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1870réf. 72545Jacksonville: C. Drew's Book and Job Printing Office 1870. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 76pp. Foxed throughout darkened overall rear wrap missing the bottom inch else a good example. C. Drew's Book and Job Printing Office paperback books
1872réf. 72546Tallahassee: Dyke & Son 1872. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 72pp. Front wrap detached and lightly chipped rear lacking else a good textually complete example. Contents include contributions from several clergy members in Florida. Also included is a lengthy address by Bishop John Freeman Young. Dyke & Son paperback books
1990réf. 46424New York: BasicBooks. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 046500749X . A bright first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in alike dust-jacket with trivial edgewear; This book is about the illusion of control and how it can lead to unhappiness and dissatisfaction in our lives. The authors explain how we often take for granted the things we have control over like our jobs our relationships and our health. But when we lose control over these things we can become unhappy. The authors offer advice on how to break through the illusion of control and find happiness and satisfaction in our lives.; 8vo; 262 pages . BasicBooks hardcover books
1847réf. 49540Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian 1847. Militia Laws of Florida The first rules governing the militia for the new state of Florida with the first act establishing and organizing the militia in 1846 with subsequent acts laying out the duties of various officers and the rules governing the militia. Very rare. Servies records one copy at the University of Florida's P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History; OCLC records only five others. Original blue printed wrappers. Spine chipped minor soiling old ink call number on front cover. Minor foxing. Else very good. SERVIES 3239. AII FLORIDA 281. McMURTRIE FLORIDA 142. OCLC 28826102. unknown books
1910réf. 57046Lynchburg Va.: J.P. Bell Company Incorporated ca. 1910. Thoroughly Illustrated Florida Promotional Pamphlet A rare promotional booklet for Marion County Florida around the turn of the 20th century primarily focused on attracting farmers. The county's slogan "Good as the Best for Fruit and Vegetables/ Better than the Rest for 'Hog and Hominy'" adorns the first page. The final page drives home the point stressing that "This county contains good land within its boundaries.Her resources are unlimited; the industrious farmer can succeed." The pamphlet itself is mostly made up of photographic illustrations with occasional text about the climate schools and other amenities in the region. The illustrations show homes farms street scenes flora golf clubs and other recreations and more. An insert at the end comprises two postcards to be detached and mailed to the Marion County Board of Trade for further information. Marion County was greatly affected by the Great Freeze of 1894-5 which saw Orlando reach its all-time record low temperature of eighteen degrees Fahrenheit and wreaked havoc on Florida's citrus crop. Land that had cost as much as $1000 per acre in the early 1890s dropped dramatically in value and even at the time of this pamphlet's printing per-acre prices in Marion County were advertised in a range from ten to a hundred dollars. This pamphlet is quite rare; OCLC locates only two institutional copies at Duke University and the State Library of Florida. Oblong octavo. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. Minor wear. Near fine. OCLC 21247139. unknown books
1829réf. 31631Washington: Gales & Seaton 1829. "A collection of Spanish and French ordinances affecting land titles in Florida compiled by Joseph M. White of Florida who was employed as assistant counsel on behalf of the U.S.The documents p.12-277 are in the original language with English translations" - Servies. Despite the 1828 date given in the imprint this document from the second session of the 20th Congress was actually printed in 1829. Scarce. Contemporary legal sheep black and red gilt morocco labels. Minor foxing. Very good. SERVIES 1466. unknown books
1910réf. 62983St. Augustine: The Record Company ca. 1910. An Early Promotional Booklet for the City Beautiful An early promotional booklet issued by the Orlando Board of Trade encouraging "all newcomers" to "visit this beautiful little city by the lakes." In an effort "to secure tourists winter and permanent residents" the publication touts the city's "superior advantages" "especially in point of situation climate freedom from troublesome insects up-to-date business houses comfortable dwellings good hotels healthfulness paved and shaded streets good schools and churches fine sporting accommodations best drinking water on earth and many other advantages too numerous to mention." The booklet is richly illustrated with halftones from photographs depicting a variety of natural civic and commercial landmarks as well as people engaged in a range of recreational activities. Among other things the illustrations show Orange Avenue the San Juan Hotel people playing golf and lawn tennis a match at the Orlando Polo Club horse-racing and the track of the Orlando Driving Park Association the recently inaugurated Automobile Carnival a newly constructed public school building the Orange County Courthouse various city churches the Rosalind Club House a young woman posing in front of a grapefruit tree and agricultural laborers working in a celery field. Also included are various images of tree-lined streets and the city's many lakes including Lake Sue Lake Minnie Lake Lucerne Lake Eola and Lake Highland. Most of the illustrations were likely taken from photographs by Clarence E. Howard 1858-1930. A native of Pennsylvania Howard first arrived in Orange County Florida in 1883 before settling permanently in Orlando in 1904. There he worked in the publishing business and as a photographer. He edited a number of publications including the Orlando Star the Orange County Reporter the Reporter-Star the Sentinel and later owned and edited the Orange County Citizen. He was active in the civic life of the community serving twelve years as city alderman and as chairman of the District School Trustees. Notably Howard was also for several years secretary of the Orlando Board of Trade the body responsible for producing the present publication. Howard is buried at Orlando's historic Greenwood Cemetery. The date of publication can be roughly surmised from a reference to an "Automobile Carnival" inaugurated a year prior to publication. We find a reference to the Orlando "Automobile Parade" in the Automobile Blue Book from as early as 1912. The present publication must therefore predate that. This copy bears an inkstamp on the titlepage saying that further information could be had from D.S. Shine of Jacksonville. An intriguing and early glimpse of life in Orlando long before it became an international tourist destination. Oblong octavo. Original publisher's red wrappers stapled title in raised gilt letters on front wrapper. Wrappers lightly faded and soiled. Small chip to bottom edge of front wrapper and title leaf not affecting text. Old stamp in purple ink to titlepage see below. Very good. OCLC 882242309. OCLC 1750611. C.E. Howard Early Settlers of Orange County Florida; Reminiscent Historic Biographic Orlando 1915 p.2. The Automobile Blue Book: A Touring Hand-Book of the Most Practicable Routes in Pennsylvania New Jersey and the South Atlantic States New York 1912 p.774. unknown books
1822réf. 36603Pensacola FL. April 20 1822. Early Issue of Florida's Second Newspaper The thirty-fourth issue of the second newspaper published in Territorial Florida preceded only by the Florida Gazette of St. Augustine which began publication in July 1821. Pensacola became a permanent part of the United States under the terms of the Adams-Onìs Treaty of 1819. This issue includes news concerning the United States Congress the Army local shipping pirates and the author of the Waverly novels Walter Scott. There are also advertisements for local businesses professional services including translating and interpreters dry goods furniture and a national lottery. The ad for the Pensacola Book Store includes a list of some seventy titles. A rare early Florida imprint. Folio newspaper. Contemporary annotation above title on p.1 partially trimmed. Split at fold 8-inch tape repair on p.3. A few small holes in text affecting a few letters. A few closed tears in outer margins not affecting text. Age-toned some foxing. A good copy. SERVIES 1076. unknown books
1861réf. 19664Tallahassee. 1861. Floridian Confederate imprint recording the House proceedings at the start of the Civil War. Modern cloth leather label. Very good. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2745. SERVIES 4586. hardcover books
1822réf. 36604Pensacola FL. May 12 1822. Early Florida Imprint an Issue of the Territory's Second Newspaper The thirty-seventh issue of the second newspaper published in Territorial Florida preceded only by the Florida Gazette of St. Augustine which began publication in July 1821. Pensacola became a permanent part of the United States under the terms of the Adams-Onìs Treaty of 1819. This issue reports news from the United States Congress including a report from the secretary of war "devised and pursued for the Civilization of Indian Tribes within the United States." Other articles cover a variety of subjects such as crop rotation the mocking bird and a letter George Washington wrote to the Emperor of Morocco concerning the captivity of mariners. There are also advertisements for local businesses professional services dry goods furniture and a bakery as well as ads for the Pensacola Book Store and the Pensacola Reading Room. A rare early Florida imprint. Folio newspaper. Contemporary annotation above title on p.1. Split at fold. Lower inner margin pp.3-4 closely trimmed affecting a few letters. A few closed tears in outer margins not affecting text. Age-toned some foxing. A good copy. SERVIES 1076. unknown books
1811réf. 41305Washington City: A. & G. Way 1811. The report of the congressional committee appointed to evaluate the government of Mississippi Territory and the petition of the residents of West Florida what is now the southernmost portions Mississippi and Alabama to be annexed to that territory. The United States had supported the bloodless coup of Americans resident in what was then Spanish territory and annexed the land over Spain's bitter protests. Given the commercial stranglehold New Orleans and Louisiana would have on the region if West Florida were annexed to it thus giving Louisiana almost exclusive access to the Gulf the committee relying heavily on recent census data recommends that Mississippi be admitted to the Union and that West Florida as defined in the 1763 Treaty of Paris be annexed to it. The argument concludes: "The formation of new states on the southern extremity of the United States ought not to be delayed." An important step forward in the development of the Deep South. Scarce. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Lightly foxed. Very good. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 24296. hardcover books
1831réf. 31652Tallahassee: Gibson & Smith 1831. Early Florida Laws Prints a list of the officers of the Territory of Florida acts and resolutions of the legislative council laws of the United States relative to the Territory and the text of the Treaty of Washington. Includes important early laws relating to Indian affairs transportation commercial development etc. Servies locates only one copy in Florida. Original half calf and boards printed label. Spine heavily chipped front board detached boards spotted and edgeworn. Front free endpaper excised pencil notation on p.3 contemporary ink signature illegible on p.5. Light scattered foxing. A good copy. SERVIES 1541. AII FLORIDA 132. GILCREASE p.335. hardcover books
1826réf. 51016Pensacola. Nov. 9 1826. Very Early Florida Newspaper An incredibly early edition of one of the first newspapers in Florida. Founded in 1824 the Pensacola Gazette was issued on a weekly basis for approximately thirty-five years ending in 1861. This four-page issue covers basic interests such as foreign affairs local news and classifieds. Rare. Bifolium. Creases on final page flattened with repair tape. Bright and clean. Very good plus. 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
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
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
1858réf. 4106Jacksonville Fl: March 15 1858. Very good plus. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Old mailing folds. An informative dispatch from antebellum Florida from A.C Scranton to "Friend Barton" in 1858. In his letter Scranton reports that despite some problems he is enjoying southern people and general life in Florida: "The people generally in the south are very kind & hospitibal but I need hardly to tell you that Florida has got some hard times as every new state or Territory has but thare is a more healthy Emigration coming in every year I have been fortunate anough to find some Northern people here which makes it seam a little more like home to me. I am boarding with a family from Georgia whome I like first rate & I do just as I would at home so that things are quite pleasant here considering I am amongst strangers." He then provides information on Jacksonville and then two disasters that hit his adopted hometown: "Jacksonville is the largest place in Florida & had at one time about 3000 inhabitants it is not as large as it was once some three years ago it was visited by a very destructive fire & burned nearly half of the town. Last summer there was some kind of Fever here that almost prostrated the place some called it the Yellow Fever & some the African but none could tell for certin.about a hundred & fifteen or twenty that died here in 3 months & a grate many left the town nearly all the stors wer closed not a sound of a hammer was to be heard. When cold weather came it stoped the sickness and it seams quite lively now. It has been for many years a grate resort in the winter season for invaleds but on account of the sickness last summer thare are but few this winter if it continus healthy this summer the place will revive but if not it will kill it entirely." Scranton also discusses the transportation system that served Jacksonville and the recent winding down of the Seminole Wars: "It is situated on the Johns River about 23 miles from the mouth and is connected with Charleston & Savana by a regular line of steamers that runs up the river a hundred miles to a place called Platka whare Emigrants land & then travel by land to the interior to settle the country thare is a railroad building from this place to Tallahasse the capital of the state a distance of a hundred & eighty miles which wen completed will be a little help to this place. There is also another in progress from Fernandina a new town that lays in the North East corner of the state to a place called cedar keys on the gulf side whare they intend to carry the US mail direct from New Orleans to New York insted of going round by Key west & will shorten the time considerable. Florida has cost Uncle Sam a large some of money.the government.will make a treaty with them & send them into the Indian Territory & then close the Indian war in Florida." Almost all of the Seminoles remaining in Florida relocated to Indian Territory in the year this letter was written. A wonderfully-detailed firsthand account of Jacksonville and its development and challenges during the late 1850s. A printed transcription accompanies the letter. March 15 unknown books
1963réf. 9099Cocoa Beach Florida 1963. Octavo-sized metal post binding 21.5 x 14 cm 100 leaves printed rectos only. Illustrated. Author title and publication information from cover. A community cookbook with recipes attributed from the airmen and airmen's spouses living at Patrick Air Force. Patrick AFB is a significant location in the history of the American space program and 1963 just two years after the first manned space flight Gagarin and the first human-piloted space flight Shephard. Patrick Air Force base is now Space Launch 45 "the premier launch delta of the United States Space Force." Thor and Atlas Missiles as well as the Titan Booster were the stock in trade of PAFB from the time of this cookbook through the 1980s. The illustration of a space capsule on the front wrapper panel is of a Mercury capsule the capsule that carried John Glenn on the first American orbital flight in 1962. A bit of light soiling otherwise fine in publisher's gray card stock titled and illustrated in black. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; no other references found online or otherwise. unknown books
1825réf. 41367Elizabethtown NJ: J. & E. Sanderson 1825. First edition. Self wrappers. A very good- copy with 4 large semi-circular dampstain marks throughout. Unpaged 4 pp. Illus. with b/w in-text drawings. 20 3/4 x 13 inches. Contents include: a full column on the Liberation of Peru led by General Sucre; the first meeting at the new seat of Government in Florida where the governor states "No part of North America is so little known.Visitors.had pronounced it a bank of sand not worth the money paid for it"; republished letters from Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. This issue not at the American Antiquarian Society. Uncommon. J. & E. Sanderson unknown books
2002réf. 25467Unionville: The Florida Historical Society 2002. Cloth. A near fine copy with penciled inscription to free endpaper in a very good dust jacket with a few closed tears. ix 262 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 4to. Histories architecture maps. An excellent production. The Florida Historical Society hardcover books
1981réf. 201021981. Softcover. VG. Brown wraps. 16 pp. 1 bw 6 color plates. paperback books
1998réf. 32443Tallahassee Florida: Museum of Fine Arts Florida State University 1998. Softcover. As New. Pictorial wraps. 144 pp. Numerous bw plates. Exhibition held February 13 to March 31 1998; one additional venue. Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University paperback books
2009réf. 130855Tallahassee Florida: Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts 2009. Softcover. VG Ex-library with few marks and label otherwise in Like New condition. Bright pink and rose wraps with color illus. 72 pp. many color illus. Focuses on the work of 32 artists. Issued on the occasion of a 2009 exhibit at Florida State University. From p. 4 interview with Joe Sanders curator: "One of the things I wanted to show in this exhibition is the extraordinary range that exists today. Artists working in print are producing everything from sculptural installation to traditional editions and single hand-printed objects." Florida State University, Museum of Fine Arts paperback books
1985réf. 13741985. Softcover. VG but sheets are loose because the binding glue has dried. Wraps. 80 pp. 6 color 27 bw repros. Introduction by Roy C. Craven Jr. Thirty-three works are listed and annotated and another ten paintings are listed on the last page. paperback books
1989réf. 94521989. Softcover. VG. Wraps. 32 pp. 62 bw 10 color plates. Essay by Bradford R. Collins. Exhibition curated by Patrick McCune. Lists and details 48 artists and their relationship with watercolor. Wonderful color plates. paperback books
