![Item #14180 Broadside of Masonic songs, "Waubansia Lodge, No. 160" [caption title]. Chicago...](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14180.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1524605897)
Chicago: Democratic Press Print, 45 Clark Street, [ca. 1855-1857]. First edition. Broadside on heavy stock white coated paper, approx. 10-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches. An evidently unrecorded bit of Chicago ante-fire printing, the lyrics to four songs for Masonic brethren of Waubansia Lodge in Chicago. The imprint date seems probable: according..... More
[Washington, D. C.]: Blair & Rives, printers, [1840]. First edition. Removed unbound pamphlet, scant 9 x 5.75 inches, 4 pages. With the accompanying map, a sketch chart of Chicago Harbor, “showing changing shore line of Lake Michigan, 1821, 1838, and 1839” (Claussen & Friis), scant 9 x 11.75 inches, engraved..... More
Chicago: Tribune Company’s Book and Job Printing Office, 1863. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 30 pages. The Board of Trade and associated men of Chicago stand against the jealous guardians of the Upper Mississippi trade to call for an easy means of shipping its grain to..... More
Chicago: Daily Democrat Steam Press, 1858. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 8.25 x 5.5 inches, 40 pages. With much in the way of tabular data on the demographics of the delinquents (43 American born delinquents in 1858, 47 Irish born), education levels, crimes committed, sanitary condition of the homes from..... More
Chicago: Democratic Press Job and Book Steam Printing Office, 45 Clark St. 1854. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, 9.5 x 6 inches, 80 pages, printed in double columns. Dated in type at the head of the first page of text, January 31, 1854, with the note, “Second edition of Five..... More
