Name: USA - Illinois - Chicago
SKU: 4582
Availability: InStock

Description

Wagner and Debes’ Geographisches Institut, Leipzig, 1914

colour printed map; overall 22 x 21 cm. folds as issued; small top right margin as issued; exc. cond.

A charming little townplan of Chicago, IL from an unknown guidebook published by Wagner and Debes.

The Leipzig Geographical Institute of Wagner & Debes was important German cartographic printer and publisher of cartographic work in the 19th- and early 20th century. Established in 1835 as a lithographic press by Eduard Wagner, who worked with cartography publisher Karl Baedeker. In 1872 Heinrich Wagner, son of Eduard Wagner, took over, moved the presses to Leipzig, and established his own publishing firm in collaboration with Ernst Debes.

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