GERMANY – Weidlich, Hans A.: Handbuch der Württemberg-Philatelie. Postscheine der Kreuzerzeit. Vol. 1/II (1979), A4-format, 264 pages; vol. II/1 + II/2: Brühl, Carlrichard / Thoma, Heinz: Kreuzerzeit 1851–1875, 283 + 139 pages; all volumes linen hardcover with gold title imprint, as new. Estimate: 100 Euro

(This item is a heavy, medium-sized box. See the PDF for more details. ->  Information on shipping for the literature auction)

GERMANY – Wülbern, Arthur: Originale und Neudrucke von Helgoland (1906), 64 pages, softcover; PLUS: Wülbern, Arthur: Die Postwertzeichen Helgolands mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Falsifikate sowie der falschen Abstempelungen sowie einem Abriss der Postgeschichte Helgolands, 32 Seiten, Softcover; PLUS: Lemberger, Hellmuth: Helgoland Philatelie (1970), 143 pages + Nachtrag 18996, 4 pages. Good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro

GERMANY – Deutsches Kolonial-Handbuch. Nach amtlichen Quellen bearbeitet, 2nd enlarged edition 1901/03. volume 1: 432 pages, volume 2: 304 pages, supplementary volume 242 pages, some maps in each volume. All volumes with worn wrappers, but texts in very good condition. Rare! Estimate: 300 Euro

@Schwanke auction #342, 29.8.2013, lot 139, 312 Euro

GERMANY – Lot of 7 brochures, Meyer, Dr. Alex: Die Briefmarke im Dienste der Wohltätigkeit (2 different editions 1925, 48 pages + 56 pages; PLUS: Düsterbehn, H.: Geschichte und Katalog der deutschen Eisenbahnmarken 1918, 80 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Gardner, W.: The Post-War Stamps of Germany, 32 pages, softcover; PLUS: Donaupost Umsturzkatalog (1919), 62 pages + annex, softcover; PLUS: Bloch, Max: Revolution und Briefmarken, 7 pages, softcover; PLUS: Müller, Edwin: Grosses Handbuch der Abstempelungen von Altösterreich und Lombardei-Venetien, 1. Hauptnachtrag (1934), 22 pages, softcover. contemporary preservation, without major faults. Estimate: 60 Euro

GIBRALTAR – Hine-Haycock, W.: Posted in Gibraltar. An illustrated Postal History on Gibraltar (1978), 122 pages + Supplement  (1983), 20 pages, hardbound with dust jacket; PLUS: Richardson, Ricky: A history of the Forwarding Agents of Gibraltar (1991), part 1: 1750–1880, 20 pages; part 2: From Gibraltar to Spain 1850–1875 (1990), 16 pages, both softcover, PLUS: Garcia/Proud: The Postal History of Gibraltar 1704–1971 (1998),  592 pages, hardcover with dust jacket; all in good condition. Estimate: 100 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Aitchison, Jon: Isle of Man. Local Issues. An illustrated specialised priced catalogue and handbook (2021), 492 pages, signed, spiral binding + Unusual Aspects of Channel Islands' Philately, display paper (2017), ca. 20 pages, signed; PLUS:  Whitney, Dr. J. T.: Isle of Man. Stamps and Postal History (4th edition 1981), 309 + 3 pages, hardcover with dust jacket; PLUS: Hunt, Bryan / Cockrill, Philip: The Cross-Channel Services. Southampton–Channel Islands–Havre Routes to 1940, 92 pages, softcover; PLUS: Newport, William: Stamps and Postal History of the Channel Islands (1972), 214 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Mostly in good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Alcock, R. C.: The Alphabets of the British Line Engraved Stamps (2nd edition 1937), 80 pages + 45 plates + 19 plates, hardcover, rare book;  PLUS: Brumell, G.: British Post Office Numbers 1844–1906 (1946), 201 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Marshall, C. F. Dendy: A Study of the Line-Engraved Twopence Postage Stamps of Great Britain (1929), printed manuscript. Good condition. Estimate:: 150 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN  – Alcock, R. C.: The Postmarks of Great Britain & Ireland plus Supplements 1 to 8 (1940–1949), brochures with up to 60 pages, softcover. Good condition, but the spine staples of some booklets are rusty. Stored in a bibliophile box. Estimate: 120 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Bacon, Sir  Edward Denny: The Proofs, Colour Trials & Reprints of the Line-Engraved Postage Stamps of Great Britain Printed by Perkins, Bacon & Co. (1936), 32 pages, edited as softcover, this copy is bibliophile bound as half leather hardcover, excellent condition (but without the nine plates of collotype illustrations); PLUS: Lowe, Robson: The Hand Painted Essays made for the 1884–1892 Stamp Committee, 12 pages, softcover. Estimate: 80

GREAT BRITAIN – Baldwin, N. C.: The Air Mails of British Africa 1925–1932, 68 pages, softcover; PLUS: Lister, Peter: Airway Letters of the United Kingdom (1994), 53 pages, softcover, signed to T. Bjäringer, 350 copies printed; PLUS: Baldwin, N. C.: Fifty Years of British Air Mails 1911–1960 (1960), 47 pages, softcover; PLUS: Baldwin, N. C.: Great Britain. Airway Letter Stamps and Services (1966), without pagination (20 pages), softcover; PLUS: Field, Francis J.: British Air Mails. A Chronology of the Air Posts of Great Britain and Ireland (1935), softcover; PLUS: Bernstein, I. J. / Nissen, Chas.: British Stamps used Abroad (Reprint 1987), 48 pages, softcover. Good condition. Estimate: 50 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Beale, Philip, Almond, Adrian & Scott Archer, Mike: The Corsini Letters (2011), 224 pages, hardcover with dust jacket (as new!); PLUS: Madden, Don / Louis, Karl: The Dublin Find. The most important stamp find in GB philately (2006), 45 pages, signed by Karl Louis, softcover, as new! PLUS: Hess, Dr. Wolf: Postgeschichte London (Reprint 2019), 91 + 101 + ca. 150 pages, hardcover, as new;  PLUS: Brumell, Georg: The Local Posts of London 1680–1840 (1938), 91 pages, softcover. Estimate: 130 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Bellamy, F. A.: Oxford and Cambridge College Messengers Postage Stamps Cards and Envelopes 1871–1886 (1921), 20 pages, dedication of the author; PLUS: Bellamy, Frank Arthur: A Concise Register of the College Messenger Postage Stamps, Envelopes & Cards used in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge 1871–1895 (1925), 20 pages, softcover; – the pages of this brochure are foxed; PLUS: Catling, Harry D.: The Story of the Cambridge College Messenger Stamps: 1882–5 (2014), 65 pages, signed by the author, softcover, as new; PLUS: Cummings, Rev. Hayman: The College Stamps of Oxford and Cambridge (1904), 109 pages, hardbound, ex libris Frank Horace Frere, well preserved. Estimate: 200 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Booth, R. G.: A Catalogue of the Revenue Stamps of the U.K., Isle of Man, Channel Islands and Eire, vol 1, 2 (I)–2 (II) (1982) XXIV + 248 pages, 3 softcover brochures; PLUS: Philatelic Annual (Christmas 1963); A Christmas Story (1954), 24 pages; PLUS: Kidd, Cyril: Posted in Advance Delivery on Christmas Day (1974), 16 pages, softcover. All in good condition. Estimate: 50 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Brown, Roland/Fischer, Harold: The Plating of the Penny 1840–1864, vol. 1 + vol. 1 revised edition, vol. 2, 4 and 5, spiral binding; PLUS: Lee, R.A.G.: Great Britain. The Penny lilac, part 1+2 (1963/1989), 71 + 97 pages, spiral binding, all in good condition. Rare! Estimate: 300 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Cattell, Philip: The Union Castle Ocean Post Offices, vol. 1–3 (1981–1982), 166 + 244 + 153 pages, hardcover; PLUS:  Kellow, Geoff; Combination Mail of British Post Offices abroad, 48 pages, softcover; PLUS: Bollen, André: British Post Offices in foreign countries. The Americas (1839–1882) (Consular and Packet Agencies) (2015), format A4, 160 pages, hardcover. PLUS 3 small brochures. Rare ensemble and in good condition.  Estimate: 350 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Cohen, Stanley F.: Collecting British Squared Circle Postmarks (1987), 429 pages, softcover;  PLUS: Alcock, R. C. / Holland, F. C.: The Postmarks of Great Britain and Ireland (1940), 579 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Henrot-Brouhon, Th.: Introduction a L'Etude des Marques Postales de L'Angleterre et du Pays de Galles 1660–1960 (1969), 158 pages, softcover; PLUS: Brumell. George: Postmarks of the British Isles (1939), 60 pages, softcover. Good condition. Estimate: 100 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Crouch, G. R. and Hill, Norman: British Army Field Post Offices 1939–1950 (1951), 114 pages, softcover; PLUS: Lunn, Howard A Guide to the History and Values of British Postal Orders 1881–1984 (1984), 63 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Ellott, G.J.: The Michael Sullivan Correspondence 1874 & 1882 to 1885 (2007), 44 pages; stapled; PLUS: Fryer, Gavin: Supplement to British Postal Rates 1937–1954 (2023), 60 pages, softcover, with author's signature/dedication, good condition. Estimate: 30 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Dagnall, H.: The Evolution of British Stamped Postcards & Letter Cards. Their History & Documentation (1985), 249 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, PLUS: Huggins, A. K.: British Postal Stationary (1970), 188 pages, hardcover with dust jacket; PLUS: Huggins, Alan and Baker, Colin: Collect British Postal Stationary. A Simplified Listing of British Postal Stationary 1840 to 2007 (2007), 157 pages, hardcover with dust jacket; PLUS: Huggins, Alan K.: The ‘Postal Historical’ Significance of Prepaid Postal Stationary (2018), 20 pages, signed by the author; PLUS: Lowe, Robson: The Watson Postcards, 24 pages, softcover. Good condition. Estimate: 100 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Daniels, J. H.: A History of British Postmarks (1898), 184 + 11 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Hendy, John G.: The History of the Early Postmarks of the British Isles (1905), 204 pages, hardcover.  Both books with some small cover faults. Estimate: 60 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Daunton, M. J.: Royal Mail. The Post Office since 1840 (1985), 388 pages, hardcover with dust jacket; PLUS: Willcocks, R. M.: England's Postal History to 1840. With notes on Scotland, Wales and Ireland (1975), 167 pages, hardcover with dust jacket; PLUS: Willcocks, R. M.: The Postal History of Great Britain and Ireland (1981), VII + 81 pages, hardcover with dust jacket; PLUS: Staff, Frank: The Penny Post 1680–1918 (1964), 219 pages; hardcover with dust jacket; all items in good condition. Estimate: 100 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Dubus, Léon: London Cancellations. Repairs and Recutting. From 1840 with more than 3.000 illustrations (2 vol., 1969), 282 + 312 pages, softcover; PLUS: Westley, H.C.: The Postal Cancellations of London 1840–1940 (ca. 1950), 170 pages, hardcover. Good condition. Rare books! Estimate: 200 Euro

@Williame, #100, 28.6.2025, lot No. 128, 360 Euro + 20% (just for the Dubus-book!)

GREAT BRITAIN –  Evans, Major Edward B.: A Description of the Mulready Envelope and of various Imitations and Caricatures of its Design (1891), 240 pages, hardcover. –  An almost legendary work on the subject, with elaborately designed binding, in good condition for its age, inside with numerous illustrations, plus some interesting contemporary supplements, with ex libris E. D, Bacon! A rare book! PLUS: Huggins, Alan & Holyoake, Alan: The Mulready Postal Stationary. Its Genesis, Production and Usage (2015), 209 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, signed by both authors. Good condition. Estimate:  150 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Feldman, David / Kane, William: Handbook of Irish Postal History to 1840 (1975), 131 pages, hardcover with dust jacket; PLUS: Buchalter, M. Don: Hibernian. Specialised Catalogue of the Postage Stamps of Ireland 1922–1972 (1972), 160 pages, hardcover. Good condition. Estimate: 50 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN –  Fryer, Gavin: British Printed Papers by Post 1836–1876 (2018), 744 pages, hardcover with dust jacket; PLUS: Chandler, John H. and Dagnall, H.: The Newspaper & Almanac Stamps of Great Britain & Ireland (1981), 302 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Cover somewhat toned, otherwise in good condition. PLUS: Lowe, Robson: Newspaper Postage Stamps. The De La Rue Dies 1860–1870 (1980), 10 pages,  Estimate: 70 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Hahn, Dr. Andreas: The Invention of Stamps (2008), 125 pages, signed by the author, hardcover; PLUS: Holyoake, Alan: Great Britain. Secured Delivery of Mail 1450–1862 (2012). V + 50 pages, signed by the author, softcover; PLUS: Holyoake, Alan: Great Britain. English Postal History prior to the Bishop Mark (2017), 90 pages, softcover; PLUS: Holyoake, Alan: Die erste Briefmarke der Welt (2014), 144 pages, softcover. All in good condition. Estimate: 100 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Hill, Rowland: Post Office Reform; its importance and Practicability (3rd edition 1837), 97 pages with a facsimile of a letter by R. Hill; integrated in this book is: Post Office. The Debate in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, June 27th, 1843, on Sir Thomas Wilde's Motion for a Select Committee (1843), 71 pages, and also by Rowland Hill: The State and Prospects of Penny Postage, as developed in the evidence taken before the Postage Committee of 1842 (1844), 84 pages, all three documents are bound in one half leather hardcover, inside good, the cover is bumped at the edges, nevertheless very rare! PLUS: Patton, Dr. Donald S.: Farthing Delivery. A Fight for cheaper postage (1960), 55 pages, softcover; PLUS: Todd, T.: Wiliam Dockwra and the rest of the Undertakers. The Story of the London Penny Post 1680–82, 156 pages, 38 photo plates, hardcover, good condition. A rare ensemble! Estimate: 200 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Hopkins, Adrian E.: Ralph Allen's own Narrative 1720–1761 (1960), 49  + 10 photo-pages, softcover; PLUS: Davis, Sally: Ralph Allen (1985), 24 pages, softcover; PLUS:  Graveson, Samuel: Penny Postage Centenary. An Account of Rowland Hill's great Reform of 1840 … (1940), 144 page, hardcover, good condition. Estimate:  100 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Kenton, Phil J. & Parsons, Harry G.: Early Routings of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 1841–1879 (1999), XXIII + 471 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Montgomery, Malcolm Beresford: The Postage Rates of the North Atlantic Mails (1635–1950) (1991),  29 pages + different annexes, softcover. Both in good condition, Estimate: 80 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Lowe, Malcolm G.: The Mulready Advertisements (1983), 285 pages + Appendix A 24 pages + Appendix B 10 pages, hardcover with dust jacket; PLUS:  Litchfield, P. C.: Guide Lines to the Penny Black (1949), 224 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Young Farruga, Jean: The Letter Box. A History of Post Office Pillar and Wall Boxes (1969), 282 pages, hardcover with dust jacket (dust jacket with minimal faults), otherwise good. Estimate: 80 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Lowe, Robson: The British Postage Stamp of the nineteenth century (1968), 272 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, signed by the author, still a standard study; PLUS: Chalmers, Leah: How the adhesive postage stamp was born (1939), 45 pages, softcover; PLUS: Uniform Inland Penny Postage 1840–1890 (1891), illustrated with portraits and sketches, 331 pages, hardbound, printed for the jubilee celebration committee General Post Office, a fantastic and rare book! PLUS: Halstead, Ivor: Post Haste. The story of the Post Office in Peace and War (1944), 156 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Cable, Boyd: A Hundred Year History of the P. & O. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company 1837–1937 (1937), 289 pages, hardcover; all items in good condition. Estimate: 200 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Marshall, C. E. Dendy: The British Post Office from its beginnings to the end of 1925 (1926), 354 pages, with 36 plates and illustrations in the text, hardcover with dust jacket; PLUS: Munnoch, James: Origin and Development of the Letter Post, 28 pages, printed as manuscript, hardcover. Good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Marshall, C. F. Dendy: A study of the line-engraved twopence postage stamps of Great Britain (1929), 69 pages, hardcover, PLUS: Twopence blue plates 1 to 6 photographs of plate reconstructions, ex the Dendy Marshall collection (c1950 folder), containing twelve photos (the top and bottom of each plate.  Rare! Estimate: 200 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – McDonald, A.: The Telegraph Stamps of Great Britain, 42 pages, softcover; PLUS: Jackson, H. T.: The Preparation of the Post Office Adhesive Telegraph Stamps of Great Britain (1965), 34 pages, softcover; PLUS: Durham, John: Telegraphs in Victorian London (1959), 31 pages, hardcover with dust jacket; PLUS: Stone, Jeffrey C.: The Northeast of Scotland. A Philatelic Miscellany (1985), 63 pages, softcover. All items in good condition. Estimate: 50 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Meredith, C.W.: Scots Local Cancellations (2nd edition 1963), 30 pages, softcover; PLUS: Auckland, A. Bruce: Mileage Marks of Scotland (1965), 71 pages, hardcover;  PLUS: Auckland, Bruce and Bonar. J.J.: Penny Posts of Edinburgh and District 1773–1839 (1972), 76 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Alcock, R. C.: Scots Local Cancellations Illustrated 1854–1860 (1984), 124 pages, softcover; all items in good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN –  Morley, Walter: Walter Morley's Catalogue of the Newspaper Tax Stamps of Great Britain (1912), 55 pages, hardcover; PLUS:  Ecclestone, A. J.: The Railway Letter Stamps of Great Britain and Ireland 1891–1941: Part 1, 2nd edition 1969, 40 pages, part 3 (1958), 56 pages (one side is missing a piece), part 3 (1953–1953), 55 pages numbered by hand, part 4 (1953), all softcover; PLUS:  Jackson, H. T.: The Railway Letter Posts of Great Britain (1968), 51 pages, softcover; PLUS: Jackson, H. T.: The Post Office Telegraph Stamps of Great Britain 1869–1881, 57 pages, softcover.; PLUS: Lister, Raymond: Private Telegraph Companies of Great Britain and their Stamps (1961), 58 pages, Hardcover; good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro

GREAT BRITAIN – Newport, O. W.: Priced Catalogue of Channel Islands Postal Markings (1965), 40 pages, softcover; + Newport, O. W.: The Channel Islands (1950), 66 pages; +  Newport, O. W.: Channel Islands–France Mail Services, 1683–1939 (1956), 20 pages, softcover; PLUS: Lister, Raymond: College Stamps of Oxford and Cambridge (1966), 64 pages, softcover; PLUS: Alcock, R. C. / Holland, F. C.: Maltese Cross Cancellations (1959), 102 pages + supplement, in ringbinder. Estimate: 60 Euro