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Finke, G., History of the Penny Postage System and Postage Stamps, With an appendix on the invention of the postcard, On the 50th anniversary of the postage stamp, With a portrait of J. Chalmers, his postage stamp designs and a postage stamp design by Charles Whiting, Ernst Heitmann, Leipzig, 1890, 49 pages, with a fold-out reprint of the Whitings design from the collection of E. Huxhagen, Braunschweig, plus an article by Franz Himmelbauer, polemic about the invention of the postage stamp from the German faction for the Scotsman Chalmers from the circle of the Austrian kuk officer Karl von Gündel, very rare work, first copy registered with us, slight signs of wear, excellent new binding #63561