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Show CATALOGUE OF LEA AND BLANCHARD'S PUBLIC AT I 0 N S. THE AMERICAN ENCYCLOP AIDIA. BROUGHT UP TO 1847. THE ENCYCLUP~DIA AMERICANA: A POPULAR DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, liTERATURE, HISTORY, POLITICS AND BIOGRAPHY. lN FOURTEEN LARGE OCTAVO VOLUMES OF OVER SIX HUNDRED DOUBLE COLUMNED PAGES EACH. For sale very low, in various styles of binding. During the long period which this work has been before the public, it has attamed a very high character as an ENCYCLOP lED lA FOR DAILY REFERENCE, ~~~t~~f· 1: ~:r:r;r::i~~lym ~~d!i~~e !l's!~b.!;,a'!~u~f~i~! ~,.~~~okrr:d which is wanted in the daily exigencies of conversation and reading. It has also a recommendation shared by no other work of the kind now before the public, in being an American book. The numerous American Biogra· phies, Accounts of American Inventions and Discoveries, References to our Political Institutions, and the general adaptation of the whole to our own peculiar habits and modes of thought, peculiarly suit it to reade~s in this country. From these causes, it is also especially fitted for all DISTRICT SCHOOL AND OTHER PUBLIC LIBRARIES, in some of which it has been tried with great satisfaction. It fulfils, to o greater extent than perhaps any similar work, the requirements for these mstitutions, presenting, in a small compass and price, the materials of 11 library, and furnishing a book for every-day use and reference, indispelll!abll' to those removed from the large public collections. \Some years having elapsed since the original thirteen volumes of thE' ENCYCLOPlEDIA AMERICANA were published, to bring it up tc> the present day, with the history of that period, at the request of numerous subscribers, the publishers have just issued a SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME (THE FOURTEENTH), BRINGING THE WORK UP TO THE YEAR 1847 EDITED BY HENRY VETHAKE, LL.D. Vie&-Provost and Professor of Mathematics in the University of Pennsylvwa, Author of u A Treatise on Political Economy." In one large octavo volume of over 650 double columned poge11. |