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Books on philately for sale. I mostly stock out of print titles but act as agent for the British West Indies Study Circle and the British Caribbean Study Group.
Post and packing is extra. Please note that for bulky (2kg +) overseas orders I can offer very cheap airmail postage as I have a contract with Royal Mail which makes the cost little more than for inland orders.
;) | MACKAY James A. Scottish Post Offices. Dumfries (1989) 127 large pp. 1st ed., fine in green card covers. | £11.00 |
;) | POST OFFICE Acts of Parliament relating to the Post Office. - From 1 & 2 Victoria to 7 & 8 Victoria, 1838-1844. Britannia Stamp Bureau (1976) 94pp + index. Reprint of the original acts, fine in quarter calf. Includes the important acts of 1839 Uniform Rate and the large 1840 Regulation of duties of Postage. | £25.00 |
;) | MACKAY James A. Telegraphic Codes of the British Isles. - 1870-1924 Published by the author (1981) 90pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £18.00 |
;) ;) | POST OFFICE Acts of Parliament relating to the Post Office. - From 9 Anne to 1 Victoria. London (1977) [x] + 312pp + 127pp + index. Facsimilie reprint of the 1838 ed., fine in quarter calf. Contains all 35 Post Office Acts for 1711 - 1838 with a comprehensive index. | £40.00 |
;) ;) | MACKAY James A. Scottish Postmarks. Published by the author (1978) 2 vols. 140pp + 1943 ilustrations. Clean in card covers. | £20.00 |
;) ;) | COLE Sir Henry Fifty Years of Public Work of Sir Henry Cole, K. C. B., Accounted for in His Deeds, Speeches and Writings, Volume 2 London. George Bell & Sons (1884) vii + 412pp + plates. 1st ed., contents shaken in rather worn original cloth. Lacking Vol 1 but this volume includes 54pp on the Post Office and Uniform Penny Postage plus his design for the first Christmas card. | £40.00 |
;) | MITCHELL D.A. and TRING H.T. The Surcharging of Rhodesia's Mail 1965-1971 Bulawayo (1978) 91pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £25.00 |
;) | 2013 (11 July) British Postal Museum & Archive. Sotheby's 214pp. Fine in card covers. Fine proof material of GV, EDVIII and GVI. | £12.00 |
;) | WILSON Ralph A Full and Impartial Account of all The Robberies Committed by John Hawkins, George Sympson, (Lately Executed for Robbing The Bristol Mails) and their Companions London: Printed for J. Peele at Locke's Head in Patternoster (1722) 29pp. 3rd ed., clean in blue sugar papers. Rare contemporary pamphlet describing the robbing of the Bristol mail coach. | £240.00 |
;) | DENDY MARSHALL C.F. A Study of the Line-Engraved Twopence Postage Stamps of Great Britain. Harris Publications Ltd (1929) ii + 69 large pp + frontispiece. 1st ed., minor foxing in original faded blue cloth. A very scarce work with three tipped in photo illustations showing the different plates. | £80.00 |
;) | TABEART Colin Robertson Revisited: A Study of the Maritime Postal Markings of the British Isles Based on the Work of Alan W.Robertson. Limassol: James Bendon (1997) xiv + 314pp. 1st ed., clean in original cloth. | £75.00 |
;) | SIDEBOTTOM John K. The Overland Mail. - A postal historical study of the mail route to India. Postal History Society (1948) xi + 174pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in tatty D/W. Story of Thomas Waghorn's pioneering overland mail route in the early nineteenth century. | £28.00 |
;) | COLLINS J.G. and WATTS C.W. The postage stamps of New Zealand. Vol IV Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand (1967) xvii, 561, [1] pp. 1st ltd. ed., no. 9 of 1150 copies, fine in original cloth. Handbook covering the later QV issues and stamp issues through to QEII. | £120.00 |
;) ;) | GREAT BRITAIN Transport and Communications: Select Committee and other reports on the Post Office and Postage and Money Order Systems with Minutes of Evidence Appendices and Indices 1843-77. Vol 4 (British Parliamentary Papers) Irish Uni Press (1970) 838 large pp. Minor foxing to page edges otherwise fine in original green cloth. | £100.00 |
;) | NORTH Stephen J. The British India Steam Navigation Company's Mail Packets to East Africa 1890-1905. East Africa Study Circle (2001) xvii + 32 large pp. 2nd ed., clean in card covers. | £8.00 |
;) | HENDY John G. The history of the postmarks of the British Isles - from 1840 to 1876 compiled chiefly from Official Records. Stanley Gibbons, London (1909) 184pp. 1st ed., fine in green cloth. Classic work on postmarks. | £40.00 |
;) | FIREBRACE John British Empire Campaigns and Occupations in the Near East, 1914-1924. Christie's Robson Lowe (1991) xii + 460 large pp. 1st ed., very fine in slightly worn D/W. | £125.00 |
;) | 2011 (21 Sep) Lord Steinberg Great Britain Multiples. Sotheby's 162pp. Fine. | £8.00 |
;) | 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. Bournemouth (1936) 38pp. 1st ed., minor foxing otherwise fine in maroon card covers. Early illustrated guide. | £18.00 |
;) | DAGNALL H. Evolution of British Stamped Postcards and Letter Cards: Their History and Documentation Published by the author (1985) 249pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. | £8.00 |
Links to other Philatelic Sites
American Philatelic Society
(Monthly journal on all aspects of stamp collecting and the largest society in the World)
The Postal History of Austria
http://die.geocity.de/t.berger/APH/APHerfr.htm
(Good listing of online philatelic resources plus useful information)
Bermuda Collectors Society
http://www.bermudacollectorssociety.com
(Regular journal with articles on stamps and postal history)
British Caribbean Philatelic Study Group
(Regular journal with articles on stamps and postal history plus meetings around the world.)
British West Indies Study Circle
(Quarterly bulletin plus occasional meetings in London and elsewhere in the U.K.)
Charles Cwiakala Auction Agent
Website details all of the upcoming month's public philatelic auctions with links to the more than 240 major worldwide Philatelic Auctioneers' E-Mail Addresses and Websites.
King George VI Collectors' Society
New website for this study group.
Stamps of India
Philatelic hub with fine resources for all aspects of Indian philately.