[Adams, H.C.V.] - Catalogue, The First Portion of the H.C.V. Adams "Grand Prix" Collection of Great Britain Line-Engraved
Publisher: Robson Lowe, London, 1956.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 48 pages, with photocopy prices realised, slight wear to top of spine else in Very Good condition.
Important sale of GB line-engraved. Well illustrated in black & white.

£20.00

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[Yates, E.E.] - The Unique Collection of The Mulready and Associated Pictorial Envelopes
offered by order of E.E. Yates, Esq.
Publisher: Robson Lowe Ltd., London, 1949.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 60 pages, rusty staple marks and a tiny blemish to lower edge, internally clean, in Good condition.
Important reference catalogue.

£30.00

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Stitt Dibden, W.G. - Late Fee and Too Late Stamps
Publisher: The Great Britain Philatelic Society, 1966.
Paperback, illustrated, iii + 61 pages + 14 plates, slight corner-creasing to front cover, few spots of foxing to upper-edges but internally clean, in Good condition.
Useful work. Scarce.

£15.00

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Proud, Edward B. - Postmarks of the Date Impression Books
Post Office Records: Section 2, Volumes 3 & 4
Publisher: Proud-Bailey, 1983.
Hardback, illustrated, 97 pages, in Very Good condition.
The second volume in a short series listing and illustrating the proof strikes of British postmarks, from 1841 to circa 1856, held in the Post Office Archives. Profusely illustrated, with dates of issue and relevant Post Office Archive reference number next to each postmark illustration.

£15.00

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["Severn"] - Great Britain Specialised
featuring the "Severn" Collections
Publisher: David Feldman, Geneva, 2010.
Auction catalogue, paperback, page-edges gilt, illustrated, 207 pages, text in English, in Very Good condition.
Scarce catalogue featuring the "Severn" collections of Parliamentary Envelopes, 1d Red Imprimaturs and Victorian Registered Mail. Well illustrated in colour.

£12.50

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["Ziba"] - Great Britain - The "Ziba" Collection of Queen Victoria
Publisher: Spink, London, 2008.
Auction catalogue, paperback, pictorial card covers, illustrated, 56 pages, in Very Good condition.
Superb line-engraved content. Illustrated in colour.

£8.50

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[Littaur, Gavin] - The Gavin Littaur Collection of British Postal History
Featuring Selected Rare Covers from the Period 1840-53
Publisher: Spink, London, 2012.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 43 pages, very slight shelfwear to the covers else in Very Good condition.
39 lots featuring rare (many unique) line-engraved covers, Mulreadys, etc. All items illustrated in colour.

£8.50

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["Victoriana"] - Great Britain
The "Victoriana" Collection
Publisher: Spink, London, 2007.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 113 pages, with the prices realised, slight wear, in Good condition.
Superb catalogue of Queen Victoria issues, including rare Mulready Envelopes, Line-engraved, Embossed, and Surface-printed, Naval mails, Used Abroad, etc. Very well illustrated in colour.

£9.50

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[The Royal Philatelic Collection] - Stamps and Covers from the Royal Philatelic Collection
Publisher: Spink, London, 2001.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 67 pages, in Very Good condition.
Catalogue of stamps from the Queen's collection. Featuring classic Great Britain and Empire, and Egypt and Suez Canal. Well illustrated in colour.

£9.50

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["Maximus"] - The "Maximus" Great Britain
Publisher: Stanley Gibbons, London, 1970.
Set of four auction catalogues, hardback, privately bound in grey cloth with the original pictorial card covers bound-in, illustrated, with all prices realised bound-in (two of the prices realised are photocopies), a few minor marks to the original card covers else in Very Good condition.
Complete set of four catalogues of the "Maximus" (R.A.G. Lee) collection of Great Britain Queen Victoria issues - one of the greatest collections of classic GB ever formed

£100.00

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Jaffé, Peter - Cancelled by Perkins Bacon
Publisher: James Bendon for Spink, 1998.
Hardback, original green cloth gilt, illustrated, 91 pages, in Very Good condition.
Fascinating study. Beautifully illustrated in colour. Out of print and hard to find.

£45.00

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Gladstone, Ernest S. - Great Britain's First Postage Stamp
Publisher: privately published, Liverpool, 1924.
Hardback, original green cloth gilt, illustrated, 25 pages + plates, in Very Good condition.
Scarce work on William Dockwra's London Penny Post scheme. Well illustrated.

£28.00

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Furfie, Michael - British Postage Due Mail, 1914-1971
A Study of Uses of the Pre-Decimal Postage Due Stamps
Publisher: privately published, Ashford, Middlesex, 1993.
Large (A4) paperback, 74 pages, slight mark to front cover, slight creasing to the covers, pages fine, in Good condition.
An excellent study. Well illustrated.

£13.50

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Austen, Brian - English Provincial Posts 1633-1840
A study based on Kent examples
Publisher: Phillimore, 1978.
First edition, hardback, dustwrapper, viii + 192 pages, dustwrapper price-clipped and very slightly rubbed at edges, else in Very Good condition.
A detailed study of the methods by which the Post Office ran services outside of London prior to 1840; the recruitment of local staff and their conditions of employment, and what coverage was provided by official, semi-official and private means. Attention has been focused on the posts serving Kent and East Sussex, which include the main post roads to Dover and to Hastings and Rye. A scholarly work of economic and social history, which should also be of interest to postal historians.

£8.50

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Green, Doris M. - The Greetings Telegram Service
and Check List of all Issues
Publisher: privately published, 1967.
Paperback, [ii] + 26 pages, with Supplement (1969), paperback, [ii] + 8 pages, slight soiling to the covers, a little light foxing to some pages, some underlining to a few pages, in Good condition.
Listing of British Greetings Telegrams. Not illustrated. Very scarce.

£15.00

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Bauschke, Werner - The Penny Postage Jubilee 1890
A Compilation of Contemporary Documents and Publications, Stationery and Postmarks
Publisher: London Postal History Group, 1989.
Large format (A4) paperback, spiralbound, illustrated, 98 pages, very slight corner-creasing to the covers else in Very Good condition.
Scarce anthology of 1890 publications relating to the Penny Postage Jubilee.

£15.00

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Hodgson, K. and Sedgewick, W.A. - The Scottish Additional Halfpenny Mail Tax
1813 - 1839
Publisher: privately published, 1984.
second (revised) edition, paperback (card covers), 54 pages, slightest wear to the covers else in Very Good condition.
This booklet is the standard handbook on these markings. It was fully revised by the late authors and is priced with a rarity guide. After a brief historical background to the tax, the booklet lists the use of these marks in Scotland as well as their use in England. With tables listing the types, size, colour, dates of use and rarity. Very well illustrated.

£8.00

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Smith, W.J. - James Chalmers
Inventor of the Adhesive Postage Stamp
Publisher: David Winter & Son Ltd., Dundee, 1970.
Hardback, dustwrapper, 148 pages + plates, in Very Good condition.
The story of James Chalmers' claim to be the inventor of the postage stamp, and of the Chalmers-Hill controversy.

£9.50

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Mackay, James A. - Scottish Post Offices
Publisher: privately published by the author, Dumfries, 1989.
Large (A4) paperback, 127 pages, in Very Good condition.
A detailed study of Scotland's Post Offices, with a comprehensive alphabetical listing. Includes their inception, grade of office, closure where applicable, and any related history.

£12.00

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Mackay, James A. - Sub Office Rubber Datestamps of England & Wales
Publisher: privately publiahed by the author, Dumfries, 1986.
Large (A4) paperback, illustrated, 466 pages, in Very Good condition.
A very large work dealing with the rubber datestamps (or Climax daters to give them their official name) issued to minor sub-offices from the 1880s through to the 1930s. Profusely illustrated, with more than ten thousand postmarks illustrated!

£15.00

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