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19355862Ybor City Tampa Florida: the restaurant 1935. Small stapled booklet 10 x 6 cm. 30 2 pages. Advertisements. Index. Illustrated. Evident FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A promotional cocktail book with recipes as well from the oldest restaurant in Florida and one of the oldest and largest Spanish/Cuban restaurants in America. A tip of the hat is given to the bartender "Genial" Tony who is indicated as the compiler. A single illustration of a woman raising a glass is signed by the illustrator in the print "Com Cut". The cocktail recipes include a Napoleon "Columbia" Jack Rose Caribe Orange Blossom Conchita "Columbia" Abbey Cocktail Gin Ricky Absinthe Frappe Bull-Dog Daiquiri Cocktail Real Presidente Cocktail Dry Martine Cocktail Oriente Seventh Heaven and others. Culinary recipes include Black Beans Yellow Rice and Chicken and Spanish Bean Soup. Opened in 1903 and owned by the same family since 1905 the Columbia Restaurant is the oldest restaurant in Florida. The original name "Columbia Saloon" was dropped with the onset of Prohibition in favor of the more neutral Columbia Restaurant. After Repeal the Columbia reinvigorated its bar business and added entertainment becoming a regular stop for Latin American entertainers and touring musicians. The archives of the restaurant and of its owners the Gonzmart family are held at Florida State University. The interior and back panels of the wrappers include advertisements for Mr. Old Boston Fine Liquors Tropical Ice Cream and Sherbert Company of Tampa and wines from Spain's Castel del Remey. The front wrapper panel printed in black and blue features a Spanish galleon. Stapled in wrappers with a small smudge to rear panel otherwise near fine. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; not in Noling Beverage Literature; not referenced in any way online. [the restaurant] unknown books
186233591Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian & Journal. Printed by Dyke & Carlisle 1862. 79 1 blank IV pp. Bound in institutional cloth gilt-lettered spine labels institutional bookplate. A clean and lightly worn text. Very Good.<br/><br/> An early Florida Confederate imprint with much material on the ongoing War. <br/>Parrish & Willingham 2734. Office of the Floridian & Journal. Printed by Dyke & Carlisle unknown books
1847WRCAM31655Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian 1847. 99v pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine largely perished. Internally clean. Very good untrimmed. 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. SERVIES 3243. AII FLORIDA 242. McMURTRIE FLORIDA 140. GILCREASE p.340. Office of the Floridian unknown books
1859WRCAM31242St. Augustine: Kernan & Alba 1859. Large folding plate 50 x 5 inches short numbered key on verso of front wrapper. Original printed front wrapper rear wrapper lacking. Wrappers dampstained. Old tape marks on some folds. Folding view torn neatly in half. Moderate soiling and edge wear. Good. A large folding view looking towards St. Augustine from the Matanzas river. Executed by John S. Horton this is one of the variant issues with the key. It is possible the latter half of the key is lacking because only a portion of the buildings numbered are described in the text. "The drawing from which the woodcuts were made dates from the late 1850's; the names of several individuals are found in the St. Johns County census of 1850 and others are given in the 1860 census.The view was sold separately for many years and was apparently inserted haphazardly in various other works" - Servies. According to Servies Kernan & Alba were not printers but local pharmacists offering the item for sale. A nice Florida item. Not on OCLC. SERVIES 4398. EBERSTADT 128:249. Kernan & Alba unknown books
1839WRCAM31079New York: Wiley and Putnam 1839. 199pp. Contemporary blue cloth blindstamped covers gilt-lettered spine. Slightly rubbed spine sunned. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper moderate foxing. Good. A prejudiced description of Florida St. Croix and Cuba. "With mention of.the indolent men of the U.S. Navy who should be off fighting Indians" - Servies. An early tourist view of southern Florida and one of the few good accounts of St. Croix. SERVIES 2445. CLARK III:257. TRO PÉREZ 607. Wiley and Putnam hardcover books
1896310060Ocala 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.<br/>Sketches include one of three Chinese children and 2 black children. Miss Green married Mr. Burnett in 1898. unknown books
1937140938458Havana: United Press 1937. Softcover. Very Good. 72 pp. Cocktail recipes printed in Spanish and English. Very Good. Light stain to front cover general wear and some creasing throughout and short tear at base of spine. A promotional cocktail recipe guide from La Florida in Havana Cuba. Beginning in 1934 La Florida began issuing a yearly promotional cocktail guide to lure in visitors from around the globe. The renowned cafe and bar was a favorite haunt of Ernest Hemingway and is also recognized as the birthplace of the frozen daiquiri. United Press unknown books
188137307Tallahassee Fla.: Printed at the Floridian Book and Job Office 1881. XVI 1302 pp. Bound in modern legal buckram with title stamped on spine. Margins of title and a couple of other leaves reinforced. Rubberstamp on title page. Else clean and Very Good.<br/><br/> The Digest includes the Constitutions of the United States and Florida; Ordinances declaring Secession null and void ratifying the post-War Reconstruction Amendments and surveying the laws in alphabetical order from "Adjutant-General" to "Witnesses in Criminal Cases." Like many States Florida forbade marriage between whites and "any negro mulatto or quarteroon or other colored person."<br/> An Appendix prints "Charters of Railroad Canal and Telegraph Companies." A detailed Index is printed at the end.<br/>Babbitt 77. Printed at the Floridian Book and Job Office unknown books
1788WRCAM54472London 1788. 579-584pp. Dbd. Folio. Pinholes at gutter margin. Light tanning. Very good. Very scarce official printing of this Parliamentary act relating to the settlement of compensation for those whose property was lost by the return of Florida to the Spanish in the Treaty of Paris. ESTC locates three copies and OCLC locates a fourth. ESTC N58773. unknown books
1788WRCAM54471London 1788. 779-787pp. Dbd. Folio. Stab holes at gutter margin. Light tanning. Very good. Very scarce official printing of this act of Parliament that made provisions for those who lost their property when Great Britain ceded Florida back to Spain as a part of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. ESTC locates five copies. unknown books
1845WRCAM26223Tallahassee: Office of the Florida Sentinel Printed by Joseph Clisby 1845. 135pp. Cloth and boards. Old library perforation stamp on title else good. First statehood legislative journal with a speech by governor W.D. Moseley. SERVIES 3029. AII FLORIDA 321. Office of the Florida Sentinel, Printed by Joseph Clisby hardcover 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
1862WRCAM24895Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian & Journal Printed by Dyke & Carlisle 1862. 791vi pp. Dbd. Tanned. Some light foxing on preliminary leaves. Good. Scarce Confederate Florida laws. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2733. SERVIES 4679. AII FLORIDA 253. Office of the Floridian & Journal, Printed by Dyke & Carlisle unknown books
1886LIST112Cincinnati: St. Andrews Bay Railroad and Land Company 1886. Various Formats. Near Fine. An unusual collection of ephemera relating to the early development of the area of the Florida Panhandle east of Pensacola and an interesting ephemeral window into the type of land schemes that led to the population of Florida by northerners. In the late nineteenth century the area of Port Panama City in the Florida Panhandle was largely undeveloped though the town had strategic interest as a supplier of salt for the confederacy. In the 1880s the St. Andrews Bay Railroad and Land and Company was the second of two companies to sell land in the St. Andrews Bay region to unsuspecting northerners only to go bankrupt. The company promised to build a railroad from Alabama down to Southport crossing North Bay and eventually terminating in St. Andrews. Though the railway project was abandoned many people settled in the area as a result of the land sales. The company became known locally as the "Cincinnati Company."<br /> <br /> <br /> Includes: <br /> <br /> Warranty deeds for land sold to Lizzie Kegema Hosley of Somerville MA. 1886-1887.<br /> <br /> Letter from the St. Andrews Bay Railroad & Land Co to L.K. Hosley of Somerville Mass. explaining why the offer of 40 acres for $1 was contingent on her purchasing 299 building lots. On color lithographed letterhead featuring oranges and fishing.<br /> <br /> Notice on taxes to be paid by owners of property at St. Andrews Bay.<br /> <br /> Two envelopes with printed notices "This sealed envelope contains one Free Land Warrant" no contents.<br /> <br /> Envelope addressed to Lizzie Kegema Hosley of Somerville Mass. from the St. Andrews Bay R.R. and Land Co. Northern Office Cincinnati Oh.<br /> <br /> An interesting and early collection of Floridian real estate detritus. Generally well preserved in very good to near fine condition. St. Andrews Bay Railroad and Land Company unknown books
196215390Windermere FL 1962-1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Screw-bound commercial album. Gilt decorated vinyl covered boards. Rubbing edgewear. Front board beginning to split from binding mild discolor handling wear to exterior. Good. Containing 220 black and white photographs with various scrap elements recto and verso mounted to 29 brown paper leaves. Most photos square snapshot with a few larger format. Contents well preserved clean. Very good overall. <br/><br/>Rich visual record documenting the Windemere Squares Dancing Club of Windemere Florida. Carefully assembled the album contains hundreds of B&W images of club social events dancing costume and yes square dancing. Shots are clear and well-composed arranged largely chronologically and further adorned with related scrap newspaper clippings about club correspondence and like. Generally dated and well-annotated an engaging primary document of Southern society and culture. hardcover books
1816WRCAM5200Washington 1816. 23pp. Dbd. Very good. Prints two letters from Onìs and Monroe's reply in which he complains of expeditions being arranged by Robinson and Toledo against Spanish claims. Onìs also continues his objections to the American seizure of West Florida. Monroe replies that these activities are beyond the jurisdiction of the U.S. and asserts that the cession of Louisiana includes the territory as far west as the Rio Grande. HOWES L502. STREETER TEXAS 1060. SERVIES 887. unknown books
187231647Tallahassee: Charles H. Walton State Printer 1872. Stitched untrimmed and uncut. 350 2 blanks 76 pp. Except for a spotted title page which is chipped at the blank corners a clean Very Good copy.<br/><br/> An informative Journal recounting Floridians' resistance to Radical Reconstruction. Governor Harrison Reed's Message addresses ongoing disturbances and "fatal and disgraceful violence. Nine-tenths of the suffering induced has fallen upon Republicans and mainly upon colored citizens-- giving unerring evidence that these excesses have been strongly tinctured by if they have not entirely originated in political prejudice." Many murders and disruptions had occurred in Calhoun and Jackson Counties forcing citizens to flee their homes and seek shelter in other parts of the State. A Committee of Five was appointed "to examine into the cause of said murders and to ascertain why the perpetrators have not been brought to justice." The Committee concluded that "there exists an organized band whose object is to resist the laws and who are the supposed authors of the many murders and outrages committed in the county." Threats of violence and a "reign of terror" had deterred witnesses from coming forward. In Jackson County "no less than one hundred and eight -four murders fifteen of the number being women and children and almost the entire number being colored people brutally assassinated by this band of outlaws for daring to think for themselves." Similar outrages occurred in Lafayette and other counties. <br/> Governor Reed Florida's governor from 1868-73 faced impeachment charges from this Assembly as he had in 1868 and 1870. He was later charged in sixteen Articles with illegally issuing state bonds embezzlement and bribery. The charges were dismissed. The Assembly treated other matters of government including special elections marred by violence; "an act to incorporate Brown's Theological Institute" now Edward Waters College founded in 1866 to educate former slaves and considered the oldest historically black college in Florida. Senate Bill No 82 "to be entitled an act to incorporate the Buckingham Smith Asylum for the colored people of St. Augustine" was passed. Charles H. Walton, State Printer unknown books
1861WRCAM19664Tallahassee 1861. 33338pp. Modern cloth leather label. Very good. Floridian Confederate imprint recording the House proceedings at the start of the Civil War. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2745. SERVIES 4586. 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
1949313357Gainesville 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
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
185334119Paris: Jannet 1853. 160 228pp. Contemp. full calf 16mo raised bands. This is a later edition of the 1586 original edition. Clark: Travels in the old south vol. 1# 16: "This volume contains basic material on the French colony at Fort Caroline and provides as well a description of this early frontier region and the problems confronting colonizing undertakings. The account is contained in three letters of Laudonniere during the years 1562 1564 and 1565. In the present work the editor evidently added the account of De Gourgues expedition in 1567." See the Streeter Sale vol. 2# 1170. Church 131. Sabin 39234. One of the earliest and rarest books relating to Florida. This work also contains one of the earliest accounts of the Native Americans of the southeast. Jannet hardcover books
1821WRCAM39560St. Augustine: Richard W. Edes & Co. 1821. 4pp. Cut of the Seal of the United States in masthead. Early horizontal fold. Neatly separated at center fold unobtrusive tape repair at head of center fold on pp.1 and 4. Light foxing small ink stain in upper margin of first page not affecting text. Very good. The fourth issue of the FLORIDA GAZETTE the first American newspaper in Florida. The GAZETTE began publication in July 1821 at the time of Spain's cession of the Floridas to the United States; Florida Territory was organized the following year. This issue of the weekly newspaper prints the names of the St. Augustine city council an account and description of the "Creoles of Louisiana" from the LOUISIANA ADVERTISER a lengthy article on the treatment of dysentery various advertisements letters a notice on the capture of five escaped slaves and local news including a story on a "splendid ball" thrown by the American officers of the St. Augustine garrison for the Spanish ladies and gentlemen of the town. OCLC lists only five institutions holding any issues of the GAZETTE. Edes died of yellow fever in October and the last recorded issue dates from Dec. 22 1821. A rare early Florida imprint. SERVIES 1075. Richard W. Edes & Co. unknown books
1826WRCAM51016Pensacola 1826. 4pp. Bifolium. Creases on final page flattened with repair tape. Bright and clean. Very good plus. An incredibly early edition of one of the first newspapers in Florida. The PENSACOLA GAZETTE was founded in 1824 and 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. unknown books
1876244152Jacksonville Florida 1876. 4 pp. pen and ink on a single folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo. Old folds. Fine. 4 pp. pen and ink on a single folded sheet. 1 vols. 12mo. The First Florida Retiree. "Spinner a strong nationalist was an important adviser to Chase on matters such as the circulation of greenbacks which bore Spinner's distinctive hard-to-duplicate signature and the creation of a national banking system. . Needing large numbers of reliable employees not subject to military service he was the first governmental administrator to turn to women. He vigorously defended their employment against critics hired over one hundred paid them well by the standards of the time and insisted on their continued employment after the war. . When a new secretary of the treasury in 1875 assumed control over the appointment of clerks however Spinner feared that dishonest people might be hired and he would be held responsible. He resigned and moved to Jacksonville Florida where he enjoyed a vigorous outdoor life until his death in that city." ANB<br/>Francis E. Spinner 1802-1890 served as Treasurer of the United States under Presidents Lincoln Johnson and Grant. In the angling world he is notable as the recipient of letters from Oliver Gibbs published as Lake Pepin Fish-Chowder 1869. In retirement in Florida he writes to George Dawson editor of the Albany Evening Journal and a noted American angling author whose Pleasures of Angling with Rod and Reel 1876 is the first American book devoted to fly fishing. Spinner writes "I am so glad to learn that you have been persuaded to publish your fish letters in book form . when yours comes out it will be read with pleasure." He then goes on to describe fishing for trout on McGirt's Creek a tributary of the St. Johns River and catching a cat fish of 18-1/2 pounds "on one of Chapman's 'No. 4 Minnow bait' . I mention this because I cannot learn from anyone that a cat fish was ever known before to strike at artificial bait." Spinner concludes lyrically "The orange and other of the citrus family are in bloom now . Whoever at the North that can afford to and who has nothing else to do and that does not spend his winters in this Elysium is to be pitied. Do come." <br/>An excellent letter with outstanding content. unknown books