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Christies. UNITED STATES AND CONFEDERATE STATES STAMPS AND COVERS; THE TARA COLLECTION OF CONFEDERATE STATES STAMPS AND COVERS (2 separate auction catalogues)
NY 1986 first edition. Both catalogues are octavo wraps, shiny photo illustrated covers. Many illustrations. 115p. 859 lots. and 104p. lots 1001-1280. Both issues Near Fine, discards from museum library. Pair: (a103406)
$27.00Christies. 'ANGEL' COLLECTION OF UNITED STATES STAMPS; THE EDWARDS COLLECTION OF WESTERN EXPRESS COVERS (2 separate auction catalogues)
NY 1991 first edition. Both catalogues are 4to wraps, shiny photo illustrated covers. Many illustrations. 76p. 566 lots. and 147p. lots 1001-1429. Both issues Fine. Pair: (a103407)
$33.00Christie's. THE H. GORDON KAYE COLLECTION OF NEW ZEALAND CHALON HEADS
London 1991 first edition. Christie's auction catalogue. 4to wraps. Fully illlustrated. 81p. 732 lots. Fine. no marks. (a104587)
$35.00collection. COLLECTION OF 117 ORIGINAL ACTUAL WAX POSTAL LETTER SEALS ( early 1800s )
Actual wax seals mounted in stringbound wraps album of 5 leaves. A few have ink notations telling city of origin. One seal dated 1831, rest appear of similar date. Most red wax, a few black and green. Most seals cracked but all pieces present, some are whole and uncracked. Many seals from New York but some from Mobile, Holland, Calcutta, Trinidad, etc. Unique item as far as we know. Belongs in a maritime museum or American shipping history collection. (a1924)
$350.00Kyle, R. A. MD and M. A Shampo Ph.D.. MEDICINE AND STAMPS
1970 first edition. Amer Medical Association. octavo., 216pp., illustrations, hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ. (a19677)
$25.00 (postal) . AIR MAIL SCHEDULE TO AND FROM LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA MARCH 1, 1939
1939. 4to., 18pp., photo illustration of new U.S. Post Office and Court House, Los Angeles on front, wraps. VG. (a22242)
$24.00 Dachauer, Wihelm . WILHELM DACHAUER
Wien 1963 Osterreichischer Bundesverlag. Oblong sm.4to., 8pp. of text (in German) plus color plates and many monochrome illustrations of his postage stamp paintings. Fine in Fine later glassine DJ. (a25336)
$33.00 Strohofer, Hans . HANS STROHOFER
Wien 1961 Osterreichischer Bundesverlag. In German. Oblong sm.4to., 14pp. of text plus color plates and monochrome illustrations including many of of his postage stamp designs. Fine in Fine glassine DJ. (a25337)
$29.00 (stamp collecting) . THE PRECANCEL FORUM
Indianapolis 1940-19455. 66 issues of this Journal, Volume 1 Number 1, January 1940 through Volume 6 Number 8, August 1945. Lacking only Volume 2 Numbers 18, 19, July, August 1941. Issues are octavos, about 20pp. each, wraps.The individual issues are VG. Set of 66 issues: (a26874)
$70.00 (stamp collecting) . OFFICIAL PROGRAM 34TH ANNUAL CONVENTION 25TH EXHIBITION OF THE PRECANCEL STAMP SOCIETY
Worcerster 1955. Sponsored by the New England Precancel Club. Held at the Hotel Bancroft, Worcester Mass. on August 11 through August 14 1955. Octavo, 22pp., wraps. Good, some foxing. (a26890)
$25.00 Chien, E. K. . PRIZE SELECTIONS FROM THE ROCPEX TAIPEI '81
Tapiei 1981. Sm.4to., pp.1-448 all color plates of Chinese stamps, captions in English and Chinese, pp. 449-709 of text are in English and Chinese, hardcover. Includes foldout map and separate booklet in Chinese (List of Post Stations...) A gorgeous book. Fine in Fine DJ. (a33324)
$100.00 Domingue, Robert A. (compiler) . FREEMASONRY IN PHILATELY
1966 Copyright by author. 4to., 138 leaves, mimoe on rectos only, wraps. Some Addenda pages laid in. Author from St. Matthew's Lodge, Andover, Massachusetts. Rare, never published as far as we can tell. (a42547)
$170.00 (philately) . TRINACRIA '87 MANIFESTAZIONE FILATELICHE
Palermo 1987. Nel 40th Anniversario dell'Unione Filatelica Siciliana. In Italian. 8vo., 102pp.. illustrations, stiff wraps. Fine. (a44418)
$40.00 Zanetti, Agostino . I FRANCOBOLLI DI VITTORIO EMANUELE II RE D'ITALIA
Milano 1981 Sirotti. Philately. In Italian. 8vo., 139pp., color illustrations, errata slip laid in, wraps. VG (a44509)
$45.00 Marchese, Giuseppe et al . 1945 DALLA GUERRA ALLA PACE CRONACA FILATELICA
Trapani 1995 Studio Filatelico Nico. In Italian. 8vo., 387pp., illustrations, wraps. VG. (a44652)
$34.00 (postal history) . 400 LAT POCZTY POLSKIEJ
Warsaw 1958 Wydawnictwa Komunikacyjne. Postal history of Poland. In Polish. 4to., 398pp., frontis includes 2 postal cancellations and 12 original stamps (6 mounted and 6 loose-all in mint condition), 6 mounted colorplates of engraved stamps and many monochrome photo illustrations of Poland. Near Fine, no DJ. (a45288)
$80.00 (philately) . THE AMERICAN PHILATELIST 29 ISSUES
1937-1946. Twenty nine issues of this journal plus the Cumulative Index for Volume 1 to 51 inclusive (1887-1938), and two other annual indices. Issues are: 1937, November Section II; 1938 April Section II, September, December Section I; 1939, May Section II, February, March, June, July, November Section I; 1940, May Section II, March, April, June, August, September Section I; 1941, April, September, November Section I; 1942, February Section II, May Section I; 1943, March Section II, February, March, September, November, December Section I; 1944, June Section I; 1946, June Section I. 8vo., wraps. Issues are Good, some soiling, foxing, a few wraps arfe detached. Twenty nine issues: (a46614)
$160.00 Richter, John Henry . JUDAICA ON POSTAGE STAMPS: AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF STAMPS ISSUED THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 1972
Ann Arbor 1974. Sm.4to., 181pp., illustrations, printed blue cloth. VG plus, no wear but very faint spotting on cover. no ownership marks. no dj. Text Fine. (a51683)
$22.00 Shoemaker, Floyd C. . THE PONY EXPRESS COMMEMORATION, STABLES AND MUSEUM
1950. Article at pp.343-363 with photo illustrations in Missouri Historical Review. Whole issue has several other articles. octavo., wraps. VG. (a53646)
$29.00 (new hamsphire) . MAIL STORY OF THE FLOOD
Concord 1928 1st Concord Press. About damage to the postal service and mail during the New England Flood of 1927. Sm.4to., 80pp., photo illustrations, original hardcover. Good, two small chips in backstrip. (a57774)
$25.00 Stange, Arnold M. . A LIST OF BOOKS ON THE POSTAL HISTORY, POSTMARKS AND ADHESIVE POSTAGE AND REVENUE STAMPS OF GREAT BRITAIN
1965 Breat Britain Philatelic Society. 8vo., 32pp., wraps. VG. (a6520)
$20.00 Thompson, H.K. M.D. . UNITED STATES COUNTY AND POSTMASTER POSTMARKS
Jamaica 1949 Billig. Billig's Handbook on Postmarks Vo. 8. 8vo., 179pp., illustrations, hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ (blank as issued.) (a6559)
$26.00 (philately) . EXPERIMENTAL DUPLEX CANCELLATIONS OF SCOTLAND
1963. Scottish Postmark Group Handbook No. 3. Hardcover. Octavo, 28pp., illustrations, cloth. VG, no DJ. (a6560)
$25.00 Holmes, John . POST OFFICE INQUIRY: MR HOLMES'S SPEECH ON MR. GRUNDY'S RESOLUTION DELIVERED IN THE SENATE U. S. FEBRUARY, 1831
Washington 1831 Printed at the Office of the National Journal. Octavo, 27pp., later wraps. VG, light soiling. (a68557)
$48.00 (philately) . MEKEEL'S WEEKLY STAMP NEWS. VOLUME XLVIII 1934
Portland 1934. 52 issues bound in a single volume. Folio, 624pp., illustrations, index, hardcover. Owner bookplate. Fine. (a69103)
$100.00 (philately) . MEKEEL'S WEEKLY STAMP NEWS. VOLUME XIX 1935
Portland 1935. 52 issues bound in a single volume. Folio, 648pp., illustrations, index, hardcover. Owner bookplate. Fine.. (a69104)
$100.00 Muller-Mark, Ewald . BREVIER KLAFFISHER MARKEN
Berlin 1956 6. auflage. Im Selbstverlag. Zugleich permanenter Nachtrag zu dem Standardwerk Altdeutschand unter der Lupe. In German. 12mo. 96pp., illustrated, wraps. VG, light wear. (a71311)
$22.00 Mueller, Edwin . EDWIN MUELLER'S CATALOG OF THE IMPERFORATE CLASSIC POSTAL STAMPS OF EUROPE AND CONTEMPORARY POSTAL ENVELOPES, LETTER SHEETS AND WRAPPERS
Wien 1958 1st Geitner.Text in English. Hardcover. Octavo, 151pp., blue cloth 151p. Good plus, corners and spine ends lightly worn. (a71314)
$140.00 Lowell, Juliet . DUMB BELLES-LETTRES LALLAPALOOZAS FROM THE MORNING MAIL
NY 1933 1st Simon and Schuster. Hardcover. Small octavo, illustrations by Soglow, red cloth with mounted printed paper spine label. Good plus, slight bit of red stain on spine label. Humor. (a72229)
$20.00Arthur Hind. THE POSTAGE STAMP COLLECTION OF THE LATE ARTHUR HIND OF UTICA, NEW YORK - BRITISH EMPIRE - CATALOGUE AND PLATES (2 VOLUMES)
1934. Auction held March, 1934 at Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Walter S. Scott, Auctioneer. 2 volumes. 4to., 145pp., 3506 lots in sale, blank unused bid sheet laid in, 726 items photo illustrated in plate volume (plate sheets unbound as originally issued), original wraps. VG , tiny spot of wear at head of spine on each volume. No owner marks. 2 volumes. (a73000)
$100.00 National Park Service . ELIGIBILITY / FEASIBILITY STUDY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL AUTHORIZATION CALIFORNIA AND PONY EXPRESS TRAILS MISSOURI, IOWA, NEBRASKA, KANSAS, COLORADO, WYOMING, UTAH, IDAHO, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, OREGON
1987 GPO. 4to. 150pp., 12 foldout maps of Trails, tables, original wraps. Very light non-circulating library name and numbers on front and title page, no other merks. VG plus. (a75845)
$47.00Sorkin. Alan L.. THE ECONOMICS OF THE POSTAL SYSTEM
Lexington 1980. Hardcover. Octavo, 200pp., index, original printed boards. Library label at heel of spine, stamp on top fore-edge and on front cover-no other markings. Good, no dj. (a76718)
$27.00United State Post Office. COLLECTION OF 17 ORIGINAL GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS CONCERNING THE U.S. POST OFFICE DATED 1824 - 1875
All pamphlets are octavo some in original wraps, most removed from larger binding. (1) Letter from the Postmaster General Transmitting a List of Unproductive Post Routes, 1824, 38pp.; (2) List of Names of Clerks of the General Post Office, 1826, 4pp. (3) Letter from Postmaster General to Hon. Richard M Johnson in Relation to the Erection of a Suitable Building for a Post Office in New Orleans, 1828, 2p. (4) Certain Memorials Against the Transportation of the Mail on the Sabbath, 1829, 7p. (5) Road from Mobile to New Orleans, 1829, 2pp. (6) About bounty offered to catch a post mail robber named Henry Bainbridge Cox, 1829, 2pp. (7) Postal Routes 1838, 5p. (8) Case of Erastus Granger Postmaster in Buffalo New York Accused of Stealing Postal Funds, 1829, 18pp. (9) Frinking privilege , 1838 14p. (10) Case of Nathaniel Patten, Postmaster Franklin, Howard county, Missouri,1830, 8pp. (11) Orin Fowler Speech on a Motion to Reduce Postage on all Letters to Two Cents, 1851, 8pp. (12) Names of Clerks in P.O. 1863, 8pp. (13) Smuggling Through the Mails, 1875, 11pp. (14) Amos Kendall "Specie Postge" and post roads in Hampshire , Virginia 3p. (15) New Postal Routes, 1838 1p. (16) Passengers in Mail Coaches, 1p. 1838.(17) Petition of Joseph F Caldwell for unpaid postal servies services rendered, 1838, 5p. Interesting information. 17 documents. (a78617)
$275.00 Woodbury, Mr. . SPEECH OF MR. WOODBURY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE RELATIVE TO THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT
Washington no date. Octavo, 8pp., wraps. Latest date in text is 1829 and is owner signed on top margin 1831. Good, a bit toned, lightly frayed on edges. (a82330)
$29.00 Palfrey, Mr. . SPEECH OF MR. PALFREY OF MASSACHUSETTS ON POSTAGE REFORM
Washington 1849. Speech delivered February 21st 1849 in House of Representative. Octavo, 8pp., wraps. Good, lightly soiled, lightly worn. (a82331)
$29.00 (stamps) . THE WESTON COLLECTION OF WORLDWIDE AIRPOST AND SPECIALIZED MEXICO
1980. Sotheby Parke Bernet Stamp Auction Catalogue. Sm.4to., 97pp., color and monochrome illustrations, glossy wraps with colorful stamps illustrated on cover. Price list laid in. VG. (a83669)
$40.00 French Revolution . ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT WITH TWO FANCY STAMPS DATED 21 THERMIDOR IN NANCY AND SIGNED
Single sheet of paper, 9x7 inches, writing on recto only. 13 handwritten lines in French. Two black fancy postal stamps on top left side. Signed but signature not legible. Mentions the Code Hypothequaire (hypothecaire) and "les droits contre notre Debiteurs." Signed in Nancy and dated "21. Thermidor" but year is not easy to read, possibly "L'an Sept". Good, tiny puncture hole in lower blank margin. (a88203)
$90.00Thompson, H K MD. BILLIG'S HANDBOOK ON POSTMARKS - VOLUME 8: UNITED STATES COUNTY AND POSTMASTER POSTMARKS
Jamaica, New York 1949 first edition. Billig. Hardcover octavo. 179p. Fully illustrated. Fine in original publisher's plain paper dj which is in VG condition. (a88930)
$39.00 Payne, H C (postmaster General) . LETTER FROM THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL TRANSMITTING REPORTS RELATING TO THE USE OF CANCELING MACHINES IN THE POST-OFFICES
Washington 1904 first edition. GPO. House of Representatives document no. 573. Later wraps. octavo. 20p. VG. (a89964)
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