Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-04-14

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- Of r. I >r< @ ~ 1AEHiGAS Ralli:iT osE- Ss E:
A ULA Wa com yietd in 1864 snce ". Ga 5ime
lhe wide circulation which 1t has attaInrd in all
parts OF tn United states, and the signal de-
veiopments which have taken place in svery
| branch OF science, literature, and art, have in
duced the editors and ppbIi- hers to submit it to
an exact and thorou gh revision, and to issue 4
new edition entitie THE AMERICAN CY-
Within the last ten years the progress of dis.
| covery IN ev"rv department OF knowledge has
| made new work OF reference impera ativo
| want.
The movement OF political affairs has KEEP.
| pace with the discoveries of science, and their
fruitful application to the Industrial and use
| 1ni arts and the convenience and refinement OF
| soclat llfe. Great wars and consequent volu-
| uons nave occurred, lLvGiving Z national changes
| or peculiar moments The civil war OF Our own
country, which was at its height when the last
volume of the old work appear ID, has happily
been ended, and a ne~ course of commarciai
| and industrial activity has been commeuced
large accessions to our geographical knowl-
! ledge have been made by tho indefatigable ex-
plOrers of Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last de-
cade, with the natural result of the lapse OF
time, have brought into public view q multi
tuue or new men, whose names are In eycry
ones mouth, and of whose lives every ono is
curious to know the particulars. ores battles
nave been fought and important sieges MAIN
talned, OF which the details as yet preserved
SonIyln the newspapers or in the transient pub
locations OF the day, but which ought now to
Sake their place in permanent and authentic
N preparing the present edition for the
press, IL mas accordingly been the aim of tho
eoltors to bring down the informatio to tho
latest possible dates. and to furnish an accu-
rate 4ccOunt of the most recent discoveries in
science. of every fresh production in literature,
and OF the newest inventions in tho practical
arts, as well as to give a succint anu oripina
record of the progress of political and hlstori.
.rhe work has been begun after long and
careful preliminary labor, and with the most
ample resources for carrying it on to q success
ful tel min alton.
None of the original stereotype plate, have
been used, but every page has been printed on
new type, forming in fact a new CyclOp@dia,
with the SAME plan and compass as its prede-
cessOr, but with far greater pecuniary expen-
diture, and with such Improvement In its COM
position as have been suggested by longer ex
perience and enlargedk nOwiedge.
The illustrations which arc introduced for the
hrst time in the present edition have been ad-
give greater lucidity and force to the explaoa-
tons in the text. They embrace all branches
ofscience and OF natural history, and depict the
most famous and remarkable features of fscene-
y, architecture, and art as we'll as the various
processes OF mechanics and manufactures. Az
:hougb Intended for instruction rather than
,mbeL Ishment, no pains have been spared to
nsuI their artistic excellence the cost OF
will find q welcome reception al
1irable feature of the Cyclopedia, and worthy
IF its high character.
This work is sold to Subscribers onl, p.-ya-
BILE on delivery of each volume. 1t will be COM
pleted in sixteen large octave volumes. each
contaieing about 800 pages fully illustrated with
several thousand Wood Engravings, and with
numerous colored Lithogrsphc Maps.
Price and St~lo of Binding.
In Library Leather, per vol. I........... 90
In Half Turkey Morocco, per vol. ........ 7 90
In Half Russia, extra gilt, per vol. 90
In Full Morocco, antique, gilt edges, per
In VTi Fni rnssis ner vol 10 10 So So
Volumes now ready. Succeeding volumes,
until completion, will be issued once in two
months
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