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Important early pocket map of Chicago, showing the area affected by the Great Fire in red.
Title on printed covers is: R. H. McDonald's Illustrated History and Map of Chicago and the Great Fire. [bound with]: R. H. McDonald's Illustrated History and Map of Chicago, With a History of the Great Fire; Containing Views of Chicago in 1820 and 1871. Photographs of the Public Buildings Burned. Growth and Progress of Chicago from 1774 to 1871. Its Enterprise, With a Record of All the Great Fires of the World. The Map is from an Official Survey of the City as it Was, With a Careful, and Correct Outline of the Burned District. New York: R. B. Thompson & Co., 1872.... 24 pp., 10 text engravings ( Chicago in 1820..., Bird's-eye View of Chicago in 1871-before the Fire, plus 8 scenes of architecture and public works).
According to the Chicago Public Library on-line catalogue the burnt district is incorrectly indicated. Reps does not list the birds-eye view of Chicago on p. 3 of the text. Frequently bound with a broadside, which contains news of the Chicago Fire of 1871. Only 1 auction record in the past 30 years.
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