Made in Chicago

Engraved wall map with contemporary hand-coloring (1798 x 1580 mm sheet), inset maps of Chicago and Blue Island, inset diagram of the state of Illinois. (Mounted on new linen, a few tiny losses to edges, some minor staining as usual.) FIRST EDITION, ONE OF THE EARLIEST MAPS OF COOK COUNTY, A FINE COPY OF THIS PRE-FIRE RARITY"Walter Flower's enormously large map of Cook County...presents an historical snapshot of the Chicago area at the dawn of the Civil War that remains unparalleled in its richness of detail" (Robert Holland, Chicago in Maps, p.87). Borders include advertisements from Chicago merchants, and the map includes plats of over thirty towns in Cook County. The map also includes large-scale pictures of numerous properties around Chicago and Cook County, including the Tremont House Hotel, the Washington House, Bryant Hall, Graceland and Rosehill Cemeteries, J. J. Sand's Columbian Brewery, the Cook County Courthouse, Oak Ridge School in Cicero, the residences of Thomas Cook and James W. Scoville, E. Haskin's House in Evanston, and Northwestern Female College in Evanston. Streeter III: 1513.