Ninth edition of this advanced introduction to the microscope. 299 pages. 230 illustrations. A very good hardcover copy, annotated throughout, but with an interesting provenance. The book initially belonged to Earle L. Ovington, best-known as the first US airmail pilot, but he also worked with Thomas Edison and did some.....
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First Edition. An interesting glimpse at postal history for coast-to-coast mail in the US before the transcontinental railroad was completed. This report by the Committee on Public Expenditures describes a dispute over the mail contract between the railroad terminus at Cheyenne (now Wyoming, but then part of the Dakota Territory).....
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First Edition. A request to Congress from California for the "early establishment of a mail-route and daily mail from Auburn, Placer county, to Nevada city, Nevada county, via English's Bridge and Grass Valley. Also, a tri-weekly mail from Sacramento city, via Yolo city, Yolo county, to Cacheville, in Yolo county;.....
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