Vintage catalogues

Gray, Dr. John Edward

The Illustrated Catalogue of Postage Stamps

Publisher: E. Marlborough & Co., London, 1866

Fourth edition, small hardback (pictorial paper-covered boards), publisher’s advertisements to the endpapers, xvi + 180 pages + xii publisher’s advertisements, boards rubbed at edges, lacks the original spine, re-bound with replacement cloth spine with resulting slight repaired tears to front pastedown-endpaper and slight spine-lean (spine-roll), text-block tight, pages crisp and clean, in Good condition.

£125.00

Muller, Frank

Catalogue des Etiquettes Aéropostales

Publisher: La Maison de la Poste Aérienne, Paris, 1947

Second edition, paperback, illustrated, 288 pages, with photocopies of Supplements 1-4, text in French, ex-Canadian Postal Museum with library label to spine, bookplate inside front cover and library pocket inside rear cover, tears to covers along length of spine and with small amount of loss to top and foot of spine, pages fine, a Good working copy.

£45.00

Catalogue Prix-Courant de Timbres-Poste

Publisher: Yvert & Tellier, Amiens, 1897 [reprinted 1997]

Reprint, paperback, xiii + 552 pages, text in French, slight shelf-wear, in Good condition.

£5.00

Europa Katalog 1910

Publisher: Hugo Michel, Apolda, 1910 (reprinted circa 1981)

Reprint, paperback, iv + 108 pages, text in German, slight corner-creases to front cover, page-edges a little toned, in Good condition.

£5.00

Descriptive Catalogue of American and Foreign Postage Stamps Issued from 1840 to Date

Splendidly Illustrated with Colored Engravings and Containing the Current Value of each Variety

Publisher: J.W. Scott & Co., New York, 1868 (reprinted 1971)

Sixteenth edition, facsimile reprint, small paperback, [iv] + 21 pages, tiny mark to front cover, tiny corner-crease else in Very Good condition.

£7.50

Glasewald, Georg

Katalog der deutschen Privatpostmarken

Publisher: "Merkur" Verein Deutscher Privatpostmarken-Sammler, 1978

Reprint, paperback, illustrated, xxiii + 159 pages, text in German, spine sunned, a little foxing to page-edges, previous owner’s name at front and title handwritten on spine, in Good condition.

£15.00

Baltic Postage Stamps Catalogue

Publisher: "Baltia" The Baltic Philatelist Association, Ausburg, 1948

Paperback, illustrated, xiii + 190 pages, each section of the catalogue written in the language of that country (Estonian, Latvian, or Lithuanian), and with translation in English and German, pages toned, some corner-creases, tiny short tear to front cover, tear to rear cover with loss of small corner-piece, in Fair to Good condition.

£20.00

Chuchin, F.G.

Catalogue of the Russian Rural Postage Stamps

Publisher: -, no date

Facsimile reprint, small format paperback, 204 pages + 45 plates, text in English, spine-lean, foxing to the page-edges, a Good reading copy.

£15.00

Catalogue Illustré des Timbres-Poste, Télégraphes, Colis Postaux de la Belgique et du Congo Belge

Publisher: Gelli & Tani, nd [circa 1930]

Hardback, 297 pages, illustrated, text in French, spine very slightly rubbed, a few dusty marks, in Good condition.

£21.00

Chapier, Georges

Les Timbres de Fantaisie et Non Officiels

Etude historique et descriptive des émissions apocryphes et de Fantaisie et des timbres non officiels

Publisher: L'Échangiste Universel, 1963

Second edition, paperback, illustrated, 191 pages, text in French, some creasing, page margins and edges rather toned, in Good condition.

£25.00

Morley, Walter

Walter Morley’s Catalogue and Price List of the Newspaper Tax Stamps of Great Britain and Ireland

Publisher: Walter Morley, London, 1912

First edition, hardback, original publisher’s dark green cloth gilt, illustrated, 55 pages, endpapers slightly toned, a few small blemishes to the covers, in Good condition.

£20.00

Catalogo Storico-Descrittivo dei Francobolli d’Italia

Publisher: Società Anonima Cooperativa Editrice fra Filatelici Italiani, Genova, 1923

Hardback, xi + 446 pages, illustrated, text in Italian, top of spine a little rubbed, a few small marks to rear cover and to edge of last couple of pages, in Good condition.

A Priced Catalogue of Air Posts of the World

Publisher: Alan Turton, London, 1925

First edition, hardback, original pictorial green cloth, all page-edges gilt, [ii] + 154 pages, interleaved, a little rippling to the binding, ex-Sheffield Philatelic Society Library with library bookplate to front pastedown-endpaper, and small library stamps at front and back, missing front free-endpaper, in Good condition.

£24.00

Chapier, Georges

Les Timbres de Fantaisie

Etude historique et descriptive des émissions apocryphes et de Fantaisie, Avec Supplément

Publisher: Emile Bertrand, Lucerne, circa 1950s

Reprint, paperback, illustrated, 65 + 40 pages, text in French, slight toning to the page-edges, mild corner-crease, in Good condition.

£18.00

Munk, Dr. Herbert

Kohl’s Briefmarken Handbuch und Grosser Katalog

Afghanistan – Charkhari

Publisher: Kohl, Berlin, circa 1923-24

Hardback, clothbound, upper page-edges gilt, xxiv + 640 pages, with the four language Wörterbuch bound in at front, interleaved, text in German, foxing to endpapers, two pages of the Wörterbuch have come loose and are very chipped at the edges, in Good condition.

£25.00

Gerbrûder Senfs Illustrierter Briefmarken-Katalog Ganze Welt 1938

Publisher: Senf, Leipzig, 1937

Harback, illustrated, 1590 pages, text in German, foot of spine very slightly rubbed, small remnants of a label to the front cover, page-edges slightly toned, binding solid, in Good condition.

£10.00

Hennig, Karl

Casa Filatelica Antillana “Philatelic News”

Vol. 30 No. 1

Publisher: Karl Hennig, Hamburg/Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, 1949

Paperback, 32 pages, illustrated, text in English & Spanish, paper quite toned, edges quite chipped with a small amount of loss, fragile but nevertheless in Good condition.

£30.00

Kohl, Paul

Paul Kohl’s illustrierter Katalog der Freimarken von Europa

Praktische Vorlage für Paul Kohl’s Permanent-Briefmarken-Album

Publisher: Paul Kohl, Chemnitz, 1897

Second edition, hardback, original green cloth binding, 12 + 424 pages, illustrated, text in German, slight dusty marks/mild foxing to page-edges, slight cracking of inner-hinge with pages 1-16 detached from main text block (but still present), in Good condition.

£45.00

Rommel, Otto

Special-Catalog der Postwertzeichen der Deutschen Postbezirke

enthaltend alle bis Ende 1895 zur Ausgabe gelangten Freimarken, Nachportomarken, Dienstmarken, sowie die Briefumschläge und Streifbänder mit eingeprägtem Wertstempel nebst vergleichenden Preisangaben auf Grund der hervorragendsten in- und ausländischen Cataloge, Handbücher und Preislisten

Publisher: Internationalen Philatelisten-Vereins, Dresden, 1896

Hardback, recent cloth binding with remnants of the original front cover pasted to the front board, 121 pages + publisher’s advertisements, text in German, ex Junior Philatelic Society/National Philateic Society with library marks to front cover, front endpapers, title-page and one other page, tiny corner-pieces missing from first few pages, in Good condition.

£35.00

Allied Postage Stamps of the Great War and after 1914-1923

Publisher: D. Field, London, 1923

Third edition, hardback, original publisher’s printed blue cloth, interleaved, xii + 160 pages, ex Bath Philatelic Society with library bookplate to front pastedown-endpaper else in Very Good condition.

£18.00

Rogers, Jacques H.

Rogers Postal Booklet Catalogue

Publisher: Booklet Stamp Company, New York, 1947

First edition, paperback (card covers), comb-bound, illustrated, [iv] + 155 pages, in Very Good condition.

£60.00

Nouveau Catalogue 1921 Complet des Timbres-Poste relatifs à la Guerre

emis depuis de 1er Août 1914 par les Puissances Belligérantes et Neutres

Publisher: Théodore Champion, Paris, 1921

Paperback, illustrated, 161 pages, text in French, slight wear to head of spine, ex library marks to first and last pages, pages slightly toned, in Good condition.

£10.00

Champion, Théodore

Catalogue Historique et Descriptif des Timbres de la Poste Aérienne

Publisher: Théodore Champion, Paris, 1930

Sixth edition, hardback, original blue cloth gilt, illustrated, vii + 547 pages, bilingual text in French & English, corners of front cover very slightly bumped, a few minor blemishes, in Good condition.

£35.00

Moschkau, Dr. Alfred and Herrmann, W.

Handbuch für Postmarken-Sammler

Illustrirter Katalog

Publisher: Gerbrüder Senf, Leipzig, 1884

Fifth edition, hardback, original cloth binding with embossed decoration, 512 pages + 168 plates, text in German, binding a little shaken, slight vertical crease to middle of spine, a couple of tiny tears to the front endpaper, ex libris Sveriges Filatelistforening with their inkstamp to front endpaper, in Good condition. With the 1885 Nachtrag (supplement) paperback with plain grey card covers, continuing the pages from 513 to 701, and plates 169 to 193, in Good condition.

£95.00

Lesgor & Reel 1940 Price List of the Stamps of France

Publisher: Lesgor & Reel, New York, 1940

Paperback, illustrated, 40 pages, in Very Good condition.

£8.50

Gray, Dr. John Edward and Taylor, Overy (revised & corrected by)

The Illustrated Catalogue of Postage Stamps

Publisher: E. Marlborough & Co., London, 1875

Sixth edition, hardback, half-leather binding with marbled boards, xv + 523 pages, leather corners and spine quite rubbed with some loss to top of spine, paper-covered marbled boards also slightly rubbed with a little loss, some scattered foxing to endpapers and first & last few leaves, some pencil underlining & pencil notes in margins of pages, in Good condition.

£60.00