Lot: 247
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)
Lot: 248
The Post Office Magazine St. Martin's Le Grand, 1907-1909, issued quarterly, complete in three bound volumes, gilt cloth. VG (3)
Lot: 249
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: 250
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)
Lot: 251
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: 252
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)
Lot: 253
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)
Lot: 273
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.
Lot: 275
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)
Lot: 277
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)
Lot: 278
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: 279
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)
Lot: 324
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)
Lot: 330
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)