The Great Calamity! Scenes, Incidents, and Lessons of the Great Chicago Fire of the 8th and 9th of October, 1871 : also some account of other great conflagrations of modern times, and the burning of Peshtigo, Wisconsin

Original gilt-stamped cloth, light wear, corners bumped. 100 pp., folding map of Chicago. The map, normally seen as a frontispiece, has been bound inside the front cover. One of the first books about the fire published, with a note by the author dated November, 1871. Printed on the map is John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, "Chicago" which was first printed in the Atlantic Monthly in December, 1872. It was later included in a book of Whittier's poems "The Pennsylvania Pilgrim", but this is the first book appearance of this poem.