SKETCHES, HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL, OF THE FLORIDAS; MORE PARTICULARLY OF EAST FLORIDA

Forbes, James Grant

Verlag: C.S. Van Winkle, New York, 1821

226pp. plus leaf of publisher's advertisements. Folding frontispiece map. Contemporary tree calf, spine ruled in gilt, gilt leather label. Boards lightly rubbed and edge worn, bookplate on front pastedown. One long tear in folding map (repaired on verso). Text slightly tanned, scattered foxing and light staining. About very good. A guide to East Florida at the time it was ceded to the U.S., designed to attract investors and settlers to the "Forbes Purchase," encompassing over one million acres on the Apalachicola bay and river. An appendix reprints some historical documents, including a bilingual version of the treaty of cession. Sabin does not note the map, and Howes states it was not issued in all copies. It depicts the Apalachicola river and bay and includes a plan of Collin Mitchell's proposed town of Colinton, with street names, squares, etc. Mitchell's claim was apparently invalid, and his dreams of a town with his name started and ended with this map. A rare piece of early American Floridiana, here in the first and only edition. This copy with the bookplate of Edwin Stanton Fickes, a civil engineer and executive of the ALCOA company, who lived near Pittsburgh and was a major collector of Western Americana. The dormitory Fickes Hall at the University of Pittsburgh is his former home, and most of the extensive collection he maintained there was sold privately by Peter Decker in the 1960s. The Streeter copy sold to Nebenzahl for $80 in 1967. SABIN 25046. STREETER SALE 1205. CLARK II:203. HOWES F243. SERVIES 1078. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM41417

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Titel: SKETCHES, HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL, OF ...
Verlag: C.S. Van Winkle, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1821