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Last Train To Paradise
by Les Standiford
LES STANDIFORD is the author of eight critically acclaimed novels, including most recently Bone Key, as well as several works of nonfiction. He has received the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Since 1981 he has lived in Miami with his wife and three children. They are themselves survivors of Hurricane Andrew.
The Florida Life Of Thomas Edison
by Michele Wehrwein Albion
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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A GUIDE TO THE WINDOWS OF ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
by Turner, Nancy and Laban G. Lively
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Very Good. 1991. Stapled wraps. A few scuff marks to the covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 88 pages .
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CA$13.90
Carte de la Florida et de la Georgia
by TARDIEU, Pierre-Francois
Pierre-Francois Tardieu. unbound. Map. Engraving with modern hand coloring. Image measures 12.5 x 16.75 inches. Sheet measures 17 x 22 inches. In very good condition.<br/> <br/> Beautiful early map of Florida and Georgia, western Louisiana, southern parts of the Carolinas and the Bahamas, circa 1798. The interior of Florida was not yet mapped with distortions to Baie du St. Espirit. Pierre Francois Tardieu (1711-1771) came from a family of engravers and map makers based in Paris. This map...
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Key West Gardens and Their Stories
by Janis Frawley-Holler
Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 2000. Softcover. Near Fine with gift inscription inside front cover in wraps.. 4to. With photos throughout.
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CA$48.63
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
by Les Standiford
New York: Crown / Broadway Books, August 2003. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and crisp. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 281 pages. An account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad--one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken--destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D. Rockefeller,...
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CA$19.38
Palmetto Country
by Kennedy, Stetson
NY: Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled cloth, map endpages. Stated first edition. Points a bit softened, spine ends nudged. Light staining to bottom edge of front cover. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is lightly worn along edges and has light moisture staining to bottom of spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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CA$138.94
Fair to Middlin': The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley.
by WILLOUGHBY, Lynn
Publisher's blue/green cloth with silver spine lettering, octavo, pp. xiii, 198 + [4]. Illustrated with several photographs and two maps.
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CA$25.64
Regni Mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae, Ludovicianae, N. Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae et Pensylvaniae, necnon Insularum, Archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali
by HOMANN, Johann Baptist
Nuremburg: Homann, Johann Baptist. unbound. Map. Copper engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 18.75" x 22.5".<br/> <br/> This striking circa 1720 map by Johann Baptist Homann extends from the Great Lakes southward to include Florida, West Indies, Central America, up to Venezuela, and from New Mexico to the eastern seaboard. Based on the 1703 Delisle map of Mexico and Florida, this map includes information from the explorations of La Salle, Bienville, Le Sueur,...
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Postcards from Paradise
by June Keith
"Postcards from Paradise: Romancing Key West" by June Keith. Author Signature with Key West on the title page. Paperback (8.5" x 5'5") Revised Second Edition published by Palm Island Press of Key West. 1997 edition. Pictures. Index. 255pp. Book in Fine condition.
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CA$13.90
The Everglades : River of Grass
by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Pineapple Press, Incorporated, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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CA$21.06
The History of Castillo de San Marcos & Fort Matanzas from Contemporary Narratives and Letters
Softcover. Near Fine in illustrated wraps. 4" x 6."Ê National Park Service Source Book Series Number Three.
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CA$20.84
The Everglades: River of Grass
by Stoneman Douglas, Marjory
Pineapple Press, 1988. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition thus, 3rd Printing. Published by Pineapple Press, 1988. Octavo. Blue cloth over dark blue boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very good, price-clipped, with light shelf wear and small tears at the bottom spine. 448 pages. ISBN: 0910923388. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY...
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Florida's Seminole Indians
by Neill, Wilfred T
St. Petersburg: Great Outdoors, 1956. 2nd ed. . Paperback. Near Fine/Wraps. 128 pages. History from formation, beginning in late eighteenth century, of the groups called Seminole. Four page bibliography. Print date not indicated, but it is a modern, post-1990 printing. Near Fine/Wraps. Clean, tight, unmarked. No wear on book. Item #: B5688. ** SAVE MORE ** Additional books in the same order ship for FREE via Standand Shipping.
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CA$9.03
FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED
by Johnson, Charlene R
University Press of Florida. Very Good. 1993. Softcover. Signed by author on title page. Gift inscription on page following the title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages; Signed by Author .
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CA$13.90
![A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, Seventh Session [with] A Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, Seventh Session](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/801/829/1465829801.0.b.jpg)
A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, Seventh Session [with] A Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the General Assembly of the State of Florida, Seventh Session
by [Florida 1854]
Tallahassee, FL: Office of the Floridian & Journal, Printed by Dyke & Williams, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A nicely-bound volume, collecting the Florida House and Senate proceedings for 1854-55. Each journal-the message of Governor James E. Broome to the legislature and a daily report of the activities of the legislative bodies-are followed by the same appendix of "Documents Accompanying the Governor's Message." House Journal pagination: 340 (Journal), 54 (Documents) pages. Senate...
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CA$500.22
Florida Keys & Everglades
by Rick Farren
First printing 1999 soft-cover. Illustrations-Maps. 304pp. Fine copy.
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CA$7.99
FROM WILDERNESS TO METROPOLIS The History and Architecture of Dade County, 1825-1940
by Metropolitan Dade County
Metropolitan Dade County. Very Good-. 1992. Second Edition. Softcover. Corner bend to front cover. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 251 pages .
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CA$59.75
PIONEER FAMILY Life on Florida's Twentieth-Century Frontier
by Oesterreicher, Michel & Daniel L. Schafer
University Alabama Press. Near Fine. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by author on endpaper: "Best Wishes, Michel Oesterreicher". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages; Signed by Author .
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CA$25.01
The Conquest of Florida by Hernando de Soto
by Irving, Theodore
New York: George P. Putnam, 1851. Second revised. Hardcover. Good +. Small 8vo, xxii, 457pp, black and white folding map of the SE of the United States entitled The Conquest of Florida, Green stamped cloth with gilt title at spine. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover, front free end paper has been removed. The author dedicates the work to his uncle, Washington Irving.
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CA$173.69
Historic American Towns along the Atlantic Coast.
by BOESCHENSTEIN, Warren
Publisher's blue gilt-stamped cloth back-strip over blue boards, first printing, quarto, pp. xv, 331, [3]. Illustrations; maps. Very Good with light shelf wear and upper board tip bumps. Dust jacket Very Good and ensconced in a clear new sheet of protective mylar.
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CA$31.19
The Gasparilla Cookbook
by Junior League of Tampa
Tampa, Florida: Junior League of Tampa. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Hard Cover. 326 pp. Illus. Edgewear. Corners rubbed. A nice collection of recipes with a Florida west coast orientation.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
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CA$20.84
Indiarum Occidentalium Tractus Littorales cum Insulis Caribicis. / Pascaert van Westindien ende Caribise Eylanden
by DE WIT, Frederick
Paris: Frederick de Wit, 1680. unbound. Map. Copper plate engraving with original hand color. Image measures 19" x 22 1/4". c.1680<br/> <br/> This rare and beautiful sea chart of the West Indies is an unrecorded edition by Frederick de Wit. The chart covers Central America, West Indies, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. Unlike the first state of this map, this variation details the west coast of Central America and the southern coastline of New England. The Chesapeake Bay region is...
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Trees of Everglades National Park and the Florida Keys.
by STEVENSON, George B
Publisher's color-illustrated stiff wrappers with a black back-strip, octavo, pp. 32. Illustrations. This would seem to be a treasure trove for the Florida dendrophile, as previous owner has inserted copious neatly printed field observations in the text. Several newspaper clippings and newsletters have been left in the book, as well. Additionally, the owner has created a pocket inside the rear cover that has several more handwritten notes inserted. There is light wear to the book, likely from field...
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CA$39.53
Everglades-The Park Story
by William B. Robertson, Jr
Coral Gables: University of Miami, 1959. Softcover. Good in color pictorial wraps. 94 pp. with color and black and white photos throughout.
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CA$20.84
Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida
by Mark Derr
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida.
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CA$31.80
![STATE OF FLORIDA, COUNTY OF GADSDEN, KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT WE, JOHN W. JONES & W.J. LAURENCE, ARE HELD AND FIRMLY BOUND UNTO R.R. HAYGOOD & S.M. FLEISHMANN, IN THE SUM OF SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS, FOR THE PAYMENT WHEREOF, WELL AND TRULY TO BE MADE, WE BIND OURSELVES. . . THIS 29TH DAY OF JANUARY [1858] . . . THE CONDITION OF THIS OBLIGATION IS SUCH, THAT WHEREAS THE SHERIFF IN AND FOR SAID COUNTO [sic], BY VIRTUE OF 2 EXECUTIONS ISSUED FROM THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE COUNTY OF GADSDEN, IN FAVOR OF R.R. HAYGOOD & S.M. FLEISHMANN AGAINST JOHN W. JONES HAS LEVIED UPON THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY, TO-WIT: A NEGRO MAN NAMED TOM ABOUT 45 OR 50 YEARS OF AGE. . . AND THE SAID J.W. JONES WISHING TO REPLEVY THE SAME: NOW IF THE SAID J.W. JONES SHALL HAVE THE SAID PROPERTY FORTHCOMING AT QUINCY, IN SAID COUNTY, ON THE 1ST DAY OF MARCH A.D. 1858, AND DELIVER THE SAME TO THE SHERIFF OF SAID COUNTY, THEN THIS OBLIGATION TO BE VOID...;](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/056/219/1323219056.0.m.jpg)
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