Entirely rewritten by the ablest writers an every subject. Printed from new type, and illustrated with Several Thousand Engravings and Maps.

The work originally published under the title of The New American CyclopÆdia 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 an exact and thorough revision, and to issue a new edition entitled The American CyclopÆdia.

Within the last ten years the progress of discovery 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 occurred, involving national changes of peculiar moment. 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 have been made by the indefatigable 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 a multitude of new men, whose names are in every one's mouth, and of whose lives every one is curious to know the particulars. Great battles have been fought, and important sieges 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, an to furnish an accurate account of the most recent discoveries in science, of every fresh production in literature, and 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 resources 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 fact a new CyclopÆdia, with the same plan and compass as its predecessor, but with a far greater pecuniary expenditure, and with such improvements in its composition as have been suggested by longer experience and enlarged knowledge.

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 greater lucidity and force to the explanations in the text. They embrace all branches of science and of natural history, and depict the most famous and remarkable features of scenery, architecture, and art, as well as the various processes of mechanics and manufactures. Although intended for instruction rather than embellishment, no pains have been spared to insure their artistic excellence; the cost of their execution is enormous, and it is believed that they will find a welcome reception as an admirable feature of the CyclopÆdia, and worthy of its high character.

This work is sold to subscribers only, payable on delivery of each volume. It is now completed in sixteen large octavo volumes, each containing over 800 pages, fully illustrated with several thousand Wood Engravings, and with numerous colored Lithographic Maps.

PRICE AND STYLE OF BINDING.

Specimen pages of the American CyclopÆdia, showing type, illustrations, etc., will be sent gratis, on application.

D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers,
549 & 551 Broadway, New York.

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THE

PRESIDENTIAL COUNTS:

A COMPLETE OFFICIAL RECORD

OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS AT THE COUNTING
OF THE ELECTORAL VOTES IN ALL THE ELECTIONS
OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES; TOGETHER WITH ALL
CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION
INCIDENT THERETO, OR TO
PROPOSED LEGISLATION
UPON THAT SUBJECT.

WITH AN ANALYTICAL INTRODUCTION.

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One large 8vo Volume, 750 Pages, Paper Covers, Price, $3.

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The decision of the aggregate votes cast for a President is the greatest and most important act relating to every such election. How shall it be done? How shall the result be peacefully and justly decided? How shall the votes be counted? Upon the satisfactory solution of this question hangs the existence of the Government. In these pages the reader will find all that has been proposed or said in Congress on the subject, together with the entire official action of Congress in counting the votes at every previous presidential election.

All the congressional debates on this subject are printed verbatim from the reports in "The Annals of Congress," "Congressional Globe," and "Congressional Record," and in every case the pages of the original work are given.

D. APPLETON & CO.,Publishers,
549 & 551 Broadway, New York.

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