Ireland, Philip W. - China
The Large Dragons 1878-1885
Publisher: Robson Lowe, London, 1978.
Hardback, dustwrapper, xii + 130 plates, a few tiny dusty marks to page-edges, minor shelfwear, else in Very Good condition.
Classic work on China's "Large Dragons". Illustrated in black & white and with four pages of colour plates. Long out of print and hard to find.

£65.00

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Yang, Nai-Chiang - Yang's Postage Stamp Catalogue of The People's Republic of China (Liberated Area)
1930-1950
Publisher: Yang's Philatelic Trading Co., Hong Kong, 1998.
Seventh edition, hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 184 pages, inside of dustwrapper very foxed, dustwrapper edges slightly rubbed, lower edges of covers slightly rubbed, pages clean, in Good condition.
The standard catalogue on the subject. Well illustrated in colour, and priced in US dollars.

£24.00

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- Robson Lowe Auctions
Great Britain and British Empire
Publisher: Robson Lowe, London, 1965-1967.
Eighteen Speialised Stamp Auctions bound in one volume, quarter leather binding, gilt lettering to spine, 16 with prices realised (one prices realised is a photocopy), gilt initials of previous owner at foot of spine, slight wear to spine, in Good condition.
Bound volume of GB and British Empire sales, including Indian & Indian Native States Specialised Stamp Sale, "Dawson" India, "Beaumont Victoriana", "Lockwood" Great Britain, "Gill" Canada, "Currie" New Zealand, St Vincent Specialised Stamp Sale, etc. A fine selection of some important sales. [click "Next" for more images]

£95.00

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Oxley, G.F. - Cancellations on the Postage Stamps of Ceylon
1857-1892
Publisher: The Ceylon Study Circle of Great Britain, 2001.
Large format (A4) paperback, illustrated, 46 pages, mild shelfwear and a little foxing to the covers, internally clean, in Good condition.
Excellent handbook covering the introduction and use of the letter and numeral cancellations for the period from 1857 until 1892. The post offices that were allocated these cancellations are listed with opening dates including those that were re-allocated.

£13.50

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Jain, Manik - Enyclopaedia of Indian Postal Stationery
Publisher: Philatelia, Calcutta, 1973.
Hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 167 pages, spine-lean, slight damage to top corner of front cover, few ink notes in margins of few pages, in Good condition.
Classic standard work.

£30.00

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Mazumdar, Mohini Lal - The Imperial Post Offices of British India (1837-1914)
Volume 1
Publisher: Monika Jain, Phila Publications, Calcutta, 1990.
Large hardback, dustwrapper, 450 pages, in Very Good condition.
History of the Post Office in India in the 19th century.

£30.00

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Jones, T.E. - The Aerogrammes of the Arabian Gulf
Postal Agencies Issues 1942-1966
Publisher: privately published by the author, 1995.
Second edition, paperback, illustrated, 88 pages, tiny corner-crease to front cover, a little foxing to top page-edges, label to spine and small inscription by previous owner inside front cover, in Good condition.
Scarce.

£12.50

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Walker, Derek - The Travelling Post Offices of Ceylon
Publisher: The Ceylon Study Circle of Great Britain, 1990.
Large format (A4) paperback, illustrated, 40 pages, a few minor marks to the covers else in Very Good condition.
Useful study.

£12.50

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[Scott Archer, Mike] - The Mike Scott Archer Collection of Overland Mail, 1653-1918
Publisher: Cavendish Philatelic Auctions, Derby, 2004.
Auction catalogue, paperback, 78 pages, illustrated, in Very Good condition.
Superb reference catalogue. The 340 lots include not only Waghorn covers, but also a wealth of other rare covers illustrating lesser-known aspects of the Overland routes from East to West, and West to East. Very well illustrated, including 23 pages of colour plates.

£9.00

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[Manning, Michael] - The Michael Manning Collection of Indian Postal History
Publisher: Cavendish, Derby, 2015.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 70 pages, with the prices realised, very slight hint of a corner-crease else in Very Good condition.
Indian pre-stamp mails, plus Quetta Earthquake emergency mails of 1934-35. Well illustrated in colour.

£9.00

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Virk, D.S. - Indian Postal History 1873-1923
Gleanings from Post Office Records
Publisher: The Army Postal Service Association, New Delhi, 1991.
Large hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 202 pages, dustwrapper a little sunned to spine and with one or two very short tears, few dusty marks to top-edges, else in Very Good condition.
Well illustrated with postmark illustrations. Scarce.

£40.00

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Stroud, Richard - Ceylon - The Camps for Boer Prisoners of War 1900 to 1902
Their Postal History
Publisher: The Anglo-Boer War Philatelic Society, 1989.
Paperback, illustrated, circa 112 pages, mild toning to the clear plastic front cover, title-label fixed to spine by the previous owner, in Good condition.
Scarce handbook on Censor Seals, Censor Marks, Postal Markings, etc.

£20.00

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Ishikawa, Ryohei - The Forerunner Foreign Post Offices in Japan. British-U.S.-French
Ryohei Ishikawa's Collection
Publisher: Japan Philatelic Publications, Tokyo, 1976.
Hardback, 164 pages, illustrated, bilingual text in Japanese and English, with separate paperback booklet in English (11 pages), very mild shelfwear else in Very Good condition.
Limited edition. An annotated photographic record of Ryohei Ishikawa's collection. Lavishly illustrated in colour throughout. Rare.

£85.00

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[Filby, Derek] - The Derek Filby Collection of Burma
Publisher: Cavendish, London, 2017.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 102 pages, with the prices realised, very slight creasing to front cover else in Very Good condition.
Catalogue of the superb collection of Burmese stamps and postal history. Very well illustrated in colour.

£10.00

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Waterfall, Arnold C. - The Postal History of Tibet
Publisher: Robson Lowe, London, 1981.
Second edition, hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 188 pages, dustwrapper rubbed, top page-edges a little dust-marked, internally clean, in Good condition.
The classic work on the interesting postal history and curious native stamps of Tibet. The history of the Younghusband expeditions of 1903 and 1904, the introduction of the British-Indian and Chinese postal agencies and the establishment and expansion of Tibet's own postal services are dealt with fully. The philatelic problems arising from the Tibetan stamps with their varied inks and settings, and the variety of datestamps are also carefully described. For good measure, the history of the Mount Everest expeditions and flights are also included. Long out of print and scarce.

£35.00

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Jatia, D.N. - Diaries of W.T. Van Sommeren and A.B. Thompson (C.E.F. 1900-1901)
Publisher: Philatelic Congress of India, 2000.
Hardback, dustwrapper, 517 pages + plates, binding a little shaken, minor signs of use, in Very Good condition.
The diaries of two officers (both Superintendents of Post Offices, C.E.F.) with the China Expeditionary Force. Contains a wealth of information on the postal history of the campaign.

£24.00

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Virk, D.S. - Postal History of Indian Military Campaigns
Sikkim - Tibet 1903-1908
Publisher: Philatelic Congress of India & Army Postal Service Association, 1989.
Hardback, dustwrapper, 144 pages + plates, dustwrapper slightly rubbed and a little sunned, slight spine-lean, in Good condition.
An excellent handbook covering the postal history of the Sikkim-Tibet campaign. Well illustrated, including several pages of colour plates. "The Postal History of the Sikkim-Tibet Campaign is most interesting, covering as it does, a period of 5 years beginning in 1903 with political manoeuvres, followed in 1904 by the long military march to Lhasa and ending in 1908 with the evacuation of the occupied Chumbi Valley. Moreover it offers an unusual example of the mingling of civil and army post offices. "Besides providing detailed postal history of the Campaign, the book offers much useful information in its Appendices for researching postal covers - Roll of Officers, Table of Post Offices, Postal Rates, List of Stamps and Seals and many illustrations. Part 2 of the book contains a Table of Recorded Postmarks and their drawings specially prepared by Dr. Wolfgang Hellrigl. The contemporary Field Post Office Diary of the Campaign containing a rare day-to-day chronicle of postal work and problems on Field Service is reproduced in Part 3 in its entirety."

£40.00

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Dastur, Vispi S. - India Used Abroad
Publisher: Mysore Philatelics, India, 1982.
Hardback, original black cloth, dustwrapper, illustrated, 253 pages + plates, some short tears to the dustwrapper with some loss, signed dedication from the author to Murray Graham, in Good condition.
Useful handbook. Scarce.

£25.00

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Voyce, Revd. A.H. - Sunrise in the East
Publisher: Ponwinkle Publications, New Zealand, nd [circa 1970s].
Paperback, illustrated, 68 pages, some foxing to the covers, spine slightly sunned, internally clean, in Good condition.
Japanese picture postcards of the Russo-Japanese War. With some postal history content. Profusely illustrated in black & white.

£12.00

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Alexander, Donald R. - Postal Stationery of Taiwan, Republic of China
Publisher: The China Stamp Society, Iowa, 1993.
Hardback, illustrated, xii + 372 pages, with price guide in pocket at end, a few mild marks else in Very Good condition.
Important handbook/catalogue. Well illustrated.

£45.00

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