Description
Crole, BE, History of the German Post from its Beginnings to the Present, Second unchanged edition, 1894, postal history of the old German states, especially Brandenburg-Prussia (150 pages) and Thurn & Taxis (90 pages), the other states including Luxembourg and Austria are dealt with on about 100 pages, plus a chapter on the DÖPV, the relationship between the post office and the press, violation of the secrecy of correspondence in the Second Reich/ Metternich, with subject and name index, 479 pages, stamped several times 'Sender Freies Berlin', otherwise good #37870