[Rarebooks] FS: Early History of Chicago, 1862, a scarce Ante-Fire imprint, price reduced

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Price just reduced:   Was $650,  Now  $350

GUYER, I. D. HISTORY OF CHICAGO; ITS COMMERCIAL AND MANUFACTURING 
INTERESTS AND INDUSTRY... Chicago: Church, Goodman & Cushing, 1862. 
First Edition. Quarto bound in the publisher's brown cloth; 200 pages. 
Howes 468; New Howes 465 "b". A scarce Ante-Fire Imprint with chapters 
on numerous industries including bookbinding, dentistry, billiard table 
manufacturing, comedy, coffee, furs, beer, railroads, whips, and many 
others. With eight full-page plates and a number of text engravings. The 
two tinted lithographs are lacking from this copy. The double-page 
frontispiece compares a drawing of Chicago in 1820 to a bird's-eye view 
of the city in 1862. Included in the pagination are four advertisements 
for railroads at the end. The paper is brittle with some leaves partly 
detached and a few completely detached, which seems often to be the case 
with this title. The edges of the original binding are lightly worn with 
the spine tips chipped. A two-inch split occurs at the top of the front 
cover where it meets the spine resulting in some looseness to the cover. 
A Good copy of a scarce book. (#008286)        $350.00

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