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Any work published by D. Appleton & Co. will be mailed, post-free, or sent by express, prepaid, to any part of the United States, upon receipt of the advertised price. Catalogues will be furnished upon application.

APPLETON & CO. have probably the handsomest copy of Audubon's Birds of America ever offered for sale in this country. It is of the first edition, in four volumes, elephant folio, accompanied by five volumes of text, in imperial octavo. The copy is entirely perfect, and the binding is in rich crimson levant morocco, elegantly tooled on sides and back. The price of this superb copy of Audubon is fifteen hundred dollars.

APPLETONS' ILLUSTRATED ALMANAC for 1871 is

D. Appleton & Co.'s edition of the WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS, complete in six volumes, price, in cloth, $10.50, or, in half calf, $21, handsomely put up in boxes, is excellent for presentation. D. Appleton & Co. also publish an edition of the WAVERLEY NOVELS, uniform in style, and published at the same price. These are the cheapest editions of Dickens and Scott in the market.

In "In Fairyland; or, Pictures from the Elt World," Mr. Richard Doyle, by his pencil, and Mr. Allingham, in dainty verse, have depicted and illustrated, in charming poetry and happy designs, so elegant and artistic a work, that a copy accom-life in Fairyland, such as may well captivate the panying every presentation-parcel would be a tasteful addendum to the regular selection. Price, forty cents.

Louis Figuier's illustrated works on Natural Science afford admirable presentation volumes. They are as attractive in appearance, and fascinating in style, as they are truly instructive and useful.

"The Poet and the Painter," containing one hundred fine steel engravings, printed on the page with the text, is one of the most sumptuous and elegant books ever issued in America. The contents are principally selections from the great English and American poets, beginning with Milton, and coming down to the young poets of recent fame. The engravings are truly elegant, many of them of the highest artistic execution.

trate the vicissitudes and incidents of fairy-life ; fancy of mortals. Both poem and pictures illusits love-making, its intrigues, its characters, its hopes and woes, its triumphs and defeats; and both poet and artist exhibit an abundance of quaint fancy, humorous conceit, and fantastic wit. The designs are all executed in colors, and are very well printed. "In Fairyland" is a folio, superb in paper, printing, and all its art-appurte

nants.

For those interested in the history of the arts, a suitable presentation-volume would be "The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance," which is illustrated with nineteen chromo-lithographic prints, and over four hundred engravings on wood. A truly sumptuous, and yet a very valuable book.

The New York Times speaks of the illustrated edition of Bryant's "Song of the Sower" as follows: "A gem of American poetry, fitly set amid gems of native art. As a holiday volume, the 'Song of the Sower' will rank as one of the most superb yet issued by any American publisher. Both in drawing and engraving, the highest available talent has been employed, the figure-subjects bearing the names of Winslow Homer, Hennessy, and Nehlig, and the landscapes being the work of Harry Fenn, Hows, Griswold, and Granville Perkins. To reproduce the sketches of these artists, such engravers as Linton, Harley, and Filmer, have been selected. The poem is exceedingly well adapted for varied and suggestive pictorial representation, comprehending, as it does, references to the leading phases and employments of life, as well as to many of the aspects of external nature. Without attempting selection where the work would be so embarrassing, we instance Griswold's landscape with the motto, Shall walk again the genial year,' as a specimen of designer's and engraver's art, of very remarkable excellence, while Hennessy's 'Close alleys of the town' presents a corresponding success in the way of figure-drawing. When to its artistic merits are added the recommendations of thick creamy paper, and type of great clearness and beauty, it will be readily understood that Messrs. Appletons' holiday volume for the coming season is entirely worthy of the well-earned reputation of its publishers in this department of literature."

For a splendid holiday book, what can equal Appletons' "New American Cyclopædia?" This work is complete in sixteen volumes. The "Annual Cyclopædia," of which a volume is published every year, containing full records of important events in government, science, literature, art, and industry, has now reached nine volumes. The Annuals are uniform in size and styles of binding with the Cyclopædia proper, but may be purchased separately. A set of the "Cyclopædia,” in sixteen volumes, in handsome binding, would be a valuable as well as splendid testimonial. The series, in this form, would be complete, but the Annuals may be added at the option of the purchaser. The price is five dollars per volume in cloth; six dollars in library leather; six dollars and a half in half morocco; seven dollars and a half in half russia, and nine dollars in full russia.

A year's subscription to APPLETONS' JOURNAL would be a suitable holiday present. This periodical, during the ensuing year, will continue the series of illustrated papers entitled “ Picturesque America," which have universally been pronounced the most graphic, vivid, and effective delineations of American localities ever produced. It will beof "Red as a Rose is She." Its short stories, gin, early in the year, a new novel by the author sketches of travel and adventure, essays on social

have been so popular, will be continued with topics, editorial "table-talk," etc., all of which

sustained, if not increased, interest. Price of yearly subscription, four dollars. New subscribers for 1871, remitting before December 25th, will receive eight numbers of the current year, from November 12th, gratuitously-enabling each new subscriber to begin with the first of the "Pictu

Doré's Bible, Doré's Dante, Doré's Don Quixote, and Doré's Fables of Fontaine, are too well known to need description, and are mentioned as a reminder to those sending for costly presentation volumes. The superbly-illustrated wrok, "Les Jar-resque America" series. dins," is also a magnificent book for presentation. Of books for children, there is almost no end, We are now offering Doré's Bible for $75, in cloth, and in recent years the best efforts of the artists or for $100.00, in half morocco; Don Quixote for have been employed to give charm and grace to $80.00, in half morocco; Dante's Purgatory and these volumes. Complaints are uttered by some, Paradise, $40.00. The price of "Les Jardins "is that juvenile books are getting too costly, but $50.00. children are not likely to remain content with inelders for fine books has so notably advanced. ferior productions at a time when the taste of their Among the new juvenile books worthy of special note, we refer the reader to advertisement on last page of the BULLETIN.

The illustrated editions of " Halleck's Poems," and Halleck's "Life and Letters," should be remembered in selecting books for the holiday season. A few copies of the "Life and Letters," large-paper edition, can be obtained, bound either in cloth, price ten dollars, or in morocco, price fifteen dollars.

Full catalogues of D. Appleton & Co.'s publications, including complete lists of all their illustrated and standard books, for holiday presents, sent on application.

Purchasers of books in New York City are invited to examine D. Appleton & Co.'s varied and full retail stock of books. The selection of standard works, in fine bindings, is very full, and all the current books of the day are kept in full supply. In Bibles and Prayer-Books their stock is unusually fine.

The two companion volumes, "The Schiller Gallery" and "The Goethe Gallery," have very great claims upon the book-buyer. Each of these splendid volumes is illustrated by fifty engravings on steel, each illustration accompanied by a selection from the author, descriptive of the scene or character which the artist has delineated. The engravings are of the highest artistic character, the series in each volume forming a varied and singularly beautiful art-gallery. These volumes are excellent as gift-books to those appreciating Goethe or Schiller, or are well suited as introductory to an acquaintance with these great authors.

The high standing and general excellence of THE NEW YORK MEDICAL and PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNALS (published by D. Appleton & Co.) have secured for them a wide circulation among the best of the medical profession of the country, and no pains have been spared by the publishers to maintain the elevated literary and scientific character already acquired. No better testimonial could be presented to the family physician than a year's subscription to either or both of these journals. The subscription price to the MEDICAL JOURNAL is $4.00; to the PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL, $5.00; or the two to one address, for $8.00.

Announcement of New Books and New Editions to be published in December, by D. Appleton & Co.

IFTEEN Years. A Picture from Life and Nature under the Tropics;

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A Hand-Book of Law, for Business Men, containing an Epitome of the Law of Contracts, Bills and Notes, Interest, Guaranty and Suretyship, Assignments for Creditors, Agents, Factors, and Brokers, Sales, Mortgages, and Liens, Partnership, Patents and Copyrights, Trade-Marks, the Good-will of a Business, Carriers, Insurance, Shipping, Arbitrations, Statutes of Limitation; with an Appendix, containing Forms of Instruments used in the Transaction of Business. By WILLIAM TRACY, LL. D. 8vo, 690 pages.

What to Read, and How to Read, being Classified Lists of Choice Reading, with Appropriate Hints and Remarks, adapted to the General Reader, to Subscribers to Libraries, and to persons intending to form Collections of Books. Brought down to September, 1870. By CHARLES H. MOORE, M.D., formerly Professor in Oakland College, Mississippi, and in Baltimore City College. 12mo, 152 pp.

or, Sketches of Travels among the Andes, and on the Orinoco, Rio Negro, and Amazons. By H. M. and P. V. N. MYERS. With an Introduction by Rev. ALBERT HOPKINS, LL. D., F. R. S., Professor of Astronomy in Williams College.

The Poison of Asps. A Novelette. By FLORENCE MARRYAT (Mrs. Ross Church). 8vo, 72 pp. Paper.

Appletons' European Guide-Book.

Illustrated. Including England, Scotland, and Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Northern and Southern Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Containing a Map of Europe, and nine other Maps, with Plans of 20 of the Principal Cities, and 120 Engravings. 12mo, morocco, pocket-book form, 132 pages. Price, $6.00.

In the preparation of this guide-book, the author has sought to give, within the limits of a single portable volume, all the information necessary to enable the tourist to find his way, without difficulty, from place to place, and to see the objects best worth seeing, throughout such parts of Europe as are generally visited by American and English travellers. With few exceptions, the author has travelled over the routes he has described, and has given the results of his own bonafide researches.

Appletons' Journal. Monthly Part. No. 21, containing weekly numbers for December. Price,

50 cents.

Galvano-Therapeutics. The Physiologi- The Physics and Physiology of Spir

cal and Therapeutical Action of the Galvanic Current upon the Acoustic, Optic. Sympathetic, and Pneumogastric Nerves, By WILLIAM B. NEFTEL, M.D. 12mo, 161 pages. Price, $1.50.

Heir of Redclyffe. New edition, with Illus

trations. Cloth, 12mo,

itualism. By WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, M. D., Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, and of Clinical Medicine, in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College; Physician-in-Chief to the New York State Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System; etc., etc., etc. One vol., 12mo, 86 pages. Cloth. Price, $1.00.

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THE SONG OF THE SOWER.

By WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

ILLUSTRATED WITH FORTY-TWO ENGRAVINGS FROM DESIGNS BY WINSLOW HOMER, HARRY FENN, HENNESSY, HOWS, GRISWOLD, NEHLIG, PERKINS, AND OTHERS.

Quarto. In Cloth, Gilt, $5.00; Full Morocco, $9.00.

NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & CO., PUBLISHERS, 90, 92 AND 94 GRAND STREET.

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An elegant small quarto volume, of ninety-six pages, richly and fully illustrated with Engravings from Drawings on wood, by BIRKET FOSTER, Hows, and others. Engraved and printed in the most perfect manner. In cloth, gilt sides and edges, $3; in morocco, antique, and morocco, gilt, $7.

NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & Co., PUBLISHERS, 90, 92 AND 94 GRAND STREET.

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