Fine Books and Manuscripts

Standard Atlas of La Salle County Illinois including a Plat Book of the Villages, Cities and Townships of the County. Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. and Hennessey &Co., 1906.Folio (446 x 392 mm). Maps of LaSalle County, Illiniois, the United States and the World, and 86 township and plat maps on 56 sheets (19 double-page), 6pp. residents' portraits. (Some browning, tear to lower corner of title-page with loss, a few minor marginal chips.) Publisher's half leather, brown gilt- and blind-stamped cloth (upper cover detached, spine worn, lower hinge repaired.) In the late 19th-century, Chicago was the premier subscription publishing center in the United States; publishers, including George A. Ogle, produced millions of reference atlases through the 1920s.