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
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
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
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
1963Best.-Nr. 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
1963Best.-Nr. 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
Opuscolo (cm 12 x 14,5) all'interno del quale si trovano quattro tavole piu' volte rip. (cm 33 x 14) con quattro foto in b/n raff. il piroscafo Pincio, l'Alsina, il Florida, il Mendoza, il Valdivia, il Formosa, con l'indicazione dei vari menu di terza classe e due illustrazioni d'interni.
1923Best.-Nr. 27109Partitions sur l'Amérique du Nord,Partitions sur les États-Unis Salabert 1923
Best.-Nr. 108881Partitions sur les États-Unis
1926Napoli, 1926, marzo 29, copertina illustrata a colori in fascicolo originale completo di pp. 16 de "Il Mattino Illustrato" .
1700Best.-Nr. 17337Amsterdam, de Wit, 1675 (recte um 1700). Ca. 49,5 cm x 57 cm. [4 Warenabbildungen]
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1920Best.-Nr. 100096Miami Florida: Publicity Department of Florida Silk Producing Company circa 1920's. 1920's. Very good. - Octavo 10 inches high by 7 inches wide. Softcover bound in stapled off-white wraps titled & decorated in black. The front cover is lightly soiled & creased. 8 unnumbered pages including the covers with 2 full-page black & white illustrations. "From Daniel E. Ryan" is written in ink at the top of the cover. The brochure is folded twice vertically & horizontally. Very good. A RARE promotional brochure for the Florida Silk Producing Company formed by Dr. Thomas DePamphilis using his special process. We have located no other copies of the brochure. Laid into the brochure is a 2-page broadsheet by the fiscal agents Goodyear-Baker Company titled "The Investment Possibilities of Growing Silk in Florida". The company is mentioned as seeking investment in the September 30 1924 issue of the Springfield News-Sun of Springfield Ohio. Miami, Florida: Publicity Department of Florida Silk Producing Company, circa [1920's]. paperback
Best.-Nr. H5947Paperback. Very Good. Probably the Whitworth family but possibly the Glasglows and Dunkles -- Apollo PA appears to be the place of residence. Documents family get-togethers friends outings to Vandergrift or the Kiskiminetas River a trip to Atlantic City and the inevitable flat tire on the way there a few pictures of the Grand Canyon and a friend in Sydney Australia some of Niagara Falls and of a horse racing track and then the move in 1927 to Orlando Florida and pictures of other Florida points of interest including Hollywood and Miami. 14 x 9 inches recent sympathetic black paper covers with cloth spine contents inside generally very good well over 100 pictures. paperback
1949Best.-Nr. 313357Gainesville Fla 1949. Aprox 77 pen and ink drawings with the newspaper cliping done generally for Wednesdays and Sundays. 8vo & 4to. In spiral rink notebook. Aprox 77 pen and ink drawings with the newspaper cliping done generally for Wednesdays and Sundays. 8vo & 4to. unknown books
1949Best.-Nr. 313357Gainesville Fla 1949. Aprox 77 pen and ink drawings with the newspaper cliping done generally for Wednesdays and Sundays. 8vo & 4to. In spiral rink notebook. Aprox 77 pen and ink drawings with the newspaper cliping done generally for Wednesdays and Sundays. 8vo & 4to. unknown
1873Best.-Nr. 67802Stockholm 1873. 8vo. Originalt typografisk omslag. Ubeskåret. 4 140 s. Sigfrid Flodins förlag Svensk. Lite nevn på foromslaget. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896 er mest berømt for å ha skrevet “Onkel Toms hytte”. Wikipedia skriver at hun var inspirert av den svenske litteratur og den danske kultur. unknown
1882Best.-Nr. 345842Braidentown Florida: Published by the author 1882. Second edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the upper part of the front coverr. Frontispiece and illustrations. 83pp. 12mo. Original printed wrappers staining minor wear. Provenance: Thomas W. Streeter booklabel. Second edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the upper part of the front coverr. Frontispiece and illustrations. 83pp. 12mo. "This is an early piece on the beginnings of settlement on the west coast of Florida below Tampa. The tract says that the railroad from Palatka on the St. John's River should be completed "within two years" and that "a narrow-gauge railroad from Tampa to the Manatee and thence to Sarasota Bay will soon follow" Streeter. The portrait is of "Madam Julia Atzeroth The Lady who raised the first coffee grown in the United States." Clark New South I:231; Streeter 1264 this copy Published by the author unknown books
1896Best.-Nr. 310060Ocala Fla 1896. Oblong 12mo. Red velvet over boards. Minor wear. Oblong 12mo. The album contains sketches some dried flowers letters and a number of ribbons including ones from C.C. Gold Camp the Florida State Teacher's Association and ribbons and receipts to the National Republican League convention in Denver in 1894 as well as a ticket to the top of Pike's Peak. Sketches include one of three Chinese children and 2 black children. Miss Green married Mr. Burnett in 1898. unknown books
1822Best.-Nr. 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
1822Best.-Nr. 339148Washington D.C.: Gales & Seaton 1822. 17th Congress 1st Session House Report No. 47. 35 1 blankpp. 8vo. Disbound. 17th Congress 1st Session House Report No. 47. 35 1 blankpp. 8vo. A request 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. Pages 13 through 30 comprise a separate section with its own caption title: Facts and Observations on the Culture of Vines Olives Capers Almonds &c. in the Southern States and of Coffee Cocoa and Cochineal in East Florida. This section first published separately in Philadelphia in 1821. Shoemaker 11210 [Gales & Seaton] unknown books
1837Best.-Nr. 370450New York 1837. First edition. 16pp. 8vo. Original printed yellow wrappers repairs to small chips and separation at fold. Provenance: Thomas W. Streeter booklabel on inner rear wrapper pencil notes on front wrapper and first page of text. First edition. 16pp. 8vo. Comprising 1.4 million acres of land on the Gulf of Mexico between the Apalachicola and Wakulla Rivers in West Florida the Forbes land grant was ceded by the Seminoles and Lower Creeks to John Forbes & Company in payment for debts. With trade with Native Americans unprofitable during the War of 1812 Forbes sold the claim. The treaty transferring Florida to the United States did not go into effect until 1821 and private title under Spanish land grants with the territory was questionable. Decades of lawsuits ensued going as high as the Supreme Court. After the resolution of claims the title was reorganized as the Apalachiocola Land Company in 1835. The present report by the President of the Board of Directors of the New York-based company describes the geography of the region and outlines the plan for its division into lots for dwellings and businesses. The report summarizes the surveys of the region and describes the land and its resources and flora. Sabin calls for a map in this report although Servies does not note one. However the text references a map on page 7 which was likely not issued with all copies. The development of the land was not successful and the company eventually folded. "As an object of speculation the Forbes Purchase not only originated in a chaotic era but was hampered for many years by uncertain title to the land. Its development was also hindered by a lack of good agricultural land as well as by competition from the United States itself which was selling new lands in the American West at the same time the Apalachicola Land Company was getting started" Upchurch. This Streeter copy is the only example appearing in auction records and the only one we can trace in the market. Streeter purchased it from Rosenbach in 1936 for $50 and it was acquired at the Streeter sale for $65 by dealer and former Rosenbach employee John Fleming. It was eventually acquired by the collector Jay Kislak. Servies 2010; Streeter sale 1240 this copy; Sabin 5878; American Imprints 43274. See John C. Upchurch "Aspects of the Development and Exploration of the Forbes Purchase" Florida Historical Quarterly Vol. XLVIII No. 2 October 1969 unknown books
1837Best.-Nr. 370450New York 1837. First edition. 16pp. 8vo. Original printed yellow wrappers repairs to small chips and separation at fold. Provenance: Thomas W. Streeter booklabel on inner rear wrapper pencil notes on front wrapper and first page of text. First edition. 16pp. 8vo. Comprising 1.4 million acres of land on the Gulf of Mexico between the Apalachicola and Wakulla Rivers in West Florida the Forbes land grant was ceded by the Seminoles and Lower Creeks to John Forbes & Company in payment for debts. With trade with Native Americans unprofitable during the War of 1812 Forbes sold the claim. The treaty transferring Florida to the United States did not go into effect until 1821 and private title under Spanish land grants with the territory was questionable. Decades of lawsuits ensued going as high as the Supreme Court. After the resolution of claims the title was reorganized as the Apalachiocola Land Company in 1835. The present report by the President of the Board of Directors of the New York-based company describes the geography of the region and outlines the plan for its division into lots for dwellings and businesses. The report summarizes the surveys of the region and describes the land and its resources and flora. Sabin calls for a map in this report although Servies does not note one. However the text references a map on page 7 which was likely not issued with all copies. The development of the land was not successful and the company eventually folded. "As an object of speculation the Forbes Purchase not only originated in a chaotic era but was hampered for many years by uncertain title to the land. Its development was also hindered by a lack of good agricultural land as well as by competition from the United States itself which was selling new lands in the American West at the same time the Apalachicola Land Company was getting started" Upchurch. This Streeter copy is the only example appearing in auction records and the only one we can trace in the market. Streeter purchased it from Rosenbach in 1936 for $50 and it was acquired at the Streeter sale for $65 by dealer and former Rosenbach employee John Fleming. It was eventually acquired by the collector Jay Kislak. Servies 2010; Streeter sale 1240 this copy; Sabin 5878; American Imprints 43274. See John C. Upchurch "Aspects of the Development and Exploration of the Forbes Purchase" Florida Historical Quarterly Vol. XLVIII No. 2 October 1969 unknown
1822Best.-Nr. 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
