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1859354316St. 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. Large folding plate 50 x 5 inches short numbered key on verso of front wrapper. 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
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
187934329DeLand Volusia County Florida: Codrington & Scovel 1879. Newspaper. Good. Two newspaper issues. Both issues are folded and uncut. First issue is dated Wednesday June 18 1879. Pages 33-40. Second issue is dated July 9 1879. Pages 57-64. Occasional light toning to the pages. Small pin holes at some of the folds. Previous owner inscription of "C H Hart Federal Point Fla" written in light pencil top of each issue. <br /> <br /> Contents include a variety of agriculture articles advice on beautifying homes selecting palm trees domestic economy an article titled "Our Orange Groves and Settlements. Part II." individuals listed in homestead patents illustrated advertisements and more. Codrington & Scovel 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
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
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
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
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
184739054Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian: Printed by Samuel S. Sibley. 1847. 99 V pp. Perforation stamp on title leaf a couple of other institutional marks else Very Good. Bound in later buckram with gilt-lettered red morocco spine title Social Law Library stamped at base of spine. <br /> <br /> Florida joined the Union in 1845. This was its second meeting as a State. Much work was required to establish the framework of State government. The legislature created procedures for selecting presidential electors; enacted fees and costs for civil and criminal cases; regulated slave patrols; enacted incorporations; prohibited vessels from bringing into the Island of Key West any Free Negro or Mulatto; established counties and their boundaries; created pilotage laws and a variety of other Statutes and Resolutions including one to remove the remaining Seminole Indians.<br /> Servies 3243. Office of the Floridian: Printed by Samuel S. Sibley. 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
1863D19919Florida: Munsell San Augustin de la Florida 1863. Poor. One of 160 copies. Defective disbound without only remnants of original wraps. Sold as is. "The unknown author of this authoritative account of Sonora is thought to have been a Jesuit missionary named Juan Nentuig who reached Sonora in 1750. From a reference on p. 196 it must have been written as late as November 21 1762. Nentuig remained until the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. The false imprint of Saint Augustine Florida on the title derives from Buckingham Smith's pride in his home town" - Streeter. "The author resided at a place on the River Yaqni where that stream flows through a cañon so deep as to shut out three quarters of the heavens from sight. The first sixty-nine pages are occupied with a natural history of the country .The subjects relating to the Indians occupy pp.69 to 173" - Field. <br/><br/> Munsell, San Augustin, de la Florida paperback
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
1822339148Washington 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
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
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
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
1815267901New York 1815. unbound. 2 pages front and back 13 x 8 inches signed "Ruggles Hubbard" as Sheriff of New York City -- an arrest warrant for two defendants to appear in Mayors Court September 25 1815 in part: ".I Ruggles Hubbard Sheriff of the City of New York do hereby assign the within written Bail Bond to the use of the plaintiff s to be sued for _____ according to the form of the statute in that case made and provided." Evenly toned with usual folds and a minimum of fraying at the borders; very good condition overall.<br/> <br/> New York City Sheriff and adventurer who joined his friend General Gregor McGregor's expedition in conquering Spanish Florida June 29 1817 - December 23 1817 culminating in his appointment as Governor of Fernandina. His six-week reign came to an abrupt end after being overthrown by the notorious pirate Luis Aury who claimed Florida in the name of Mexico.<br/> <br/> unknown
1831List3518New York City 1831. Two-page printed circular measuring 7 ¾ x 12 ¾ inches with manuscript note from Aaron H. Palmer. Folded with some small tears larger tear at seal not intersecting with text. Overall excellent. Aaron Haight Palmer 1779–1863 was the director of the “American and Foreign Agency for Claimsâ€â€”essentially a high-end collections agency—and later Consul General of the Republic of Ecuador. He was extremely well-connected and his activities included a tour of Europe and Asia to gather information about commerce there for the Rothschilds.1 <br /> <br /> Offered here is an 1831 circular from Palmer’s Agency signed by Palmer and sent to A. Lang Esq. in Selkirk Scotland. The circular advertises the sale of “a large tract of land lying on the Gulf of Mexico in East Florida†which “is owned in sole propriety by Richard S. Hackley Esq. an American citizen.†Hackley 1770–1843 a merchant and later US Consul in Spain had been deeded twelve million acres of land around present-day Tampa by the Duke of Alagon in 1819—who himself had been granted the land by Ferdinand VII in 1817. The circular extols the virtues of the land for sale especially Tampa as “a favorable site for the foundations of a great maritime city†and Chatham Bay’s “proximity to the West India marketsâ€. At the time Florida was in the midst of the Seminole Wars; the Treaty of Payne’s Landing would soon demand that all Indigenous people in Florida leave for Indian Territory. It is not clear what came of Palmer’s attempt to sell Hackley’s land; the latter’s heirs’ claims to his estate were settled in 1908 when the US Supreme Court decided that the Kingdom of Spain had annulled the grant prior to the Adams-OnÃs Treaty giving Florida to the US.<br /> <br /> We find one copy of the circular on OCLC. Of interest to historians of the settlement of Florida.<br /> <br /> 1 Jessica Lepler “‘There is no need for anyone to go to America’: commercial correspondence and nineteenth-century globalisation†Rothschild Archive https://www.rothschildarchive.org/materials/no_need_to_go_to_america.pdf accessed February 12 2026. unknown
1882345842Braidentown 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
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
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
182332839Washington DC: Printed by Gales & Seaton 1823. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Disbound wraps. 5 pages 1 blank page. Printed name of Waters Smith at the bottom page 5 and attested by the Secretary F. J. Fatio. Scarce. 2 copies located in OCLC as of 4/2019 Jacksonville PL AAS. Florida became a territory of the United States in 1822 and obtained statehood in 1845. Printed by Gales & Seaton unknown
18584106Jacksonville Fl: March 15 1858. Very good plus. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Old mailing folds. An informative dispatch from antebellum Florida from A.C Scranton to "Friend Barton" in 1858. In his letter Scranton reports that despite some problems he is enjoying southern people and general life in Florida: "The people generally in the south are very kind & hospitibal but I need hardly to tell you that Florida has got some hard times as every new state or Territory has but thare is a more healthy Emigration coming in every year I have been fortunate anough to find some Northern people here which makes it seam a little more like home to me. I am boarding with a family from Georgia whome I like first rate & I do just as I would at home so that things are quite pleasant here considering I am amongst strangers."<br /> <br /> He then provides information on Jacksonville and then two disasters that hit his adopted hometown: "Jacksonville is the largest place in Florida & had at one time about 3000 inhabitants it is not as large as it was once some three years ago it was visited by a very destructive fire & burned nearly half of the town. Last summer there was some kind of Fever here that almost prostrated the place some called it the Yellow Fever & some the African but none could tell for certin.about a hundred & fifteen or twenty that died here in 3 months & a grate many left the town nearly all the stors wer closed not a sound of a hammer was to be heard. When cold weather came it stoped the sickness and it seams quite lively now. It has been for many years a grate resort in the winter season for invaleds but on account of the sickness last summer thare are but few this winter if it continus healthy this summer the place will revive but if not it will kill it entirely."<br /> <br /> Scranton also discusses the transportation system that served Jacksonville and the recent winding down of the Seminole Wars: "It is situated on the Johns River about 23 miles from the mouth and is connected with Charleston & Savana by a regular line of steamers that runs up the river a hundred miles to a place called Platka whare Emigrants land & then travel by land to the interior to settle the country thare is a railroad building from this place to Tallahasse the capital of the state a distance of a hundred & eighty miles which wen completed will be a little help to this place. There is also another in progress from Fernandina a new town that lays in the North East corner of the state to a place called cedar keys on the gulf side whare they intend to carry the US mail direct from New Orleans to New York insted of going round by Key west & will shorten the time considerable. Florida has cost Uncle Sam a large some of money.the government.will make a treaty with them & send them into the Indian Territory & then close the Indian war in Florida." Almost all of the Seminoles remaining in Florida relocated to Indian Territory in the year this letter was written.<br /> <br /> A wonderfully-detailed firsthand account of Jacksonville and its development and challenges during the late 1850s. A printed transcription accompanies the letter. March 15 unknown
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
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