(ILLINOIS) Burnham Daniel H Plan of Chicago Prepared under t

Sale 2633 - Lot 101

Price Realized: $ 1,430

?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, gilt pictorial vellum, with errata slip after page 14; dampstaining to the lower margins of the first 16 leaves; #1617 of 1650 copies; presentation bookplate on front pastedown, owners' inscriptions on front endpapers. 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.