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[FLORIDA-STREETER COPY] UPHAM, SAMUEL C. Notes from Sunland, on the Manatee River, Gulf Coast of South Florida. Its Climate, Soil and Productions.
Braidentown, Fla.: Published by the author, 1882. Stated second edition inscribed on the wrapper "Miss A.M. Hemenway/with compliments of/the author." Original printed wrappers. 7 x 5 inches (18 x 12 cm); 83 pp., frontispiece and plate, ads at end. Stain to upper wrapper affecting inscription, a few other small stains and chips to wrappers, internally clean, the Thomas W. Streeter copy with his booklabel to the rear wrapper.
"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).
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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