW AMERICAN CYcLoPApiA, was completed
IN 1868 since which time the vile circulation which
IL has attained in all parts of the United states,
and the signal developments which have taken
place in every branch OF science, literature, and
art, have induced the editors and publishers to
submit it to exact and thorough revision and to
issue new edition entitled THE AMERICAN Cf-
CLOPEDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress Of discov-
cry in every department OF knowledge has made a
new work of reference an imperative want.
The movement of political affairs has kept pace
with the discoveries of science, and their fruitful
application to the industrial and useful arts and
the convenience and refinement OF social life.
Great and consequent revolutions have &c
CURED, involving national changes OF peculiar mo
ment. The civil of our own country, which
was at its height when the last volume of the old
work appeared, has happily been ended, and a new
course OF commercial and industrial activity has
been commenced.
Large accessionS to our geographical knowledge
nave been made by the interchangeable explorers oil
Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last decade,
with the natural result OF the lapse OF tme, have
brought into public view multitude Of new men,
whose names are in every ones mouth, and OF
whose life every one is curious to know the partc-
ulars. Great battles have been fought and llrpor-
tant seges maintained of which The details are as
yet preserved only in the newspapers or IN the
transient publications OF the day, but which ought
now to take their place In permanent and authentic
history.
In Preparing the present edition for the press, it
has accordingly been the aim of the editors to
bring down the information to the latest possible
dates and to furnish an accurate account of the
most recent discoveries IN science, OF every
fresh production in literature, and OF the newest
inventions in the practical arts, as well as to give
q succnct and original record OF the progress OF
political and historical events
The work mas been begun after long and careful
preliminary labor and with the most ample rcsour.
for carrying it on to a successful termination.
None of the original stereotype plates have been
used, but every page has been printed on newtype
forming in fact new Cyclop9da, with the same
l,pn, tic nrDI bnr wit "a
far greater pecuniary expenditure, and with such
improvements in its composition as have been sug
gested by longer experience and enlarged knowl-
edge,
The illustrations which are introduced for the
first time in the present edition have been added
not for the sake OF pictorial effect but to give great
er cidity and force to the explanations in the text
They embrace ali branches oil science and Of natu.
raj history, and depict the most famous and re-
markable features OF scenery, architecture and art
as well as the various processes OF mechanics and
manufactures Although intended for instruction
rather than embellishments, no pains have been
spared to insure their artistic excellence; the cost
OF their execution Is enormous, and II Is believed
feature of the Cyclopadia, and worthy OF its high
character.
This work is sold to Subscribers only, payable
on delivery of each volume. 1t Will be completed
in sixteen large octave volumes, each containing
about $50 pages fully illustrated with sew raj thou
sand Wood EngravingS, and with numerous col
ored Lithographc Maps.
PRICE AND STYLE OF BINDING.
In extra Cloth, per vol, 500
Library Leather, per vol, eco
In Half Turkey Morocco, per vol, 100
In Half Russia, extra gilt, per VOL 800
In Full Morocco antique gilt edges per vol, 1000
In Full Russia, per vol, 1000
Three volumes now ready. Succeeding volumes,
until completion, will be issued once in two
months.
".+Specimen pages of the AMERICAN CYCLoP.E-
Ola, showing type, illustrations etc, will be sent
gratis, on application.
FIRST CLASS CANvAssING AGENTS WANTED.
Address the publishers,
ID. APPLETON & CO.,
$40 & 55l Broadway N. Y.
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