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Bacon, E. D.: Reprints of Postal Adhesive Stamps and their characteristics (Stanley Gibbons Philatelic Handbook No 6, 1899), 168 pages, with 426 illustrations, hardcover, good condition. Estimate: 150 Euro

Bendon, James: UPU Specimen Stamps (1988), 260 pages, hardcover, dust jacket; PLUS: Codding jr., George Arthur: The Universal Postal Union (1964), hardcover, dust jacket, both in good condition; PLUS: van der Linden, James: Four Important Exchange Offices handling world's international postal relations 19th Century - Panama, Alexandria, Aachen, Trieste (2016), 72 pages, hardcover, dedicated to T. Bjäringer; PLUS: van der Linden, James: Obstruction and Deviation of Postal Connections 1792–1815 (2017), 24 pages, softcover, with dedication to Tomas Bjäringer; PLUS: Schouberechts, Vincent: The Post Book. 500 Years of history in Europe (2016), 206 pages, hardcover; all titles in good condition. Estimate: 140 Euro

Billig, Fritz: Billig's Philatelic Handbook, Vol. 1–37, 37 hardcover volumes of different editions, good condition and opportunity to purchase so many volumes in one go. Estimate: 300 Euro

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Darteyre, Didier: Études Philatéliques et Annales Internationales de la Timbrologie, edition 1928 + 1929 + 1930 + 1942 + 1948 + 1950 + 1960/61 (184 + 196 + 196 + 196 + 196 + 244 + 202 + 224 pages), softcover, mostly in good condition. Nice ensemble in French language. Estimate: 80 Euro

Harris, Albert H.: Who's who in Philately (1916 + 1933), 98 + 212 pages, softcover; PLUS: Bierman, Stanley M.: More of the World's Greatest Stamp Collectors (1990), XV + 213 pages, softcover, with dedication to T. Bjäringer; PLUS: Bierman, Stanley M.: The World's Greatest Stamp Collectors & More of the World's Greatest Stamp Collectors (2 volumes), special hardbound edition in slipcase, 269 + 215 pages, with dedication to T. Bjäringer; all items in good condition. Estimate: 100 Euro

Higlett, George Allen – Satirical pamphlets and leaflets (1912 onwards) set of ca. 67 (!) booklets plus the Bibliography written by Gavin Fryer (1997, 89 pages). All in all in good condition and preserved in two bibliophile de-luxe boxes. Higlett illustrated his humurous and sometimes critical satirical texts with genuine (!) stamps and essays, which sometimes led to problems when he was not able to gather enough examples for his complete edition. So some essays were issued in very small number only (ca. 30, one about Revenues only 12). The value of all stamps and essays was estimated at several thousands GBP 13 years ago. a good number of brochures are signed by Higlett. An extremely rare and possibly the most complete set, an interesting offer of this unusual material ex Gavin Fryer. Estimate: 4,000 Euro

Isakovics, Alois von: Internationales philatelistisches Tausch-Adress- und Hilfsbuch (Brünn 1886), 127 pages + 34 advert pages, hardcover. With decorative gold embossing on the spine. The book offers much more than just addresses, including advice and biographies (with woodcuts) of renowned philatelists of the time. A very rare work, especially in such excellent condition. PLUS: Kellow, G. N.: J. R. Purves. A Philatelic Bibliography (1982), 51 + 1 pages, softcover; PLUS: Bolaffi, Giulio: Les Timbres de Maurice Burrus. Anciens Etats Italiens, 52 pages, hardcover. Included is a letter of Bolaffi plus a original envelope of Maurice Burrus from 18. 9. 1947 to T. E. Wilson. Book with dedication to Willy Balasse. With private bibliophile slipcase. Rare like this. Estimate: 300 Euro

Janssen, Leonard H. J.: Parity of Currencies in Postal History 1700–1875 (2001), 501 pages, bilingual (Engl./Dutch), hardcover, dust jacket; PLUS: Booth, William: The Expansion of Paper as a Guide to Watermark Detection, 14 pages (handmade paper), hardcover, No. 2 of 150 copies printed. Estimate: 160 Euro

Kumpf-Mikuli, Anton: Neue Briefe über alte. I. Die Poststempel (Wien 1933), 241 + 1 pages, softcover, good condition. – The famous monograph on prephilatelic cancellations, with more than 1,500 illustrations. In this good condition really rare. PLUS: Kumpf-Mikuli, Anton: Der Brief als Kulturgeschichtliches Studien- und Sammelobjekt (1948), 20 pages, numbered and signed copy “113” of 250 printed, softcover (the cover is a bit worn out, content is good). PLUS: Rowe, Kenneth: The Postal History and Markings of the Forwarding Agents (1984), X + 269 pages, hardcover, like new. Estimate: 400 Euro

Legrand, A. (Dr. Magnus): Manuel de l'amateur de timbres (1894), 4 + 396 pages, bibliphile hardcover in good condition. Included is some interesting correspondance between Bjäringer and Jean Storch! PLUS: (Legrand, A.) Congrès international des timbrophiles. Comte-rendu de la première session, Paris 1878 (Neuilly 1880). 404 pages, hardcover (originally published in three parts during 1879/80 with coloured paper wrapper). Limited edition of 200 copies (this is No. 80). With ex libris Pedro Monge y Pineda. – This congress was the first philatelic congress in the history of philately. The ‘Fathers of Philately’ attending the Congress in Paris were: Jaques Amable Legrand, Philipp de Ferrari, Arthur Maury, Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, Maitland Burnett, Friedrich Andreas Breitfuss and John Kerr Tiffany. A very rare documentation. Estimate: 200 Euro

Legrand, Dr. Jacques Amable (Dr. Magnus): Essai sur les Filigranes et les Papiers employés à la fabricaion des Timbres-Poste (2nd edition, publ. by Pierre Mahé 1867). 60 pages, appendix 4 pages, 527 copies printed. Paper wrapper. Nearly good condition. Mahé and Dr. Legrand worked together very closely in the early years of the 1860s. Thus both invented the first perforation gauge with the growing interest in different perforations, but Legrand turned to watermarks as early as 1865. Then the first edition of his later study was published as series of articles in “Le Timbrophile” from April to July, 1865. The brochure by “Dr. Magnus” on watermarks is the first monograph on a specialised philatelic subject and was an inspiration for Alfred Moschkau later to write about this topic himself. A literature rarity! Estimate: 200 Euro

Lindenberg, Carl: Grosses Handbuch der Philatelie. Verzeichnis und Beschreibung aller staatlichen und privaten Post- und Telegraphen-Wertezeichen sowie der bekannt gewordenen Essais. Vol. I. Die staatlichen Postwertzeichen. A–F (Leipzig 1887–1889), 704 pages; Vol. II: G–M (Leipzig 1890–1896). 1.063 pages. Both volumes quarter leather hardbound with decorative gold title on spine. Good condition. Estimate: 350 Euro

Lowe, Robson: The Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps. Volume I: Great Britain and the Empire in Europe (2nd edition 1952), 455 page; Vol. II: The Empire in Africa (1st edition 1949), 448 pages; Vol. III: The Empire in Asia (1st edition, June 1951), 559 pages; Vol. IV: Australasia (1st edition, February 1962), 624 pages; Vol. V: North America (1st edition 1973), XVI + 760 pages; Vol. VI: Leeward Islands (1990), 293 pages. All volumes: hardcover in good condition, dust jacket (a few with little faults). One of the best handbook-series ever! PLUS: The Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps. Supplement 1–19 (Photocopies of individual supplements from the magazine ‘Philatelist’ (1953–1963). These corrections and additions are almost missing!) PLUS: Lowe, Robson: A Glossary of Abbreviated Handstruck Stamps (2nd edition 1964), 21 pages, stapled. Estimate: 300 Euro 

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Lowe, Robson: The Regent Encyclopaedia of Empire Postage Stamps (1935), 479 + XXXVI pages, hardcover, not common and in good condition, signed by Robson Lowe; PLUS: Boggs, Winthrop S.: The Foundations of Philately, 196 pages, hardcover, good condition; PLUS: Westoby, W. A. S.: The Adhesive Postage Stamps of Europe (Part I–XIII), 10 brochures with 60 or more pages, softcover. Content is good, the covers with very small edge defects. But rare! Estimate: 150 Euro

Lowe, Robson: Priced Catalogue of the Hand-Struck Postage Stamps of the British Empire (1st edition 1937/38), 246 + 6 + 1 pages, hardcover (library copy), dust jacket; PLUS: Brunel, Georges: Annuaire du Timbre-Poste et de la Carte Postale Illustrée (1910), 295 pages, hardcover (library copy); PLUS: Mueller, Edwin: Edwin Mueller's Catalogue of the imperforate classic postal stamps of Europe (1958), 151 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Richardson, H. T.: Envelope Stamps of North & South America 1853–1875 (1965), 54 pages; softcover; PLUS: Hurt, E. F. / Williams, L. N. 6 M. (Editors): Billig's Specialized Catalogues, Vol. 6: Handbook of the Private Local Posts (1950), 168 pages, hardcover. All items in good condition. Estimate: 100 Euro

Lowe, Robson: Handstruck Postage Stamps of the Empire 1680–1900 (Priced Catalogue, 3rd edition 1940–41), 330 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Hurt, E. F. / Williams, L. N. & M.: Handbook of the Private Local Posts. Priced Catalogue 1942, part I–V, 150 pages, hardcover + Supplement 1948, 28 pages, softcover, dedicated by Hurt to William Balasse, rare!; PLUS: Berlingin, René: Catalogue – Etude. Les Timbres les plus rares de Belgique et des autres Pays … Les Obliterations de Luxembourg … Les Centres Renversés (1940), 44 pages, hardcover, numbered edition (this book is No. 693, signed by the author); PLUS: Aitchison, Jon: Stamps and Postal History of Lundy Islands (6th edition 2019, 436 pages, spiral binding. All titles in good condition. Estimate: 250 Euro

Melville, Fred J.: Postage Stamp in the Making (1916), 198 pages, hardcover, rare; PLUS: same title, but rewritten and completed by John Easton (1949), 246 pages, over 350 illustrations, hardcover; PLUS: Melville, Fred J.: Chats on Postage Stamps (1911), 362 pages, hardcover (the content is still very useful, but the binding is faulty. Nevertheless a very good book concerning the history and development of philately, not common! PLUS: Melville, Fred J.: Great Britain. Embossed Adhesive Stamps (1910), 39 + 16 pages, softcover; PLUS: Melville, Fred J.: Great Britain: Line-Engraved Stamps, two different editions (1909 + 1926), 89 + 82 pages, softcover. Average condition with the usual minor defects. Estimate: 200 Euro

Melville, Frederick John: Phantom Philately. A Descriptive List of Stamps that are not what they seen (1950), 204 pages, softcover; – PLUS: 5 small brochures written by Melville (Postage Stamps worth Fortunes (1908, 46 pages) + A Penny all the way. The Story of Penny Postage (48 pages) + The Mystery of the Shilling Green (1926, 19 pages + 6 plates + The World's Stamp Errors (by Miss Fitte, edited by Fred J. Melville), part II: Foreign Countries (76 pages) + The Cradle of the Postage Stamp (1923, 30 pages); – PLUS: Melville, Fred J.: The Stamp Year 1912, An Annual Digest of Postal and Philatelic Information (1912), 206 + 2 pages, hardcover; – PLUS: Williams, L. N. & M.: A “Melville” Bibliography. Being a catalogue of the separate philatelic works written, compiled, edited or published by Fred J. Melville (June 1941), 64 pages, softcover. All items without major faults. Estimate: 80 Euro

Meyer, K. F.: Disinfected Mail (1962), 342 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Smith, A. D.: The Development of Rates of Postage. An Historical and Analytical Study (1917), 431 pages, hardcover, signed by Pemberton; - both hardcover books with little ageing; PLUS: Clavereuil, R.: Concordance des Calendriers Gregorien et Republicain (2nd edition 1975), 83 + 2 pages, softcover; good condition; PLUS: The stamps of the Levant Post Offices (1913), 128 pages, softcover (binding faulty). Estimate: 100 Euro

Meyer, Ferdinand: Handbuch für Postmarkensammler für den permanenten Gebrauch bestimmt (1881) – Together with all (!) seven supplements by Meyer and Dr. Paul Kloss (1881/1890). Each in half leather binding with minimal signs of age, some scuffing and rubbing, but overall in good condition and virtually unique in this form. Ex libris Norbert Röhm. Estimate: 300 Euro

Moschkau, Alfred: Handbuch für Postmarken-Sammler. Illustrirter Katalog aller bis Ende 1887 erschienenen Postmarken, Couverte und Streifbänder (6th edition 1888), with 509 + 55 pages (1. Nachtrag 1890), 2.000 illustrations, hardbound with gold title imprint on spine, good condition; PLUS: Moschkau, Alfred: Handbuch für Essais-Sammler. Verzeichnis aller bs dato bekannten officiellen postalischen Essais (1875), VIII + 51 pages, The paper is slightly browned and the paper cover is damaged. But a rare early study! Estimate: 140 Euro

Moschkau, Alfred: Handbuch für Postmarkensammler (4th edition 1880 with a original photo of the author inside), 315 pages, 99 plates,hardbound in blue cloth, gold title imprint on spine, The binding is a little loose, the first few pages are loose, ex libris Stephen Holder. – PLUS: Moschkau, Dr. phil. Alfred: Zur Geschichte der Philatelie. Gesammelte Beiträge zur Geschichte der Briefmarken und der Briefmarkenkunde (1879), (4) + 80 pages, coloured paper wrapper (this with a library label and a bit toned at the edges, but a good copy of the first German study about philatelic history. On the front cover is a handwritten dedication to the Societé Française de Timbrologie in Paris. – PLUS: Pemberton, Edward Loins: The Stamp Collector's handbook (1874), (4) + 202 pages, bound in blue cloth with decorative title page and title on spine, the binding is partly defective, needs repair, but the book is good. Estimate: 150 Euro

Moschkau, Alfred: Die Wasserzeichen auf den seit 1818 bis dato emittirten Briefmarken und Couverts nebst Abriss einer Geschichte der Briefmarken und des Briefmarkensammelwesens (Philatelie) (1st edition 1875), 48 pages, softcover. This is the first history of philately, written by a German author. Paper cover. Since the cover projects, it is slightly damaged at the edge. Moschkau dedicated the brochure to the Philatelic Society in Paris. Very rare. Estimate: 200 Euro

Mueses Danilo: Seebeck. Heroe o Villano? An English translation (1986), 170 + 3 pages, softbound; PLUS: Bohr, Peter J.: Der Briefmarkenkönig. Philipp Arnold de Ferraris Lebensgeheimnis (ca. 1975), 79 pages, softcover; PLUS: Hellman, Kaj / Stone, Jeffrey C.: Agathon Fabergé. Portrait of a Philatelist (2017), 375 pages, hardcover, with dedication from Stone to T. Bjäringer. An excellent biography! PLUS: Dekker jr, Jan / Vellekoop, Jan: Jan Dekker (1919–1989). Een uitzonderlijk Postwetenschapper (2019), limited and numbered edition of 80 copies, this is copy No. 33, hardcover including a CD-ROM, excellent condition. All titles in good condition. Estimate: 100 Euro

O'Keefe, Donna: Linn's Philatelic Gems, vol. 2, 3 & 5 (1985, 1987 + 2012), 168 + 167 + 166 pages, softcover; PLUS: Stocken, Nevile: Stamps of Great Price (1932), 238 pages, hardcover, not common; PLUS: Mackay, James A.: L'Univers des Timbres. La période classique 1840–1870 (1972), 337 pages, hardcover. All titles in good condition. estimate: 100 Euro