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Smith, William

The History of the Post Office in British North America

1639-1870
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1920

First edition, hardback, original green cloth gilt, dustwrapper, ix + 356 pages + 3 plates, dustwrapper in Poor condition with toning, creasing and tears with some loss, obvious spine-lean to the binding, toning and foxing to page-edges, a Fair to Good reading copy only.

A very authoritative history of the Post Office in British North America from its beginnings in the American Colonies up to 1870.

£40.00