[Cooke, D.B. & Co.]:

$2,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

D.B. COOKE & CO'S RAILWAY GUIDE FOR ILLINOIS SHEWING ALL THE STATIONS WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE DISTANCES CONNECTING WITH CHICAGO. A rare and handsome early railroad pocket map of Illinois. The lefthand side contains an index of railroads present on the map, including those in-progress, and an index of towns and connecting service is printed on the right. The map itself is lithographed by Henry Acheson, with handcolored yellow, pink and green state boundaries, though the indexes and elaborately engraved border are printed. Illinois had little railroad presence at all until the early 1840s, at which point an explosion of development in the middle of the century transformed it into the railroad hub of the nation. Scarce – OCLC locates ten copies, Rare Book Hub records no other copy since 1966, and Byrd locates only the Graff copy.

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