History of the City of Ripon

Mapes, David P. : History of the City of Ripon, and of its founder, David P. Mapes with his opinion of Men and Manners of the Day. Milwaukee : Cramer, Aikens and Cramer, 1873. No additional printings listed. Duodecimo (12mo), 7.625"/19.3cm h. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettering and ornamental head/tail banding to spine; debossed framing to boards. Plain white endpapers. [iv], [9], 10-281, [282-288] blank; two additional unpaginated sheets of illus. Frontispiece (author illus), preface, contents (see photo), list of illus, dedication/list of subscribers. Condition notes: an excellent early (possibly first) printing, with the following flaws: Spine ends rolled, corners bumped and frayed. Light wear and rubbing to cloth boards. Edges moderately toned. Two former owner entries: "G.N. Lyman/March 26, 1874" in pencil to rfep, and "Lyman" to first blank page (likely George N. Lyman, 1817?1898, of Ripon); and a penned name, address and date from the 1960s to tail ffep. Else unmarked. Pages lightly tanned. Ripon, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, was the birthplace of the modern Republican Party. Mapes founded the city in 1849. We personally inspect every book we offer.…