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réf. 5613FLORIDA. DS. 1pg. December 26 1843. Escambia County Florida Territory. A handwritten legal document concerning an estate dispute. It was signed by a clerk and docketed on the verso by several other parties including U.S. Marshal for the District of E. Florida John Beard. To the Marshals of the Territory of Florida Greeting We command you that of the goods and Chattels Lands and tenements of John N Stockton deceased in the hands of William T Stockton administrator to be administered you cause to be made the sum of one thousand seven hundred and thirty three dollars and forty seven cents for his principal and interest there on up to the eight day of December 1843 and eight per cent interest thereon until paid which John Campbell lately in our Superior Court for the County of Escambia in the western District of Florida recovered against the said William T Stockton administrator as aforesaid and the further sum of three dollars and eighty-seven cents Which to the said John Campbell was adjudged for his costs by him about his suit in this behalf expanded where of the said William T Stockton as administrator aforesaid in Convict as appears to us of record and failing the goods and chattels of the said John N C Stockton deceased And you are further commanded that you have the said sum of money in one hundred and twenty days from the date hereof before our said Court at the Court House in said County to render to the said John Campbell to satisfy and pay the debt and costs aforesaid Florida became a state in 1845. The document is in very good condition with minor faults. unknown books
1826réf. 73407Washington DC: Printed by Gales & Seaton 1826. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 148pp; 13 folding tables. Rebound in modern plain red cloth. Historical society bookplate on front pastedown foxed throughout else very good. Folding tables are all complete and in very good condition. Much of the correspondence concerning the settlement of land claims originated in St. Augustine. The folding tables record the names of claimants acreage concessions and other details. Florida became a U.S. territory in 1821 and achieved statehood in 1845. Printed by Gales & Seaton hardcover books
1956réf. acs1209Gulfport Fla.: Boca Ciega High School 1956-1958. 8 issues including: Volume III No. 10 Feb. 28 1956; Vol. III No. 13 April 10 1956; Vol. III No. 14 April 24 1956; Vol. IV No. 12 April 8 1957; Vol. V No. 8 Jan. 22 1958; Vol. V No. 9 Feb. 14 1958; Vol. V No. 13 April 11 1958; and Vol. V No. 15 May16 1948. Together 8 issues. Boca Ciega High opened in the fall of 1953. These are early issues in fact award-winning issues featuring school news and personalities. Very Good. Boca Ciega High School, 1956-1958. unknown books
1945réf. 13029scsTallahassee: Florida State Centennial Commission 1945. First Edition. Octavo black cloth hardcover gilt letters and decoration to upper cover fold-out map xi 481 pp. Upper hinge starting; otherwise a Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine and edgewear that includes light chipping. From Preface: Florida Becomes a State consists of selected documents relating to the admission of Florida to the Union an introduction by Dorothy Dodd Archivist in the Florida State Library and a foreword by W. T. Cash State Librarian discussing social life in Florida bout the time it became a state. The documents consitute a casebook in the formation of a state and are therefore not only useful to those interested in Florida history but to students of the science of government as well. The introduction is a more than skillmul interpretations of the documents; it is a splendid illustration of the gradual progress of Florida in surmounting obstacles on the road to statehood. Florida State Centennial Commission, 1945. First Edition. hardcover books
1940réf. 608596Middlebury Vermont: The Bread Loaf Printers 1940. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Foreword by Louis Untermeyer. Octavo. 21pp. Fine in very good original unprinted glassine dust jacket with tears at the perimeter. Signed and dated by the author. (The Bread Loaf Printers hardcover books
réf. 61368bdTallahassee Florida: Nathan Mayo n.d. Octavo paperbound black & white illus. white wrappers 87 pp. Very Good with light edgewear. Nathan Mayo, n.d. unknown books
réf. 5578TALLAHASSEE FLORIDA. DS. 1pg. June 21 1843. Jacksonville Florida. A letter concerning the fire that destroyed much of Tallahassee Florida in 1843. A brief unsigned note to Tallahassee Mayor Francis W. Eppes 1801-1881 donates to the relief efforts. Below it a note signed James B Gamble as treasurer of the relief committee records receipt of $10 from Eppes. F Eppes Mayor of Tallahassee Sir Having heard of the distress brot upon your city by the late conflagration and being desirous to do something especially for the relief of the needy I beg you will accept the enclosed note for that purpose. Your &c Tallahassee June 29/43 Recd from Wm. F. Eppes Mayor the above Ten dollars for the relief of the sufferers by fire. James B Gamble Treasurer Com of Relief. In good condition with general wear and a small tear. unknown books
1884réf. 70594Jacksonville FL: Published by the author Times-Union Print 1884. First edition. 8vo. 198 6 pp. OCLC locates three copies Library of Congress Florida State Texas-Austin. Original gilt-stamped brown cloth worn along rear joint corners bumped some interior soiling. Good copy only. Published by the author (Times-Union Print) unknown books
1828réf. 26005Washington: Gales & Seaton 1828. House Document 169 20th Congress 1st Session. Bound in modern cloth bookplate on front pastedown gilt-stamped spine title. 53pp 5 folding tables. Light rubberstamp at upper margin of page 3 light to moderate foxing. Good. A compendium of the disposition of claims to land in Florida an important resource for understanding the tangle of land claims in early Florida. AI 36727 2. Servies 1414. Gales & Seaton unknown books
1935réf. 5566San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1935. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 450 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. Quarto. viii 48pp. Portraits and facsimile letters. Printed in red and black. Handset Lutetia type. Orange boards black cloth spine orange paper spine label printed in black. A very fine copy. Reminiscences by a friend of San Francisco's most famous volunteer firewoman and honorary member of Knickerbocker Engine Company No. 5. Grabhorn: 221. Grabhorn Press hardcover books
1819réf. 23119Washington: Thomas Allen Printer 1819. 20pp untrimmed uncut Very Good. Secretary of State Forsyth transmits documents to Congress concerning Spanish and French claims to West Florida. Forsyth advises that any such claims were extinguished by the Louisiana Purchase and the Treaty between the United States and Spain. He transmits correspondence occurring in 1810 between Governor Claiborne and others concerning American forces' occupation of the territory. OCLC 10648476 3. Not in Sabin or Eberstadt. Thomas Allen, Printer unknown books
1911réf. 34481Jacksonville FL: Colonization Dept.: Sutherland McConnel & Co 1911. Printed broadside 24 x 18 inches employing several styles and sizes of type the large head 2 1/4 inches within an ornamental border featuring citrus fruit and pineapples. Jacksonville is the gateway good school fine churches healthful climate big crops." An immigration promotional offering more than a million acres to choose from with the first offering being a 27000 acre tract in Duval County. Servies 16187 noting only a privately held copy. OCLC locates three copies: Yale State Lib. of Florida Univ. of North Florida. Very good. #5038. Colonization Dept.: Sutherland, McConnel & Co unknown books
1934réf. 299721St. Augustine FL: The Record Company 1934. Southern Art Engraving Company and Dixie Engraving. Where art and nature join their crafts in a kingdom by southern seas."~~10 1/2” x 11 1/2” stiff soft-cover album with brown leatherette cover gilt title plaque and embossed palm tree and other designs. ~~Each page has a large photograph of stately homes throughout the state framed in an art deco-style device and captioned with the owner’s name and location. Mostly black and white with some color. With a foreward preface and afterward by the Dept of Agriculture. Includes homes of Ford Rockefeller Edison DuPont and other prominent figures of the time. ~~125pp. Slight wear to cover a few photographs with minor moisture damage from facing page; foxing on interleaving paper encroaching into edges of first several leaves. Otherwise very good. Quite scarce. The Record Company unknown books
1788réf. 36636London: Printed and Sold by John Nichols. 1788. Folio. Pages 831-839 1 blank. "Numb. 96." at upper left corner at head of title. Disbound light margin spotting else Very Good. The Commons addresses requests to assist planters from East Florida who have suffered from its cession to Spain. Several petitions are presented from "Persons who have suffered in their Rights and Properties during the late unhappy Dissentions in America in Consequence of their Loyalty to His Majesty and Attachment to the British Government. Printed and Sold by John Nichols... unknown books
1863réf. D19919Florida: Munsell San Augustin de la Florida 1863. Poor. One of 160 copies. Defective disbound without only remnants of original wraps. Sold as is. "The unknown author of this authoritative account of Sonora is thought to have been a Jesuit missionary named Juan Nentuig who reached Sonora in 1750. From a reference on p. 196 it must have been written as late as November 21 1762. Nentuig remained until the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. The false imprint of Saint Augustine Florida on the title derives from Buckingham Smith's pride in his home town" - Streeter. "The author resided at a place on the River Yaqni where that stream flows through a cañon so deep as to shut out three quarters of the heavens from sight. The first sixty-nine pages are occupied with a natural history of the country .The subjects relating to the Indians occupy pp.69 to 173" - Field. Munsell, San Augustin, de la Florida paperback books
réf. 71996Vol. XXII No. 5. Saturday November 3 1810. folio 4pp. 5 columns per page. Portsmouth: William Treadwell 1810. Contains printing of the Declaration of Independence of West Florida. ".he Ferdinand VII of Spain has endeavored to pervert into an engine of destruction by encouraging in the most persidious manner the violation of ordinances sanctioned and established by himself as the law of the land. Being thus left without any hope of protection from the mother country by being betrayed by a magistrate.and exposed to all the evils of a state of anarchy.it becomes our duty to provide for our own security as a free and independent state. .We therefore the representatives.declare this Territory of West Florida to be a free and independent state." Also contains report by the commander in chief of the Fort of Baton Rouge Philemon Thomas on the capture of the fort. "My orders were not to fire till we received a shot from the garrison and to cry out in French and English `ground your arms and you shall not be hurt.'" unknown books
1822réf. 339169Washington D.C.: Gales & Seaton 1822. 17th Congress 1st Session House Report No. 14. 13-35 1 blankpp. 8vo. Disbound. 17th Congress 1st Session House Report No. 14. 13-35 1 blankpp. 8vo. The appendix to a memorial not present presented to the House Committee on the Public Lands requesting that the association formed by Chazotte be allowed to purchase land in the Key Largo area for the purpose of cultivating coffee cocoa and tropical fruits. The Appendix with its own caption title was first published separately in Philadelphia in 1821. Shoemaker 11211 [Gales & Seaton] unknown books
1911réf. 392022Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Decorative green cloth stamped in yellow. Illustrated by George Kerr. Wear on the board edges bumped corners and rubbing else very good. "The story of how we look from where the dog sits. The Bobbs-Merrill Company hardcover books
1943réf. List3815United States: Wide World 1943. Photograph measuring 9 x 7 inches. With caption later sticker and manuscript "NEGRO WORKERS" verso. Excellent. A 1943 press photograph of a group of African American men working on a farm in Florida's Everglades. The caption reads: "Before this luxuriant crop could be grown in the Everglades of southern Florida an elaborate system of drainage and irrigation had to be built. After 30 years the project is still unfinished; about 100000 of the Everglades swamps have been reclaimed and are under cultivation. . The problem involves turning spongy peat -- called 'muck' in the Everglades -- into farm land . Reclaimed the land is so productive that it is profitable to farm even though the elaborate reclamation project makes it expensive. It's too costly for most small landowners; so a master plan of reservoirs dikes and pumping stations is being prepared for the entire area." Draining the Everglades in an attempt to turn it into profitable farmland started with the project initiated by Governor William Sherman and continued by Governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward who promised an "Empire of the Everglades." The project was largely a disaster; hurricanes and flooding in the late 1920s shifted the focus to damming Lake Okeechobee which in turn produced lengthy drought and fires only quenched by another round of massive flooding. However it also created the richly productive Everglades Agricultural Area perhaps best known for the sugarcane-and 1930s and 40s labor abuses-of U.S. Sugar. . Wide World unknown books
1961réf. vas957New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1961. Octavo red cloth hardcover gilt letters xvo. 279 pp. Near Fine in a Good mylar protected dust jacket with wear that includes a tear along the upper joint. From dust jacket: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1961. hardcover books
1871réf. 42456Tallahassee: Dyke & Son Book and Job Printers 1871. 41 1 blank pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers. Minor wear Very Good plus. Financial difficulties during Reconstruction dominate this Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Reverend Scull reported that during the year he had "celebrated the Rites of Matrimony on four different occasions viz: Whites 2; Colored 2. He further begs leave to state that on account of the frequent separations between man and wife among the colored people he has determined to celebrate the Rites of Matrimony but seldom between them." Bishop Young reports that he "admitted to the Holy order of Deacons Joseph Robert Love. Mr. Love is a colored man who was educated and employed for some years in teaching in Church Schools in the British West Indies. He asked for no dispensations from the full requirements demanded by the canons but sustained a protracted and searching examination on the full course of study including the Latin and Greek languages. He is to. . . minister to a colored congregation under the supervision of the Rector of S. Johns. And I earnestly hope and pray that this may be but the first beginning of a work of real blessing to that race for whose improvement and elevation we are bound by so many considerations to do all that we can." Servies 5394. Dyke & Son, Book and Job Printers unknown books
réf. 344844to. 1 pp. Folded for mailing. Very good. In addition to his service in the War of 1812 the Creek War 1836 and the Sminole War Jesup served 42 years as the quartermaster general; "under his able direction the quartermaster department was organized upon a sound military and business basis. officer's in the department have always venerated him" DAB. unknown books
1815réf. 267901New York 1815. unbound. 2 pages front and back 13 x 8 inches signed "Ruggles Hubbard" as Sheriff of New York City -- an arrest warrant for two defendants to appear in Mayors Court September 25 1815 in part: ".I Ruggles Hubbard Sheriff of the City of New York do hereby assign the within written Bail Bond to the use of the plaintiff s to be sued for _____ according to the form of the statute in that case made and provided." Evenly toned with usual folds and a minimum of fraying at the borders; very good condition overall. New York City Sheriff and adventurer who joined his friend General Gregor McGregor's expedition in conquering Spanish Florida June 29 1817 - December 23 1817 culminating in his appointment as Governor of Fernandina. His six-week reign came to an abrupt end after being overthrown by the notorious pirate Luis Aury who claimed Florida in the name of Mexico. unknown books
1900réf. List3420Likely Jacksonville Florida 1900. Folded poster on newsprint measuring 16 x 16 inches. With toning stain to top right; very good. A poster published by the C. Buckman Company advertising 50x100 lots in what is currently the Longbranch neighborhood of Jacksonville. The tract is highlighted in red on a larger map of the city. The city saw significant growth during this period from tourism the lumber trade and the expansion of railways. C. Buckman is Courtland Buckman 1863–1952 a lifelong Floridian the son of a Civil War veteran and the brother of Florida State Legislator Henry Holland Buckman for whom the H. H. Buckman Bridge in Orange Park is named. Courtland Buckman was the Deputy County Clerk for Duval County in 1886 and later in the 1880s served one term as the Mayor of Daytona Beach. In 1894 he returned to Jacksonville and joined the C. C. Robertson Real Estate Company before opening his own real estate firm the C. Buckman Company in 1897. He had an active role in the development of Jacksonville and was prominent in business and civic life there including serving on the Jacksonville Board of Trade.1 1 Courtland Buckman Papers Thomas G. Carpenter Library University of North Florida Jacksonville Florida. https://archives.unf.edu/repositories/3/resources/17 Accessed January 16 2026. unknown books
1847réf. 39054Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian: Printed by Samuel S. Sibley. 1847. 99 V pp. Perforation stamp on title leaf a couple of other institutional marks else Very Good. Bound in later buckram with gilt-lettered red morocco spine title Social Law Library stamped at base of spine. Florida joined the Union in 1845. This was its second meeting as a State. Much work was required to establish the framework of State government. The legislature created procedures for selecting presidential electors; enacted fees and costs for civil and criminal cases; regulated slave patrols; enacted incorporations; prohibited vessels from bringing into the Island of Key West any Free Negro or Mulatto; established counties and their boundaries; created pilotage laws and a variety of other Statutes and Resolutions including one to remove the remaining Seminole Indians. Servies 3243. Office of the Floridian: Printed by Samuel S. Sibley. unknown books
