GEOGRAPHICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF WISCONSIN, WITH BRIEF SKETCHES OF ITS HISTORY, GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, POPULATION, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS, GOVERNMENT, ANTIQUITIES, ETC. by Lapham, I. A - 1844

State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1967. Reprint. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. Facsimile reprint of 1867 edition, 104 pages, 8.5 in. tall, index.

Madison, W. T.: Ho. Of Reps.. 12pp. Pages are loose, and have edge loss. A shadow of a removed label on first page. Increase Lapham is misprinted as J. A. Lapham. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . Good. Disbound. 1842.

Madison: W. J. Park, 1866. First Edition. Printed wraps. Some worming along spine of wraps. Good. 31 [1] pages. Early Wisconsin printing. One word corrected in blue pencil.

Second edition. 12mo in publisher's cloth. 208 pp. Lacks map. Fair. Cloth heavily worn with loss of portion of spine. Small stain to fore edge of text block. Hinges starting. Front and rear endpapers and flyleaves missing; title page torn with top half missing. Text is clean. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

Milwaukee: I. A. Hopkins, 1846. .Brief sketches of its antiquities, natural history, soil, productions, population, and government.; Full brown goat with gilt title on spine label; A just good copy lacking map & rear free endpaper; 208 pages. Size: 4.5"x7.5". Hardcover.

Milwaukee: I.A. Hopkins, 1846. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Second edition, greatly improved. Includes hand-colored fold-out map. Rebound with new end sheets. Some pages lightly foxed, minor mending tissue repair to binding edge of map. 1846 Hard Cover. viii, [9]-208 pp. 12mo. An updated edition of the 1844 work famous as the "first bound book printed in Milwaukee." Howes L-97. Sabin 38979.

Milwaukee: I. A. Hopkins, 1846. Account of the Territory, soon to become a state, by its most notable early scientist; second edition, "greatly improved", with 1847 Morse & Breese folding tinted map of the southeast part of the Territory, showing the areas south of the Fox & Wisconsin Rivers sectioned. Hardcover, full blue cloth, gilt titling, blind-stamped decoration. Ex-library, with a few rubberstamps, faint spine numbers, sort of a pocket; heavy foxing - though the map is but little affected - general wear & rubbing, light chipping to spine ends, spine tanned & spotted. Text clean; 208 pages including a 6-page catalogue of Hopkins' other books, largely phrenological, dated 1847; folding map as frontispiece.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Duodecimo.

Milwaukee: I. A. Hopkins, 1846. Second Edition, Greatly Improved. HB. Blue embossed cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 12mo, 208 pp. including 6 pages publishers ads at rear. With a hand colored map of the southern half of the state by Sidney E. Morse and Samuel Breese, and dated 1847. Lapham [1811-1875] arrived at what was to become the city of Milwaukee in 1836, and this is the second edition of the first significant treatment of the geography of Wisconsin. Lapham went on to study the Indian Mounds of Wisconsin, and was instrumental in helping to create the U.S. Weather Service. No marks in book, binding tight. Light foxing to end papers. Map complete with no foxing, but has old tape repairs to one panel. Covers show one small ink stain on front cover, upper corners bumped, spine sunned with minor chipping along rear hinge. Book condition Good+.

Milwaukee:: I. A. Hopkins,, 1846.. Second Edition, Greatly Improved.. publisher's embossed blue cloth.. Light tanning to endsheets and light (inoffensive) foxing to the first couple leaves of text; very slight rubbing to binding; tight and sound. . 12mo,. Tinted folding frontispiece map. .