Postage Stamps of the People's Republic of China. Complied by the China Philatelic Company.

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Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1959. 4to. Orig. beige cloth. (88pp.). Illust. throughout. Fine. NOTE: China has one of the earliest postal systems - known to have existed about 26 centuries ago. The modern postal institution did not come into being until 1866 and it was not until 1878 that China printed her first issue of stamps.