Books on maritime postal history and postal markings. Philatelic books on maritime and naval history for sale. Post and packing is extra.
![]() | ROBERTSON A.W. The ship letter stamps of Liverpool. Regent Stamp Co (1953) 12pp. 1st ed., fine in paper covers. Well illustrated guide to the postal markings. | £10.00 |
![]() | 1974 (14 May) Ship Letters of the British Isles. The W. Stewart Collection. Robson Lowe 36pp + PR. | £8.00 |
![]() | ROBERTSON Alan W. A history of the ship letters of the British Isles. - (An encyclopaedia of maritime postal history). Privately published by the author (1955) 3 vols. + appendices. 1st ltd. ed., no. 157 of 600 copies, signed by the author and inscribed to Jack Andrews. A very fine example in blue library cloth also additional papers and supplements to 1963. | £400.00 |
![]() | SMITH Sam Gibraltar. The Link with the Sea. Gibraltar Study Circle (1997) 200 large pp (approx) Clean in card covers. Reproduction of pages from the author's maritme postal history collection. | £24.00 |
![]() | LUDINGTON Morris H. and OSBORN Geoffrey The Royal Mail Steam packets to Bermuda and the Bahamas 1842-1859. Robson Lowe Ltd (1971) 24pp + 5 loose maps. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £5.00 |
![]() | ROBERTS T.V. French Maritime Mail: 1851 -1940. A display to the Royal Philatelic Society, London on 15th April, 1982 Privately printed. 27pp. Clean. | £20.00 |
![]() | SINAIS Bertrand Catalogue des Obliterations Navales Francaises 1771-1986 Fostier (1987) 115pp. 1st ed., fine in blue cloth. | £20.00 |
![]() ![]() | COCKRILL Philip and GOTTSPENN Arno German Seepost cancellations 1886-1939 - Parts 1 & 2 Cockrill Series booklets 46-47 (1987 (circa)) 2 vols. Fine in card covers. | £25.00 |
![]() | DRECHSEL Edwin The Paquebot Marks of Africa, - the Mediterranean Countries, and their islands. Pall Mall Stamp Co., London (1980) 72pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Illustrated guide to the handstamps with comparative type numbers for Studd and Joesten included. | £6.00 |
![]() ![]() | DAMIAN Philippe Jean Caractéristiques des correspondances du Brésil pour la France au XIXème siècle. Características das correspondências do Brasil para a França no século XIX Rio de Janeiro (2003) 2 vols. 155 + 249pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Text in French and Spanish. Well illustrated so easy to follow. | £50.00 |
![]() | GUDENKAUF Abbe G. Belgium Congo. Mailboat steamers on Congo rivers & lakes. - (1896-1940). Cockrill Series Booklet No. 43 (1985) 64pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £8.00 |
![]() | COCKRILL Philip Listing of Mail Carrying Steamship Lines 1899. Cockrill Series booklet 59. (n.d.) 88pp, 1st ed., fine in card covers. English translation of Karte der Grossen Postdampfschifflinien im Weltpostverkehr. | £10.00 |
![]() | HOSKINGS Roger Paquebot cancellations of the World. Cavendish Auctions (2000) xiv + 352 large pp. 3rd revised ed., clean in card covers. Detailed and well illustrated guide to these postal markings. | £20.00 |
![]() | GUDENKAUF Abbe G. Mailboat services from Europe to the Belgium Congo - (1879 - 1922). Cockrill Series Booklet No. 41 (1982) 84pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £8.00 |
![]() | STONE Robert G. A Caribbean Neptune: - The maritime postal communications of the Greater and Lesser Antilles in the 19th Century. Philatelic Foundation, New York (1993) 357 large pp. 1st ed., clean in original blue cloth. An important work on the subject. | £30.00 |
![]() | TRISTANT Henri Les Premiers Paquebots a Vapeur Transatlantiques 1840-1868. Les Feuilles Marcophiles (1984) 52pp. Clean in card covers. | £16.00 |
![]() | WINTER Richard F. The Richard F. Winter Collection of U.S.-France Mails by Steamship: 1838 to General Postal Union. Society of Postal Historians (1998) 128 large pp. 1st ed., fine in spiral ring binding. Photocopy of the author's collection. | £18.00 |
![]() | MILGRAM James W. Vessel-named markings on United States inland and ocean waterways, 1810-1890 Collectors Club of Chicago (1984) 828pp. 1st ed., very fine in fine in original cloth in slipcase. Also 16pp valuation guide. | £70.00 |
![]() | TRISTANT Henri Les Lignes Regulieres de Paquebots-Poste du Levant et D'Egypte 1837-1851 Privately published (1987) 175pp. Clean in card covers. | £16.00 |
![]() | 1982 (7 Oct) Covers of the World carried by French Mailboats. - The collection formed by T.V. Roberts. Sothebys 211pp + 106 plates + P.R. Slight damage to spine. Exceptional collection of French maritime mail. | £12.00 |