GREAT BRITAIN - GENERAL
1240 MISCELLANY of books and pamphlets in box, including MELVILLE - 1924 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, small p/b. ALCOCK & MEREDITH - 1949 "British Postage Stamp Varieties Illustrated, torn d/j. ROBSON LOWE - 1952 Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps : Vol. I Great Britain and the Empire in Europe. STAFF - 1964 The Penny Post: 1680 - 1918. (Approx. 12 hardbacks and 22 booklets/pamphlets. £30
1241 SMALL CARTON containing GRIMWOOD-TAYLOR - 1990 British Postal Reforms of 1839-40, SAMUEL & HUGGINS - 1980 Specimen Stamps and Stationary of Great Britain. With d/j. and boxed, as new. LOWE - 1968 The British Postage Stamp of the Nineteenth Century, d/j. WISEMAN - 1984 The De La Rue Years 1878 - 1910 Volume 1, d/j., clean copy. WILLCOCKS - 1975 England's Postal History, worn d/j. RPS - 1969 The Royal Philatelic Society, London 1869 - 1969. HARMERS - 1981 hard cover catalogue of the "G.L." collection of Classic GB. CHRISTIE'S - 1995/6 catalogues for the "Tes" collection and the"Daisy" Grand Prix collection. (9 pubs.). £100
1242 MISCELLANY - including bundle of 35 A.B.P.S. News, from mid-1990s. HILL - 1940 Rowland Hill and the Fight for Penny Post, faded spine. DAVIES -1983 The Joy of Stamps, d/j. Signed copy. Plus four other standard works covering Maltese Cross, Numeral and Sideways Duplex Cancellations. £15
1243 MISCELLANY - 1950 on. A small ready made library in four cartons, including WESTLEY - 1950 The Postal Cancellations of London 1840 - 1890, d/j., above average copy. POST OFFICE - 1960 London Post Office and Streets, p/b. ALCOCK & HOLLAND - 1964 British Postmarks : A Short History and Guide, Second Edition, p/b. GILBERT - 1971 1st. Class Markings on Government Official Stationary, p/b. BOOTH - 1976 A Catalogue of the Adhesive Revenue Stamps of the U.K., I.o.M., and C.I., p/b. BOWMAN - 1976 Railway Perfins of Great Britain, p/b. DEERING - 1996 The Complete Deegam Machin Handbook, second edition, in ring binder. PLUS a range of stamp catalogues (mostly Gibbons), auction catalogues, magazines ( The Archivist, Olympic interest, The Mainsheet, early Philatelic Bulletins), etc. HEAVY, BULKY LOT. BUYER TO ARRANGE COLLECTION FROM OUR PREMISES. £90
1244 MISCELLANY in carton of British Philatelic Bulletins (1968 - 1987) and Australian Philatelic Bulletins (1982 - 1995), incomplete sequences of both. Plus sundry oddments. HEAVY LOT. BUYER TO COLLECT. £12
1245 MISCELLANY including PEARSON - 1971 Advanced Philatelic Research. HOSKING - 1977 Paquetbot Cancellations of the World. STITT-DIBDEN - 1974 Squared Circle Postmarks, some damage. MACKAY - 1980 English & Welsh Postmarks since 1840. Plus four other items. (8 items). £15
1246 MISCELLANY of mainly hardback books including WILLCOCKS & JAY - 1978 British County Catalogues 1, 2 and 3. ALCOCK & HOLLAND - 1960 British Postmarks : A Short History and Guide, p/b. ALCOCK - 1984 Scots Local Cancellations Illustrations, p/b. WESTLEY - 1950 The Postal Cancellations of London 1840 - 1890, d/j. PLUS 8 other items. (14 books etc.). £40
1247 A MISCELLANEOUS BUNDLE which inclues BELLAMY & DARLOW - 1914 A History of the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain 1909 - 1912 ; Congress Handbooks for 1947 & 1967 ; Fifty plus copies of THE GB JOURNAL between 1968 and 2000 ; and four other items on Post Office Numbers, Welsh Post Towns, Railway Sub-Offices and the Channel Islands. £10
1248 BARTHOLOMEW - 1966 Gazetteer of the British Isles. Covers scuffed at bottom. £35
1249 BATTISCOMBE - 1975 Shaftesbury : The Great Reformer 1801 - 1885, d/j. £10
1250 BOWIE - 1897 The Romance of the Post Office, some scuffing and soiling. HALDANE - 1971 Three Centuries of Scottish Posts : A Historical Survey to 1836. (2 pubs.). £20
1251 BRITISH PHILATELIST - 1908 to 1952. Vols. I to XLIII, all neatly bound in separate volumes except XLIII. Complete. In small carton, B.T.C. £60
1252 BUCKLAND - 1984 The World of Donald McGill, d/j. GREEN - 1976 I've Lost My Little Willie! A celebration of comic postcards, p/b. (2 pubs.). £15
1253 CROFTS - 1967 Packhorse, Waggon and Post, d/j. BATES - 1969 Directory of Stage Coach Services 1836, d/j. (2 pubs.). £15
1254 DAVIES - 1966 The Conway and Menai Ferries : A review of the records. SOTHEBY'S - 1973 auction catalogue of Printed Books, inc. some related to Wales. WILLIAMS - 1977 Stage Coaches in Wales, d/j. (3 pubs.). £18
1255 HAMILTON - 1940 A Hundred Years of Postage Stamps. (A School Prize !). BRITANNIA PUBLICATIONS - 1979 Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improved 1731. Modern reprint. STANTON & RUSHWORTH - 1960 King George V : A Study of the Provisional Issues of 1934 and 1935, booklet. KIDD - 1974 Posted in Advance for Delivery on Christmas Day, pamphlet. PLUS six other booklets/pamphlets of a general nature. (10 items). £25
1256 HOLT & HOLT - 1987 I'll Be Seeing You : Picture Postcards of World War II, d/j. Over 800 illustrations. £15
1257 JOYCE - 1893 The History of the Post Office from its establishment down to 1836. Cover boards faded and stained in places. LITCHFIELD - 1949 Guide Lines to the Penny Black, first edition, d/j. (2 pubs.). £30
1258 MILNER - 1909 Illustrated Catalogue of British Post Paid Stamps, small booklet with cover damage. OLIVER & VALLANCEY -1923 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain 1840 - 1922. WESTLEY - 1950 The Postal Cancellations of London 1840 - 1890, worn d/j. PLUS 3 miscellaneous items. (6 items.) £15
1259 THE PHILATELIST - 1971 to 1981. 89 single copies from an 11 year span, clean. £30
1260 PHILLIPS - 1913 The Stamps of Great Britain 1911-12. Booklet, cover separated. MELVILLE - 1920(?) Great Britain : Line-Engraved Stamps. Wear to spine as usual. LITCHFIELD - 1949 Guide Lines to the Penny Black, p/b. First edition, covers separating. ROSSITER & FLOWER - 1986 The Stamp Atlas, d/j. PLUS 3 SG Specialised catalogues, Vols. 1,2 and 4, AND a diverse miscellany of 8 other booklets. (15 items). £20
1261 THE PHILATELIST AND PJGB - A complete 12 year run from 1982 to 1993. Clean. (72 issues). £48
1262 POST OFFICE - 1978 British Postmark Bulletin , Jan. 1978 to Jan. 1996. Apparently complete for the period. LARGE, HEAVY CARTON. BUYER TO COLLECT. £15
1263 ROBINSON - 1947 The British Post Office : A History. SEYMOUR - 1950 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain 1840 - 1853. Part One, second edition. BEAUMONT & ADAMS - 1954 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain. Part Three - Victora to Edward VII. (3 pubs.). £15
1264 R.P.S.L. - The Postage Stamps of Great Britain series. SEYMOUR - 1934 Part I, first edition. SEYMOUR - 1950 Part I, second edition, d/j. WIGGINS - 1962 Part II, revised edition. BEAUMONT & STANTON - 1957 Part Four, first edition. ( 4 vols.). £30
1265 SCOTT-GILES - 1948 The Road Goes On : A literary and historical account of the highways, byways and bridges of Great Britain. £15
1266 SWIFT - 1929 The History of Postal Agitation : From eighty years ago till the present day. Book 1 (of 2). POST OFFICE - 1911 An Historical Summary, board cover. BATEMAN - 1960 Stamp Collectors' Who's Who. KANDAOUROFF - 1973 Collecting Postal History : postmarks, cards and covers, d/j. (4 pubs.). £18
1267 VALE - 1967 The Mail-Coach Men of the late eighteenth century, d/j. STONE - 1987 The Inland Posts (1392 - 1672), d/j. £18
1268 SIR JOHN WILSON Bt. - 1952 The Royal Philatelic Collection. The definitive work published by Viscount Kemsley. Leather bound, in original slipcase. Some scuffing/wear at bottom to covers/spine, otherwise good. £100
GREAT BRITAIN - QUEEN VICTORIA
1269 BACON - 1920 THE LINE-ENGRAVED POSTAGE STAMPS OF GREAT BRITAIN printed by PERKINS, BACON & CO. Issued in two volumes, plates included; published by Charles Nissen with pages uncut. Some wear to soft covers. A classic publication. £120
1270 BACON - 1920 Line Engraved and Surface Printed Stamps of GB - a complete set of Plates , 1 to 15 inc., loose. £20
1271 BROWN - 1972 The Plating of the Penny 1840 - 1864. Volume 1 : Die 1, Plates 1 - 45 and Volume 2 : Die 1, Plates 46 - 91. (2 vols.). £20
1272 BROWN - 1972 The Plating of the Penny 1840 - 1864. Vol. 1; Die 1, Plates 1 - 45. Dedicated and signed copy. £15
1273 BROWN - 1978 Queen Victoria : The Plating of the Penny 1840 - 1864. Vols. 1, 2 and 3. (3 vols.). £30
1274 BROWN - 1979 Queen Victoria : The Plating of the Penny 1840 - 1864. Vols. 1 and 2 - soft covers, spiral bound. Plus Vols. 4 and 5 - hard covers, spiral bound, in slipcases. £27
1275 DENDY MARSHALL - 1929 A Study of the Line-Engraved Twopence Postage Stamps of Great Britain. Damage (creasing) to both board covers, occasional spotting of pages. £10
1276 FISHER - 1979 The Plating of the Penny 1840 - 1864 : Vol. 1 Die 1, Plates 1a to 45, revised edition, boxed. £12
1277 GOLDSMITH & DANZIG - 1991 The Cancellations of the 1841 Penny Red : Illustrated Guide and Catalogue, d/j., as new. £30
1278 HOLLAND - 1960(?) The Gothic 1d Die II Stamps Plates 23 - 31. Small format in plastic folder ( a bit soiled), uses photographs for illustration. Signed copy No. 19. £20
1279 JUBILEE CELEBRATION COMMITTEE - 1891 Account of the Celebration of the Jubilee of Uniform Inland Penny Postage. Some water staining to front cover and frontispiece photograph, cover a bit grubby. TODD - 1941 A History of British Postage Stamps 1660 - 1940. A 1949 reprint with torn d/j. 2 pubs.). £12
1280 LEWINS - 1865 Her Majesty's Mails - A History of the Post Office and an industrial account of its present condition. Spine damage and some loosening of the binding, including front cover. £9
1281 NISSEN - 1922 The Plating of the Penny Black Postage Stamp of Great Britain, 1840. Plus the two volumes containing the Plates A - J and K - T. Three volumes in original bindings, minor damage. Very Scarce. £250
1282 OSBORNE - 1946 British Line Engraved Stamps ; Twopence Blue Studies of Plates 1 to 15. Some spotting in places. £75
1283 OSBORNE - 1949 British Line Engraved Stamps : Repaired Impressions. Sound, clean copy, very slight fading to spine. £85
1284 PENNY PLATE PHOTOS -The 1d. Imperf Plate 12 to 16, AA to TL complete photographs on 20 sheets. PLUS The A row stamps of the 1d. Die II Plate 1 to 21, published by Alcock & Holland. Difficult to find. £50
1285 SEYMOUR - 1934 The Stamps of Great Britain Part I (front cover and spine separated) and Part II. WIGGINS - 1962 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain. Part Two; revised edition, The Perforated Line-Engraved Issues. BROWN - 1972 The Plating of the Penny 1840 - 1864 , Vol. 1 (plating guage missing). (4 pubs.). £15
1286 SEYMOUR - 1934 The Stamps of Great Britain, Parts I and II. Part II has damage to binding. (Ex-Libris copies. £10
1287 STONE - 1973 Repairs of the 1841 One Penny Plates 1 - 40. Complete with Plates, a nice clean copy. STANTON & RUSHWORTH - 1960 King George V : A study of the provisional issues of 1934 and 1935, booklet. (2 pubs.). £12
1288 WIGGINS & TONNA - 1973 The Plating of Alphabet III. The 5 ring-bound volumes covering Pl. 22 to 68 & R17, together with Alphabet IV (Pl. 50 & 51), and Alphabet II (R15 & R16). WIGGINS - 1974 The Plating of Alphabet II (Plates 1 to 21). (6 vols.). £40
1289 WRIGHT &CREEKE - 1899 A History of the Adhesive Stamps of the British Isles. Published by the Philatelic Society, London, quarter leather bound, very minor stains. Scarce. £75
GREAT BRITAIN - ACTS, CONTRACTS, ETC.
1290 BRITANNIA STAMP BUREAU - 1976 Acts of Parliament Relating to the Post Office 1710 - 1837 and 1838 - 1844. Reprinted in two vols. from 1838 originals. £20
1291 HOUSE OF COMMONS - 1839 Parliamentary Debates on Penny Postage. Bound volume of parliamentary proceedings, title pages missing. £50
1292 P.O. ACTS. C A P. XXXIV An Act for the Regulation of the Duties of Postage 12 July 1837 (19 pp.) ; C A P. XXV An Act for regulating the sending and receiving of Letters and Packets by the Post free from the Duty of Postage 12 July 1837 (12 pp.) and C A P. XCVI An Act for the Rugulation of the Duties of Postage 10 August 1840 (30 pp.). Three Acts removed from a bound volume. £36
1293 POST OFFICE - 1854 Report upon The Post Office. First PMG report, 46 pp. with hard covers, spine and edge wear. £30
1294 POST OFFICE - 1858 on, Fourth , Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Nineth Reports of The Postmaster General on The Post Office, soft covers, a little worn. (5 vols.). £75
1295 POST OFFICE - Reports of the Postmaster General on the Post Office for 1913 - 14, 1914 - 15 and 1915 - 16. Foolscap size, some wear. (3 pubs.). £50
GREAT BRITAIN - AIRMAILS
1296 H.M.S.O. - 1946 Merchant Airmen : The Air Ministry Account of British Civil Aviation 1939 - 1944. P/b., some wear to binding at front. £18
1297 REFERENCE BOOK and Catalogue of Royal Air Force Museum and Royal Air Forces Escaping Society Flown Covers. 2 vols., ring binders. £10
GREAT BRITAIN - LOCAL POSTS
1298 CHATFIELD - 1991 Great Britain Commemorative Labels Pre-1950, p/b. CRANE - 1986 Index to the Cinderella Philatelist 1961 - 1985 and to The Private Post 1977 - 1985, p/b. WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS - 1970 Cinderella Stamps. ANNAND - 1993 Christmas Charity Posts : The First Decade 1981 - 1991, p/b. THE PRE-CANCEL FORUM - 1991 Vol. 52 (12 issues) of the Newsletter. £15
GREAT BRITAIN - MILITARY MAILS
1299 COX & Co. - 1988 List of British Officers taken prisoner in the various Theatres of War between Aug. 1914 and Nov. 1918. Reprinted from a private circulation list of 1919, p/b. HALLOWS - 1991 Regiments and Corps of the British Army, d/j., as new. Plus a New Zealand auction house catalogue (1996) of Military Postal History. £30
1300 de GRAFF - 1972 De Boerenoorlog in oude ansichten. Written in Dutch and illustrated using old postcards. WARNER - 1973 Dervish : The Rise and Fall of an African Empire, d/j. GLOVER - 1975 Rorkes Drift : A Victorian Epic, d/j. JUDD - 1977 The Boer War, d/j. In the British At War series. (4 pubs.). £18
1301 KENNEDY & CRABB - 1977 The Postal History of the British Army in World War I : Before and After 1903 to 1929. Spiral bound p/b., signed by Crabb. GOULD - 1984 British Naval Post and Censor Marks of the First World War, p/b. (2 pubs.). £20
1302 POHL - 1944 Adventures of a Boer Family. SNOWDEN & HEPWORTH - 1987 The Censor Seals of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899 - 1902, p/b. (2 pubs.). £18
GREAT BRITAIN - POSTAL HISTORY/POSTMARKS
1303 MISCELLANY - including books on Kingston upon Hull, Beaumaris, Gilbert & Ellis Islands ; Medical & Dinosaur stamps, Stamp Year books 1970 to 1973, Rhyl to Wallasey Hovercraft Service,Slogan Postmarks etc.. PLUS a 'Markatec' watermark detector. £20
1304 ALCOCK & HOLLAND - 1940 The Postmarks of Great Britain and Ireland. Slight scuffing of spine, otherwise fair. £75
1305 ALCOCK & HOLLAND - 1977 British Postmarks : A Short History & Guide. BRUMELL - The Local Posts of London 1680-1840. WILLCOCKS - 1972 The Postal History of Great Britain and Ireland and 1975 England's Postal History to 1840. WILLCOCKS & JAY - 1978 The British County Catalogue of Postal History Vols. 1 and 5. (6 pubs.). £24
1306 BEALE -1998 A History of the Post in England from the Romans to the Stuarts, d/j., as new. £15
1307 BOTTOMLEY - 1988 The Franking System in the Post Office 1652-1840. HESS - The "Traudl" Collection of London Postal History 1661-1840. WINTER - 1998 U.S. - France Mails by Steamship : 1838 - GPU. KELLY - 2000 The Type Sage Issue of France 1876 - 1900 : A Study of the Postmarks and Postal History. (4 Society of Postal Historians p/b. publications). £24
1308 BOTTOMLEY - 1988 The Franking System in the Post Office 1652- 1840. P/b., as new. £12
1309 BOTTOMLEY - 1988 The Franking System in the Post Office 1652 - 1840. President's Display. £12
1310 BRUMELL - 1946 Post Office Numbers. ROBINSON - 1953 Britain's Post Office, ex-public library. STAFF - 1964 The Penny Post 1680 - 1918, torn d/j. LOWE - 1968 The British Postage Stamp of the nineteenth century, d/j., boxed. MUIR - 1990 Postal Reform & The Penny Black, p/b. (5 pubs.). £25
1311 BRUMELL - 1971 British Post Office Numbers 1844 - 1906. WILLCOCKS - 1960 The Spoon Experiment 1853 - 1858, co-authred with BENTLEY, plus a later edition with SEDGEWICK. PEGG - 1976 Norfolk Penny Posts. SUSSEX & SHELTON - 1978 The Continental Mail Service 1793 - 1815. SUSSEX - 1980 The Norwich Post Office 1568 - 1980. All p/b., except Brumell. 6 pubs., all well used. £10
1312 DANIELS - 1898 A History of British Postmarks : Illustrated. ROBSON LOWE -1968 The British Postage Stamp of the nineteenth century, torn d/j. WILLCOCKS & JAY - 1981 The Postal History of Great Britain and Ireland, d/j. HODGSON & SEDGEWICK - 1974 The Scottish Additional Halfpenny Mail Tax 1813 - 1839, booklet. JOHNSON - 1982 Unpaid and Underpaid Mail 1840 to 1921 : England and Wales, booklet. (5 items). £30
1313 DONALD - 1992 The Posts of Sevenoaks in Kent, d/j., as new. Also 1991 A Catalogue of the Known Postmarks of Sevenoaks and Villages including Westerham and Edenbridge. Special Issue No. 1 of The Kent Post, in ring binder. And a single issue for Dec. 1994. (3 items). £30
1314 HENDY - 1909 The History of the Postmarks of the British Isles, from1840 to 1876. Considerable spine damage and a vertical crease to all pages. BRUMELL - 1938 The Local Posts of London 1680 - 1840, p/b., sound. ALCOCK & HOLLAND - 1959 Maltese Cross Cancellations, in multi-ring binder. (3 pubs.). £20
1315 HENDY - 1909 The History of the Postmarks of the British Isles 1840 -1876. Soft covers, covered with brown paper. ROBSON LOWE - 1979 The British Postage Stamp of the nineteenth century, d/j. £15
1316 HENDERSON - 1966 Post Offices in Scotland. HODGSON & SEDGEWICK - 1974 The Scottish Additional Halfpenny Mail Tax 1813 - 1839, p/b., faults. SUSSEX - 1974 Diss, Norfolk - a postal history, p/b. SUSSEX - 1980 The Norwich Post Office 1568 - 1980, p/b., soiled cover. £12
1317 LOVEGROVE - 1989 "Herewith My Frank...", second edition, d/j. WILSON - 1979 T.P.O. Parts 1, 2 & 3., p/b. PHILLIPS - Stamp Collecting. BAREFOOT - 1983 Forgery & Reprint Guide - GB, pamphlet. POST OFFICE - 1973 Post Offices in the UK, p/b. (7 items). £20
1318 MACKAY - 1980 Postmarks of England and Wales. Plus The Postal History Annual for 1986 to 1990. (6 pubs.). £20
1319 MACKAY - 1980 English & Welsh Postmarks since 1840. PARMENTER - Barred Numeral Cancellations : Vol. 1 Wales (1984). Vol. 2 England, Beds to Durham (1985) and Vol. 3 England, Essex to Kent (1986). (4 Pubs.). £15
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1080-1159
1160-1239
1240-1319
1320-1399
1400-1479
1480-1559
1560-1639
1640-1719
1720-1799
1800-1879
1880-1959
1960-2039
2040-2064
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