4240 EATON - 1949 Postage Stamps in the Making. (Melville Re-written and completed). Torn d/j. WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS - 1946 Famous Stamps, torn d/j. (2 pubs). £12
4241 THE ENGLISH SPECIALISTS' JOURNAL - 1895 Volumes I and II, 1895 - 96. Bound together in one quarter leather volume. Some wear to covers and foxing to page edges, Scarce. £24
4242 FOSTER - 1882 The Peerage of the British Empire for 1882 with the Orders of Knighthood. Spine and binding broken but is repairable. FAIRBURN - 1986 Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland, d/j. (2 pubs.). £21
4243 GREAT BRITAIN PHILATELIC SOCIETY - Two cartons containing a comprehensive, but not complete, run of The GB Journal between 1959 and 2003. Also The Philatelist (Robson Lowe) for 1978 - 1980. HEAVY LOT. BUYER TO COLLECT. £30
4244 THE GREAT BRITAIN PHILATELIST - Vols. 1 to 5 (1961 - 65), duplication. THE PHILATELIC JOURNAL OF GREAT BRITAIN 1965 - 1980, duplicated from 1974. THE GB JOURNAL 1977 - 1981. Not checked for completeness between these dates. HEAVY LOT. BUYER TO COLLECT. £36
4245 HAMILTON - 1940 A Hundred Years of Postage Stamps, worn d/j. EASTON - 1945 British Postage Stamp Design, third edition, d/j. TODD - 1949 A History of British Postage Stamps 1661 - 1940, d/j. NARBETH - 1969 Collecting British Stamps, d/j. (4 pubs.). £10
4246 HARDY & BACON - 1898 The Stamp Collector. Uncut page edges, staining of covers and spine, but a scarce book. £24
4247 HENDY - 1905 The History of the Early Postmarks of the British Isle. Ussual faded spine. HILL - 1940 Rowland Hill and the Fight for Penny Post, p/b. KAY - 1951 Royal Mail, d/j. EASTON - 1963 British Postage Stamp Design, torn d/j. CROFTS - 1967 Packhorse, Waggon and Post, d/j. HEY - 1989 Rowland Hill : Genius and Benefactor 1795 - 1879, d/j. STONE - 1987 The Inland Posts (1392 - 1672), d/j. LOVEGROVE - 1977 "Herewith My Frank...."D/j., plus Supplements 2 & 3. MACKAY - The Postal History Annual. 11 copies between 1979 and 1990 (1986 missing). (19 items). £30
4248 HYDE - 1885 The Royal Mail. Loose spine. HARPER - 1903 Stage -Coach and Mail in Days of Yore. Stained cover and dsl. damage to spine, foxing in places. DUCKHAM - 1939 Britannia Volume the First. Reprint of John Ogilby maps from 1675, in colour. (3 items). £24
4249 JOHNSON - 1944 British Postage Stamps, d/j., clean copy. HEINS - 1979 Numeral Cancellations of the British Empire, p/b. (2). £12
4250 LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - 1918 Liverpool : Its Trade & Commerce, with indices in 5 languages. Many interesting adverts and a colour section. Covers soiled and scuffed around the edges. £50
4251 LOW & PULLING - 1889 The Dictionary of English History. Quarter bound leather but worn and spine detaching. O.U.P. - 1949 The Dictionary of National Biography, 1931 - 1940. Ex-library copy, very good condition. £24
4252 LOWE - 1947 The EncyclopĘdia of British Empire Postage Stamps. Vol. 1 - Great Britain and the Empire in Europe. GRAVESON - 1940 Penny Postage Centenary. KING - 1978 Alice Through the Pillar Box and What She Found There, d/j. (3 pubs.). £12
4253 MELVILLE - 1924 The Complete Philatelist. FORSTER - c.1950 The Postmark on a Letter. (2 pubs.). £24
4254 MOGG - 1822 Paterson's Roads, sixteenth edtion, complete with maps. Spine loose in places and some foxing/staining to some pages. £45
4255 MOGG - 1826 Paterson's Roads, eighteenth edition, with maps. Some wear to cover edges but generally good condition for this. £40
4256 MURRAY - 1927 The Post Office. GREEN - 1965 Focus on John Henry Robinson 1796 - 1871 (Engraver). Pamphlet bound between boards. STAFF - 1964 The Penny Post 1680 - 1918, d/j. (3 pubs.). £18
4257 MUIR - 1990 Postal Reform & the Penny Black, p/b. STAFF - 1966 The Penny Post 1680 - 1918. FARRUGIA - 1969 The Letter Box. WILLCOCKS - 1972 The Postal History of Great Britain and Ireland. WILLCOCKS - 1975 England's Postal History, d/j. WILLCOCKS & JAY - 1990 The British County Catalogue of Postal History Vol. 5, d/j. (5 pubs.). £21
4258 NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY - THE CONCISE DICTIONARY OF: 1994 Paperback issue "From earliest times to 1985" in three volumes housed in slip case. As new. £60
4259 NOALL - 1963 A History of Cornish Mail- and Stage-Coaches, d/j. ROBSON - 1837 The Mail and Coach Conveyance List for 1837. Facsimile reprint, p/b. PIGOT & CO - 1830 National Commercial Directory covering Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. Facsimile edition, p/b. £12
4260 O.U.P. - 1930? The Dictionary of National Biography. Three volumes covering 'Beginnings' to 1921, 1912 - 1921 and 1922 - 1930. All worn and crude repair to the former. (3). £36
4261 PATERSON - 1799 A New and Accurate Description of all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads of Great Britain, Twelfth edition. Well worn, spine loose but still has three maps. £45
4262 PERRY - 1992 The Victorian Post Office : The Growth of a Bureaucracy, d/j. Plus three p/b. booklets covering the Carrying of British Mails, History of the Postmarking of Mail in Great Britain and Mail and Coach Conveyance in 1837. (4 items). £18
4263 PHILATELIC BULLETIN - Stated to be complete to Sept. 2003 (Vols. 1 & 2 are official repro) plus several volumes of the Stamp Bug Club, Swap Special, Collectors Club etc. (3 cartons). VERY HEAVY LOT - BUYER TO COLLECT £30
4264 ROTHSCHILD - 1872 Notice sur L'Origine du Prix Uniforme Taxe des Lettres, 83pp. booklet. About the creation of postage stamps in England. Spine and front cover wear, rear cover missing. £24
4265 ROBERTSON - Great Britain : Post Roads, Post Towns and Postal Rates : 1635 - 1839. Small format reprint of the original 1961 edition. SUSSEX - 1980 The Norwich Post Office 1568 - 1980, p/b. DONALD - 1992 The Posts of Sevenoaks in Kent, worn d/j. (3). £18
4266 SEYMOUR, BEAUMONT et al. - 1950 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain. Vol.1 (1950), Vol. 2 (original 1937 edition), Vol. 3 (Revised 1964 ) and Vol. 4 (1957). Mixed condition. £30
4267 TRISTRAM - 1985 Coaching Days & Coaching Ways,d/j. A modern reprint of the 1888 original. FARRUGIA - 1969 The Letter Box, worn d/j. MACKAY - 1988 Postmarks of England & Wales, p/b. PLUS 6 other miscellaneous books/booklets. (9 items). £24
4268 VINER - 1965 The Postal History of Chichester , 1635 - 1900, p/b. PATTON - 1960 Farthing Delivery : A Fight for Cheaper Postage, p/b. GILBERT - 1974 1st Class Markings on Government Official Stationery, p/b. HESS - 1994 The "Traudl" Collection of London Postal History. PLUS 7 other miscellaneous items. (11 items). £18
4269 WARN - 1980 Bristol 5th Clause & Penny Posts 1793 - 1840, d/j. SEYMOUR & GARDINER-HILL - 1967 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, third edition. POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETY - 1948 Souvenir Catalogue of the David Miller Brown Collection of the Uniform Penny Postage Provisionals of Great Britain 1840 - 1853. 32 pp. illustrated booklet, a useful listing. LUCKING - 1971 The Great Western at Weymouth : A Railway and Shipping History. (4 items). £18
4270 WILSON, SIR JOHN Bt. - 1952 The Royal Philatelic Collection. The definitive work published by Viscount Kemsley. Leather bound, gold tooled, in original slipcase. Good condition. £150
4271 WILSON HYDE - 1889 The Royal Mail : Its Curiosities and Romance. BOWIE - 1897 The Romance of the Post Office. TOMBS - 1905 The King's Post, second edition. ROBINSON - 1953 Britain's Post Office. (4 pubs., some foxing, fading spines etc.). £24
GREAT BRITAIN - QUEEN VICTORIA
4272 BROWN - 1972 Queen Victoria : The Plating of the Penny 1840 - 1864. Vols. 1 and 2 covering Die Plates 1 to 91. Spiral bound p/bs. £15
4273 DANZIG & GOLDSMITH - 1991 The Cancellations of the 1841 Penny Red, d/j., as new. £30
4274 FISHER & BROWN -1970 QV - The Plating of the Penny, 1840-64 - Volumes 1, 2, 3 to 4 complete as new in original slip cases. Plus ACKERMAN - The plating of the ‡d; DOUPE - Cracked Units and LEE - The Penny Lilac. Superb set. (7 pubs.). £75
4275 GODDEN - 1971 Stevengraphs : and other Victorian silk pictures, d/j. The majority of illustrations are b&w. £60
4276 GOLDSMITH & DANZIG - 1991 The Cancellations of the 1841 Penny Red, d/j., as new. £36
4277 LEWINS - 1865 Her Majesty's Mails A History of the Post Office, cover separating and needs repair, otherwise good plus PHILLIPS - 1913 The Stamps of GB 1911-12 and WADHAM - 1920 Penny Blacks Plated. (3 pubs.). £24
4278 LITCHFIELD - Guide Lines to the Penny Black. STAFF - 1964 The Penny Post 1680 - 1918. Ex-library copy but clean with d/j. DE RIGHI - 1980 The Story of the Penny Black and its Contempories, p/b. MUIR - 1990 Postal Reform & The Penny Black, p/b. WARN - 1980 Bristol 5th Clause & Penny Posts 1793 - 1840, d/j. MAYO - 1979 Lancashire & Cheshire Local Receiving Houses : Undated Name Stamps 1837 - 1859, spiral bound p/b. COHEN - 1987 Collecting British Squared Circle Postmarks, p/b. MOSS - 1989 The Middlewich Letters : Carriers Mail on the Trent & Mersey Canal in 1846, spiral bound p/b. (8 pubs.). £30
4279 LITCHFIELD - 1949 Guidelines to the Penny Black; EASTON - 1949 postage Stamps in the Making; NISSEN - 1948 The 1d Black: Its Plate Characteristics; ROWELL - 1919 Notes on Controls of Edwardian & Georgian Periods plus 11 other pamphlets/booklets etc. (15 pubs.). £18
4280 MELVILLE - 1905 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, loose cover. 1910 Great Britain : Embossed Adhesive Stamps. 1911 Great Britain : King Edward VII Stamps, spine sellotaped. (Undated) Great Britain : Line Engraved Stamps, third edition, loose binding. (4 items). £24
4281 MELVILLE - 1910 Great Britain : Line-Engraved Stamps, third edition, hardbound. PLUS 1905 Great Britain : Embossed Adhesive Stamps, p/b. £15
4282 NISSEN - 1921 The Penny Black : Its Plate Characteristics. 16 pp. booklet. WADHAM - 1920 Penny Blacks Plated. 24pp. booklet, covers separated. OSBORNE - 1932 The Ray - Flaws of Plates 1 and 2 of the Penny Black Postage Stamp of Great Britain, 24 pp. booklet. BUCKLEY & WARD - 1970? The Post in Sheffield, 16 pp. booklet. (4 items). £18
4283 OLIVER & VALLANCEY - 1923 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, quarter bound in leather. Scarce. SEYMOUR & GARDINER-HILL - 1967 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain Part One : Imperforate Line-Engraved Issues, third edition, d/j. £30
4284 SEYMOUR - 1950 The Stamps of Great Britain : Part One - The Line-Engraved Issues 1840 - 1853, second edition, worn d/j. GLADSTONE - 1924 Great Britain's First Postage Stamp. LOWE - 1941 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain 1661 - 1941. JOHNSON - 1944 British Postage Stamps, d/j. ALCOCK & MEREDITH - 1949 British Postage Stamp Varieties Illustrated. (5 pubs.). £18
4285 SEYMOUR et al - The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (2nd Ed.), Vol.3 and Vol.4. (3 pubs.). £24
4286 SEYMOUR - 1950 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Part One. Second edition. LITCHFIELD - 1949 Guide Lines to the Penny Black, first edition, foxing. COHEN - 1987 Collecting British Squared Circle Postmarks, p/b. Plus the 1990 Supplement No. 1. COHEN - 1984 London Fancy Geometric Postmarks, 26pp. A4 booklet. (5 items). £12
4287 SEYMOUR & GARDINER-HILL - 1967 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain Part One, third edition. BEAUMONT & EASTON - 1964 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain Part Three : The Embossed Issues and Surface Printed Issues of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, d/j. (2 pubs.). £15
4288 SEYMOUR & GARDINER-HILL - 1967 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain - Part One, third edition. WIGGINS - 1962 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain - part Two, first edition. BEAUMONT & EASTON - 1964 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain - Part Three, revised edition. All with d/js., and in good condition. £22
4289 SEYMOUR - 1967 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain Part One , Third edition. Imperforate Line-Engraved Issues. BEAUMONT & ADAMS - 1954 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain Part Three. Embossed and Surface Printed Issues, d/j. ROBSON LOWE - 1943 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain 1661 - 1942, second edition. (3 pubs.). £18
4290 TONNA - 1980 Penny Red Stars : Die II, Alphabet III (Plates 22 to 68 and R17) 1855 - 1862. Part I (AA to JL) only. D/j., clean copy. LOVEGROVE - 1989 "Herewith My Frank...." Second edition, including supplements 4 - 7., d/j. SANFORD & SALT - 1990 British Postal Rates, 1635 to 1839, p/b. £30
4291 TONNA - 1980 Penny Red Stars Die II Alpha III Pl. 22 to 68 R17) Part I AA to JL; STANTON - 1958 GB 1d Red, Line Engraved Varieties; SEYMOUR - 1934 The Stamps of GB Part 1 & 2; ALCOCK & MEREDITH - 1949 British Postage Stamps Varities Illustrated (minor damage to cover), etc. £30
4292 WELLS - 1930 Postal Reform, original p/b bound in green rexine h/b. Uncommon. £15
4293 WESTOBY - 1891 Postage Stamps of the United Kingdom 1840 - 1890. Scarce book in good condition though a faded spine. £21
4294 WESTOBY - 1891 Postage Stamps of the United Kingdom. Slight foxing and faded spine. £15
4295 WIGGINS et al - 1962 The Postage Stamps of Great Britain Vols. 2 & 3 Revised plus Vol. 4, etc. (5 pubs.). £18
4296 WIGGINS - 1973 The Plating of Alphabet III : Plates 22 to 68 and R17 etc. Complete in 5 vols. £45
GREAT BRITAIN - THE FOUR KINGS
4297 MELVILLE - 1911 Great Britain : King Edward VII Stamps. Rebound in stiff covers, clean. £12
GREAT BRITAIN - QUEEN ELIZABETH II
4298 BRITISH DECIMAL STAMPS STUDY CIRCLE - 1980 The GUIDEC Reference Catalogue of British Decimal Stamps. Housed in a large ring binder. £8
4299 CHAPMAN - 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. A Darracott Album/Book, complete with the omnibus set of stamps (hinged), with notes on each territory. £15
4300 DEEGAM - 1996 The Complete Deegam Machin Handbook. Second edition, loose leaf in ring binder. Also the 1993 First edition, p/b. CONOISSEUR - 1986 Catalogue of Machin Stamps. POST OFFICE - 1978 Post Office Guide, p/b. ORBIS - 1987 The Orbis Philatelic Atlas, pocket size. PLUS 4 other items of a general nature. £9
GREAT BRITAIN - ACTS, CONTRACTS, ETC.
4301 POST OFFICE - 1930 CIRCULARS TO POSTMASTERS. Bound into 6 annual volumes for 1930 to 1935 incl.. A liitle grubby and some wear in places but contains a wealth of information. £200
4302 POST OFFICE - 1903 - 1907 Circulars to Surveyors. Bound into one volume (spine missing), with some added notes in ink. PLUS a further volume for 1909 in larger format and a more recent binding. Fascinating reading, a "behind the scenes" look at the workings of the Post Office at the time. (2 items). £45
4303 PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS, 1 & 2 VICTORIA. - A Collection of the Public General Statutes, passed in the First and Second Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. 1837 - 1838 Treasury. Quarter leather bound, outer covers showing signs of wear but contents in fine condition. £120
4304 PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS 38 & 39 VICTORIA - 1875 TREASURY. The Public General Acts passed in the 38th & 39th Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Quarter bound leather, outer covers with some signs of wear but contents in fine condition. £120
GREAT BRITAIN - AIRMAILS
4305 BALDWIN - 1947 British Air Mails 1784 - 1946. "Aero Field" Handbook No. 8. FIELD - 1932 Priced Catalogue of Air Mail Stamps and Airposts of the World. Damaged spine. JONES - 1992 Etiquettes : Par Avion - By Air Mail, p/b. WILLIAMSON - 1996 The Golden Age of Aviation, d/j. (4 pubs.). £24
4306 'FIRST AIR POST (Folkestone-K–ln, 1919)': Fine coloured print of Terence Cuneo's painting showing military personnel loading mailbags into a biplane (60 x 74cm), signed by the artist; framed & glazed. *** NOT SUITABLE FOR POSTING. £40
4307 FIELD - The Coronation Aerial Post - 1911. A special Silver Jubilee Commemorative Edition with illustrated label. £30
4308 REDGROVE - 1940 The Air Mails of the British Isles. Privately printed, signed copy. Scarce book. £30
GREAT BRITAIN - LOCAL POSTS
4309 CINDERELLA PHILATELIST - 1966 Vol. 6 No. 1 through to Vol. 11 No. 4, complete with free gifts where appropriate. STAMP LOVER - 1964 Vol. 55 Nos. 3/4 through to Vol. 63 No. 6. £30
4310 LISTER - 1966 College Stamps of Oxford and Cambridge, p/b. Sl. damage to d/j. SMITH & METCALFE - 1970 James Chalmers : Inventor of the Postage Stamp, worn d/j. (2 pubs.). £15
4311 LISTER - 1966 College Stamps of Oxford and Cambridge. P/b., good condition with jacket.
4312 PHILATELIC HANDBOOK - 1950 Vol.6 Handbook of the Local Private Posts. Plus a leaflet on the subject by WILLIAMS and a further three leaflets on British Perfins. (5 items). £24
GREAT BRITAIN - MARITIME MAILS
4313 GREENOCK HARBOUR TRUST: Bundle of bills c1886-92 (7) inc. repairs to the 'Greenock', itemised paint bill, damage to the 'Himalaya' etc. plus a group of 6 letters on Company billheads (early 1945) relating to the Ramsgate Naval Control of the Merchant Convoy - fouled anchor, buoy collision etc. (16). **/*** £40
GREAT BRITAIN - NEWSPAPER MAILS
4314 CHANDLER & DAGNALL - 1981 The Newspaper & Almanac Stamps of Great Britain & Ireland, d/j. STONE - 1987 The Inland Posts (1392 - 1672), d/j. BENNETT - 1970 Philatelic Terms Illustrated. Loose section version in magazine binder. (3 items). £24
4315 CHANDLER & DAGNALL - 1981 The Newspaper and Almanac Stamps of Great Britain and Ireland, d/j. £12
4316 MORLEY - 1912 Catalogue of the Newspaper Tax Stamps of Great Britain, p/b. CHANDLER & DAGNALL - 1981 The Newspaper & Almanac Stamps of Great Britain & Ireland, d/j. £18
GREAT BRITAIN - POSTAL HISTORY/POSTMARKS
4317 MISCELLANEOUS - Large bundle of items including MORGAN - 1992 Royal Household Mail, p/b. KING - 1978 Alice Through the Pillar Box and What She Found There, d/j. STITT DIBDEN - 1966 Late Fee and Too Late Stamps, p/b. BRUMELL - 1946 British Post Office Numbers 1844 - 1906, card covers separating. JACKSON - 1979 The Railway and Airway Letter Stamps of the British Isles 1891 - 1971. (19 items). £24
** 4318 MISCELLANY: Commonwealth period tiny EL sent within London (1650) & signed 'ffawks', with edge of text missing /repairs; 1675 EL (outer sheet poor / text fine); 1817-78 trio of letters to clergymen inc. one with fine MIDHURST/51 mileage mark. (5) */*** £60
4319 MISCELLANY inc. HENDY - 1909 the History of the Postamarks of the British Isles, p/b & some foxing; BENNETT - 1970 Philatelic Terms Illustrated; CHAPMAN - 1987 The Orbis philatelic Atlas; JORDAN - The Road to Philately etc. (6 pubs.). £15
4000-4079
4080-4159
4160-4239
4240-4319
4320-4399
4400-4479
4480-4559
4560-4639
4640-4719
4720-4799
4800-4879
4880-4959
4960-5039
5040-5112
Index