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Written by 6,500 contributors, the Encyclopedia Americana includes over 9,000 bibliographies, 150,000 cross-references, 1,000+ tables, 1,200 maps, and almost 4,500 black-and-white line art and color images. It also has 680 fact boxes.
Encyclopedia Americana, general encyclopaedia that was the first major multivolume encyclopaedia to be published in the United States (1829–33). Compiled and edited by Francis Lieber, Americana was first published in 13 volumes. Subsequent editions were published in 1911 (20 volumes) and 1918–20.
The Encyclopedia Americana is a US-based encyclopedia published in the 20th and 21st century. (It is also the name of some otherwise unrelated 19th-century encyclopedias, also listed on The Online Books Page, some under the spelling Encylopaedia Americana .)
Sep 2, 2008 · The Encyclopedia Americana; Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Wisconsin - Madison and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Jan 17, 2016 · The Encyclopedia Americana is one of the largest general encyclopedias in the English language. Following the acquisition of Grolier in 2000, the encyclopedia has been produced by Scholastic.
Encyclopedia Americana, First Edition DRAKE DE KAY In late January, 1828, Dr. Francis Lieber, a young Prussian refugee scholar journeyed from Boston to Philadelphia, where he proposed to the leading American booksellers, Messrs. Carey, Lea & Carey, that they finance and publish a multivolumed encyclopedia
On spine: The Americana. Includes bibliographies. Also available in digital form.
