1768-1818, group of five covers to and from Channel Islands/St. Malo incl. 1768 letter from St. Malo to Guernsey endorsed inside "Le Bateau une Prive", 1776 from Guernsey to Nantes with s/l "S MALO", similarly 1793 with s/l "34 / ST MALO", same mark in larger script from Jersey and 1820 entire with "COLONIES PAR / ST. MALO" hs, a fine group. (Image)

1784 First Flight: "An Account of the First Aerial Voyage in England" half title page of the 1784 book signed by the author Italian Vincent Lunardi, published within a month of Lunardi''s flight on 15th Sep 1784 from the Artillery Ground of Moorfields near Ware, this being the first flight in England (being preceded in GB by Tytler in Scotland), a very rare autograph of this pioneer aviator. (Image)

1822 Entire to Perkins & Heath (later Perkins Bacon, the famous engravers), sent from Renfrewshirew Banking Co. requesting £3'000 in banknotes to be sent to them and leaving the rest of their stamped paper with Perkins & Heath until requested, charged 1s 2 1/2d, Greenock despatch, Glasgow transit and London arrival along with "1/2"d boxed tax hs applied in London, vertical filing fold, fine. (Image)

1831 (Dec 14) entire from Hastings (Sussex) to France, with despatch bs and very fine "Hastings / Penny Post" boxed hs and "No.1" hs on obverse, rated "1/9", London tombstone transit, "16" decimes charge, "ANGLETERRE" s/l hs and arrival bs, fine. (Image)

1840 Fourpenny post stampless entire, superb unfolded entire sent to Edinburgh, bearing a crisp strike of the red Mauchline "4" handstamp, red boxed Mauchline NO.7.1840 ds and an Edinburgh arrival cds for the following day; very rare with only two examples recorded of a red prepaid Mauchline "4" handstamp with this being by far the more attractive of the two. (Image)