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Title: Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota; and Incidentally of a Portion of Nebraska Territory Author: Owen, David Dale Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. Date: 1852 Description: 2 volumes. One volume is the text, the other is the illustration volume. Illustrated with 27 steel-engraved plates of fossils, 17 hand-colored folding sections, 2 maps, and a large folding geological map. (4to), original blind-stamped green cloth. First Edition. Owens explored into Minnesota and to Lake Winnipeg, then into Iowa and the South Dakota Badlands. This report is, "the most sumptuous American geological publication to that time, it is still of great significance" (DSB). Bookplate of General Hiram Scofield in each volume; calligraphic bookplate of "Mrs. General Scott February 8. 1853" in text volume. Lot Amendments Condition: Cloth worn, dampstaining; good. Item number: 235495