Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-23

The work originally published under the title of
The New AMERICAN CYCLoPKDIA, was completed
IN 1868 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
submit it to an exact and thorough revision, and TO
issue new edition entitled THE AMERICAN Cf-
Wnhin 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 ard useful arts and
the convenience and refinement of social life.
Great wars and consequent revolutions have oc.
CURED, involving national changes of peculiar mo.
ment. The civil war of our own country, which
work appeared, has happily been ended, and 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 one is curious to know the partic
ulars. Great battles have been fought and impor.
tant sieges maintained, of which the details are as
yet only in hs b or in the
now to take their place in permanent and authentic
history.
In preparing the present edition for the press, il
| has accordingly been the aim of the editors tC
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
IL succinct and original record OF the progress O.
political and historical events
The work has been begun after long and careful
preliminary labor, and with the most ample resour
for carrying it on to successful termination.
| None of the original stereotype plates have beer
used, but every page has been printed on new type
forming in fact new Cyclopadia, with the sam,
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| far greater pecuniary expenditure, and with sucl
| improvements in its composition as have been sug
gested by longer experience and enlarged knowl
edge
first time in the present edition have been addet
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
markabc features OF scenery, architecture and art
as well as the various processes of mechanics ant
manufactures. Although intended for instruction
rather than establishment, no pains have beei
spared TO insure their artistic excellence; the COS
OF their execution Is enormous, and it is believed
feature of the Cyclopadia and worthy of its higi
character.
This work is sold to Subscribers only, payabl,
on delivery of each volume. 1t will be completed
in sixteen large octave volumes, each containing
about 500 pages fully illustrated with several thou
| sand Wood Engravngs, and with numerous col
ored Lithographic Maps.
PRICE AND STYLE OF BiNDISG.
In extra Cloth per VOL, $40
In Library Leather, per vol, Sc
In Half Turkey Morocco, per vol, 10
In Half Russia, extra gilt per vol, so
In Full Morocco, antique, gilt edges, per VOL, 100
In Full Russia, per VOL, 1910
Three volumes ready. Succeeding volumes
| until completion, will be issued once in two
months.
".tSpecimen pages of the AMERICAN CYcLoP.E
| Ola, showing type, illustrations, etc, will be sen
| gratis, on application.
FIRST CLASS CANvAssING AGENTS WANTED.
Address the publishers
| ID. APPLETON d. CO.,
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