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Showing items in Philatelic Books - Post office history
;) | PARSONS Cyril R.H. Collecting Slogan Postmarks. - Incorporating an illustrated reference catalogue of slogan postmarks used at post offices in the United Kingdom up to 1969. Published by the author (1988) 220pp. Fine in card covers. | £9.00 |
;) | DURHAM John Telegraphs in Victorian London The Golden Head Press (1959) 31pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. | £7.00 |
;) | ROBINSON Martin Old Letter Boxes. Shire book (2000) 40pp. Fine in card covers. | £6.00 |
;) | TURNER David Duncan Ocean Penny Postage, Ocean and Imperial Penny Postage 1840-1918 GB PS (2014) xvi + 414 large pp + adverts. 1st ed., very fine in fine D/W. | £65.00 |
;) | MUIR Douglas N. George V and the GPO: Stamps, Conflict & Creativity. British Postal Museum (2010) 275pp. 1st ed., new in card covers. Explains how the stamps of George V came about and how they were produced. It also describes the postal history of the period from the exciting developments in airmail through to the work of the Post Office in wartime. Transport includes the new Post Office Underground Railway. Innovation in art and design are emphasised in the text on the Post Office commissioning posters, and the famous GPO Film Unit. | £20.00 |
;) | FRYER Gavin Blindman's Mail - How the Blind Have Been Served By the post. Published by the author (2010) xii + 165 large pp. 1st ed., very fine in fine D/W. | £45.00 |
;) | POST OFFICE Air Mail Den of Antiquity (n.d.) 8 large pp. Clean in card covers. Facsimile reprint of October 1929 British Post Office information booklet giving details of airmail services across the World. | £8.00 |
;) | HUGHES Howard Terence Cuneo CVO, OBE, RGI. November 1 1907 - January 3 1996. Defence Postal & Courier Services (n.d.) 20pp. Clean in card covers. Short biography with 8 colour plates. | £12.00 |
;) | FOXELL J.T. and SPAFFORD A.O. Monarchs of all they surveyed. - The story of the Post Office surveyors. H.M.S.O. (1952) 55pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £10.00 |
;) | POST OFFICE The Post Office. - An Historical Summary. Published by order of the Postmaster General. H.M.S.O. (1911) 139pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in original red boards. | £20.00 |
;) | CRIBB Stephen The Standard Catalogue of Postal Orders. Vol 1. The British Postal Order 1881-1981 Squirrel Publication (1984) 66pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £9.00 |
;) | 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 |
;) ;) | 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 |
;) ;) | 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 |
;) | 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 |
;) ;) | 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 |
;) | AYRES George History of the Mail Routes to Ireland until 1850. Lulu.com (2018) 140 large pp. Revised ed., new in card covers. Mail communication between London and Ireland was very important for both official and trade purposes from the 15th Century. From the mid 16th Century a number of designated ports were used to ship the mail to Ireland and posts were laid to those ports along defined routes, however, these routes were subject to change. This book identifies the ports, when they were used and presents the history of the changes to those routes from that early time until 1850. Detailed descriptions of the routes are given in text, tables and figures showing how they changed over these years, together with a discussion of those changes and a commentary on the improvements that were made to the roads over the years, particularly in the difficult areas of North Wales, South Wales and South West Scotland. Also included is the history of the Edinburgh to Portpatrick route. Finally the effect of the introduction of the railways on the carriage of mail to Ireland is described. | £12.00 |
;) | ADAMSON T.L. Recovered Stores Post Office Green Papers Number 18 (1935) 19pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Description of the work of the Stores Department in the British post office. | £12.00 |
;) | WICKINS G.C. Staff Training in London. General Post Office, London (1935) 23pp + 8 plates. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Bound with 'London Telephone Schools' by J.D. Pettigrew. | £12.00 |
;) ;) | ROTHCHILD Arthur de Notice sur L'Origine du Prix Uniforme de la Taxe des Lettres et sur la Creation des Timbres-Poste en Angleterre. Librairie Nouvelle, Paris (1872) 83pp. 1st ltd. ed. of 600 copies. Fine in original paper covers. (Rear cover detached). | £145.00 |
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POST OFFICE Postal Services in Cornwall. Picture postcard SWPR7, circa 1980, fine unused. Includes view of mail being loaded on to RMS Scillonian for the Isles of Scilly.
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ANON Execution of MacLean, Commonly Known by the Name of the Gentleman Highwayman. Sold by S. Hazard, Bath 1795 (circa) 22pp. Clean in worn paper covers with stain on front cover and wear to edge. 4¼ x 7" Very scarce.
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