AUSTRALIA: Carton of mostly out-of-date ACSC volumes plus 'Billig's Handbook: The Empire in Australasia" Volumes I to III, 'Place names of Victoria' by Blake, 'Melbourne Metropolitan Postal District System' (1936), fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$75

AUSTRALIA: Australian Commonwealth Specialist Catalogues comprising 'KGV' (2016), ' KGVI' (2006), 'QEII Pre-Decimals' (2006), 'Decimals' Volumes I-III (2002) and 'Booklets' (2003), all clear-contact covered. Weighs 6kg. Excellent reference. (Qty 7)

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

AUSTRALIA: 'The Chapman Collection of Australian Commonwealth stamps: the Kangaroo Issues' by Ray Chapman (2013), 180pp A4 edition h/b with d/j.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

AUSTRALIA: 'Post Office Registration Labels of Australia and its Territories including Papua and New Guinea' by Kevin Burt (2018), 143pp h/b.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

AUSTRALIA: 'Beating The Odds, The Story of Tattersall's Private Mail Network 1902-1930' by David McNamee (2002), published by The Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria, 141pp, hardbound with d/j.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$40

AUSTRALIA: 'THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH SPECIALISTS' CATALOGUE" by Brusden White, the first looseleaf edition (1988), plus loose leaf editions 'King George V' (1994 & 2014), 'Kangaroos' (2013), 'The Early Federal Period' (2004, still the current edition!), 'Postal Stationery' (2013), softbound editions 'Booklets' (2003), 'Kangaroos' (1999). Weighs 10kg. (Qty 7)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

AUSTRALIA: KGV reference material including 'The Redhead' by Colin Beech, magazine articles, auction catalogues, variety catalogues. Weighs 9kg.. (Qty 18)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

AUSTRALIA: General titles including SG catalogues x2, auction catalogues x5, 'The Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps, Vol IV' (the cover in terrible condition), 'Philately from Australia' journals x11. Weighs 17kg. (Qty 43+)

Grade A-B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

AUSTRALIA: Auction catalogue for the 'Kilfoyle Gold Medal Collection of Australian Commonwealth' (Harmers of London, 16-17.10.1961). The first major CofA collection at public auction, incorporating the TE Field collection which Harmers were to have sold in 1948 but the entire sale was acquired by Ken Baker for Jack Kilfoyle and the auction cancelled!

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$75

AUSTRALIA: 'The Julian Sterling Philatelic Auction' Parts I, II and III (Mossgreen, 2014), also 'The Morgan Collection of Australia Commonwealth Stamps' in two parts (Spink, 13-14/11/2012). (Qty 5)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$40

AUSTRALIA: Australian Commonwealth Specialists' Catalogue 'Decimals I: 1966-1975', 'Decimals II: 1975-1991' & 'Decimals III: 1992-2001' (all 2002), a few notations still very fine. (Qty 3)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

AUSTRALIA: King George V One Penny reference books comprising 'The Surface Printed KGV 1d Sideface Issue Variety Catalogue' by G Monk 1999 & 2006 editions, 'A Checklist of Varieties of the George V 1d' Third Edition compiled by Tony Finlayson (BSAP), 'Plating the KGV 1d Die 2' by B Wajer & G Monk, 'The Redhead' by Colin Beech, 'Australian KGV 1d Red Shades' by Alan White and 'Australian Postmarks & Slogans 1917-1979' by DS Wallen OBE, most are spiral-bound & all showing some signs of regular use. Weighs 3kg. (Qty 7)

Grade A/B- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

AUSTRALIA: 'Post Office Guide Part 2' (1952) being the complete listing of all currently-operating post and telegraph offices in the Commonwealth (plus all registered telegraphic addresses), 450pp+ softbound, cover faults but internally generally very fine. A must for every collector of Australian postmarks. [NB: the last edition was published in 1969. Editions up to and including the 1950s are rarely available]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

AUSTRALIA: Works about place names in NSW (2), South Australia & Australia, also in England. (Qty 5)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$80

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES - GENERAL: Box with important auction catalogues for Dale-Lichtenstein 'Australasia'; Burrus SA Tas & WA; NSW quartet of Slade-Slade, Boucher, Leon & 'Espana'; Tasmania John White, Lew Viney & Sebastian Earl; Western Australia John Gartner; etc; Billigs Vols 4 & 6, several issues of 'The Courier' (Tasmanian PS) including the Special 50th Edition,

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES - NEW SOUTH WALES: 'History of the Post Office and of the Issue of Postage Stamps in New South Wales' by Andrew Houison (1890), 128pp + plates h/b in what is apparently the original binding, some foxing but most pages are fine to very fine.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES - NEW SOUTH WALES: 'The Guybon Hutson Collection of New South Wales' auction catalogue (19.2.2013) 855 lots extensively illustrated in colour. An important collection.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$20

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES - QUEENSLAND: 'Queensland Postage Stamps 1879 to 1912' by Ken Scudder (2013), 416pp hardbound with dustjacket(minor damage on d/j). Highly regarded study, awarded the Royal of London's prestigious Crawford Medal for the best philatelic book of 2013.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$75

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES - QUEENSLAND: Queensland study material including 'Triumph of Narrow Gauge: A History of Queensland Railways' by John Kerr, 'Queensland Postal History' by Hugh Campbell, Post Office reference documents, datestamps & numeral references in binders. Weighs 12kg. (Qty 10)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES - QUEENSLAND: Queensland study material including 'Queensland Postal History' by Hugh Campbell, 'Queensland Post Offices 1842-1980 and Receiving Offices 1869-1927' by Joan Frew (spiral bound), references for postal history, datestamps & postal markings, numeral cancellations/obliterations, registration labels mostly spiral bound. Weighs 21kg. (Qty 24)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES - QUEENSLAND: "Queensland Post Offices 1842-1980 and Receiving Offices 1869-1927" by Dr Joan Frew (1981), 470pp softbound with large foldout insert map, NOT falling-apart (as has usually happened). [A must-have for anyone who is interested in the history of the Post Office in Queensland, Queensland postmarks, or Genealogy]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES - SOUTH AUSTRALIA: 'The Long Stamps 1902-1912' by Bill Purves (1978) h/b; and 'Squared Circle Postmarks' by Rodney Overton (1980s) s/b. (Qty 2 books)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$40

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES - VICTORIA: 'The Half-Length Portraits and the Twopence Queen Enthroned by Charles Lathrop Pack' (1923), 300pp h/b with rough-cut pages as is always the case, pp234-260 damaged corners at L/R otherwise a fine copy of this important pioneering work. [A slightly superior example sold at our auction of 6.8.2021 for $192]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$80

BURMA/THAILAND: 'WWII Postal History of the POWs & Civilian Internees...Vol 3: Burma, Thailand & Indo-China' by David Tett, 400pp h/b with d/j.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

FIJI: 'Compendious Grammar of the Feejeean Language with Examples of Native Idioms' by the Reverend David Hazlewood (1850), 12pp octavo bound with thread in non-contemporary paper cover (which has a fault at the back). Rare: published at the Wesleyan Mission Press at Vewa and considered one of the most important early works published in the Islands. [This is the first 12pp of 72. A complete copy in non-contemporary case-binding with Hazlewood's Feejeean-English Dictionary is currently available online for US$2500. The seller records eight other copies, all in major institutions including the British Library, the Bodleian Library and at Cambridge University. There is also a copy in the National Library in Canberra]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150