- Australian Mails
Publisher: -, 1858.
Paperback, disbound pages, 17 pages, slight toning to margins of first page, light creasing, and one or two tiny nicks to the edges, but pages clean and crisp. In Good condition.
Mail Contract with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company for the conveyance of Her Majesty's Mails between Southampton and Sydney via Suez. With Timetable of Mails between England and Australia in 1858 and 1859. An important document.

£25.00

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Robinson, Howard - Carrying British Mails Overseas
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, London, 1964.
Advance proof copy, paperback, dustwrapper, 322 pages + plates, no index, short tears and light soiling to the dustwrapper, else in Very Good condition.
Scarce paperback proof copy of this excellent history of Britain's overeas postal service.

£15.00

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Glassco, J. Grant - British Post Offices Abroad
The Glassco Collection
Publisher: Robson Lowe, London, 1969.
Auction catalogue, paperback, 259 pages, with the list of prices reailsed, very slight mark to front cover, "Glassco" written in pen on spine, else in VG condition.
The greatest collection of GB Post Offices Abroad ever formed. Profusely illustrated.

£24.00

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Hendy, John G. - Ship Letters
Publisher: The Postal History Society, 1997.
Large hardback, illustrated, vii + 129 pages, in VG condition.
A reprint of Hendy's long-forgotten manuscript on Ship Letters, with excellent appendices by modern authors on British Quarantine and the Disinfection of Mail, Soldiers' and Sailors' Letters sent as Ship Letters, etc. Numerous photo-illustrations of covers.

£20.00

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Oxley, G.F. - British Postal Rates to Europe, 1836-1876
Publisher: The Postal History Society, 1992.
Large paperback, illustrated, ix + 130 pages, in VG condition.
Detailed and well-researched work.

£24.00

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Cockrill, Philip - Liberia
The Elder Dempster Line & British Paquebot Cancellations
Publisher: Privately published, nd (circa 1983).
Paperback, 32 pages, some light spotting to the covers else in VG condition.
Cockrill Series Booklet No.10. Illustrated with postmark illustrations.

£7.50

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Robinson, Howard - Carrying British Mails Overseas
Publisher: New York University Press, 1964.
First edition, hardback, dustwrapper, 327 pages + plates, ex-library copy with library-pocket to front endpaper and a few library marks, sellotape marks to endpapers, dustwrapper torn in places, and front inner-flap of d/w removed and pasted to front-endpaper, a Good, sound copy, contents in Very Good condition.
An important account of the growth of the overseas postal service from the beginning of the cross-Channel service in the reign of James I.

£24.00

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Robertson, Alan W. - The "Ship Letter" Ports of the Thames Estuary
Publisher: privately published, nd (circa 1957).
First edition, 24 looseleaf pages in card folder, in Fine condition.
Surveys of the maritime postal history of: Chatham, Colchester, Gravesend, Grays, Harwich, Ipswich, Maldon, Margate, Queenborough, Rochester, Rochford, Sheerness, and Sittingbourne. With 25 half-tone plate illustrations and 51 maritime handstamps in actual size. A rare work by the great expert in British maritme postal history.

£9.00

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