Atlas of the State of Illinois to which is added an atlas of the United States, maps of the hemispheres. . . [combined town, county, state, national and general atlas].

Chicago, IL: Warner & Beers, 62 & 64 Lake Street, 1873. Atlas folio. 16 x 18.7 in. 3, [3], 5-91, [1] pp. Woodcut-engraved title page, 42 hand-coloured steel-engraved maps, all w/ nicely executed engraved borders (couple double-page), additional steel-engraved “Family Records” page filled-out in manuscript inserted. Original front panel stamped in decorative gilt lettering mounted on recent black cloth binding (occasional edgewear, minor soiling to fore-edges of textblock, couple very minor closed tears), still VG copy from the library of John Inkster (1828-1908), Scottish-American farmer who immigrated in 1860 to Pilot Township, Kankakee, IL to farm with his brother James, and then continued West to farm in Coast Fork, Lane Co., Oregon, and finally the Washington Territory in 1881 where he homesteaded near Davenport, WT, assisted in building Fort Spokane, and served as County Commissioner from 1886-1892. First edition of this exceedingly scarce Illinois Atlas published just after the great Chicago Fire of 1871, featuring an unrecorded platt map of Pilot Township in Kankakee County, Illinois, showing all the properties and property owners in 1872. This atlas also features the Railway map of Illinois, City Map of Chicago, maps of all the Illinois Counties, and large map of the United States. Of special interest are the excellent early western maps of Texas; Minnesota, Nebraska and the Dakota Territory; Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho Territories; Nevada and California, along with map of Oregon and Washington and Alaska Territories. The Beers and Warners were successful map publishers in Chicago, IL from about 1850 to 1886, and often publishing as Warner & Beers, the cartographers produced a series of early state and county atlases, and regional maps which were considered the most detailed maps produced at the time of the respective regions. As their Township and County maps often detailed individual homes and landowners, they provide invaluable reference tools to researchers, historians, and genealogists. No copies located of this specific Warner & Beers Atlas in Worldcat; No individual copies located of the Pilot Township Map; See: Portrait & Biographical Record of Kankakee County, Illinois (1893), pp. 390-391; An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams & Franklin Counties (1904), pp. 421-425.