Cooke, Sholto - The Maiden City and the Western Ocean
A History of the Shipping Trade between Londonderry and North America in the Nineteenth Century
Publisher: Morris & Co., Dublin, nd [circa 1961].
Hardback, illustrated, 223 pages + plates, page-edges a little tanned else in Very Good condition.
Non-philatelic but with much useful background history of North Atlantic shipping.

£20.00

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Kumpf, H-J. (editor) - Festschrift 25 Jahre FAI 1982-2007
Commemorative Issue 25 Years FAI
Publisher: FAI, 2007.
Large format paperback, illustrated, 86 pages, text in German & English, in Very Good condition.
Good anthology of articles on Irish philately & postal history, some in German, some in English, and some bilingual. Well illustrated in colour.

£10.00

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Salt, Denis - The Domestic Packets between Great Britain and Ireland, 1635 to 1840
Publisher: The Postal History Society, 1991.
Large format paperback, illustrated, 50 pages, a little corner creasing to covers else in Very Good condition.
Useful work on rates & routes between Britain and Ireland.

£11.00

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Netzsch, Uwe - Irish Slogan Postmarks
1918-1994
Publisher: FAI, 1995.
Large format paperback, illustrated, 114 pages, bilingual text in English & German, tiny corner-crease to front cover, mild shelfwear else in Very Good condition.
Well illustrated handbook.

£15.00

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Dulin, Dr. C.I. - Ireland's Transition
The Postal History of the Transitional Period 1922-1925
Publisher: MacDonnell Whyte Ltd, Dublin, 1992.
Large hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, vi + 394 pages, dustwrapper creased at edges, binding shaken and with spine-lean, very slight rippling to page edges, internally clean, a Good working copy only.
Important handbook on the stamps, postal stationery, and postal history of Ireland during the transitional period. Very well illustrated in black & white.

£45.00

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Vandenbauw, Emile - Catalogue de l'Aérophilatélie Belge
Publisher: A.S.B.L. «Pro-Post», 1982.
First edition, paperback, illustrated, 314 pages, text in French, mild dusty marks to page-edges, else in Very Good condition
Comprehensive catalogue. Very well illustrated.

£14.50

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Van der Linden, James - Catalogue de Marques de Passage
Postvertragsstempel Katalog 1815-1875, Tome I
Publisher: Maurice Baeten, Bruxelles, 1977.
First edition, paperback, illustrated, 84 pages, text in French with some German & English, slight corner-crease, minor wear, in Good condition.
Scarce first edition of the standard work on European entry marks.

£12.00

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Constantinis, Moses C. - The Philatelic Press in Greece
(Periodicals, Catalogs and Philatelic Studies)
Publisher: privately published, Athens, 1961.
Paperback, 8 pages, text in English, with 4 page Summary of Reviews loosely inserted, small label to front cover else in Very Good condition.
Revised edition of an article which originally appeared in "Philatelic Literature Review". A useful history of Greek philatelic literature.

£8.50

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Tomkins, Major T.L.C. - Turkish Arabia
Notes on the Cancellations of the Former Provinces of the Ottoman Empire in Asia including The European Consular Posts and Cancellations of the 1914-18 War
Publisher: John Huxley Stamps Ltd., London, nd [circa 1950s].
Paperback, illustrated, 32 pages, mild foxing to the covers, pages clean, in Very Good condition.
Scarce handbook.

£20.00

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Ağaoğullari, M. Ziya and Papuçcuoğlu, M. Bülent - Illustrated Ottoman-Turkish Postmarks 1840-1929
Volume 10: T-U-Ü-V-Y-Z
Publisher: Isfila, Istanbul, 2010.
Large hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, [62] + 263 pages, bilingual text in Turkish & English, slight creasing to dustwrapper, slight spine-lean, in Good condition.
Final volume in the ten volume set. A comprehensive look at Ottoman postmarks, extremely well illustrated.

£40.00

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Ağaoğullari, M. Ziya and Papuçcuoğlu, M. Bülent - Illustrated Ottoman-Turkish Postmarks 1840-1929
Volume 6: J-K-L
Publisher: Isfila, Istanbul, 2006.
Large hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, [74] + 289 pages, bilingual text in Turkish & English, tiny short tear and slight wear to dustwrapper, binding a little shaken, else in Very Good condition.
Sixth volume in the ten volume set. A comprehensive look at Ottoman postmarks, extremely well illustrated.

£40.00

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Jerger, Dr Anton - Monographie der Frankaturen 1850-1867, Mischfrankaturen Österreich, Lombardei-Venetien
Publisher: Die Briefmarke, Wien, 1981.
Large hardback, illustrated, 336 pages, text in German, No. 1918 of a limited edition of 2000 copies, in Very Good condition.
Superb handbook on mixed frankings of classic Austria and Austrian Italy. Very well illustrated in black & white and colour.

£75.00

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Van Pamel, Luc - 1 Centime Medallion
1861-1866
Publisher: Le Musée des Timbres & des Monnaies de Monaco, 2009.
Large hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 249 pages, trilingual text in English, French & Flemish, in Very Good condition.
Superb, comprehensive study of the philatelic and postal history of this stamp. Profusely illustrated in colour.

£30.00

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Huys, Dr. Jan and Kaiser, Pierre - Kingdom of Belgium, Foreign Destinations
From Belgium during the Reign of King Leopold I, 1849-1865
Publisher: Le Musée des Timbres & des Monnaies de Monaco, 2009.
Large hardback, dustwrapper, 336 pages, illustrated, bilingual text in French & English, in Very Good condition.
Beautifully illustrated with colour illustrations of classic covers on every page, along with bilingual explanations of the rates used.

£35.00

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Baldus, Wolfgang - German Propaganda Parodies Against Great Britain
Secret stamp production in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Publisher: GB & Commonwealth Philatelic Society, Switzerland, 2005.
First edition, paperback, illustrated, 54 pages, text in English, slight wear to front cover else in Very Good condition.
Very little has been written in English on the German propaganda forgeries of the Second World War, and what has been published is incomplete and out of date. This publication revises and completely updates all the known information on the subject. It describes in detail the history of the German forgery operation - Unternehmen Wasserwelle (Operation Waterwave) - located in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, and the parodies of the George V Silver Jubilee stamp, George VI Coronation stamp and George VI low value definitives, including overprints and commemorative sheets. Well illustrated in colour. A superb work - essential for all collectors of these "stamps".

£16.50

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Schloss, Hermann - Distinguishing Characteristics of Classic Stamps
Europe 19th Century (Except Old German States)
Publisher: Fritz Billig, N.Y., nd.
Reprint, hardback, illustrated, xxii + 200 pages, spine slightly sunned, top-edges a little dust-marked, in Good condition.
Billig's Philatelic Handbook Volume 15. Billig reprint of the original 1951 handbook describing reprints, postal forgeries, differences of types, watermarks, papers, etc. of classic stamps of Italian States, Roumania, Spain, Switzerland etc. Very useful. A classic work.

£30.00

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- Austria
Nos. 1-118
Publisher: The Austrian Stamp Club of Great Britain, 1966-1996.
Run of 118 issues bound in 13 volumes, card covers with cloth spines, paper labels to spines, first 45 issues bound without covers, bound with the original paper covers from No. 46 onwards, text in English, few dusty marks, occasional foxing to page-edges, in Good condition.
A rare run of this fine specialist journal.

£75.00

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- Neunzig Jahre Hamburg-Amerika Linie
1847-1937
Publisher: Hamburg-Amerika Linie, 1937.
Hardback, illustrated, 48 pages + fold-out map, text in German, slight wear at top of spine, previous owner's gift dedication to front endpaper, in Good condition.
Scarce history of the shipping company published to commemorate its 90th anniversary. Very well illustrated with fine black & white photos of ships, etc.[Non-philatelic].

£24.00

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- Schleswig-Holstein, The "Plön" Cover
Largest Known Franking of the 1850 First Issue
Publisher: David Feldman, Geneva, 2008.
Auction catalogue, hardback, blue faux suede covers, page-edges gilt, 16 pages, text in English, in Very Good condition.
Superb catalogue. Very well illustrated in colour.

£15.00

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[Simon, John] - Denmark with Danish West Indies, Österreich & Levante, Romania, Spain with Cuba and Philippines
The John Simon Collections
Publisher: Corinphila, Zurich, 2014.
Auction catalogue, hardback, dustwrapper, 136 pages, text in English (some German text in the Austria section), very slight bend to the covers else in Very Good condition.
Catalogue of superb classic stamps and postal history. Very well illustrated in colour.

£12.50

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