«HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE MEDICINE IN THE XX CENTURY»
A work by Dr. Machado Macedo, where the Medicine personalities which gave undeniable tributes for its evolution are mentioned, almost exhaustively. Includes 6 stamps with a face value of PTE 452 and a colour sample of one of them. 136 pages.
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Price: PTE 8.400 / 41,90
Code: 20003519599
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Features (258) capsule biographies of people who are honored, but not pictured, on US stamps--thus filling in the gaps in Who's Who on US Stamps and making the set a comprehensive guide to stamp personalities between 1847 and 1992.
...A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the wildly successful U.S. Postal Service postage stamp series, The World of Dinosaurs features 15 new paintings of dinosaurs and other creatures in their North American habitat during the Jurassic and Cretaceous eras. ... Readers will learn of the steps involved in creating the stamps and changes that were made in the process of developing them. Readers will also learn about how postage stamp ideas originate, and how decisions are made about which stamps to issue. Each dinosaur that is included in the stamp series is discussed in the text. ...
This special limited edition is a collection of short essays and comments on chemistry as told through postage stamps and other philatelic items.
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And From the Inside Flap, "Written with wit, expertise, and great enthusiasm, this unique book presents a light-hearted, historically based survey of chemistry and some related topics in physics. It is illustrated with more than 1000 beautiful color reproductions of postage stamps and covers. Many stories and anecdotes have been included. Anyone who teaches, researches or is otherwise involved with chemistry will find this volume of informative, enjoyable reading and a veritable source of engaging material.
From a review entitled 'Dangerous Mail Delivery":
"...So often we see in westerns the stagecoach roaring into town and well-dressed easterners get out--not even dusty. This book shows the real and extremely difficult days of the stagecoach mail delivery and does it in a very factual, well-documented way. The end of the book should have been put at the first so we could know Ben Holladay before we learned all about the difficulties of getting the people and the mail to the western cities. ..."