Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 1,820
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(ILLINOIS.) Burnham, Daniel H. Plan of Chicago Prepared under the Direction of the Commercial Club. 26 plans and plates (many folding and/or colored), numerous illustrations. xviii, [2], 164, [1] pages. 4to, publisher's cloth gilt, tag removed from backstrip, minimal wear; #884 of 1650 copies, with errata slip after page 14; presentation bookplate on front pastedown, small embossed library stamps on title page and page 97, very small inked owner's stamp on front free endpaper. Chicago: Commercial Club, 1909

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The Burnham Plan (by the master builder of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition) helped reshape Chicago with a vision for major infrastructure improvements--railroads, highways, and most importantly lakefront parks. A handsome copy of a landmark in city planning.