[Chicago]: [Hammond, J.T., engraver]:

$4,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

TRAVELLERS GUIDE & EMIGRANTS DIRECTORY, THROUGH THE STATES OF OHIO, ILLINOIS, INDIANA AND MICHIGAN [bound with:] TRAVELLER'S MAP OF MICHIGAN, ILLINOIS, INDIANA & ... Very rare first edition of this early midwestern broadside and map. The broadside, which provides brief descriptions of the history, geography, natural resources, agriculture, manufactures, and improvements of the region, as well as a population table by county for each state and a table showing the price of passage from New York to various cities, is found accompanied by one of two different maps. The Streeter and Graff copies are both bound with a Map of Illinois with a Plan of Chicago, also engraved by Hammond and published by Squire. Other copies, including this one, feature a larger map of the greater Midwest, notable for its early use of the spelling "Wisconsin" for the newly-established territory. This appears in an inset in the lower right corner of the map—the full map was apparently produced slightly earlier, and still shows Sioux and Brown counties as part of Michigan Territory. At this time, Illinois's northern boundaries were also in flux and, as a result, three sections of land at the northern Illinois border are labeled "Attached to Joe Davies's County," "Attached to La Salle County," and "Attached to Cook County." Quite a rare broadside and map: Eberstadt advertised their 1956 offering as "the only known copy" (not specifying which map), and the only other record on Rare Book Hub belongs to the St

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