Boule, Maurice - Histoire Postale de la Principauté de Monaco
des origines à 1885
Publisher: Monaco-Collections, Monte Carlo, 1993.
Large format hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 253 pages, text in French, with separate paperback pricing guide, slightest hint of spine-lean, slight dusty marks and a little spotting to page-edges, internally fine, in Good condition.
Excellent handbook. Beautifully illustrated in colour throughout.

£45.00

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Steichele, Anton and Collins, Norman J. and Dickstein, Leopold - The Foreign Post Offices in Palestine 1840-1918
Volume I
Publisher: World Philatelic Congress of Israel, Holyland & Judaica Societies, Chicago, 1990.
English revised edition, hardback, illustrated, vi + 195 pages, corners of covers very slightly bruised else in Very Good condition.
Egyptian, German, and French Post Offices. Scarce book.

£32.00

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Frault, Adrien - Manuel Postal
Théorique et Pratique
Publisher: privately published, Paris, circa 1890.
Fifth edition, hardback, later cloth binding with original paper covers bound in, vi + 544 pages + advertisements, text in French, slight loss and repairs to the original paper covers, pages a little toned, in Good condition.
Rare nineteenth century postal guide. [Click 'next' for more images]

£95.00

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[Hind, Arthur] - Catalogue of the Sixth Portion of the "Arthur Hind" Collection of Postage Stamps
France and Colonies
Publisher: H.R. Harmer, London, 1934.
Auction catalogue, paperback, 68 pages + 11 b/w plates, text in English, previous owner's inscriptions to front cover, spine slightly rubbed, mild foxing to page-edges, in Good condition.
The sixth portion of one of the greatest collections of all time. Rare.

£24.00

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Marconnet, F. - Les Vignettes Postales de la France et de ses Colonies
Publisher: published by the author, Nancy, 1897.
First edition, hardback, quarter cloth with leather label to spine, marbled boards, 431 pages + plates, text in French, previous owner's name at front, tiny short tear to corner of final plate else in Very Good condition.
Rare classic work.

£120.00

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[Dillemann, Paul] - Catalogue de la Collection de Timbres-Poste de Monsieur Paul Dillemann
Publisher: Miro & Gilbert, Paris, 1937.
Auction catalogue, hardback, quarter blue leather binding with gilt title to spine, 92 pages + 27 black & white photo-plates, text in French, some foxing/dusty marks to the page-edges and preliminaries, in Good condition.
Catalogue of the famous collection of France & colonies formed by Paul Dilleman. Dilleman was an expert on the Bordeaux issue and wrote the major handbook on the subject. Rare.

£50.00

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Bratzel, M.P. and Kraja, H. and Maddocks, R.J. - Les Oblitérations du Cameroun 1914-1960
Publisher: privately published, 1990.
Paperback, illustrated, v + 83 pages, text in French, a little mild creasing else in Very Good condition.
A comprehensive survey of the postmarks of the French colony of Cameroun, with each postmark illustrated, opening & closing dates of Post Offices, etc.

£20.00

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[Karpovsky, Itamar] - Holy Land - Foreign Post Offices in Palestine 1852-1914
The Itamar Karpovsky Collection
Publisher: The Global Philatelic Network, 2016.
Large format hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 148 pages, Introduction in English & German, main text in English only, in Very Good condition.
No. 48 in the Edition d'Or series. Superb colour reproduction of pages from the collection.

£55.00

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Salles, Raymond - La Poste Maritime Française
Tome I Les Entrées Maritimes depuis 1760 et les Bateaux a Vapeur depuis 1833
Publisher: James Bendon Ltd., Cyprus, 1992.
Reprint, paperback (cloth-covered card covers), illustrated, 187 pages, plus the Addendum & supplement, text in French, slight hint of spine-lean, slight creasing to corners of covers, internally very clean, in Good condition.
The James Bendon facsimile reprint of the first volume in the classic encyclopedia of French maritime postal services. Profusely illustrated with postmark illustrations and maps.

£25.00

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Greenwood, Charles H. - Togo: The Stamps of the British and French Occupations
Publisher: D. Field, London, 1916.
Paperback, illustrated, 57 pages, spine sunned and very slightly rubbed else in Very Good condition.
"W.E.P." Philatelic Handbook No. 11. Scarce work on the stamps of the Anglo-French occupation of the former German colony during the First World War.

£22.00

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Sinais, Bertrand and Venot, Guy - Catalogue des Oblitérations des Colonies Françaises
Tome 1 Les Possessions du Pacifique: Océanie - Nouvelle-Calédonie - Nouvelles-Hébrides - Wallis et Futuna - Clipperton
Publisher: Sinais, Paris, 1989.
Paperback, illustrated, 310 pages, text in French, slight spine-lean, very slight dusty marks to top-edges, internally clean, in Good condition.
Scarce and important reference work.

£30.00

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[Cihangir] - The Cihangir Collection of Worldwide Postal History (Part I)
Publisher: Corinphila, Zurich, 2000.
Auction catalogue, large hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 461 pages, with the prices realised, text in English, German & French, sunning to the dustwrapper spine and a little creasing to the edges, else in Very Good collection.
Catalogue of the first part of this huge and spectacular collection. Over 3000 lots, featuring Russia & Russian Levant; Polish Levant; Albania; Incoming Mail to the Levant and Holy Land; Austrian Levant; Holy Land & Palestine; Egypt; French Levant; German Levant etc. Illustrated in colour.

£40.00

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Stone, Robert G. - A Caribbean Neptune:
The Maritime Postal Communications of the Greater and Lesser Antilles in the 19th Century
Publisher: The Philatelic Foundation, New York, 1993.
Hardback, illustrated, xxi + 357 pages, slight warping (bend) to the covers, pages fine, in Good condition.
An excellent postal history study of the maritime mails serving Cuba, Puerto Rico and St. Thomas, including British, Spanish and French Packets, etc. Well illustrated.

£30.00

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- Pearls of Arabia
Volume 3 Stamps and Postal History
Publisher: Spink, London, 2011.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 73 pages, slight corner-crease to pages & covers else in Very Good condition.
Excellent catalogue of stamps and postal history from various parts of the Arab world, including strong sections of Djibouti and Obock, Libya, Syria, Transjordan, etc. Very well illustrated in colour.

£8.50

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- Pearls of Arabia
Volume 2 Egypt
Publisher: Spink, London, 2011.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 76 pages, in Very Good condition.
Excellent catalogue of stamps and postal history of Egypt, including superb Italian Post Offices and Austrian, British, & French. Very well illustrated in colour.

£9.50

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Magne, Jean-Pierre (editor) - Opus 6
Publisher: Académie Européenne de Philatélie, 2006.
Large paperback, 189 pages, colour illustrated throughout, text in several languages, slight signs of use, else in Very Good condition.
The sixth annual publication by the AEP. Containing superb articles by some of Europe's most knowledgable philatelists on aspects of (mainly) European philately and postal history. Written largely in French or English, and with some German and Italian, with short summaries in English & French at the end of each article. With some thirty articles (including several on Roumania), plus a chapter devoted to pages shown at the UPU exhibition in Berne (including Pascal Behr's Siege of Paris). Some of the content includes: Les émissions «Tête d'Aurochs» de 1858; Daguin Cancellations in Romania; The Angolan Post Office in Banana 1875-1884, etc.

£24.00

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Magne, Jean-Pierre (editor) - Opus 5
Publisher: Académie Européenne de Philatélie, 2005.
Large paperback, 130 pages, colour illustrated throughout, text in several languages, slight corner-creasing to front cover and first page, in Good condition.
The fifth annual publication by the AEP. Containing superb articles by some of Europe's most knowledgable philatelists on aspects of (mainly) European philately and postal history. Written largely in French, and some English and Italian, with short summaries in English & French at the end of each article. Some of the content includes: Les albums pour Timbres-Poste du XIXe siècle; Les «Post Office» de l'île Maurice: entre légende et réalité; The philatelic consequnces of Boundary changes in Upper Dahomey (1898-1919); Gli Uffici di Posta Militare Italiani in Turchia ed Anatolia al Termine del Primo Conflitto Mondiale, etc.

£20.00

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Dutau, G. and Storch, J. (editors) - Opus 2
Publisher: Académie Européenne de Philatélie, 2002.
Large paperback, 153 pages, colour illustrated throughout, text in several languages, slight corner-crease to rear cover and very slight shelfwear, else in Very Good condition.
The second annual publication by the AEP. Containing superb articles by some of Europe's most knowledgable philatelists on aspects of (mainly) European philately and postal history. Written largely in French, and some English, German and Italian, with short summaries in English & French at the end of each article. Some of the content includes: Les premiers timbres fiscaux de Belgique; Classic Errors of France (Part I); Salonique 1874-1875: timbres italiens, bateaux français, etc, etc.

£24.00

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- France and Colonies, with Monaco and Saar
Publisher: Robson Lowe, Basel, 1968.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 68 pages, with the prices realised, bilingual text in French & English, slight corner-crease, minor wear, in Good condition.
Scarce catalogue.

£7.50

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[Stone, R.G.] - French Colonies
including the "Robert G. Stone" Guadeloupe, Martinique and Reunion
Publisher: Robson Lowe, Basel, 1978.
Auction catalogue, paperback, 44 pages, illustrated, with the prices realised, in Good condition.
Scarce catalogue of mint stamps of the French Colonies, plus covers of Guadeloupe, Martinique and Reunion.

£8.00

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