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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
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
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
1858réf. 31659Tallahassee. 1858. Prints several government reports including those from the state Comptroller and Treasurer and on all manner of public affairs such as issues dealing with Indians and railroads. Also includes Gov. Madison S. Perry's annual message and the appendix contains "Documents Accompanying the Governor's Message." Gathered signatures stitched. Exterior leaves edgeworn and wrinkled. Uniformly tanned scattered foxing. Good untrimmed and unopened. Lacks final two leaves of the "Documents Accompanying the Governor's Message." SERVIES 4374. AII FLORIDA 298. McMURTRIE FLORIDA 216. unknown
1858réf. 31659Tallahassee. 1858. Prints several government reports including those from the state Comptroller and Treasurer and on all manner of public affairs such as issues dealing with Indians and railroads. Also includes Gov. Madison S. Perry's annual message and the appendix contains "Documents Accompanying the Governor's Message." Gathered signatures stitched. Exterior leaves edgeworn and wrinkled. Uniformly tanned scattered foxing. Good untrimmed and unopened. Lacks final two leaves of the "Documents Accompanying the Governor's Message." SERVIES 4374. AII FLORIDA 298. McMURTRIE FLORIDA 216. unknown 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
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. 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
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
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
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
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
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
1846réf. 31655Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian 1846 i.e.1847. Dated 1846 on the titlepage but actually printed in 1847 this volume prints the acts and resolutions passed in the session that ran from Nov. 23 1846 to Jan. 6 1847. The final two pages contain amendments to the Florida constitution and other laws relate to the deposit of public documents at Harvard University the election of Presidential electors local law enforcement issues and an act to incorporate the city of Key West. With an index. Original printed wrappers. Spine largely perished. Internally clean. Very good untrimmed. SERVIES 3243. AII FLORIDA 242. McMURTRIE FLORIDA 140. GILCREASE p.340. unknown
1846réf. 31655Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian 1846 i.e.1847. Dated 1846 on the titlepage but actually printed in 1847 this volume prints the acts and resolutions passed in the session that ran from Nov. 23 1846 to Jan. 6 1847. The final two pages contain amendments to the Florida constitution and other laws relate to the deposit of public documents at Harvard University the election of Presidential electors local law enforcement issues and an act to incorporate the city of Key West. With an index. Original printed wrappers. Spine largely perished. Internally clean. Very good untrimmed. SERVIES 3243. AII FLORIDA 242. McMURTRIE FLORIDA 140. GILCREASE p.340. unknown books
1862réf. 24895Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian & Journal Printed by Dyke & Carlisle 1862. Scarce Confederate Florida laws. Dbd. Tanned. Some light foxing on preliminary leaves. Good. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2733. SERVIES 4679. AII FLORIDA 253. unknown
1862réf. 24895Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian & Journal Printed by Dyke & Carlisle 1862. Scarce Confederate Florida laws. Dbd. Tanned. Some light foxing on preliminary leaves. Good. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2733. SERVIES 4679. AII FLORIDA 253. 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
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
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
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
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
1890réf. 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
1890réf. 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
1889réf. 44906Boston: Little Brown and Co. 1889. 8vo. xviii 19-200 pp. Chromolith colour frntsp. 3 chromolith colour plates 2 tinted etchings 59 text woodcut engravings historiated vignettes and plates. Contemporary full brown morocco raised bands gilt lettrng on spine gilt inner ruling & dentelle marbled endpapers a.e.g. signed MacDonald & Sons on verso of ffep vry slght sunng to spine vry slght shlfwr NF copy w/ frmr ownrshp inscrptn on ffep. First edition of this beautifully illustrated book in a fine period binding by the famed Boston book binding firm. Deland 1857-1945 writes this early travel account through St. Augustine and along the St. Johns River in the 1880s including vivid reminiscences of the scenery natural history and the local people of the time some of it in dialect. Louis Kinney Harlow 1850-1913 was an exceptional New England landscape artist noted for his paintings and etchings at the end of the 19th century had moved to Boston in the mid-1880s in order to advance his career. Little, Brown, and Co., hardcover
