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Brandon/Morrell/Taylor, The Story of the Austrian Post up to 1850, Austrian Philatelic Society, 2021, Handbook of Austrian Pre-Philately from the takeover of the Thurn and Taxis and Paar Post in 1722 by Emperor Charles VI, which contains a very clear and comprehensive overview of the extensive postal history of the Habsburg Empire, including the postal tariffs from 1722 to 1849, the individual postal areas such as registered mail, carriage mail, contracts with foreign countries, ship and rail mail, etc., then the stamps and, in individual chapters, a presentation of all crown lands with maps and document images, including the Levant, the Austrian Netherlands, Lombardy-Venetia, etc., newly published. ADDED on March 3, 2022: The book was awarded a gold medal at the international exhibition in London in February 2022. #72536