[Washington. 1842]. 2pp. Dbd. Minor chipping along left edge. Good. A rare report on the construction of a sea wall in St. Augustine, Florida. "Favorable report on memorial of mayor and aldermen; the gap behind the sea wall to be filled in to prevent the fevers which had occurred in.....
Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian, 1846 [i.e. 1847]. 99,v 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.....
[Washington. 1838]. 20pp. Dbd. Light foxing. Very good. Secretary of State John Forsyth submitted this letter on July 6, 1838, arguing for American title to the portion of West Florida defined in the title. Also includes documents that "relate to the West Florida revolution at Natchez, with letters of W.C.C......
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[St. 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.....
New 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. "[W]ith mention of...the indolent men of the U.S. Navy who should be off.....
New Haven: T.J. Stafford, [ 1850]. 56pp. Original plain wrappers, stitched as issued. Wrappers somewhat soiled and slightly chipped, with one small closed tear from front fore-edge. Title in contemporary manuscript on front wrapper, later institutional bookplate inside front. Tanning and foxing. Good. In original condition. A lurid autobiography written.....
New York. 1821. 226pp. plus advertisement. Folding frontispiece map. Later half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Hinges a bit worn, but still sound. Moderately foxed. A few small tears in map, one other small tear neatly repaired. About very good. First and only edition. A guide to East Florida.....
Boston: Office of The Company; No. 23 Chauncy Street, February 1868. 20pp. Stitched as issued. Fine. Second edition. The NUC locates only one copy (Florida State University) of this important little pamphlet. Issued by the New England Emigrant Company, its purpose is to persuade northerners to resettle in Florida, assuring.....
Tallahassee, Fl. 1966. 6,48pp. plus folding plan. Original printed yellow wrappers bound into modern three quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Fine. From an edition limited to 210 copies. A presentation copy, inscribed by N. Orwin Rush to the noted collector, C.R. Sanders, and with Sanders' bookplate on the.....
Madrid: Jose Porrua Turanzas, 1959. 90pp. plus plates. Quarto. Original cream printed wrappers bound into half red morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Internally clean. Near fine. "Segunda edicion con tres planos." From an edition limited to 200 copies. Second edition, after the first of 1781.....
Mexico. 1902. [11],cii,226,[1]pp. Small folio. Original printed wrappers bound into modern three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Wrappers with some soiling, light foxing, and slight edge wear. Text very lightly tanned. A very good copy. One of thirty copies printed on fine paper, from a total.....
Paris. 1709. Two volumes bound in one. [18],281; [2],249,[10]pp. Half title in second volume. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Spine a bit creased, ends lightly chipped, corners worn. Bookplate on front pastedown, occasional foxing, small closed tear in the text of leaf H3. Good. Second French edition of.....
Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1737. Two volumes. [40],540,[15]; [4],xxiii,[1],373,[3]pp., plus sixteen copper- engraved plates and three folding copper- engraved maps. Half titles. Quarto. 19th-century three- quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, spines gilt. Light scuffing to spines, moderate edge wear. Minor scattered foxing, small marginal repair to frontispiece in.....
Paris: Geofroi Nyon, 1711-1712. [18],281,[3],249,[11]pp. Second part with separate titlepage. 12mo. Contemporary calf, ornate gilt spine, raised bands, gilt maroon morocco label. Crossed-out contemporary ownership signature on titlepage and verso of front free endpaper, old institutional stamp also on titlepage. Later manuscript note tipped in at front. Overall internally clean.....
Washington, D.C. The Catholic University of America, 1937. xiii,[1],319pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern three quarter morocco and cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt. Bookplate on rear pastedown, endpapers with some light foxing, else fine. Best known for his studies of the California mission system, here Geiger examines.....
[Washington. 1854]. Thirty-seven (of forty-four) maps, plans, and views. Contemporary calf, red and black gilt morocco labels. Internally clean. Very good. An exhaustive collection of congressional documents, including many maps from President Pierce's message to Congress. The documents range in subject matter from survey maps of Arkansas, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan.....
Washington. 1853. Forty-three maps, plans and plates, mostly folding, with two views printed on one leaf. Quarto. Original gilt cloth. Spine nearly perished, edgeworn, a number of the maps dampstained, but good. A vast collection of maps and illustrations issued to accompany the President's Message of 1853-54. The Message was.....
Washington. 1854. Forty-five maps, charts and plans, mostly folding. Quarto. Original gilt cloth. Edge wear, chipping at head and toe of spine, ex-lib. with bookplate and stamps, dampstained, some splitting at folds. Good. A vast collection of maps and charts to illustrate various governmental reports contained in the President's Message.....
[Washington. 1844]. 114pp. plus three (of seven) folding maps. Dbd. Very good. Lacks four of the maps. The handsome maps in this pre-Mexican- American War report depict Alabama, Florida, and Michigan.
Lisbon. 1844. [6],xii,139,[9]pp. Small quarto. Original pink printed wrappers bound into modern green buckram, spine gilt. A few library ink stamps; a few leaves toned, else quite clean and crisp internally. Very good. Untrimmed and unopened. The second Portuguese edition, after the legendary 1557 first account of the De Soto.....
London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1851. [6],lxvii,200,v pp., plus folding frontispiece map. Slightly later three-quarter calf and pebbled cloth, gilt leather spine label. Light shelf wear, chipped at foot of spine. Closed tear, just intruding into the map. Quite clean internally. Very good. The narrative of the Gentleman of.....
Buenos Aires: Ibero-Americana, 1949. [10],[17-]452pp., including maps and illustrations. Quarto. Original gray cloth. Dust jacket, with several chips and sizable tears. Small bookplate on rear pastedown. Text block broken, light tanning. Good. Argentine history of the Spanish explorations of North America from Ponce de León to Bodega y Quadra's voyage.....
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[Various locations. 1892]. Twenty-six leaves containing 104 albumen photographs. Each photo caption in contemporary ink on the mount. Oblong octavo. Original brown morocco, cover gilt, sympathetically rebacked, a.e.g. Corners heavily worn, covers rubbed. Minor soiling and wear to mounts, but images clean. Very good. An interesting album of photographs compiled.....
London: Printed for Samuel Buckley, 1739. 28pp. Quarto. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Very good. By this convention the two powers agree to avoid war, to meet in conference to settle their respective pretensions to the American trade and navigation, to discuss the borders of Florida and the Carolinas, and.....
Glendale, Ca. The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1963. 247pp. including illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt. Fine, in dust jacket. "This work contains the first serious study of military governments in the newly occupied American territories" - Clark & Brunet. The fourth volume in the "Frontier Military" series.
