THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

AJTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN POUNDATIONS.

ANECDOTES, DESCRIPTIONS, &c. &c.

RELATING TO THE MECHANIC ARTS.

ILLUSTRATED BY FIFTY ENGRAVINGS

BY HENRY HOWE.

"The due cultivation of practical manual arts in a nation, has a greater tendency to
polish and humanize mankind, than mere speculative science, however refined and sublime
it may be."

NEW-YORK:

J. C. DERBY, No. 119 NASSAU STREET.

CINCINNATI: H. W. DERBY.

CHICAGO: D. B. COOK & CO.

1856.
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