Auction No 431, Category: Philatelic Literature

14 Lots (displaying 1 - 14)

All-period ranges in three small stockbooks including some fine mint early-20th Century Switzerland, some GB 1d Reds, and others.

Lot: 247

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £30
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All-period ranges in three small stockbooks including some fine mint early-20th Century Switzerland, some GB 1d Reds, and others. Also Robson Lowe The British Postage Stamp of the Nineteenth Century in d/jkt. (few 100)

The Post Office Magazine "St. Martin’s Le Grand", 1907-1909, issued quarterly, complete in three bound volumes, gilt cloth. VG (3)

Lot: 248

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
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The Post Office Magazine St. Martin's Le Grand, 1907-1909, issued quarterly, complete in three bound volumes, gilt cloth. VG (3)

R. Kirk "Australian Mails via Suez 1852 to 1926", Postal History Society, 1989, A4 s/bk, spine a little faded o/w fine. 324pp

Lot: 249

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £20
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R. Kirk Australian Mails via Suez 1852 to 1926, Postal History Society, 1989, A4 s/bk, spine a little faded o/w fine. 324pp

"The Postage Stamps…of the British Colonies in the West Indies together with British Honduras and the Colonies in South America"

Lot: 250

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £36
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The Postage Stamps…of the British Colonies in the West Indies together with British Honduras and the Colonies in South America, The Philatelic Society, London, 1891, gilt cloth, slight abrasion to front board, 32 b/w plates; and Foster Jamaica – The Postal History 1662-1860, 1968, in d/jkt. (2)

"The Bulletin of the Fiscal Philatelic Society", Vols.1&2, 1908-28, single volume reprint by the Cinderella Stamp Club, 1980, gilt cloth. 226pp+102pp

Lot: 251

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £20
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The Bulletin of the Fiscal Philatelic Society, Vols.1 &2, 1908-28, single volume reprint by the Cinderella Stamp Club, 1980, gilt cloth. 226pp+102pp

Philatelic Literature including Mackay "Registered Mail of the British Isles", 1982, A4 s/bk, 395pp; Hilary Wellsted "Express Service 1891-1971", 1986

Lot: 252

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Philatelic Literature including Mackay Registered Mail of the British Isles, 1982, A4 s/bk, 395pp; Hilary Wellsted Express Service 1891-1971, 1986; Hendy The History of the Postmarks of the British Isles, 1909, many illustrations; Alcock & Holland Maltese Cross Cancellations, 1959, many plates; and a variety of others. Also a fine 1929 First Flight cover Teheran to Meched. Includes pamphlets. (25 items) 

Stanley Gibbons "Stamps of the British Empire" catalogues for 1900 and 1908; the 1908 edition with small ink mark on spine,

Lot: 253

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £10 - £20
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Stanley Gibbons Stamps of the British Empire catalogues for 1900 and 1908; the 1908 edition with small ink mark on spine, the 1900 edition with front inner hinge cracked. Good clean text. (2) 

Hastings Wright & A.B. Creeke "A History of the Adhesive Stamps of the British Isles available for Postal and Telegraph purposes"

Lot: 273

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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Hastings Wright & A.B. Creeke A History of the Adhesive Stamps of the British Isles available for Postal and Telegraph purposes, The Philatelic Society, London, 1899; quarto, half-leather, very worn, inner hinges reinforced with paper strips; fine internally with all plates.

Edward Mogg "Paterson’s Roads", London, 1824, 17th Edition, quarter-leather, gilt title, some wear, fine internally with all nine folding maps;

Lot: 275

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £70
SOLD £58
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Edward Mogg Paterson's Roads, London, 1824, 17th Edition, quarter-leather, gilt title, some wear, fine internally with all nine folding maps; Sanford & Salt British Postal Rates,1635 to 1839, Postal History Society, 1990; Robertson Great Britain Post Roads, Post Towns and Postal Rates 1635-1839, gilt cloth; and a related work, together with a large 1823 map showing The Circulation of Letters with folds & creasing. (5 items)

Frank Bottomley "The Franking System in the Post Office 1652-1840", Society of Postal Historians, 1988, A4 s/bk, 195pp; and three related works

Lot: 277

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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Frank Bottomley The Franking System in the Post Office 1652-1840, Society of Postal Historians, 1988, A4 s/bk, 195pp; and three related works including first & second editions of Lovegrove's Herewith My Frank. (4)

Willcocks & Jay "The British County Catalogue", Vols.3, 4 and 5, all in d/jkts; plus related works including four on British T.P.O.s. (16 items)

Lot: 278

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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Willcocks & Jay The British County Catalogue, Vols.3, 4 and 5, all in d/jkts; plus related works including four on British T.P.O.s. (16 items)

Cartwright "G-Men of the G.P.O. The Story of the G.P.O.’s Fight Against Crime", Sampson Low, [1937], in d/jkt, some foxing,

Lot: 279

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Cartwright G-Men of the G.P.O. The Story of the G.P.O.'s Fight Against Crime, Sampson Low, [1937], in d/jkt, some foxing, corner of front endpaper cut away; and a collection of others concerning Royal Mail, with some mixed condition. Includes some pamphlets. (27)

"Indian Postal Guide, January 1903", printed wraps, front cover and first page damaged (text unaffected), some minor foxing, 283pp;

Lot: 324

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Indian Postal Guide, January 1903, printed wraps, front cover and first page damaged (text unaffected), some minor foxing, 283pp; Jal Cooper Stamps of India, Bombay, 1942, gilt cloth; and a related work. (3)

"New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department Guide Supplement", for March 1904 and February 1905, 99pp and 85pp respectively.

Lot: 330

  • Auction Date: Wed 8th Jan 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department Guide Supplement, for March 1904 and February 1905, 99pp and 85pp respectively. Creasing to cover of the latter, some light spotting internally. (2)