Philatelic Literature Specialists

Purves, J.R.W.

The Postal History of the Port Phillip District 1835-1851

Publisher: The Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria, Melbourne, 1950

Hardback, original green cloth, dustwrapper, 68 pages, ex-libris L.N. & M. Williams with their bookplate, signed by the author, dustwrapper sunned and torn with loss of some fragments, endpapers tanned, front endpaper slightly chipped at edge, in Good condition.

Scarce handbook by the great expert on Victorian stamps and postal history. A pioneering work on Victoria’s pre-stamp period – the first detailed study of the pre-stamp postal history of any Australian State. Illustrated with twelve black & white plates showing postal markings and covers.

£20.00