Cincinnati: Lodge, L'Hommedieu, and Hammond, Printers, 1828. [4], 400 pp. The ten issues, from January through October 1828, are the entire output of this engaging monthly. Contemporary cloth-backed boards [front hinge detaching] with gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. The first four pages are the general title and an Index. Light..... More
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Two leaves, each 5" x 8," entirely in ink manuscript on rectos only. Docketed on page [4]. Very Good. Commissary Agent Stubbs has "been waiting for several days for an answer from you in relation to cattle but hear nothing from you yet. The pressing demand for beef, together with..... More
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Quarto broadsheet, printed and completed in manuscript on recto and verso. Signed by Crews and Massengale on recto and verso. Toned uniformly. Very Good. The verso is the affidavit of Crews, signed and sworn to before Massengale, attesting his entitlement to the funds. The printed 'Atlanta' location has been replaced..... More
Richmond: Printed by Samuel Shepherd & Co., 1828. 38, [2 blanks] pp. Stitched, untrimmed, partly uncut. Browned and lightly to moderately foxed. Good+, in its unsophisticated state. This Virginia Convention of more than 200 delegates, listed by County, "feared the most pernicious consequences from the election of General Jackson, and..... More
Washington: 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. Much material on the derivation and settling of land titles in Florida. Servies 1204..... More
Washington: 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+. A compendium of the disposition of claims to land..... More
Tallahassee: 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. An informative Journal recounting Floridians' resistance to Radical Reconstruction. Governor Harrison Reed's Message addresses ongoing disturbances..... More
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Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian: Printed by Samuel S. Sibley. 1846 [i.e., 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]. Florida joined..... More
New York: Printed and Published by C.S. Van Winkle, 1821. viii, [9]-226, [1- publisher advt], [1 blank] pp. Lacks map (not issued with all copies), facsimile plan laid in back. Contemporary marbled paper over boards, rebacked with gilt-stamped morocco spine title. Untrimmed. Very Good. "Copies of this work with map..... More
Richmond: Printed and Published by T.W. White, 1830. viii, [1]-49, [1 blank], [55]-65, [1 blank] pp [as issued]. Bound into attractive modern two-toned cloth. Scattered foxing, Good+. "An arraignment of General Andrew Jackson" [Swem], accusing him of "a temper at once vindictive and tyrannical," of offering "the bribe of governmental..... More
[Washington: 1852]. 5, [1 blank] pp. Caption title [as issued]. Light foxing. Bound in modern blue-grey wrappers. Good+. Cabell, a Florida Whig, represented the Tallahassee district in Congress. His constituents seek reimbursement from the national government "for supplies furnished the troops, mustered into the service of the United States, during..... More
Pensacola: 1867. One printed page, with integral blank leaf. 4to, signed in type at the end by Mallory. Evidently unrecorded. Very Good. Formerly United States Senator from Florida and Chair of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, Mallory became the Confederacy's Secretary of the Navy. He had long urged the..... More
Leon County, Florida and Tuscaloosa County, Alabama: 1851 and 1852. Broadside deed, 7.75" x 12". Printed, completed in manuscript. Lightly tanned. Old folds, a few short fold splits [no text loss]. Signed by Parish and three witnesses. Verso has acknowledgment of Parish, signed by C.M. Cook, Commissioner in the State..... More
[London: Printed and Sold by John Nichols... 1788]. Folio. Pages 831-839, [1 blank]. "Numb. 96." at upper left corner, at head of title. Disbound, light margin spotting else Very Good. The Commons addresses requests to assist planters from East Florida who have suffered from its cession to Spain. Several petitions..... More
Paris: 1824. 44pp, bound in modern plain wrappers. Very Good plus. The Society of Geography published this book for travellers. Pages 37-39 are devoted to North America, with discussion of non-European ethnicities that colonized areas of America. There is some discussion of the relationship between the United States and Texas..... More
London: Printed for T. Cooper... [1739]. 63, [1 blank] pp. Bound in modern vellum. Early leaves dusted, minor scattered foxing. Else Very Good. "In Spanish and English, and relates principally to affairs in America" [Sabin], with particular emphasis on Florida. The book charges that the King of England authorized Captains..... More
Philadelphia: Published by J. Conrad & Co.... 1804. xxviii, 446 pp, with the half title, plus Map of North America and two plates. Lacking the second map, scattered spotting. Bound in original sheep [hinges starting but still firm]. Good. Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney [1757-1820], French Philosophe and..... More
Salem [MA]: 1866. Stitched, 8pp, light wear. Good+. The frustrated Ward, a lifelong Democrat, urged President Buchanan in January 1861 to end the federal government's paralysis and perform his constitutional duty to secure the southern ports from secessionists' designs; and to garrison the forts in New York harbor, for it..... More
Washington: 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..... More
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Tallahassee and Quincy, Florida; Charleston, Columbus: 1863 and 1864. Each a single leaf, varying lengths, in ink manuscript. Occasional light wear, Very Good. 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..... More