Rockoff, Professor S. David and Jackson, Mike - Encyclopaedia of the Maltese Cross Cancellations of Great Britain and Ireland
Volume 2
Publisher: Mike Jackson Publications, 2008.
Large hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, vi + 178 pages, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, a few tiny signs of use else in Very Good condition.
Comprehensive reference, profusely illustrated. This second volume includes details from over one hundred post towns arranged alphabetically from M to Y.

£60.00

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Rockoff, Professor S. David and Jackson, Mike - Encyclopaedia of the Maltese Cross Cancellations of Great Britain and Ireland
Volume 1
Publisher: Mike Jackson Publications, 2006.
Large hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, viii + 181 pages, signed by Mike Jackson, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper else in Very Good condition.
Comprehensive reference, profusely illustrated. This first volume includes details from over one hundred post towns arranged alphabetically from A to L.

£60.00

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Champness, M.V.D. (Editor) - The British Mailcoach
Nos. 1-29
Publisher: The Great Britain Postal History Group of the Postal History Society, 1974-1981.
Paperbacks, illustrated, 12-16 pages each issue, slight creasing to the first two issues else in Very Good condition.
Scarce complete run of all issued of the Bulletin of the Postal History Society's Great Britain Postal History Group. Includes numerous articles on pre-stamp and Victorian postal history and postmarks.

£24.00

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Brooks, A.D. - Postal History of Sunderland
Publisher: Sunderland Philatelic Society, 1975.
Large format (A4) paperback, illustrated, 15 pages, a few tiny marks to the pages, in Good condition.
Very scarce.

£10.00

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Oxley, H.M. and Watson, V.C. - Bishop Auckland Postal History
Publisher: privately published, 1968.
Paperback, 16 pages + 2 plates, very slight corner-creasing, else in Very Good condition.
Very scarce booklet.

£14.50

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Mackay, James A. - Postmarks of England and Wales
Publisher: privately published by the author, Dumfires, 1988.
Large format (A4) paperback, illustrated, 352 pages, minor signs of use else in Very Good condition.
An important survey of English and Welsh postmarks with more than 6,500 illustrations of postmarks as recorded in the Post Office Records and elsewhere. This large book includes 51 separate sections on everything from the earliest Bishop marks to Machine cancellations, Maltese Cross Obliterators to Royal Air Force postmarks.

£20.00

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Mackay, James A. - Scottish Numeral Postmarks
Publisher: privately published, Dumfries, 1987.
Large (A4) paperback, illustrated, 196 pages, in Very Good condition.
This book deals with the numbers allocated to Post Offices in Scotland from 1844 onwards, and used in obliterators, double stamps and combined date and obliterating stamps down to the beginning of the twentieth century. From the 1880s until 1924, these numbers were also employed in charge and explanatory marks and in examiners' triangular stamps, all of which are surveyed here for the first time in depth. Well illustrated.

£10.00

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Brumell, George - A Short Account of the Franking System in the Post Office: 1652-1840,
with a description of the postmarks used in connection therewith
Publisher: privately published, 1936.
Paperback, 38 pages, illustrated, scuff with tiny amount of surface-loss to front cover, very slight corner-crease to front cover, foxing to title-page, inscriptions of two previous owners to title-page, a Good reading copy only.
Classic work on free franks.

£13.50

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Scott, J.G.S. - Official Franking 1800-1840
Publisher: The Postal History Society, London, 1983.
Paperback, illustrated, 80 pages, spine slightly sunned else in Very Good condition.
Study of the official mail sent by various government departments & authorities using the Franking System prior to 1840.

£7.50

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Mackay, James A. - The Postal History of Glasgow
Publisher: privately published, Dumfries, 1984.
Large (A4) paperback, illustrated, 220 pages, slight wear to the transparent plastic covers else in Very Good conditon.
Comprehensive study of Glasgow's postal history and postmarks. Scarce.

£11.00

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Mackay, James - Scotland's Posts
Publisher: privately published by the author, Glasgow, 2000.
Subscribers' Edition, No. 59 of 100 copies signed by the author and with souvenir sheet tipped-in at front, card slipcase, large format (A4) paperback, illustrated, v + 163 pages + maps, slipcase worn and with some tears, tiny corner-crease to rear cover, slightest hint of spine-lean, in Good condition.
A superb history of the development of the postal system in Scotland. Illustrated with postmark illustrations; with useful appendices, and maps.

£20.00

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Mackay, James A. and Peachey, Colin G. - Skeleton Postmarks of England and Wales
Including Channel Islands and Isle of Man
Publisher: British Postmark Society, 1996.
Second edition, large (A4) paperback, comb-bound, 164 pages, tiny scuff to bottom edge of front cover, one or two small pencil marks, in Good condition.
Revised and enlarged edition.

£12.00

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Hilditch, Don - The Postal History of Elgin
Publisher: Scottish Postal History Society, 2012.
First edition, large format paperback (pictorial card covers), illustrated, 162 pages, in Very Good condition.
Scottish Postal History Society Monograph No. 3. The postal history of the Scottish town of Elgin, based on the author's collection. Very well illustrated in colour.

£21.00

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Erskine, Roy - Wilsons of Bannockburn
Publisher: Scottish Postal History Society, 2011.
First edition, large format paperback (pictorial card covers), illustrated, 172 pages, signed by the author, in Very Good condition.
Scottish Postal History Society Monograph No. 1. Excellent monograph based on the Roy Erskine's renowned display of postal history relating to the firm of Wilsons of Bannockburn. Very well illustrated in colour. Out of print and hard to find.

£25.00

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[Wilson, Harold] - The Harold Wilson Collections
of British and Australian - Airmail, Railway and Local Postal History
Publisher: Cavendish, Derby, 2005.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 96 pages, with the prices realised, in Very Good condition.
Catalogue of the fascinating postal history collections formed by Harold Wilson. Featuring G.B. Airmails; Australian T.P.O.s; G.B. Railways & T.P.O.s; and Derbyshire Postal History. Well illustrated in colour.

£9.50

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Goodbody, A.M. - The Railway Sub Offices of Great Britain
Publisher: The Railway Philatelic Group, 1983.
Paperback, illustrated, 32 pages, covers partially sunned, in Good condition.
Useful handbook, with alphabetical listing of sub offices with earliest and latest known dates.

£7.50

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Hill, Norman - The Railway Travelling Post Offices of Great Britain and Ireland, 1838-1975
Publisher: Harry Hayes, Batley, 1977.
First edition, card covers, 24 pages, spine slightly rubbed else in Very Good condition
A handy listing of all the known T.P.O. services of Great Britain and Ireland, with dates of use, brief notes on each, and illustrations of some of the postmarks.

£4.50

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Brumell, George - British Post Office Numbers 1844-1906
Publisher: R. C. Alcock, Cheltenham, 1979.
Second edition, reprint, hardback, 138 pages, very slight dusty marks to upper edges, very slight bend to the covers, in Good condition.
One of the most used and most useful works in British postmark literature, listing the distinguishing numbers of Post Offices and Overseas Agencies of the British Post Office, 1844 - 1906.

£15.00

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Robertson, Alan W. - A History of the Ship Letters of the British Isles
(An Encyclopaedia of Maritime Postal History)
Publisher: James Bendon, Limassol, 1993.
Reprint edition, two volumes, hardback, in slipcase, illustrated, 448 + 688 pages, some wear to the slipcase, a few tiny dusty marks to top page-edges, else in Very Good condition.
One of the great masterpieces of philatelic literature originally published in instalments between 1955 and 1964. Because of the way in which pages were issued to subsrcibers over the period of ten years many original copies were deficient, and the author's eccentric page numbering system made it difficult to ascertain what was missing. This edition reprints the original in its entirety, in a slightly smaller format than the original. An essential reference work for collectors of maritime postal history.

£120.00

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Gould, Dr. M.H. - British Naval Post and Censor Marks of the First World War
Publisher: The Forces Postal History Society, 1998.
Second edition, large paperback, illustrated, 229 pages, a few small dusty marks and spots of foxing to the top-edges, minor signs of use, in Good condition.
Useful handbook on the many different postal markings used by the Navy in WW1.

£24.00

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