First Edition. A commemorative book celebrating the centennial of the Welches, Oregon, post office, in 2005, with additional material about the history of the area around Welches, at the foot of Mount Hood. The book consists of photocopies of article, resolutions, correspondance, and the like, with many copies in color.....
Price: $85
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.....
Price: $250
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;.....
Price: $30
