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APPLETON'S
AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA,
New Revised Edition.
Entirely rewritten by the ablest writers every
subject. Printed from new type, and illustrated
with Several Thousand Engravings and Maps

subject. Printed from new type, and illustrated
| with Several Thousand Engravings and Maps.
| The work originally published under the title of
| The NEW AMERICAN CYCLoPEDIA, 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
art have induced the editors and publishers to
submit it to exact and thorough revision, and TO
issue new edition entitled THE AMERICAN CY-
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 wars and consequent revolutions have
Cured, involving national changes of peculiar mo-
ment The civil war of our own country, which
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 accessons 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 partc-
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 onght
now to take their place in permanent and authentic
history.
In preparing the present edition Tor the press, IL
has accordingly been the aim Of the editors to
uring down the information to the latest possible
dates, and to furnish an accurate account of TIE
most recent discoveries in science, of every
fresh production in literature, and of the newest
inventions in the practical arts, well as to give
a succinct 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 resour
ces for carrying it on to a successful termination.
None OF the original stereotype plates have been
used, but every page has been printed on new type,
forming IN TACT new Cyciop4da, with the same
plan and compass as its predecessor, but with a
far greater pecuniary expenditure, and with such
Improvements i'll its composition as have been sug
gested by longer experience and enlarged knowl.
edge.
first time i'll the present edition have been added
not for the sake pictorial effect, but TO give great
ucidity 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,
well as the various processes of mechanics and
manufactures Although intended for instruction
rather than establishment, no pains have been
spared to insure their artistic excellence; the cost
OF their execution IS enormous and 1t is believed
they will lind welcome reception as an admirable
feature of the Cyclop9dia, 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 500 pages fully illustrated with several 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, 600
In Half Turkey Morocco per vol, 100
In Half Russia, extra gilt, per vol, 500
In Full Morocco antique gilt edges, per vol, 1000
In Full Russia, per vol, 1000
Three volumes ready. Succeeding volumes,
until completion, will be issued once in two
months.
-."Specimen pages of the AMERICAN CYCLoPE-
Ola, showing type, illustrations etc, will be sent
gratis, on application.
FIRST CLASS CANvAssING AGENTS WANTED.
Address the publishers,
u. APPLETON g. CO.,
$40 & 55l Broadway, N. Y.
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