Corinphila hardbound catalogues for the 'Besancon' Collection comprising GB Parts I II & IV, Ceylon I & II, BWI I & III, CofGH I & II, West Africa I & II and Pacific Islands, most with the p/r. A fantastic collection of 19th and 20th century proofs, issued stamps and postal history. Weighs 10kg.  (12)

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Estimate AU$100

Carton of recent mainly 'name' sales with GB including Beresford-Wylie First Issue, Simpson 'Stamp Perforation', Klempka Family Part I, Holyoake 'British & International Registered Mail'; BWI David Pitts two sales & Brookes 'St Kitts-Nevis'; Foreign including 'Penelope' 'Europe Number Ones on Cover', Moorhouse 'Haiti Liberty Heads', 'Erivan' 'Zeppelins'; etc, mostly hardbound & most with p/r. Weighs 15kg.  (21)

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Estimate AU$50

Box of mostly minor titles but including 'Northern Territory' by Ed Williams, well illustrated handouts for Arthur Gray's KGV displays to RPSofL and Collectors Club of New York, Germany Concordance for Gibbons/Michel/Scott, etc.

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Estimate AU$50

Half-carton with 'Lincoln Postage Stamp Catalogue' (c.1900) with maps & fascinating content, auction catalogues for Marc Haas' exceptional US Postal History (1980) and the extraordinary 'Glassco' GB Used Abroad (1969, surely the best such collection ever formed), all these in unusually fine condition (most copies of 'Glassco' are usually falling-apart), etc. Weighs 8kg. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Half-carton of mostly Premier/Prestige auction catalogues including Walkley 'Western Australia Postal History' (27.11.2010; h/b), 'Pacific Islands' (5.12.2003 and 25.3.2011), Annual Rarities Auctions (2004, 2008 & 2009), etc. Weighs 12kg. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Group of scarce Society publications including 'Egypt Postage Prepaid Military Datestamps 1941-47', 'Mail Packets to East Africa 1890-1905', 'East Africa WWII', 'British Postal Rates 1675-1839' and '...1836-76', and a few others, also 'Canadian Contingents Anglo-Boer War' (h/b), generally very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Key texts comprising 'Fundamentals of Philately' by the Williams Bros, 'De La Rue British & Foreign Postage Stamps' by Easton, and 'Perkins Bacon Records' by de Worms in two volumes, very fine. Weighs 8kg.  (4) (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Auction catalogues that are also reference works comprising magnificent Afinsa trio Bustamente 'Ecuador', Angelo Lima 'Portugal Classics' and unattributed 'The First Postage Stamp of Spain', also Tom Roberts 'Covers of the World Carried by French Mailboats', and Kevin Nelson 'Australian Postal History 1901-1941', very fine. Weighs 12kg.

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Estimate AU$100

Miscellaneous titles including 'BEA' & Supplement by Minns, 'Postmarks of SWA' by Putzel, h/b German SWA section from Friedemann, 'Postal History of Egypt to 1900' by Fikri, Ted Proud's 'History of the British Army Postal Service' Vols I & III and '...Indian Army Postal Service' Vols I II & III, etc, generally very fine. Weighs 12kg. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Library remainders with some useful titles including 'The Stamp Atlas', 'Commercial Perfins of Australia', 'Postal History International' Vols 1 to 7 matching h/b books, some better auction catalogues, international exhibition catalogues, then lots of "rats & mice" for the true bibliophile, generally very fine. Weighs 44kg. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

'CANCELLED by Perkins Bacon' by Peter Jaffé (1998), h/b 92pp. Very fine copy of this indispensible reference work, that is rarely available.

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Estimate AU$100

'The Royal Philatelic Collection' edited by Sir John Wilson (1952), being a complete catalogue to that time of the most important and valuable stamp collection ever formed, compiled by the Keeper of the Royal Collection himself, the deluxe edition bound in red Morocco leather with the Royal coat-of-arms emblazoned in gold on the face. Without doubt, this is the finest philatelic book of all time, produced on the highest-quality paper, extensively illustrated with 64 black & white plates and 12 exceptional colour plates, a minor defect at the base of the spine otherwise very fine. Weighs 8kg. [The production costs were so high that the publishers, the Dropmore Press, were bankrupted]

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Estimate AU$1,000

'North Atlantic Mail Sailings 1840-75' by Walter Hubbard & Richard Winter (1988), h/b 432pp with d/j.

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Estimate AU$75