2023 Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth & British Empire Stamps 1840-1970, in like-new condition, a very useful catalogue, very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

The Royal Philatelic Collection, by Sir John Wilson, Dropmore Press, 1952. A history of the Royal Philatelic Collection and catalogue of the red albums, mainly collected by King George V, John Tillard and Edward Bacon. This is the deluxe hardbound edition, bound in full red morocco leather with raised bands, gilt stamping in compartments, gilt coat of arms on the upper cover, with 12 leaves of plates in colour and over sixty plates in black and white. Includes slipcase, and measures 10½ x 14½ x 3½ inches, with a total weight of about 15 lbs. As new condition, with no scuffs or any marks of wear, except for the slip case which shows wear. Very fine and rare. (Image)

Estimate $ 250

Group of 16 Reference Books Relating to Canada and Worldwide Airmail, including Air Route to the Klondike- An Aviation History (Weicht, 2007); Yukon Airways- An Aviation History (Weicht, 2007); O.A.T. and A.V. 2 Markings (Heifetz, 2006), The Air Mails of the British Isles (Redgrove, 1940); Introducing Combi-Mail Aeropostal History (van Beveren, 1997); 6 Canadian Aviation journals dating from December 1932 to October 1934, along with many other publications. Online photos show an overview. Some mixed condition to like new, overall fine to very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Assortment of 10 Airmail Reference Books Relating to European Countries,including Eurasia Aviation Corporation. A German-Chinese Airline in China and its Airmail 1931-1943 (Moeller, Sall, 2007); The History of Airmail in Scandinavia (Luning, 1978); Zeppelin Mail The Ludwig Kofler Grand Prix Collection (Corinphila Auctions Ltd, May 19-20, 2001); Histoire Aérophilatélique Latecoere Aeropostale Air France (Sinais, 1987); Aerofilia Italiana Catalogo Storico Descrittivo 1898-1941 (Zanetti, 1998), and more. Gently used to like new condition. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Group of 10 Airmail Reference Books Relating to Latin and South America, with Airlines of Latin America since 1919 (Davies, 1983); LA Aeroposta Argentina Y El Correo Aereo (Bousquet, 1991); The Graf Zeppelin's Flights to South America (Curley, 1970); The Air Post of Colombia SCADTA (Gebauer, 1963); Correio Aéreo A History of the Development of Air Mail Service in Brazil (Kriebel, 1996); Airmail Operations During World War II (Boyle Jr, 1998), and more. Gently used to like new condition. Online photos show an overview. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Group of Useful Books on Airmail and Zeppelin Posts, with 8 items, including Jusqu'a Hand Stamps and Other Route Indications (ter Welle, 1st and 2nd editions), Sanabria's Air Post Catalogue (1948), Sieger Zeppelin Post Katalog (1981), Aerophilatelic Price Realizations in CMA Auctions 1973/75 (1st edition, 1975) and three others. All publications are pictured online (Image)

Estimate $ 50

Group of Useful Books on the Philately of Various British Commonwealth Countries, with 35 items, including Great Britain: 10 books on plating the Penny Black or Red, Great Britain's First Postage Stamp (Gladstone, 1824), couple of books on Field Post Offices, Dale / Lichtenstein GB and Br. Guiana sale catalogue, Collect British Postmarks (Whitney, 7th edition), Stanley Gibbons British Commonwealth catalogue (1999, two volumes) as well as a nice 1904 edition, Stamps and Postal History of Seychelles (Harris), The History and Postage Stamps of Ascension Island (Ford, 1971 reprint), Postage Stamps and Postal History of the Bahamas (Gisburn, 1950), Seychelles / Robson Lowe (Farmer, 1955), The South African Stamp Colour catalogue (2000), The Air Mails of Malta (Mallta Study Circle, 2000, x2), The 1933-34 H.R. Harmer sale catalogues of the collection of Arthur Hind, hardbound together with PR), Holmes collection of the Bechuanalands (1981), Australia Surface Printed Types (Neil, 1947), Madame Joseph Revisited (Cartwright, 2005), The Tomkins Catalogue of Identified G.B. Perfins (Gault, 1998) and a few more. All items photographed online. (Image)

Estimate $ 150

Group of 5 Different Robson Lowe Encyclopaedia, with volumes 1 to 2, and 4-6 of Robson Lowe's Encyclopedia of British Empire Postage Stamps. Condition is fine or better for this group, which contains a wealth of useful information. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Collection of Sir Winston Churchill Literature, with 16 monographs by him or about him, as well as another half dozen booklets or pamphlets, plus about 50 issues of "Finest Hour / The Journal of Winston Churchill". A nice collection for the enthusiast, would go great with the extensive Churchill stamp collection offered later in this sale under "Topical Collections". Very fine, all items pictured online. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Group of Books on the Philately of Denmark and Area, with 64 items, including mostly specialized monographs or catalogues, assembled over the lifetime of a specialist collector. We note material pertaining to both stamps and postal history, mostly for Denmark but also includes a few books on Danish West Indies and Faroe Islands. Many are in Danish, too many titles to list, but we have photographed every book online. (Image)

Estimate $ 150

Group of Useful Books on the Philately of Various European Countries, with 22 items, including France Y&T Catalogue Spécialisé des Timbres de France, Tome I (1975), Catalogue des Cachets Petits Chiffres des Gros Chiffres (Pothion, 1980), Marques et Cachets D'entree en France en Provenance d'Europe 1800-1881 (Rupp, 1993), Paris par Moulins (Heyd, 1969), The Postal History and Postage Stamps of Serbia (Rasic, 1979), Marcas Postais Pré-Adesivas de Portugal (Magalhaes & Sousa, 1978), Postmarks of Russian Empire (pre-adhesive period), The Kingdom of Poland: Poland No. 1 and Associated Postal History (Bojanowicz, 1979), Postal History of Imperial Russia in Pre-Independent Latvia (Jakimobs & Marcilger, 1993), Catalogue of the Lithuanian Revenue Stamps (Lapas, 1971), Les cachets à barres de Belgique (Koopman,), Handbook of the Hungarian Revenues and more. All publications are pictured online (Image)

Estimate $ 150

Group of Useful Books on Finnish Philately, with 52 items, including books on every aspect of this country, whether it be stamps, specific issues, postal history, forgeries, Finland / Russia, and much more. A good proportion of the group is in Finnish, but could still be useful. A rare opportunity to acquire this collector's lifetime Finnish library. All items pictured online. (Image)

Estimate $ 150

Group of 11 Books on Philatelic Forgeries, with Hong Kong Forgeries (Tsang, 1994), Forensic Philately (Herst, 1986), How to Detect Damaged, Altered and Repaired Stamps (Schmid, 1979), BNA Fakes and FOrgeries (Smythies), Reprints of 19th Century Postal Adhesive Stamps and their Characteristics (Bacon, 1954), The Early Philatelic Forgeries of All Countries (Ragatz, 1953), Focus on Forgeries (Tyler, 1993), Phlatelic Forgers (Tyler, 1991), Les faux timbres anciens du Japon et leur expertise 1871-1875 (Gély, 1958), The Spud Papers An Illustrated Descriptive Catalog of Early Philatelic Forgeries (Ragatz), Forgery and Reprint Guide Upper Silesia (Barefoot, 1984) and Reference Manual of BNA Fakes, Forgeries and Counterfeits (Pugh, 3 volumes). (Image)

Estimate $ 50

Group of Books on the Philately of Germany and Its States, with 42 items, including mostly monographs and specialized catalogues, but also a few auction catalogues and periodicals. We note a group of 10 specialized Baden catalogues by Peter Sem, a 4-volume set of specialized postmark books, and many others, mostly in German. All items are photographed online. (Image)

Estimate $ 150

Group of Useful Books on Greek Philately, with 11 items, including Vlastos Catalogue 1998, Volume One and Two, The First Athens Issue of the Large Hermes Heads of Greece (Photiadis) 2 copies, The Meyer Imprint on the Large Hermes Head (Photiadis), Simplified Guide Charts as aid to Identification of Large Hermes Heads by Scott Numbers,The Small Hermes Heads of Greece 1886-1900 (Papaioannou, 1975), The Spink-Truman Classification of All Printings of the Large Hermes Heads and three other publications (one in German and two others in Greek). All publications are pictured online. (Image)

Estimate $ 50

Group of Useful Books on Middle East Philately, with 7 items, including Stamps of the Levant Post Office (Armstrong, 2nd ed.,1972), The Hejaz: A History in Stamps (Wilson, 1982), The Early Postmarks of Iran 1875-1925 (Farahbakhsh, 1991), Notes on the Cancellations of Turkish Arabia (Tomkins), Philatelic History of Jordan, 1922-1983 (Ledger, 1953), Catalogue Zeheri des Timbres Postage D'Egypte de la Republique Arabe Unie et du Soudan (Mazloum, 1960) and Notes on the Adhesive Postage and Postage Due Stamps of Turkey of the Duloz Type (Yardley). A group that would be difficult to locate. (Image)

Estimate $ 50

Group of Useful Books on Ocean and Paquebot Mail of the World, with 10 items, including The Paquebot Marks of Africa, the Mediterranean Countries and their Islands, The Paquebot Marks of Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden and The Paquebot Marks of Asia and of Japan's Sea Ports (all three by Drechsel), Ocean Mails (Cockrill), Paquebot and Ship Letter Cancellations of the World 1894-1954 (Studd, 1953), 1886-1986 A Century of German Ship Posts (Drechsel, 1987), Paquebot Cancellations of the World and more... (Dovey & Morris, 4th edition), Paquebot Cancellations of the World (Hosking, 1977 and 2000) and Atlantic Mails (Arnell, 1980). (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Group of Books on the Philately of Scandinavia and Nordic Countries, with 36 items, including Greenland (10 items, including postmark and stamp catalogues), FACIT catalogues (2013 Special, 2016 Special Classic and 2017 Special Classic to 1951), Iceland (6 items including stamp and postal history books), Sweden (3 books incl. catalogues of perfins, stamps), Norway (3 specialized books), The Posthorn (periodical, a run from 1956 to 1977), and other items. All are photographed online. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

St Helena - Postal History and Stamps, by Edward Hibbert, published by Robson Lowe Ltd. in 1979, 200 pages including lots of illustrations of stamps, postmarks, etc, as well as a few colour plates. Very fine and a must have for any British Commonwealth philatelic library. (Image)

Estimate $ 50

Group of Useful Books on Swiss Philately, with 8 items, including Handbook of the Pre-Stamp Postmarks of Austria (Mueller, 1960), The Postage Stamps of Switzerland 1843-1862 (Mirabaud & Reuterskiold, 1975), two copies of Handbuck der Schweizer Vorphilatelie 1695-1850 (Winkler, 1968), Documents of Congrès Postal International de Berne, 1874 and three others. All publications are pictured online (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Two Useful Books Relating to Transvaal Philately, with Transvaal Philately - The Stamps, Forgeries, Postal History and Miscellania of the Transvaal Teritories, from Inception to Union (Mathews and Bowden, 1986), noting subjects relating to the stamps and postal history of Transvaal, including many illustrations (a few in colour) as well as Transvaal, The Provisional Issues of the First British Occupation. Both are gently used, overall fine to very fine. (Image)

Estimate $ 50

Group of Books on the Philately of Various Worldwide Countries, with 26 items, including Guatemala (a 2 volume set by the International Society of Guatemala Collectors, 1969, profusely illustrated), Argentine Research on Corrientes (Jewell, 1964), a 6-volume Munk World stamp catalogue from 1936 in German, a 2005-06 Michel Osteuropa catalogue, three different Billig's Philatelic handbooks, Postal History of the United States Virgin Islands (Birch, 1966), A Price Guide to U.S. A.P.O. Cancels of the Second World War (Forte, Helbock,1996), Cartes Postales - le premier annuaire mondial (Sinais, 1980), Medicine and Science in Postage Stamps (Bishop and Matheson, 1948), The Stamp Specialist (Lindquist, 1943), Stamps and Covers from the Royal Philatelic Collection (Spink, 2001, w/PR), Giulio Bolafi 1902-2002 (celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth), and a few more. All items photographed online. (Image)

Estimate $ 50

2023 Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue of Stamps and Covers, 1840-1940, in like-new condition, very fine and an extremely useful catalogue. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Higgins & Gage World Postal Stationery Catalogue, containing 19 loose leaf sections (published from 1967 to 1976), from Aden to Zululand, in 10 mostly original binders. A still useful and comprehensive reference catalogue, rarely offered, in fine to better condition. (Image)

Estimate $ 100

Group of Better Mint Never Hinged Worldwide Sets, with Germany 9N61-9N63 ($240), 9N75-9N79 ($90), Belgium B31-B33 (B33 has a spot of toning, $300), B426-B431 ($29), B532-B537 ($65), Q310-Q326 (Q326 is lightly hinged, $244), Belgian Congo 231-256 ($115), Austria B245-B251 ($37), Ethiopia 273-277 ($78), Ireland 149-150 ($40), Portugal 107 ($215), 650-657 ($325), 675-682 (fingerprint on 677, $155), Spain 418-432 (missing 419, $120), 776-779 / C127-C130 ($375). Nice quality group. (Image)

Scott $ 2,428