Forbes, James Grant:

$3,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

SKETCHES, HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL, OF THE FLORIDAS; MORE PARTICULARLY OF EAST FLORIDA. 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 An appendix reprints some historical documents, including a bilingual version of the treaty of cession.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.

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