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18103213311810. unbound. very good. Three newspapers with pieces on the declaration of independence of West Florida.<BR> <BR> I: The Boston Patriot. Volume IV No. 19. 4 pages measuring 19 x 13-1/2 inches; minor horizontal fold bisecting all pages. Boston: Isaac Munroe November 3 1810. Lightly rubbed with some fading to the masthead but otherwise a clean clear and easily readable -- a very good copy.<BR> <BR> II: New-England Palladium. Volume 36 No. 48. Friday December 14 1810. 4 pages measuring 21 x 13 inches; minor horizontal fold bisecting all pages lightly toned and foxed but in very good condition. <BR> <BR> III: Portsmouth Oracle. Volume XXII No. 5. Saturday November 3 1810. Four pages measuring 19 x 13.5 inches. Usual folds with light toning and foxing contemporary ink notation upper margin. A very good copy.<br/> <br/> The Boston Patriot contains the declaration of independence of West Florida issued issued by John Rea president of the West Florida convention on September 26 1810. The New-England Palladium has public statements from President James Madison Secretary of State Robert Smith John Rhea etc. on the independence of West Florida. The Portsmouth Oracle has two pieces: an account of the seizure of the fort at Baton Rouge signed by Philemon Thomas and John Rhea and the official statement of independence issued and signed by John Rhea and the members of the Convention. West Florida made up of the Florida Parishes of Louisiana declared independence from Spain in September 1810 and was absorbed into the United States by mid December becoming part of the state of Louisiana.<br/> <br/> unknown
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
189767376London: Chatto & Windus 1897. Rilegato tela cloth. Molto buono Very Good. A new edition with 200 illustrations by F. A. Fraser. 8vo. pp. 496. Molto buono Very Good. Bruniture ai tagli. Dorso con lievi mancanze. Legatura allentata Many browning at the edgs. Minor damage to spine. Loose binding. Prima edizione illustrata. Chatto & Windus, hardcover
1854ZB475097Washington: 1854. 3 pp disbound in self wrappers. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington: unknown
187937868Savannah: Morning News Steam Printing House 1879. 1879. FLORIDA GEORGIA. Sixth edition. 7 1/2" x 5" pictorial wrappers 80 pp. illustrated maps advertisements. A small green slip has been affixed to the title page advising the the Savannah Florida & Western Railway has purchased the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Company and is now the successor. Folding map is of the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad and shows the lines from Savannah to Bainbridge spur to Albany and connections in Florida from Tallahassee to Baldwin and Jacksonville and to Cedar Key. The booklet describes stations and points of interest in southern Georgia and Florida as well as other railroads towns and points of interest in Florida and southern Georgia. Moderate wear to the spine rear cover becoming loose but still intact covers lightly soiled interior clean else a very good copy. Morning News Steam Printing House, 1879. unknown
18917218Philadelphia: H. J. Smith & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1891. First Edition. Original Cloth. Covers lightly worn & darkened. Front hinge cracking. Interior is fine.; 5 1/2 x 8" . H. J. Smith & Co. hardcover
189300281394Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company 1893 Red/black decorated boards. 355 pgs. publishers ads rear. Missing fep minor soiling ow/ flawless. Scarce edition of first person account of brutal 19th century convict life in Florida chain gangs. Negro treatment described. Early American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. W. B. Conkey Company hardcover
1868ZB380129Washington: GPO 1868. 31 pp issued as 40th Congress 2d Session HMD 114; light extraction roughness at spine light general age toning last few leaves have a line of damp staing at margin now in self wrappers. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Washington: GPO, unknown
1880307572St. Augustine Florida: The Florida Club 1880. Ephemera. Near fine. A stereoview card that can be read at many levels: as a glimpse of post-Reconstruction African American life in Florida as a White supremacist image as a statement of class superiority and as an early image of the Lost Cause.<br /> <br /> These photographs offer a portrait of a young Black boy at work probably for a poor white farmer. The boy sits in an oxcart in the St. Augustine Plaza de la Constitucion. Presumably the driver of the cart has stepped away leaving the child in charge. That the child is working is suggested by the caption pasted on the verso back which refers to the boy and the ox as "the team of a Florida cracker" which is "a nickname applied to the poor white people of The South" Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms 1877.<br /> <br /> The intent of this stereoview is clearly to denigrate the boy for being black and the oxcart's owner for being poor but it also shows significant responsibility entrusted to a child as well as suggesting the prevalence of child labor in Florida at the end of the 19th century. <br /> <br /> The publisher of this image was a Florida photographers' cooperative founded by Charles Seaver Jr. and George Pierron which sold views from the St. Augustine area in the 1870s and 1880s. From the location of the scene the photograph can be dated more precisely to 1879 or after. The Confederate Memorial Obelisk is clearly visible in the background. The 1872 obelisk was the first monument to the Lost Cause of the Confederacy erected in Florida. It was moved to the Plaza de la Constitución in 1879.<br /> <br /> Southern Gems series. Flat mount stereoview stereograph. Albumen silver print 6-1/8 by 3-5/32 inches. Letterpress caption affixed to the back verso. A near fine example with very minor nicks to the edge of the mount. The image is a copy image of the two original stereoview photographs printed as a single photograph. The image has good contrast and detail. The Florida Club unknown
182426006Washington: Gales & Seaton 1824. Document 158 18th Congress 1st Session. 84pp faint rubberstamp at upper margin of page 3. Bound in modern cloth with spine title stamped in gilt bookplate on front pastedown. Very Good.<br /> <br /> Much material on the derivation and settling of land titles in Florida.<br /> Servies 1204. Gales & Seaton unknown
182826005Washington: Gales & Seaton 1828. House Document 169 20th Congress 1st Session. Bound in modern cloth bookplate on front pastedown gilt-stamped spine title. 53pp 5 folding tables. Light rubberstamp at upper margin of page 3 light to moderate foxing. Good.<br /> <br /> A compendium of the disposition of claims to land in Florida an important resource for understanding the tangle of land claims in early Florida.<br /> AI 36727 2. Servies 1414. Gales & Seaton unknown
1895ZB333580Washington: 1895. 4 pp issued as 53d Congress 3d Session HED 160; one margin chipped now disbound in self wrappers complete but reading copy only. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington: unknown
186439285Tallahassee and Quincy Florida; Charleston Columbus 1864. Each a single leaf varying lengths in ink manuscript. Occasional light wear Very Good.<br /> <br /> Shipments of cattle and salt beef to Confederate troops in the field are the primary subject of these letters. Logistic and administrative matters railroad availability and other aspects of supplying the troops are discussed. <br /> Pleasants Woodson White "was born in Georgia in 1820 the son of a Methodist minister who soon moved his family to Quincy Florida. Young White studied at Emory and began practicing law in Quincy in 1848. He was commissioned a major in the Confederate Army in 1861 and as Chief Commissary Officer for Florida commanded the important depot at Quincy. In 1863 despite his attempts at secrecy White's difficulties in supplying beef cattle to the army became known. The shortages thus revealed influenced the military campaign of 1864. White became active in politics after the war and served as Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit 1869-79. He also served as Commissioner of Lands and Immigration from 1881 to 1885 a period of railroad expansion in which his office was deeply involved. He became an attorney for the Florida Coast Line Canal and transport Company which controlled vast acreage near Miami. White became an ardent booster of the South Florida climate and divided his last years between his citrus groves in Lemon city and his civic and business interests in Quincy. He died in 1919" online University of North Florida Digital Commons. unknown
187823581Louisville KY: Richmond and Lousville Medical Journal Book and Job Steam Press 1878. Paperback. Mr. Livingston's signed copy of a pamphlet pertaining to Florida as a suitable "health resort" for Northern patients by Frederick Lente MD. Dr. Lente 1823 - 1883 was the primary surgeon at the West Point Foundry Cold Spring NY during the Civil War. He served at the Foundry from 1851 to 1870; later he was head of gynecology and children's health at the University of the City of New York and founder of the American Academy of medicine.<br /> <br /> Livingston was a member of a family of the Hudson River Valley which at one point owned some 900000 acres of land and about three dozen mansions in the area giving the area the nickname "Livingston Valley".<br /> <br /> 8vo 56pp errata slip bound in. Printed paper wrappers. Wrappers chipped at edges and marked. Good condition but fragile. OCLC: 1648852. Richmond and Lousville Medical Journal Book and Job Steam Press paperback
183132023Washington D. C.: n.p. 1831. Wraps. Very good. Stitched wraps. 120 pages. Untrimmed document. Light toning to the contents. Very good. <br /> <br /> Countents include correspondence between Georgia Florida and Government officials in setting a boundary between the territory of Florda and the State of Georgia. Boundaries included the St. Mary's River Appalachicola River and the Chattahoochie River. Florida became a territory of the United States in 1822 and a State in 1845. Scarce. 5 copies located in OCLC. n.p. unknown
186413103Quincy FL: January 1 1864. 1p. of manuscript docketed on verso. Old crease minor staining. Very good. A short but impactful and somewhat unusual document memorializing the inheritance of a young slave named "Anderson aged about twenty years" from a Florida estate in the penultimate year of the Civil War. Anderson was formerly owned by Daniel Love of Gadsden County and is here inherited by "John Shaw for Margaret E. Shaw" by Love's executor and likely brother Edward Love. The document is dated New Year's Day 1864. An unusual occurrence of a Florida slave being transmitted to a woman through inheritance. January 1 unknown
182045290Washington DC: Gales & Seaton 1820. First Edition. Fourteen volumes bound in one; contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards red gilt-lettered spine label. Boards rubbed and leather rather dried and flaking late 19th-century rubberstamp of the Patten Free Library to front free endpaper else Very Good internally fine. State papers covering a myriad of topics including a proposed law to deter kidnapping though the majority of the contents devoted to the cession of the Floridas to the Spanish government and the court martialing of Colonel William King Governor of West Florida. Contents as follows:. 1. William H. Crawford 109. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting Sundry Statements in Relation to the Operations of the Mint of the United States. April 10 1820. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. 6pp.; two folding table plates. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3830.<br /> <br /> 2. John C. Calhoun 110. Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting Pursuant to a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 25th ultimo Statements of the Amounts and Costs of Goods Furnished Annually to Indian Trading Houses Since the Year 1815. Specifying also the kinds and quantities of furs &c. &c. annually received since that period of said factories. April 13 1820. Read and ordered to lie on the table. 4pp.; one folding table plate. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3852.<br /> <br /> 3. Return J. Meigs Jr. 111. Letter from the Postmaster General Transmitting a List of Unproductive Post Roads for the Year 1819. April 14 1820. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. 20pp. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3771. <br /> <br /> 4. John Quincy Adams 112. Letter from the Secretary of State Transmitting a Copy of an Act of the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania entitled an Act to Prevent Kidnapping. April 18 1820. Referred to the Select Committee appointed on the 18th of March last to consider of providing more effectually for reclaiming persons held to service. 8pp. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3775. <br /> <br /> 5. Louisiana Legislature 113. Memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana. April 18 1820. Referred to the Select Committee appointed on the 13th of January last to enquire into the expediency of continuing in force for a limited time "An act regulating the currency within the United States of the gold coins of Great Britain France Portugal and Spain and the crowns of France and five franc pieces" as relates to the gold coins of those countries. 4pp. SHOW & SHOEMAKER 3887.<br /> <br /> 6. Albert Gallatin 114. Regulations for the Granting of Land Under the Spanish Government of Louisiana and Mr. Gallatin's instructions to the land commissioners in Louisiana and Missouri. April 19 1820. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. 20pp. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3936.<br /> <br /> 7. John Quincy Adams 115. Letter from the Secretary of State to the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce Transmitting documents shewing the proceedings of the Executive hitherto in negotiating with Great Britain in relation to the commercial intercourse between the United States and the British American colonies and with France in relation to the general commerce between that country and the United States. April 22 1820. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. 55pp. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3774.<br /> <br /> 8. American Society of the City of New York 116. Memorial of the American Society of the City of New York for the Encouragement of Domestic Manufacture. April 24 1820. Read and referred to the Committee of the Whole House to which is committed the Bill laying duties on sales of merchandize at auctions. 4pp. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3878.<br /> <br /> 9. John Johnson Jr. 117. Memorial of John Johnson Junior. April 24 1820. Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the "Bill to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage and for other purposes." 4pp. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3866.<br /> <br /> 10. William H. Crawford 118. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting Statements of Importation of Goods Wares and Merchandize in American and Foreign Vessels for the year ending on the 30th Sept. 1818. March 22 1820. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. 96pp. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3827.<br /> <br /> 11. John C. Calhoun 119. Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting a Copy of the Proceedings of a Court Martial for the Trial of Colonel William King of the Fourth Infantry and Sundry Orders and Documents Connected Therewith. May 3 1820. Read and referred to the Committee of Military Affairs. 128pp. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3834. <br /> <br /> 12. Jame Monroe 120. Message from the President of the United States Communicating the Correspondence Which has Lately Taken Place Between the Secretary of State and General Vives the Spanish Minister in Relation to the Treaty for the Cession of the Floridas. May 9 1820. Read and ordered to be printed by the House of Representatives. 32pp. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3900.<br /> <br /> 13. James Monroe 121. Message from the President of the United States Communicating Translations of Letters from the Minister of Spain to the Secretary of State Received Since the Message of the 9th Instant. May 12 1820. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. 8pp. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3901.<br /> <br /> 14. James Monroe 122. Message from the President of the United States. Transmitting a Report of the Secretary of State on the Subject of Claims of Citizens of the United States for Spanish Spoliations Upon Their Property and Commerce. May 12 1820. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. 4pp.; 27 folding table plates. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3908. Gales & Seaton unknown
184731562Tallahassee: Office of the Florida Sentinel; Printed by Joseph Clisby 1847. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Original printed stitched wraps. 31 pages. Discoloration spots to the outer wrap. Contents include the minutes of proceedings Bishop's speech Church reports and data including numbers of "colored" congregants Treasurer's Report Constitution Canons etc. Light toning and creases to the contents. Early Florida imprint. Office of the Florida Sentinel; Printed by Joseph Clisby unknown
187136086Tallahassee Florida: Dyke & Son 1871. First Edition. Wraps. Good . Stitched wraps. 9" x 6". 41 pages. Tan wraps with title on the front cover. Soft cover is vertically creased. A few spots on the back cover. Interior contents clean. Dyke & Son unknown
187036088Jacksonville Florida: C. Drew's Book and Job Printing Office 1870. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Stitched wraps. 9" x 6". 75 pages. Tan wraps with title on the front cover. Light soil to the front cover. Back cover torn at the bottom. Interior contents clean. C. Drew's Book and Job Printing Office unknown
187236087Tallahassee Florida: Dyke & Son 1872. Wraps. Fair. Stitched wraps. 9" x 6". 72 pages. Printed yellow outer front cover is present but detached and chipped on the edge. Missing the rear wrap. Light vertical crease to the contents. Some pages are creased upper edge. Contents include contributions from several clergy members in Florida. Also included is a lengthy address by Bishop John Freeman Young. Fair. Dyke & Son unknown
188641223Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1886. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored with minor wear. A rare original survey of the United States Atlantic Coast from Florida to Georgia to South Carolina to North Carolina. Map includes Cape Canaveral Daytona St. Augustine Fernandina Cumberland Island St. Simons Island Sappelo Island Savannah Hilton Head Beaufort Hunting Island Edisto Island James Island Folly Island Charleston Sullivans Island Isle of Palms Pawleys Island Myrtle Beach Bald Head Island Wilmington Wrightsville Jacksonville Emerald Isle Morehead Beaufort New Bern and Cape Hatteras.<br/> <br/> Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the United States Atlantic Coast from Florida to North Carolina and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown
182541367Elizabethtown NJ: J. & E. Sanderson 1825. First edition. Self wrappers. A very good- copy with 4 large semi-circular dampstain marks throughout. Unpaged 4 pp. Illus. with b/w in-text drawings. 20 3/4 x 13 inches. Contents include: a full column on the Liberation of Peru led by General Sucre; the first meeting at the new seat of Government in Florida where the governor states "No part of North America is so little known.Visitors.had pronounced it a bank of sand not worth the money paid for it"; republished letters from Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. This issue not at the American Antiquarian Society. Uncommon. J. & E. Sanderson unknown
184635409Pensacola 1846. Letter. Very good. Letter. 4 pages. Lined paper folded. 4 pages of content. Postal mark and address written center of the 4th page. Two small wax seals on the edges of page 4. <br /> <br /> Letter is addressed to William Roney Jr. Corner of Third & Branch Sts Philadelphia Pa. Letter written aboard the U.S. Frigate "Raritan" off Pensacola Navy Yard April 3rd 1846 and has a Pensacola post mark and date of April 6 . Written on the eve of the Mexican War April 24 1846 to February 2 1848. Content summarized:<br /> <br /> Thomas Roney Midshipman writes a lengthy letter to his brother about his situation in Pensacola and requests his brother's help with family debts. He writes:“There is very little news from Mexico the latest is that Mr. Slidell has been informed that the government could not receive a Minister from the United States but that there were ready to receive a Commissioner for the settlement of the Texas question. We had consequently demanded his passports and is expected here very shortly in the Ship Manzo. The Mexicans have been making every preparation for a war…were preparing to place Santa Anna at the head of the government again….†Roney had been transferred from the U.S. Brig Bainbridge back to the Raritan. He was relieved as “master†and appointed "midshipman". Roney has no problem with this because the Raritan is more comfortable. Roney recently returned from Rio de Janerio and had to take large advance to pay off debts. The only regret of his demotion to midshipman is that he can’t send money home to Mother any more hopes brothers can make it up. He complains of the cost of his “mess bill†and outfitting upon leaving the coast of Brazil. He writes "Any place is better than the coast of Brazil unknown
184635410Pensacola 1846. Letter. Very good. Letter. Folded to make 4 pages. 1 page of content 2 blank pages 1 page with address and postal mark from Pensacola Florida dated August 20 1846. Letter addressed to "Dear Sister" and signed "W Conway". Multiple folds and some creasing and toning to the paper. Red wax seal left edge page 1. Small paper tear from opening the letter. Good condition. Letter content summarized:<br /> <br /> US Frigate Potomac. W. Conway Pensacola Florida writes to sister Camden Goose River Maine while involved in the Blockade of Vera Cruz. USS Potomac sailed w/ships Cumberland Missippy sic Princeton Falmouth Truxton Somers Reefer Bonito and Petrel to mouth of river Alvarado off of Veracruz. Describes bombardment: “…the Commodore made rig to get spring word the cable to bring the broadsides to bear on the fort at 6 PM the firing Commenced and Continued about 2 hours we didi not land the next day we got under weigh and came back to our anchorage. we are waiting for orders from Washington to Attack the Castle of St. Juan Ola Fort San Juan de Ulúa offshore opposite Veracruz. unknown
