Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-22

The work originally published under the title of
The NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA, was completed
IN 1863 since which time the wide circulation which
it 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 a new edition entitled The AMERICAN CY-
CLoPEDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress of discov-
cry in every department of knowledge has made
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 wars and consequent revolutions have &C.
Cured. involving national changes of peculiar mo-
ment The civil war 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 of
Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last decade,
with the natural result of the lapse OF time, have
brought into public view multitude of new men,
whose names are in every ones mouth, and of
whose life every is curious to know the partic.
| ulars. Great battles have been fought and impor.
tant sieges maintained, of which the details are
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 i.
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
a succinct and original record of the progress OF
political and historical events
The work has been begun after long and careful
preliminary labor, and with the most ample resour
ces for carrying it on to successful termination.
| None of the original stereotype plates have been
used, but every page has been printed on newtype
| forming in fact a new CyclOpadia, with the SAME
plan and compass as its predecessor, but with q
far greater pecuniary expenditure, and with such
improvements IN Its composition as have been sug
gested by longer experience and enlarged knowl
The illustrations which are introduced for tho
| first time i'll the present edition have been addct
not for the sake of pictorial effect but to give great
er lucdy and force to the explanations in the text
| They embrace all branches Of science and of natu
| raj history, and depict the most famous and re
markabe features of scenery, architecture and art
as well as the various processes of mechanics ano
manufactures. Although intended for instruction
rather than embellishments, no pains have beer
spared to insure their artistic excellence; the cos
OF their execution Is enormous, and 1t Is believet
they will find welcome reception as an admirable
feature OF the Cyclopeda, and worthy Of its higf
| character.
| on delivery of each volume. 1t will be completed
in sixteen large octave Volumes each containing
about 500 pages fully illustrated with several thou
| ored Lithographic Maps.
| PRICE AND STYLE OF BINDING.
In extra Cloth per VOL, $50
| In Library Leather, per vol, 6.N
| In Half Turkey Morocco, per vol, 7.O
| In Half Russia, extra gilt per vol, So
In Full Morocco, antique, gilt edges, per VOL, 100
| In Full Russia per vol, 10.0t
Three volumes now ready. Succeeding volumes
| until completion, will be issued once in twt
months.
| a.@Specimen pages of the AMERICAN CYCLoPlE
| Ola, showing type, Illustrations, etc, will be SEN
gratis, on application.
FIRST CLASS CASvAssING AGENTS WANTED.
| Address the publishers,
ID. APPLETON & CO.,
| $40 & 551 Broadway, N. Y
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