Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 117

Price Realized: $ 12,650
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
SCARCE EDITION IN GERMAN (ILLINOIS.) Chicago Illustrated. Illustrated wrapper to Part I, and 36 (of 52) tinted lithographed plates, with accompanying text leaves in German. Oblong 4to, contemporary morocco, rebacked and recased with the original backstrip; scattered edge tears and soiling. Chicago: Jevne and Almini, 1866-67
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Includes the following views: Chamber of Commerce, Tremont House, Great Central Depot Grounds, 2d Presbyterian Church, Custom House, Wabash Avenue Methodist Church, Rush Street Bridge, Michigan Avenue, Crosby's Opera House, View from 12th Street Bridge, Jesuite Church, View from Lake View House, Court House Square, Cor. State & Washington, Trinity Church, The Chicago Harbor, Lasalle Street from Court House Square, Colwood's Museum, Universalist Church, Lake Street Bridge, Chicago University, Sherman House, North Presbyterian Church, Cor. Lake and State Sts, Douglas' Monument, Briggs House, Second Baptist Church, Junction of the Chicago River, The Crib, Plymouth Congregational Church, Soldiers Home, Cor. Clark & Water Strs, Union Stock Yards, Hough House, 1st Congregational Church, Illinois Central Round House.
Neither Howes nor Graff note a German-language edition of this scarce American color plate book, which contains what are considered the best pre-fire views of Chicago. Howes J108; Graff 3747.<