Home Life in Florida

Louisville, Ky: John P. Morton & Company, 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 433pp., illustrated with a frontispiece plate. In the original publisher’s brown cloth with a decorative design stamped in black, silver, and gold on the front cover and spine, decorative endpapers. Small, light institutional ink stamp on the title page, corner tips gently bumped, near fine. An informative early guide written for settlers to homesteading in Florida. Helen Warner was a member of the founding family of Palma Sola (located on the Manatee River at the mouth of Tampa Bay), which became a busy cattle, lumber and trade port at the end of the 19th Century. An attractive, bright copy of the first edition, very scarce in the trade. (Inventory #: 595729)