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19414925fdTallahassee: Florida State Department of Agriculture n.d. ca. 1941. First Edition. Octavo pictorial wrappers 87 pp. Fold-out map photographs. Very Good. Florida State Department of Agriculture, n.d. [ca. 1941]. First Edition. unknown books
61368bdTallahassee Florida: Nathan Mayo n.d. Octavo paperbound black & white illus. white wrappers 87 pp. Very Good with light edgewear. Nathan Mayo, n.d. unknown books
1901116721901. 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
1811WRCAM41305Washington City: A. & G. Way 1811. 11pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Lightly foxed. Very good. 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. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 24296. A. & G. Way hardcover books
181923119Washington: Thomas Allen Printer 1819. 20pp untrimmed uncut Very Good. Secretary of State Forsyth transmits documents to Congress concerning Spanish and French claims to West Florida. Forsyth advises that any such claims were extinguished by the Louisiana Purchase and the Treaty between the United States and Spain. He transmits correspondence occurring in 1810 between Governor Claiborne and others concerning American forces' occupation of the territory. OCLC 10648476 3. Not in Sabin or Eberstadt. Thomas Allen, Printer unknown books
20138624bdGainesville: University Press of Florida 2013. First Edition Advance Review Copy with Publisher’s letter laid-in. Octavo blue boards hardcover 142 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Hanging chads. Butterfly ballots. Unruly demonstrations across the country. A state capital occupied by the national press corps. For thirty-six excruciating days in late 2000 a nation held its breath while behind closed doors the seven justices of the Florida Supreme Court debated the outcome of the presidential election. The events that transpired within the justices’ chambers -- their arguments exhortations and appeals to one another -- have remained a mystery. until now. Inside Bush v. Gore presents the unique candid and compelling perspective of the Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice who stood at the center of the storm. Charley Wells a strong dissenting voice in the court’s 4-3 decision that mandated a statewide manual recount gives an unprecedented play-by-play of those tumultuous days. Not only is his legal analysis of Bush v. Gore at the state and federal levels invaluable but he also offers an insider’s view of judicial relationships the frustrations of ambiguous election laws the difficulties of separating the legalities from the politics and the unsung yet critical role played by state court professionals. Ultimately Inside Bush v. Gore is a story about the transfer of power in a country that prides itself on the democratic process of electing its leaders and the ability of the court system to justly and fairly resolve disputes. With the advantage of hindsite and the perspective gained by reading countless commentaries and studies about the decisions of both the Florida and the United States Supreme Courts Wells highlights how the rule of law prevailed in the midst of one of the country’s most controversial elections in recent history. University Press of Florida, (2013). First Edition, Advance Review Copy, with Publisher’s letter laid-in. hardcover books
190646061Estero FL: Guiding Star Publishing House 1906. First Edition. 22 quarto issues 31cm; original illustrated wrappers disbound; 16pp per issue. Holes with corresponding oxidation from saddle staples some offsetting to spine-folds from fabric tape binding with some light wear and dust-soil to wrappers; No.52 with several tears and toning to rear wrapper; a handful of issues with some light scattered underlining else quite clean; Very Good or better. Early run of this periodical edited and written by Dr. Cyrus R. Teed a Utica NY native and founder of the Koreshan Unity. "Koreshanity" as it was also known was born in the wake of two related movements: the millenial fervor that swept early-to-mid-19th century central and western New York State and the utopian communalism that began attracting increasing numbers of adherents during the same period and into the later 19th century." A graduate of Eclectic Medical College of the City of New York Teed's interests went beyond medicine to encompass alchemy botany physics and metaphysics and he would regularly conduct experiments in these areas inside his medical laboratory. It was in this laboratory in 1869 that "Teed conceived what would become known as Koreshanity after experiencing a late-night religious vision. During what he called his "illumination" he saw a beautiful woman who revealed to him a series of universal truths which formed the fundamental principles of Koreshan belief." Among Teed's most interesting beliefs was cellular cosmogony or the hollow earth - the notion that the earth was not a convex sphere but instead a hollow concave cell containing the entire universe with the sun at its center. <br/><br/>After failed attempts at founding communal settlements in Moravia Syracuse and New York City Teed moved to Chicago IL where his persuasive oratory enabled him to assemble a firm core of followers in the late 1880's and form the commune called Beth-Ophra. Teed incorporated his organization there as the College of Life in 1886 and established a printing house that began producing three major publications: The Guiding Star The Flaming Sword and The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. "These publciations began a long legacy of Koreshan publishing aimed at the public as well as their own members intended to explain and promote their beliefs relate and preserve their story and discuss political social scientific and religious ideas and issues." <br/><br/>Believing himself to be a messiah who would lead his people in establishing a New Jerusalem Teed assumed the name Koresh in 1891 after Cyrus the Great King of Persia. As with his previous locations Teed's beliefs did not endear him or his followers to the general public forcing him to relocate from Chicago to the quiet beach town of Estero FL in 1894 the final home of the Koreshan Unity where Teed would establish his New Jerusalem. It was here that the Koreshan Unity established a growing self-sustaining community though at the height of the movement their membership numbered no more than 250. Though Teed died in December 1908 The Flaming Sword continued to be published from Estero through the 1960's with the Koreshan publishing tradition continuing well into the 1980's. Guiding Star Publishing House unknown books
192846058Estero FL: Guiding Star Publishing House 1928. First Edition. Twelve quarto issues 31.5cm; illustrated wrappers stapled; 16pp per issue. Seven of the twelve issues with brass eyelets along left edge one with eyelets removed; all issues show modest wear oxidation to staples some scattered soil light biopredation and occasional staining to wrappers; several with vertical folds smoothed-out; small loss to lower corner of Dec.1928 issue; contents fairly clean and complete with some occasional notes in the margins; Good to Very Good. Complete year of this periodical formerly edited and written by Dr. Cyrus R. Teed a Utica NY native and founder of the Koreshan Unity. "Koreshanity" as it was also known was born in the wake of two related movements: the millenial fervor that swept early-to-mid-19th century central and western New York State and the utopian communalism that began attracting increasing numbers of adherents during the same period and into the later 19th century." A graduate of Eclectic Medical College of the City of New York Teed's interests went beyond medicine to encompass alchemy botany physics and metaphysics and he would regularly conduct experiments in these areas inside his medical laboratory. It was in this laboratory in 1869 that "Teed conceived what would become known as Koreshanity after experiencing a late-night religious vision. During what he called his "illumination" he saw a beautiful woman who revealed to him a series of universal truths which formed the fundamental principles of Koreshan belief." Among Teed's most interesting beliefs was cellular cosmogony or the hollow earth - the notion that the earth was not a convex sphere but instead a hollow concave cell containing the entire universe with the sun at its center. <br/><br/>After failed attempts at founding communal settlements in Moravia Syracuse and New York City Teed moved to Chicago IL where his persuasive oratory enabled him to assemble a firm core of followers in the late 1880's and form the commune called Beth-Ophra. Teed incorporated his organization there as the College of Life in 1886 and established a printing house that began producing three major publications: The Guiding Star The Flaming Sword and The Plowshare and Pruning Hook. "These publciations began a long legacy of Koreshan publishing aimed at the public as well as their own members intended to explain and promote their beliefs relate and preserve their story and discuss political social scientific and religious ideas and issues." <br/><br/>Believing himself to be a messiah who would lead his people in establishing a New Jerusalem Teed assumed the name Koresh in 1891 after Cyrus the Great King of Persia. As with his previous locations Teed's beliefs did not endear him or his followers to the general public forcing him to relocate from Chicago to the quiet beach town of Estero FL in 1894 the final home of the Koreshan Unity where Teed would establish his New Jerusalem. It was here that the Koreshan Unity established a growing self-sustaining community though at the height of the movement their membership numbered no more than 250. Though Teed died in December 1908 The Flaming Sword continued to be published from Estero through the 1960's with the Koreshan publishing tradition continuing well into the 1980's. Guiding Star Publishing House unknown books
19681660glsGainesville FL: University of Florida 1968. Octavo purple cloth hardcover gilt letters 91 pp. Fine. University of Florida, 1968. hardcover books
ess4922Gainesville FL: University of Florida Tuesday October the Eighth Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Eight. Octavo purple cloth hardcover gilt letters 93 pp. Near-Fine with sunned spine and lightly rubbed edges. University of Florida, Tuesday, October the Eighth, Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Eight. hardcover books
19537284fd2Gainesville: University of Florida Department of Alumni Affairs 1953. Quarto stiff illustrated wrappers stapled 22 pp. Photos throughout. Very Good. University of Florida, Department of Alumni Affairs, 1953. unknown books
1963bas31Jacksonville FL: Florida Historical Society 1963. Octavo paperbound ii 116 pp. Very Good with light rubbing to edges; year marked in ink on cover. Contents include: James ORmond Merchant and Soldier Alice Strickland; An Evaluation of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Florida Joe M. Richardson; Wreckers and Wrecking on the Florida Reef 1829-1832 E. A. Hammond; La Floride: 1565 James W. Covington; Book Reviews; News and Notes; Editor’s Corner: Tales of Old Florida by Jane D. Brush. Florida Historical Society, 1963. unknown books
1962bas32Jacksonville FL: Florida Historical Society 1962. Octavo paperbound ii 106 pp. Very Good former-owner stamp year marked in ink on cover. Contents include: Julien Chandler Yonge Rembert W. Patrick; The COnstitutional Convention of 1885 Edward C. Williamson; The Story of Captain John C. Casey Fred W. Wallace; Lincoln’s Courier: John L. Worden’s Mission to Fort Pickens James Jones; Memoir of a West Pointer in Florida: 1825 Cecil D. Eby Jr.; Book Reviews; The Annual Meeting; News and Notes; The Editor’s Corner: Tales of Old Florida by Jane D. Brush. Florida Historical Society, 1962. unknown books
1972es2035Tampa Florida: Florida Historical Society 1972. Octavo paperbound iii 235-340 pp. Near-Fine with lightly rubbed edges. Contents include: Claude Pepper and the Florida Canal Controversy 1939-1943; Slavetrading in Antebellum Florida; Tampa Bay in 1757: Francisco Maria Celi’s Journal and Logbook Part II; The Labor League of Jacksonville: A Negro Union and White Strikebreakers; Tacatacuru and the San Pedro de Mocamo Mission; John Bull’s Stinginess in East Florida; Florida History Research in Progress. Florida Historical Society, 1972. unknown books
1963ess4408Jacksonville FL: The Florida Historical Society 1963. Octavo paperbound stiff coral & white wrappersii 98 pp. Near-Fine. Contents: Textbook Writers and the Florida “Purchase†Myth Harris G. Warren; Tampa at the Close of the Nineteenth Century Jose Rivero Munz; Jacksonville during the Civil War Samuel Proctor; The Constitution of 1868 Jarrell H. Shofer; Book Reviews; News and Notes; The Editor’s Corner; Contributors. The Florida Historical Society, 1963. unknown books
1962ess4410Jacksonville FL: The Florida Historical Society 1962. Octavo paperbound stiff coral & white wrappers ii 105 pp. Near-Fine. Contents: Julien Chandler Yonge Rembert W. Patrick; The Constitutional Convention of 1885 Edward C. Williamson; The Story of Captain John C. Casey Fred W. Wallace; Lincoln’s Courier: John L. Worden’s Mission to Fort Pickens James Jones; Memoir of a West Pointer in Florida: 1825 Cecil D. Eby Jr.; Book Reviews; The Annual Meeting May 3-5 1962; News and Notes; The Editor’s Corner: Tales of Old Florida Jane D. Brush; Contributors. The Florida Historical Society, 1962. unknown books
1964es2032Tampa Florida: Florida Historical Society 1964. Octavo paperbound ii 307-412 pp. Very Good with lightly rubbed edges. Contents include: Memoir of a West Pointer in Saint Augustine 1824-1826; Fraud and Intimidation in the Florida Election of 1876; Military Operations on the St. Johns September-October 1862 Part II: The Federals Capture St. Johns Bluff; Wakulla Spring: Its Setting and Literary Visitors; Jonathan C. Gibbs: Florida’s Only Negro Cabinet Member. Florida Historical Society, 1964. unknown books
61278bdThe Florida Historical Society 1967. Octavo paperbound 219 - 325 pp. Very Good with light rubbing to edges inked date to spine. Contents: Billy Bowlegs Holata Micco in the Seminole Wars Part I by Kenneth W. Porter; Claude L’Engle Florida Muckraker by Joel Webb Eastman; Florida’s Golden Age of Racing by Alice Strickland; Suwannee River Steamboating by Edward A. Mueller; A Footnote on Rene Laudionniere by Charles E. Bennett; Book Reivews; Historical News; Director’s Meeting December 3 1966; Contributors. unknown books
1963es2045Tampa Florida: Florida Historical Society 1963. Octavo paperbound ii 209-324 pp. Very Good with light tanning to edges. Contents include: James Ormond Merchant and Soldier; An Evaluation of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Florida; Wreckers and Wrecking on the Florida Reef 1829-1832; La Floride: 1565. Florida Historical Society, 1963. unknown books
1936es2050Tampa Florida: Florida Historical Society 1936. Octavo paperbound 77-143. pp. Very Good with light rubbing & soiling to covers. Contents include: Engagements at St. Johns Bluff: St. Johns River September-October 1862; A Letter of Captain V. Chamberlain 7th Connecticut Volunteers; Florida University 1883; The Contention over the Superintendencia of the Floridas; Sidney Lanier in Florida; The Panton Leslie Papers: A Letter of Edwin Gairdner to William Panton 1798. Florida Historical Society, 1936. unknown books
1941es2047Tampa Florida: Florida Historical Society 1941. Octavo paperbound 128 pp. Very Good with light tanning to edges. Contents include: Source Materials of Florida History in the John carter Brown Library of Brown University; The Return of Spanish Rule to the St. Marys and the St. Johns 1813-1821; James Holmes’s Florida Plantation 1804; The Franciscans in Florida Maynard Geiger O.F.M.; Spanish Land Grants in Florida; From a Remote Frontier: San Marcos de Apalache 1763-1769; Tequesta the Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida. Florida Historical Society, 1941. unknown books
1943es2044Tampa Florida: Florida Historical Society 1943. Octavo paperbound 289-382 pp. Very Good with light tanning to edges. Contents include: Botanical Explorers of the Southeastern United States; The Gibraltar of the Gulf of Mexico; Richard Keith Call; Yellow Fever on the Blockade of Indian River Letters of Master’s Mate John F. Van Nest. Florida Historical Society, 1943. unknown books
1954es2040Tampa Florida: Florida Historical Society 1954. Octavo paperbound 231-314 pp. Good with soiled covers and title inked to spine. Contents include: The Notorious Swepson-Littlefield Fraud; Railroad Financing in Florida 1868-1871; The Occupation of Jacksonville 1864 and the Battle of Olustee: Letters of Lt. C. M. Duren; A Religious Revival in Tallahassee in 1843: The Reverend Nathan Hoyt; Tequesta. Florida Historical Society, 1954. unknown books
1954es2048Tampa Florida: Florida Historical Society 1954. Octavo paperbound 72 pp. Very Good with light rubbing & soiling to covers. Contents include: The Governorship of Andrew Jackson; Three Letters of Andrew Jackson; Plantation Economy in Leon County 1830-1840; High School Essay Contest: History of White City. Florida Historical Society, 1954. unknown books
200225467Unionville: 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