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1981Best.-Nr. 299451981. Softcover. VG light scuffing to cover. White ill. stapled wraps. 37 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. paperback books
1880Best.-Nr. 4993N.p. but likely Live Oak FL 1880. Very good. Albumen photograph 4.5 x 7.75 inches mounted on card. Card trimmed with pinholes at corners remnants of printed caption in bottom margin slight surface soiling and spotting. Penciled annotation on verso. A stunning original photograph featuring Rev. Joseph Leroy Atwell Fish 1828-1890 and his wife and children posed amongst their African-American students at an unnamed "colored school" which was very likely the Florida Baptist Institute. The images captures Fish his wife and probably his daughters in the middle of the frame standing in front of a large two-story schoolhouse surrounded by about eighty young Black men and women in suits and dresses. Revered Fish was a graduate of Amherst College and the Newton Theological Seminary who was ordained a Baptist minister in 1856. Fish was also a teacher who helped found Florida Memorial University Florida Baptist Institute in Live Oak in 1880 where he served as first president of the institution until his death there on March 26 1890. Florida Memorial University is the only HBCU in the southern part of the state. The penciled annotation on the present photograph provides some information on the photograph but is probably ultimately misleading in one regard: "Rev. J.L.A. Fish & wife In Virginia teaching a colored school -- He married my Father & Mother Mr. & Mrs. Milan Hills Lucy M. Williams Dec. 21 1875." The latter part of this inscription is indeed true. Reverend Fish married Milan Hills and Lucy Williams on December 21 1875 in Hebron New York where he was serving as a church pastor. But the historical record does not indicate that Reverend Fish ever taught at an African-American school in Virginia if he did it was so brief that it is now lost to history. Fish's first known foray into teaching African American students was a brief six-month stint in Natchez Mississippi in 1879. Immediately thereafter Fish was appointed to the Florida Baptist Institute where he served the last decade of his life. As such it is far more likely that the inscriber here meant to say that Reverend Fish and his wife were "In FLORIDA teaching a colored school." Reverend Fish's work at the Florida Institute is covered in the Obituary Record of Graduates of Amherst College for the Academical Year ending June 27 1883: "His chief work was with the Freedmen as he brought Florida Institute out of all its troubles financial and social changed the feeling of the whites from hatred to sympathy with his work and put the school on a permanent foundation. His aim was to educate leaders for the race and the principal effort of his school was to train teachers and preachers to go out through the state and by their example to lift up and educate both intellectually and morally the colored people. His influence was felt throughout the state both through his training of teachers and preachers and through his counsels given at conventions associations and other gatherings of the colored men and in private. He is mourned by both white and black. By the whites because they knew his teachings would help the colored people without causing trouble to them. By the latter because they miss their leader teacher and friend. unknown books
1831Best.-Nr. List3518New York City 1831. Two-page printed circular measuring 7 ¾ x 12 ¾ inches with manuscript note from Aaron H. Palmer. Folded with some small tears larger tear at seal not intersecting with text. Overall excellent. Aaron Haight Palmer 1779–1863 was the director of the “American and Foreign Agency for Claims”—essentially a high-end collections agency—and later Consul General of the Republic of Ecuador. He was extremely well-connected and his activities included a tour of Europe and Asia to gather information about commerce there for the Rothschilds.1 Offered here is an 1831 circular from Palmer’s Agency signed by Palmer and sent to A. Lang Esq. in Selkirk Scotland. The circular advertises the sale of “a large tract of land lying on the Gulf of Mexico in East Florida” which “is owned in sole propriety by Richard S. Hackley Esq. an American citizen.” Hackley 1770–1843 a merchant and later US Consul in Spain had been deeded twelve million acres of land around present-day Tampa by the Duke of Alagon in 1819—who himself had been granted the land by Ferdinand VII in 1817. The circular extols the virtues of the land for sale especially Tampa as “a favorable site for the foundations of a great maritime city” and Chatham Bay’s “proximity to the West India markets”. At the time Florida was in the midst of the Seminole Wars; the Treaty of Payne’s Landing would soon demand that all Indigenous people in Florida leave for Indian Territory. It is not clear what came of Palmer’s attempt to sell Hackley’s land; the latter’s heirs’ claims to his estate were settled in 1908 when the US Supreme Court decided that the Kingdom of Spain had annulled the grant prior to the Adams-Onís Treaty giving Florida to the US. We find one copy of the circular on OCLC. Of interest to historians of the settlement of Florida. 1 Jessica Lepler “‘There is no need for anyone to go to America’: commercial correspondence and nineteenth-century globalisation” Rothschild Archive https://www.rothschildarchive.org/materials/no_need_to_go_to_america.pdf accessed February 12 2026. unknown books
1980Best.-Nr. List3013Miami Florida: Allied Printing 1980. Single sheet measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Worn with some folding at corners; very good plus. A flyer for a production of Louisiana playwright professor and journalist Norbert Davidson Jr.’s “El Hajj Malik”: The Life and Times of Malcom X. This production sponsored by the Florida State Conference of NAACP Branches was put on by the ‘M’ Ensemble Company. Established in 1971 and still operational as of 2025 the ‘M’ Ensemble is Florida’s longest-running African American theater company. Davidson’s El Hajj Malik was written when he was a college student at Dillard University in the 1960s and was widely performed nationally and internationally according to his obituary in the Louisiana Weekly.1 1 Ryan Whirty “Playwright professor and former editor of The Louisiana Weekly dies” The Louisiana Weekly May 6 2019. Allied Printing unknown books
1909Best.-Nr. 5288Various locations mostly in Cuba and Florida: March 5 to April 1 1909. About very good. 21 leaves illustrated with 235 photographs all with typed captions. Oblong folio. Contemporary full dark brown cloth brad bound. Moderate staining and coiling to covers some edge wear. Bottom corners of all leaves chipped not costing content. Occasional minor wear to photos or captions. A well-organized and meticulously-captioned vernacular photograph album with significant content on Florida and Cuba in the first decade of the 20th century. The album is organized chronologically and features a family from Ohio traveling from home by train to Florida and thence to Cuba then returning home in the spring of 1909. The first seven and the last twenty-five photographs emanate from Ohio where the journey started Tennessee and Georgia but otherwise the album features Florida and Cuba in over 200 pictures. The scenes in Florida range from Jacksonville to Key West and other points in-between featuring the state in almost 120 photos both before and after the traveling party went to Cuba. The images capture portraits of the travelers numerous homes hotels businesses and other buildings including an ostrich farm in Jacksonville numerous scenes in Ocala including one image featuring "Mary and her old colored Mammy" various churches and other scenes in Tampa residences in Key West beach scenes at Long Key various hotels and agricultural fields in Miami and various buildings in Palm Beach Ormand and St. Augustine concluding with a front view of the "Old Slave Market" in the latter city. Most notably the album includes eighty-six photographs of Cuba the nexus point for the present trip where the party arrived on March 20. The Cuba scenes mostly feature Havana with several views of "Beautiful Residences" and other buildings plus some street views and other scenes in the city. Other interesting Havana scenes picture the railroad station "The Bone Yard -- Old destroyed Catacombs" scenes in the Malecon and more. Some of the street scenes in Havana picture local residents one of "Children on the street corner" and another showing "Children scrambling for pennies" in the middle of the street. The album also contains views of the wreck of the Maine Morro Castle the interior of Fort Cabanas and more. The travelers managed to wander outside Havana for a day when they ventured to the countryside and the town of Guines on March 23. While there the compiler took photographs of countryside outside Guines a railroad car full of sugar cane thatched houses a group photograph of the students at a "Spanish School in Guines" a "Child crying in the street" a group of locals outside a cafe captioned "Strangers in a strange land.Where we tried to get something to eat" other street scenes in the town and the local jail. The last photograph of Cuba here features a "Large Sugar Mill in Providencia." The group then returned through Florida Georgia and Tennessee where they spent a day at Lookout Mountain and Orchard Knob before their final stop in Dayton Ohio. A wonderful early-20th century travel album with significant views in Florida and Cuba. March 5 to April 1 unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. 5287Various locations in Cuba and Florida 1890. Very good. Twelve cabinet card photographs each measuring 3.5 x 4.5 inches on matching mounts measuring 5.25 x 6.5 inches all with manuscript captions on verso. Moderate dust-soiling minor overall wear a few small unobtrusive chips to corners. A dozen original photographs picturing a group of men traveling in Florida and Cuba around the turn of the 20th century. The men seem relatively well-to-do and visit several different locations in each place. Four of the photos emanate from Florida while the remainder picture scenes in Cuba. The photographs are all captioned on the verso which read as follows: 1 "In the Court of Ponce De Leon Hotel St. Augustine" 2 "A frozen fountain in St. Augustine Florida - the white is ice" 3 "Fishing in St. Augustine" 4 "A Tree in Tampa Florida where one tree runs up on another takes root up in tree then runs down & takes root in the ground again" 5 "A Street in Nevaelas Cuba" 6 "A Country Road in Cuba" 7 "Natives in Havana" 8 "In Morro Castle Havana Cuba. Prisoners braking sic rocks" 9 "On top of Morro Castle Havana Cuba" 10 "Country Scene in Cuba" 11 "Country Scene in Cuba" different image 12 "Plaza at south of the Prado Havana unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. 3620Gainesville Fl: Daily Advocate Job Print 1890. Very good. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Mild soiling minor toning old folds. A seemingly unrecorded real estate promotional leaflet issued by Louis A. Barnes and Watson Porter local land attorneys working in and around Gainesville Florida. The pair is seeking prospective purchasers for "much valuable" homestead lands now available for settlement again after being abandoned "under the homestead or pre-emption laws." They also offer services for claims on "Spanish Grants" land warrants soldiers' homestead rights and more. Interestingly one of the two lawyers here Watson Porter previously served as a surgeon in the Third U.S. Colored Troops. In Florida Porter and his wife Olivia established O.A. Porter's Addition to Gainesville selling lots exclusively to African-American people who did not have ready access to land or financing; the neighborhood survives today in Gainesville as Porters Quarters. Porter also served as the Principal of the Union Academy a freedman's school and was a strong supporter of Josiah T. Walls the only African-American man from Gainesville to be elected and seated twice to the U.S. House of Representatives. Some of the land and services in question in the present pamphlet were almost certainly provided to African-American settlers. The pamphlet was printed by the Gainesville-area Daily Advocate which operated in the area between 1884 and 1890. No copies located in OCLC. Daily Advocate Job Print unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 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
1941Best.-Nr. 12634N.p. likely Jacksonville Fl. 1941. 4612pp. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. Substantial creasing rubbing dust-soiling and overall wear to wrappers. Faint foxing and spotting to initial and terminal leaves but mostly clean internally. Very good. A rare pamphlet celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company an important African-American-owned-and-operated insurance company in Florida. The work includes reproductions of congratulatory letters to the company from Florida governor Spessard Holland and others portraits and information on the company’s founders passages on the history of the company information on the successes of the company’s current operations and more. The work is interspersed throughout with a legion of photographs showing the company at work scenes from various branch offices the company’s Funeral Services Division and so forth. "Florida's First African-American Insurance Company -1901-2001. The Afro-American Insurance Company formerly the Afro-American Industrial and Benefits Association was founded in 1901 to provide affordable health insurance and death benefits to the state's African-Americans. Founded by the Reverend E.J. Gregg E.W. Latson Abraham Lincoln Lewis A.W. Price Dr. Arthur W. Smith J.F. Valentine and the Reverend J. Melton Waldron the Afro's first office at 14 Ocean Street was destroyed by the great Jacksonville Fire two months after it opened on May 3 1901. It then moved to 621 Florida Avenue the home of treasurer and future president Abraham Lincoln Lewis 1865-1947. From their next home office at 105 E. Union Street the company wrote millions of dollars of insurance policies and started district offices in Georgia Alabama Louisiana and Texas." - Historical marker at the site of the company's original location in Jacksonville. OCLC reports just two copies at Howard and the University of North Florida. unknown books
1810Best.-Nr. 3213311810. unbound. very good. Three newspapers with pieces on the declaration of independence of West Florida. I: The Boston Patriot. Volume IV No. 19. 4 pages measuring 19 x 13-1/2 inches; minor horizontal fold bisecting all pages. Boston: Isaac Munroe November 3 1810. Lightly rubbed with some fading to the masthead but otherwise a clean clear and easily readable -- a very good copy. II: New-England Palladium. Volume 36 No. 48. Friday December 14 1810. 4 pages measuring 21 x 13 inches; minor horizontal fold bisecting all pages lightly toned and foxed but in very good condition. III: Portsmouth Oracle. Volume XXII No. 5. Saturday November 3 1810. Four pages measuring 19 x 13.5 inches. Usual folds with light toning and foxing contemporary ink notation upper margin. A very good copy. The Boston Patriot contains the declaration of independence of West Florida issued issued by John Rea president of the West Florida convention on September 26 1810. The New-England Palladium has public statements from President James Madison Secretary of State Robert Smith John Rhea etc. on the independence of West Florida. The Portsmouth Oracle has two pieces: an account of the seizure of the fort at Baton Rouge signed by Philemon Thomas and John Rhea and the official statement of independence issued and signed by John Rhea and the members of the Convention. West Florida made up of the Florida Parishes of Louisiana declared independence from Spain in September 1810 and was absorbed into the United States by mid December becoming part of the state of Louisiana. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 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
1901Best.-Nr. 116721901. Small 8vo pp. 27. Lacking about 1/3 of the front wrap. Clean otherwise with 2 photos. Includes a detailed report of the activities of the Ybor City Missionary school and reports from chapters throughout Florida. unknown books
2002Best.-Nr. 101628New York: Basic Books 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with minor bumping to the extremities of the book and the jacket. Basic Books hardcover books
Best.-Nr. B305435-4Boca Raton 2006. 56pp. Prof. illus. Oblong 4to. Cloth. D.j. Boca Raton, 2006. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. B305435-2Boca Raton 2006. 56pp. Prof. illus. Oblong 4to. Cloth. D.j. Boca Raton, 2006. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. B305431-1New York/Boca Raton 2000. 10pp. 15 color illus. Oblong 4to. Wraps. New York/Boca Raton, [2000]. paperback books
Best.-Nr. B305435-5Boca Raton 2006. 56pp. Prof. illus. Oblong 4to. Cloth. D.j. Boca Raton, 2006. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. B305435-3Boca Raton 2006. 56pp. Prof. illus. Oblong 4to. Cloth. D.j. Boca Raton, 2006. hardcover books
1947Best.-Nr. 3905Palatka Fl 1947. Very good. 5pp. typed on folio sheets stapled. Old folds minor wear and creasing light dust-soiling. An unsigned petition from the Hallie Q. Brown Club asking "The Honourable City Commission of the City of Palatka Florida.to recognise its status as the 'Hattie Q Brown Club which the Commission gave leave to use certain City property in Block 81.in furtherance of the welfare of colored children." Apparently a splinter group of the club was also claiming to be the Hallie Q. Brown Club and was illegally collecting rents on the groups club house. In asking for official recognition the group details their history of helping African-American youth in the area "by equiping and over-seeing a playground for them." The authors then detail the internal conflicts which occurred amongst the club members the procession of club leadership including several named individuals and the circumstances which led to the club's incorporation ending with the filing of a charter with a Putnam County judge. The fourth section of the club's petition enumerates their activities and plans in "furtherance of the welfare of the colored children of Palatka." The first two points detail the land clearance and construction of the park and their further plans for same; the third point relates to a study the club has undertaken "of the problem of juvenile delinquency among the colored children." Part of their plan is to work with law enforcement "to work out a parole system for first offenders of tender age" as well as "provide a method and place for the incarceration of colored children accused of or guilty of infractions of the law who are less than 12 years of age so that such children may be kept safely in custody and yet not exposed to the bad example and toughening influence of imprisonment in the County jail." Hattie Quinn Brown was a pioneering African-American educator who actively sought the formation of African-American women's clubs throughout the country. unknown books
Best.-Nr. B303337-1Miami 2016. 96pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Wraps. Paralle texts in English and Portuguese. Miami, 2016. paperback books
1940Best.-Nr. 538140Middlebury Vermont: The Bread Loaf Printers 1940. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Foreword by Louis Untermeyer. Octavo. 21pp. Hint of sunning to the spine else fine. (The Bread Loaf Printers hardcover books
1940Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. B126502-4Coral Gables/Caracas 1996. 47pp. 12 plates. Lrg. 4to. Wraps. Texts by Sean Gibbons Monica Amor B.E. Myers Coco Fusco Ike Ude in parallel English and Spanish. Coral Gables/Caracas, [1996]. paperback books
1863Best.-Nr. 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
1979Best.-Nr. 269479NY/London: Penguin Books 1979. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. First Paperback Edition. Very good lightly worn spine ends and cover edges owners name on front fly pages browned. Penguin Books unknown books
