Group of Useful Canadian Philatelic Literature, with The Postage Stamps and Postal History of Canada (Boggs, 1945); The Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps, Volume V, North America (Lowe, 1973); The Postage Stamps and Postal History of Newfoundland (Boggs, 1942); The Admiral Issue of Canada (Marler, 1982); Admirals Away: Canadian Letter Rates 1912-1928. An Exhibit Prepared by Vic Willson (BNAPS Exhibit Series No. 61 Colour Edition, March 2011); along with 10 other titles including Fundamentals of Philately, Revised Edition (Williams, 1990). Condition is fine or better and all are pictured online. (Image)

Estimate $ 150

Group of 12 Classic Canadian Philatelic Titles, including Plating Canada's ½d Queen Victoria, 2022 (Watt and Smith), hardbound and profusely illustrated with luscious, full-colour, enlarged scans of the material. This important reference work, released during CAPEX22, has a retail value of $150; Canada's Pence Era - The Pence Stamps and the Canadian Mail 1851-1859 (Arfken, Leggett, Firby, Steinhart, 1997); Canada's Decimal Era, 1859-1868 (Arfken and Leggett, 1996); The Large Queen Stamps of Canada and Their Use- 1868-1872 (H.E. and H.W. Duckworth, 1986); The Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps- Volume V (Lowe, 1973), and more. Condition is fine to like new and all pictured online. (Image)

Estimate $ 300

The Essays and Proofs of British North America, by Minuse and Pratt, 197 pages, hardbound and profusely illustrated. A very useful addition to any philatelic library for the Canada and Provinces specialist. Very fine, and dedicated by Kenneth Minuse. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

The Essays and Proofs of British North America, by Minuse and Pratt, 197 pages, hardbound and profusely illustrated. A very useful addition to any philatelic library for the Canada and Provinces specialist. Very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Group of 10 Province of Québec Postal History Books, (in French) with 9 being from the Philatèque series by Anatole Walker: Les bureaux de poste du Québec, Cote Nord et Nouveau Québec (x2), le comté de Soulanges, :a Gaspésie et les Iles, Les voisins des Cantons, L'Ile de Montréal et L'Ile Jésus, Les Cantons de l'Est and Le Centre-Nord du Québec. Also includes La Compagnie de Chemin de Fer Québec Central - étude des marques postales utilisées à bord des wagons postaux (1879-1973) by Jean-Pierre Forest (1991, 196 pages). Very fine throughout. (Image)

Estimate $ 50

Group of 10 Books Pertaining to Ontario History and Postal History, with Return to an Address Grand Trunk Mail Service 1863 (an original Post Office Department report on compensating the GTR for postal services rendered); Official Postal Guide of Canada (July 1884, rebound original); Ontario Distribution List for 1915; The Story of Port Credit; The History of the Township of Brant 1854-1979; 1874 Directory for Peel (1998 reprint); Place Names of Ontario; Pioneering in North York - a History of the Borough; Postcard Views of Goderich; History of the County of Ontario 1615-1875; As well as a "complete set" of 38 colour Ontario County maps of 1881 (printed Montréal Burland Litho, a Litho division of the British American Bank Note Co. - these were purchased for $365). A useful lot for the historian or postal historian, with many hard to obtain titles. (Image)

Estimate $ 150

Group of Useful Books on Canadian Philately, with 14 items, including Canada Steel Engraved Constant Plate Varieties (Reiche, 1982), AR Avis de Réception (Handelman, 2002), Ontario Broken Circles (Graham, 1999), Allan Steinhart Postal Historian (Handelman & Scrimgeour, 1997), Canadian Fancy Cancellations of the Nioneteenth Century (Day & Smythies, 2nd edition, 1981), The Admiral Era: A Rate Study 1912-1928 (Steinhart, 1981), The Squared Circle Postmarks of Canada (Moffatt & Hansen, 1981), The Canadian Military Posts, Volume 2 (Bailey & Toop, 1985), Naval Postmarks of Territorial Alaska (Helbock & Dimpsey, 1978), Postmarks of Territorial Alaska, (Helbock, 1979, 2nd edition, 1979) and four others. (Image)

Estimate $ 50

Group of Useful Picture Postcard References and Catalogues, including The McCoy Printing Company Picture Postcard Handbook 1900-1910 (Smith and Angley, 2009), The W.G. McFarlane Picture Postcard Handbook 1902-1910 (Smith, 2006), Warwick & Rutter Postcard Gems 1903-1912 (Smith and Buchanan, 2011), The Warwick Bros. & Rutter Picture Postcard Handbook 1903-1912 (Smith, 2007), The J.W. Bald Picture Postcard Handbook 1905-1955 (Sennett, 2013) and The Stedman Bros. Picture Postcard Handbook 1906-1914 (Smith, 2011). Also includes two different Gutzman Canadian Picture Postcard Catalogues (1988 and 1992), The Picture Postcard Price Guide - A Comprehensive Reference (Mashburn, 1997), The Canadian Picture Postcard Handbook 1904-1914 (Gutzman, 1985) along with a Webb's Postal Stationery Catalogue of Canada and Newfoundland (Covert and Walton, 5th Edition, 1988), the Canadian Posted Letter Guide - The Classic Period, 1851-1902 (Firby and Willson, 1996), and a 7th Edition of the Standard Canada Precancel Catalogue. All in fine or better condition and all pictured in the online photos. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Lifetime Accumulation of Reference Material and Catalogues Relating to Canada Precancels, with 4 different volumes relating to precancel varieties including Canada Constant Precancel Varieties, (Reiche, 1995), a Lighthouse album containing roughly 100 colour pages showing a very advanced precancel collection (includes three Amherst, etc.); 5 volumes of The Precancel Forum (Precancel Stamp Society, Inc, August 2014, Volume 75, Number 2-4, 7-8); 25 Canadian Precancel catalogues ranging from 1923 to 2015, including a run of nine volumes of the Official Catalog of Canada Precancels, 4th to 13th Editions (Walburn, 1947/1983); The Standard Canada Precancel Catalogue (Marasco and Field, 2015), and various articles from a number of different sources relating to precancels. A useful group, from the Andrew Ellwood collection. (Image)

Estimate $ 100