Lot no. 20996

1864 – MOUNT BROWN, WILLIAM – Catalogue of British, Colonial & Foreign Postage Stamps (5th edition March 1864), 96 pages, interleaved version, hard cloth covers, some rubbing to covers and some minor wear; internal title-page with red & blue “oriental” collector marks, but contents mainly very fine, though with some of the original owner's underlinings and marks - apparently indicating those stamps that she had in her collection); inscribed “G. M. Colquitt” – probably Miss Georgina Mary Colquitt of Cheltenham, who was 65 years old in 1864. A rare early philatelic book, preserved in a bibliophile box. Estimate: 150 Euro