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2 better titles, Peter Ibbotson, Mauritius. Postal History and Stamps, 1991, signed by the author accompanied by the Revisions and Additions supplement of 1995 and Arnold Rudge, The Mauritius Primitives Lapirot, Sherwin and Dardenne. A study of the Postage Stamps issued in 1859, 2006, both in good resp. very good condition

NEWFOUNDLAND: 2 better titles, Daniel C. Meyerson, Newfoundland specialzed. "The Trial of the Caribou" and Robert H. Pratt, The Pence Issues of Newfoundland 1857-1866, 1982, very good condition

ITALY: Lot with 12 mostly better handbooks, with titles as Albino Bazzi, I francobolli di Vittorio Emanuele II e Umberto I 1861-1900, 1973; Gianfranco Mattiello, Italien Censorship on Civil Mail 1940-1945. History, Censors Marks, Resealing Labels, 2007; Grandi Opere, Le Poste in Italia, Vol. 1-4 and Da amministrazione pubblica a sisteme d'impresa, 2003/07 as well as year 1898 cpl. of Il Francobollo, moste interesting and valuable lot

6 handbooks and catalogues, with the better Vollmeier/Mancini, Storia Postale del Regno di Napoli dalle Origini all'Introduzione del Francobollo, 3 vols. in slipcase, 1996

2 better handbooks, Alberto Bolaffi, The Postmark-Stamps and the Postal Cancellations of the Sardinian States udes during the period 1851-1863, 1948, signed by the author, in original binding with dust jacket and Emilio Diena, The Stamps of the Duchy of Modena. Philatelic Record Hand Books No. 2, 1905, incl. the photoplates, valuable lot with not often seen titles

Bolaffi, Giulio, I Francobolli degli Antichi Stati Italiani, 1972 and Bolaffi, Alberto, Quarta Pagina, 2004 (cover defect), additional 6 auction catalogues and price lists with better ones as Ing. Giacomo Avanzo 1989, "Scilla e Cariddi" de Napoli e Sicilia, generally in good condition

Lot with better items about Italian Philately, magazine La Rirista Filatelica d'Italia , years 1928/29 cpl.; Fortunato Marchetto, Marche da bollo d'Italia 1863-1957 e delle Colonie Italiane d'Africa 1911-1943, 3. Auflage 2004/05, condition as new, accompanied by 3 works about military postal services

Lot of five handbooks concerning Italian Military Mail, incl. Cadioli/Cecchi 'I servizi postali dell'Esecito Italiano 1915/23' Vols. 1+2, with a foreword by E. Diena Milano 1979, Cerruto/Colla 'Franchigia Militare Italiano 1912/46' (1995), L. Buzzetti 'Le Poste Militari a numero 1917/23' (1980) as well as Cadioli/Cecchi 'L'intervento italianonell Geurra civil espagnola 1936/39' (1994)

Lot of four handbooks concerning Italian Military Mail, incl. L. Buzzetti 'Le Poste Militaria a numero 1917/23' (1980), Astolfi 'Occupazionie dannessioniltaliani 1939/43 Albania, Francia, Grecia, Jugoslavia, annullamenti e storia postale' (1996), Cadioli/Cecchi 'La Poste Militarenella seconda guerra mondiale' (1991) upper spine defective, Marchese Guiseppe La Poste Militare 1940/43 (1981)

ITALIAN STATES: Lot with 4 better handbooks, with Paolo Vollmeier, I Bolli Postali Toscani del Periodo Prefilatelico fino al 1851, 1974, with German translations, interesting lot

SICILIA: Lot with better titles, Vincenzo Fardella de Quernfort, Storia Postale del Regno di Sicilia dalle Origini all'Introduzione del Francobollo (1130-1858), Vol. 1-3 cpl., 1999 and Gaetano Russo, Bolli ed Annullamenti Postali del Regno di Sicilia nel Periodo d'Uso dei Francobolli di Fernando II con Valutazioni, signed by the author, ex. no. 634 of 1000, 1968, interesting and uncommon lot

LOMBARDY-VENTIA: Lot with 5 handbooks, most better ones like Raffaele Alianello, Annulamenti del Lombardo-Veneto, 1972, interesting and valuable lot

NETHERLANDS: 4 good titles by Claude J.P. Delbeke, De Post vanuit de Nederlanden 1813-1853; De Post naar de Nederlanden 1813-1853 and De Nederlandse Scheepspost 1600-1900, Vol. 1 and 2, 1989/2004, each signed by the author and in very good condition, accompanied by two books about Belgian philately

ÖSTERREICH: 8 bessere Handbücher und Kataloge, dabei Ing. Edwin Müller, Die Poststempel auf der Freimarkenausgabe 1867 von Österreich und Ungarn, 1930, im Originaleinband, und Grosses Handbuch der Abstempelungen von Altösterreich und Lombardei-Venetien, 1925, interessantes und reichhaltiges Lot

2 bessere Handbücher von Ing. Edwin Müller, Die Poststempel auf der Freimarkenausgabe 1867 von Österreich und Ungarn, 1930 und Grosses Handbuch der Abstempelungen von Altösterreich und Lombardei-Venetien, 1925, jeweils im Originaleinband in guter Erhaltung, interessantes Lot

10 Broschüren und Handbücher, dabei "Sprachenstreit und Poststempel im alten Oesterreich-Ungarn" von Ing. Edwin Mueller 1925, Dr. R. Wurth Jahrbücher, Adolf Passer Bosnien & Herzegowina, Nachdruck brosch. sowie Inflation in Österreich 1918-1925 von Heinrich Karasek 1990

PORTUGAL: 7 important auction catalogues, such as Lima collection, collecao "Lisboa" as well as older catalogues like Burrus or Embossed (Robson Lowe 1959), often good condition, interesting lot

RUSSIA: Lot of six books or booklets, incl. Ceresa Vol. 3, parts 22-24 Addenda South Russia, Crimea, White Armies 1991, Lissiuk Russian Revolutionary Stamps 1920-22 and Mongolia 1924-27, further P.T. Ashford Imperial Stamps in Transcaucasia Part 6 Erivan & Kars

SCHWEIZ: 3 gute Handbücher, Mirabaud/Reuterskiöld, Die Schweizerischen Postmarken 1843-1862, Reprint von 1993; Richard Schäfer, Handbuch Auslandsverkehr Schweiz, Italienische, Österreichische und Deutsche Staaten - Transit 1798-1850, neu und OVP sowie Jean J. Winkler, Handbuch der Schweizer Vorphilatelie 1695-1850, 1968, etwas fleckig, aber insgesamt gut erhalten, interessantes und werthaltiges Lot

6 Handbücher und Kataloge, dabei Zumstein-Spezial 2000, beide Bände in neuwertiger Erhaltung, interessantes Lot

2 bessere Handbücher, Andres/Emmenegger, Großes Handbuch der Abstempelungen auf Schweizer Marken 1843-1907, Teil I-III, 1969/72 und Jean J. Winkler, Handbuch der Schweizer Vorphilatelie 1695-1850, 1968, jeweils in sehr guter Erhaltung, interessantes Lot

2 Grundlagenwerke der schweizer Philatelie, Andres/Emmenegger, Grosses Handbuch der Abstempelungen auf Schweizer Marken 1843-1882, 1931 mit Nachtrag von 1954 sowie Jean J. Winkler, Handbuch der Schweizer Vorphilatelie 1695-1850, 1968, jeweils gut erhalten

SPAIN: Lot with 4 better handbooks, included L.W. Fulcher, Catalogue of the Revenue Stamps of Spain and Colonies including the American Occupation and Revolutionary issues, 1902 and Guinovart/Tizon, Prefilatelia Espanola. Estudio de las Marcas Postales de Espana y sus Dominios de Indias. Siglos XVIII y XIX, Vol. 1, 1971, ex. no. 673 of 1,000, generally in good condition, valuable lot

SPAIN: Lot with 3 handbooks, incl. Eduardo Cativiela Lacasa, Historia Postal de Aragón, 1994 and Ronald G. Shelley, The Postal History of the Internnational Brigades in Spain 1936-39 (damage to the dust jacket), 1979 as well as Vallées d'Andorre, Catalogue National Spécialisé, interesting lot

SPANISH CIVIL WAR: M. Colas, Censures, Marques et Correspondences de la Guerre Civil d'Espagne, Tome II, Nantes 1970, Karl Heimann Spanien 1936-39 Schriftenreihe Neues Handbuch der Briefmarkenkunde Heft 53 as well as Filatelia Llach S.L. catalogue Espana Guerra Civil with Sobretas Locales, Vinetas Politicas

SVERIGE: 4 handbooks, including better ones like Sven Ahman, Den gula treskillingen. Ett frimärke och dess underbara öden fran äldsta tider till vara dagar, 1975 and Hugo Krötzsch, Handbuch der Postfreimarkenkunde. Schweden, 1908 in original binding, interesting lot

TÜRKYE: 13 handbooks and catalogues, with better ones like Agaogullari/Papuccuoglu, Resimli Osmanli-Türk Posta Damgalari. Illustrated Ottoman-Turkish Postmarks 1840-1929, Vol. 1-5 (letters A-i), 2003/04, unusual lot

John C. Coles & Howard F. Walker "Postal Cancellations of the Ottoman Empire" part three Turkey in Europe, Pall Mall Stamp Company for Christie, London, England, hardcover 79 pp., F.W. Pollack "The Turkish Post in the Holy Land" Vol. I 1962 as well as Postal Guide 194 Turquie Administration Impériale des Postes, Télégrapheset des Téléphones soft bound photo copy facsimile in original size

YUGOSLAVIA: Mirko R. Rasic "The Postal History and Postage Stamps of Serbia", Collectors Club Handbook no. 25, Theodore E. Steinway Memorial Publication Fund, New York, 1979. Cloth. Book As First Edition. Thoroughly illustrated (b/w). Covers from the defeat of the Turks to the end of WWI, in addition three volumes of Prirucnik Maraka Jugoslavenskih Zemalja, incl. Bosna I Hercegovina (some stains), Grna Gora and Postanski Manipulativi Zigovi, Bosne I Hercegowina (1981)

OVERSEAS: 17 mostly better handbooks and auction catalogues with emphasis on Asia, including sought after titles like Dr. H. Noor Ahmed, India Post through ages. A saga of Communications, 1995 and Meiso Mizuhara, Huayou Jijin II, The Magnificent Collection of Chinese Stamps, pt. 4, Imperial Japanese Post Offices in Chinese Mainland, The Second Half, 1984, most interesting and valuable lot

12 handbooks, catalogues and auction catalogues, with better ones like Robert Siegel, The Honululu Advertiser Collection of Hawaii Vol. 1-3 in slipcase and Thomas J. Alexander, Simpson's U.S.Postal Markings 1851-61,2nd ed. 1979, valuable lot

5 most better handbooks with Gerhard Blank FRPSL, Chile. First Issue of Postage Stamps 1853-1867, 1989 and Roberto Sciaky, Ethiopia 1867-1936. History, Stamps and Postal History, 1999, each in very good condition, interesting lot

AMERICA: Lot with 6 handbooks, with better ones like Winthrop S. Boggs, The Postage Stamps and Postal History of Canada, 1974; Lamy/Rinck, Perou. Étude des Obliterations Postales sur les Émissions de 1857 à 1873. Classification et Cotation, 1960, generally good condition, sometimes rebinding necessary

FAR EAST: Lot of five handbooks, incl. Soichi - The Dragon Stamps of Japan 1871-1872, hard bound with dust jacket and gold stamping on spine & cover, 221 pp. without plates, Helen K. Zirkle Manchoukuo (1962), Hans Schoenfeld Cancellations of Hong Kong, Postage Stamps of Korea 1884-1956 issued by Ministry of Communications (1956) and Minoru Sera Ryukyu handbook, further two Ma's illustrated Catalogues of China (1947/88) as well as Yang's PRC Stamp Catalogue (7th Ed. 1989)

CHINA: Large Dragons - "Whang's Illustrated Collection of the Large Dragons of China 1878-1885" J.B. Whang (1991?) hardbound 130 pp., further "China - The Large Dragons 1878-1885" by Philip W. Ireland hardbound 130 pp. 1978 together with the auction catalogue "The Large Dragons and their Forerunners" Robson Lowe Sale Zurich 1989 as well as "A select collection of Large Dragon Stamps Covers and Postmarks" issued by Directorate General of Posts Republic of China 1978

CHINA: C.W. Dougan "The Shanghai Postal System, The Stamps and Postal History", 1981, Stamps and Postal History from Amoy to Wuhu, 214 pp., hardbound copy by American Philatelic Society 1981, further Hans Schoenfeld "Cancellations of the Treaty Ports 1850/1930" issued 1988