387th Auction

ARGENTINE – Carles, C.: Colección de los Tipos de Valores Postales adoptados con Caracter Definitivo por Resolución de fecha 23 de Agosto de 1892, extract of the work, pp. 859–909, each page with a MUESTRA stamp or postal stationary, perfectly bound in a bibliophile hardcover. PLUS: 3 price lists of the Casa Filatélica de Roberto Rosauer for the years 1899 (No. 1: 16 pages), 1900 (No. 2: 28 pages) and 1900 (No. 3, 44 pages). All in good condition and rare. Estimate: 150 Euro

ARGENTINE – Carles, C.: Valores Postales Argentinos Vol. II (1888), 337 pages, Elaborate leather binding (slightly rubbed and touched at the top of the spine). BUT: This is a unique work. An introduction of XXXVIII pages is followed by approx. 60 pages, some of which are filled with sample stamps (muestra) from the 1892/1896 editions. The next 260 pages present Argentine postal stationery with the imprint “Muestra.” In good condition. Estimate: 500 euros +

ARGENTINE – Carles, C.: Vlores Postales Argentinos (1897), XXXVIII + 246 pages with MUESTRA-Stamps and Postal Stationary, hardcover with gold title imprint on spine. Rare. Estimate: 150 Euro

ARGENTINE – Deluca, Antonio: Sellos y otros Valores Postales y Telegraficos Argentinos, Tomo I: Sellos en general 1856–1939 (1939), 771 pages, hardcover, Tomi II: Sobres, Tarjetas, Fajas, Cartas Postales y demas especies Valuadas 1878–1941 (1941), 671 pages, hardcover. Both volumes in excellent condition. An encyclopedic work in Spanish with a treasure trove of important information. Estimate: 150 Euro

ARGENTINE – Gazzolo, Andres E.: Barquitos of Buenos Aires. Forgeries and Reprints (2012), 162 pages + 1 page, hardcover with dust jacket and signature of the author for Brian Moorhouse; PLUS: Akerman, Clive: The Revenue Stamps of Argentina. The Province and Municipalities of Buenos Aires (1994), 178 pages, hardcover. Both books in good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro

ARGENTINE – Kneitschel, Victor & Rodolfo: Catalogo Especial de los Sellos Postales de la Republica Argentina y Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios (11th edition 1974), 692 pages + Errata, hardcover; PLUS: Vasen, W. / Riese, H. L.: Catalogo de Enteros Postales Argentinos (1991), 60 pages, softcover. Both items in good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro

ARGENTINE – Kneitschel, Victor: Catalogo de los Sellos Postales de la Republica Argentina y Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios (6th edition 1958), 2 volumes; PLUS: Supplemento No. 1 (which is always missing). This two-volume edition of the 6th edition was probably the best and most comprehensive that Kneitschel ever published. Over 900 pages in total! Countless illustrations and price quotations, many special elaborations etc. Still the basic work today! Good condition. Estimate: 120 Euro

ARGENTINE – Kneitschel, Victor: Catalogo de los Sellos Postales de la Republica Argentina y sus Derivados (1939), 194 + 5 + 4 plates in a slip case, hardcover, good condition. – The first edition of this later wellknown catalogue! PLUS: Klass, Samuel: Catalogo de Sellos Postales de la Argentina (1970), 440 + 2 pages, hardcover, good condition. Estimate: 50 Euro

ARGENTINE – Kurchan Mario D.: Argentine Postal History 1760–1870. Study of Forged Cancellations Forerunners and Maritimes (1976), 95 pages, softcover; PLUS: Kurchan, Mario D. / Fernández, Hugo M.: The River Plate Postal History. The Martinez Correspondence (1995, bilingual), 40 pages; PLUS: Ceriani, Juan Alberto / Kneitschel, Rodolfo: Postmarks used in Railway Ambulant Post Offices Argentine 1865–1892 (1987, bilingual), 51 pages, softcover (this a bit toned); PLUS: Jewell, Carlos: Mensajerías Argentinas (1966), 294 + 2 pages, hardcover, good condition, rare. Estimate: 60 Euro

ARGENTINE – Kurchan, Mario D.: Argentine Maritime Postal History (1994, bilingual), 440 pages, softcover; PLUS: Kurchan, Mario D.: Historia Postal del Rio de la Plata. Hacia la Epoca de las Invasiones Inglesas / River Plate Postal History Period 1800/1810 (1992 bilingual), 72 pages, softcover; PLUS: Kurchan, Mario D.: Argentine Postal History: River Mail Service on the Rio de la Plata Basin. Second part, 80 pages, bilingual, softcover; PLUS: Schlichter, Andres Jorge / Spinetto, Julio Ricardo: Historia Postal de la Tripulación del Acorazado ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE (Argentina, Diciembre 1939 – Alemania, Junio 1946) (1989), 65 + 2 pages, softcover, signed by both authors. All items in good condition. Estimate: 60 Euro

ARGENTINE – Mazo, Jorge del: Primitivos Matasellos Argentinos (1943), 47 pages, hardcover, signed/dedicated; PLUS: Bose, Walter, B. L.: Signos Postales del Río de la Plata (1938), 88 pages with 170 illustrations, privately bound; PLUS: Rettaroli, M.: Sellos Postales Argentinos. Numeración correlacionada de los catálogos extranjeros (1929), 34 pages, softcover (the cover with faults); PLUS three small softcover brochures written by Eliçabe, Ricardo D.: El 8 centavos efigie de Don Bernardino Rivadavias emitido en el año 1877 + El 4 centavos efigie de Don Mariano Moreno emitido en el año 1873 + El 2 centavos efigie de Don Vicente López y Planes emitido en el año 1877 (all three brochures are numbered and printed in a edition of 200 copies); PLUS: Bose, Walter B. L.: Signos Postales y Matasellos del Virreinato, Provincias Unidas del Rio de la Plata y República Argentina (1932, 17 pages); PLUS: Pont, José Marco del: Sellos Postales de la Republica Argentina. Sellos “Rivadavia” 1864–1872 (1946), 66 + 1 pages, softcover. Individual titles with minor imperfections. Estimate: 60 Euro

ARGENTINE – Oreste Rosasco, Dr. Enrique: 1) Confederacion on Argentina (1990), 267 pages; 2) ditto, Descriptión de sus Sellos (1994), 48 pages; PLUS: Torre, Gustavo de la: Rivadavia 5c. Argentina, 1864–1872. Méthodo de Identificación y clasificación (2007), 80 + 1 pages + 1 plate, all in good condition. Estimate: 50 Euro

ARGENTINE – Pedret, Juan Carlos: Foreign Postmarks over Argentine Stamps, 32 pages, softcover; PLUS: Bose, Walter B. L. / Korth, Rolf: Estafetas Postales Ambulantes Argentinas 1865–1965 (1974), 38 pages, softcover, No. 615/1.000; PLUS: Longo, Rafael E.: Emision Kidd (1985), 40 pages, stapled; PLUS: Kurchan, Mario D.: Cancellations on stamps from the Argentine Confederation (1997, bilingual), 56 pages, softcover; PLUS: Pedret, Juan Carlos: Matasellos Argetinos 1862–1880, 85 pages + supplement No. 1, 28 pages, both softcover; PLUS: Ravignani, Miguel Emilio: Evolución de las Tarifas Postales Argentinas 1877–1974 (2008), 34 pages, softcover; PLUS: three more brochures and four undated postal regulations. Good ensemble. Estimate: 60 Euro

ARGENTINE – Pont, Dr. José Marco del: Catálogo General Illustrado de Las Estampillas Fiscales emitidas en la República Argentina (1898), 152 pages (papier toned), privately bound with gold title imprint on spine; PLUS a second hardcover with copies of articles of del Pont about the same subject (fiscal philately); PLUS by the same author: El Correo Marítimo en el Río de la Plata (1913), 161 pages, hardbound, good condition. Rare studies! Estimate: 80 Euro

ARGENTINE – Pont, José Marcó del: Sellos Postales de La Confederacion Argentina (1902), 48 pages with many photo plates + Sellos Postales de la República Argentina (1909), 66 + 1 pages, with dedication of the author to Samuel Chapman, 200 copies printed. All items with the original softcovers privately bound in one hardcover volume. Very rare! PLUS: Cochrane, W. J. / Spowart, H. A.: The Rivadavia Stamps of the Argentine Republic and their Obliterations (1923), 97 pages + plates in a pocket, private hardcover. A rare ensemble. Estimate: 200 Euro

ARGENTINE – Two boxes with photocopies: 1) Fernando Sturia Collections Buenos Aires, Cordoba & Corrientes, Escuditos & Rivadavias (colour copies); PLUS: Norman Hubbard Collection Argentine 1858–1872 (b/w copies). Both ex Brian Moorhouse. Estimate: 60 Euro

ARGENTINE / BUENOS AIRES – Photo album of BUENOS AIRES stamps, which form part of the UNIVERSAL COLLECTION of new stamps, presented at the Philatelic Exhibitions in Vienna and Turin in 1911, where the COLLECTION won two major awards. Twenty-five copies of this ALBUM have been published, this being No. 9. Its owner is offering it to Mr. Geo H. Worthington ... Buenos Aires, 19 September 1912.– A unique photo album with a total of 1 + 18 cardboard album pages (33 cm wide x 36.5 cm high), each with a glued-in photo page (20.5 x 29 cm) showing images of the stamps and varieties of the Buenos Aires issues. The owner (whose signature can perhaps be identified as ... "...Rodrigues" on the dedication page) offered this unique collection of unused issues to George H. Worthington (1850–1924) in Cleveland, Ohio, who was considered the greatest collector in the United States at the time. The cardboard pages are in good condition, as is the original elaborate cardboard cover with gold embossed title. A bibliophile's dream. Viewing recommended. Estimate: 500 Euro.

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ARGENTINE / CORRIENTES – Stich, Louis: Corrientes. The Issues from 1856–80 (1957), 88 pages, privately hardbound, good condition. PLUS: 1 page with a handcoloured map and 1 page with colour chart for the issues 1874–1880. Estimate: 50 Euro

ARGENTINE / CORRIENTES – Box with research material (many copied articles in journals, paper read before the RPSL 1916, extracts from auction catalogues etc.) + colour copies of a specialiced 5 frame exhibit. PLUS: Stich, Louis: Corrientes. The Issues from 1856–80 (1957), softcover, good condition; PLUS: Lowey, Dr. Leonardo: El Sello de Corrientes (1988), 136 + 1 pages, softcover (due to the oversize of the cover this with small faults). A very good lot for the specialist. Estimate: 80 Euro

BOLIVIA – Boeck, Eugenio von: Bolivia. Estudio de dos Emisiones Postales. Serie de Escuditos de 1894 / Serie de la Puerta del Sol de Tiahuanacu de 1925, 149 + 3 pages, leather bound, good condition. Inside with several pages with reprints or original stamps affixed. Limited edition. This copy is number 227 of an edition of 300 copies printed on 245g cardboard and signed by the author. Good condition. Estimate: 150 Euro

BOLIVIA – Bonilla Lara, Alvaro: Bolivia: Cinco Estudios Filatelicos (1972), 82 + 1 pages, softcover; PLUS: Hilchey, Albert W. / Akerman, Clive: The Revenue Stamps of Bolivia (2010), 60 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Hilchey, Albert W.: The Revenue Stamps of Bolivia (October 20, 1968, Revised February 23, 1974), reproduced as a manuscript, 60 pages, in a folder. Estimate: 50 Euro

BOLIVIA – Escalier, Marcos G. (all titles): Catalogo de las Marcas de Correos de Bolivia 1825–1900, vol. I (1978), 277 pages; PLUS: Catalogo Especializado de las Primeras Emisiones de Sellos y Cancelaciones de Bolivia (1991), 341 pages; PLUS: Guia para la Reconstruccion de las planchas de la Emision Estruch y Emision Condor de Bolivia, Vol. II (1992), 212 pages; PLUS: Challas 1859. Los Primeros Ensayos de Bolivia 1857–1862 (1999), 189 pages, No. 13 of 100 copies printed; PLUS: La Tercera Emision de Sellos Postales de Bolivia 1868–1871 (1996), 270 pages. All items with softcover and in good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro

BOLIVIA – Escalier, Marcos G.: 1863. La Emision Garcia de Bolivia “No Emitidos” (1999), 212 pages, good condition. Estimate: 20 Euro

BOLIVIA – Escalier, Marcos G.: Estudios Postales, Tomo I–VII. Seven volumes, each containing 250 to 290 pages, about Bolivia's first editions. This book series was published between 1986 and 1988, but only in a limited and numbered edition of 50 copies, hardcover with gold lettering on the spine. The numbers of the copies are indicated on the last page and confirmed by the author. A very rare series. Estimate: 500 Euro

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BOLIVIA – Escalier, G. Marcos: La Cuarta Emision de Sellos Postales de Bolivia 1869, 419 pages, softcover; PLUS: diff. authors: Catalogo Especializado de Sellos de Bolivia 1859–1878, tomo 1 + 2, 152 + 6 pages + 203 + 4 pages, hardcover, good condition. Estimate: 60 Euro 

BOLIVIA – Escalier, Marcos G.: La Quinta Emisión de Sellos Postales de Bolivia 1878, 321 pages, softcover, No. 17 of 100 copies printed; PLUS: Pelaez, Manuel Barrau: Los Condores (Estudio) (1974), 60 pages + 16 plates, hardcover, good condition; PLUS: Eliçabe, Ricardo D.: Contribucion al Estudio de los Sellos Postales de Bolivia. Es 50 centavos tipo ‘aguila’ emitido en el año 1867 y sus falsificaciones, 24 pages, privately hardbound, signed by the author. R. King-Farlow wrote in LP 1947: “A ‘contribution’ of very definite merit." No. 150 of 200 copies printed. Good condition and rare! Estimate: 120 Euro

BOLIVIA – Moser, William: Notes on the First Issue of the Stamps of Bolivia. Display 20 March 1903 at the London Philatelic Society (London Philatelist 1905: The Early Bolivians) + original correspondance from H. R. Oldfield (with Heinrich Fraenkel and others 1897–1905) about bolivian issues, in addition original photos. – This album (nearly 50 handwritten pages) is filled with the first Bolivian stamp issues (1867), varieties, blocks, strips, mint and used, and was produced by Moser for the display. There are 17 stamps of the 10 centavos value alone, which is not very common, and nine with the 100 centavos, each in a different version, which is described in detail. It is unique and one of the first display documents of the RPSL! In good condition and a special preserving box. Estimate: 1.000 Euro +

BOLIVIA – Large box with photocopies of excellent exhibits. 1) BM / AW Collection: First Issues (colour copies); 2) Classic Issues - Alex Rendon Collection (b/w copies) / Kurt Goldschmidt Collection (colour copies); PLUS: An extensive folder containing various maps, original photos, advertising material from various airlines in Bolivia and other South American countries, brochure “10 annos CONDOR na America do Sul” 1927–1937, fares, airline announcements, rare material in this variety, including an original announcement sheet from the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company dated December 1, 1881! Total: 36 items, mostly from the 1920s/30s, in good condition! Viewing is recommended. PLUS: Seven issues of the “Primera Memoria Anual” (1926–1931), in slightly varying condition. But very rare! Estimate: 200 Euro

BRAZIL – Ayres, Paulo: Catalogo de Carimbos (Brasil – Imperio) (1937), XXXV + 152 pages, hardcover (content good, but the cover a bit loose), numbered and signed copy 494 of 500. A famous work! PLUS: de Sanctis, Dr. Mario: Carimbos e Marcas Postaes no Brasil (1927), 35 pages, softcover (with a little patina). Estimate: 200 Euro

BRAZIL – Ayres, Paulo: Sélos do Brasil Imperio / Brazilian Stamps Empire. A unique photo album with Portuguese text and photos on the right-hand pages and English translations on the left-hand pages, approx. 30 pages, signed for S. Newbury, August 1, 1942. Probably one of a kind! Well protected in a special bibliophile box. Estimate: 300 Euro +

BRAZIL – Clerot, Leon F.: Catálogo Historico dos Sellos Postaes do Brasil 1843–1925 (1926), 172 pages. hardcover, signed by the author; PLUS: Meyer, Peter: Catálogo Encyclopédico de Selos e História Postal do Brasil das origins à 1890. Special numbered edition (here copy No. 88 of 1.000 for Brian Moorhouse) (1999), 433 pages, hardcover,  (the best ever specialised catalogue of Brazil!); PLUS: The English translation by Peter Meyer: Encyclopaedic Catalogue of The Stamps and Postal History of Brazil (1999), 101 pages, hardcover. All items in very good condition. Estimate 150 Euro

BRAZIL – Dingler, James Alfred / Wanderley Lopes, Klerman: Mute Cancellations of the Brazil Empire (2000, bilingual), 208 pages, softcover; PLUS: Bunselmeyer Ferreira, Henrique: Catálogo ilustrado dos carimbos sobre os olhos-de-boi (2013), 238 pages, softcover. Both items in good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro

BRAZIL – Dos Santos, Rui C.: Estudo da Emissâo D. Pedro II 1866–1876 (1988), 217 pages, softcover, good condition; PLUS: Heinze, E.: Altbrasilien (1919), 20 pages, 1 plate, softcover, good condition; PLUS: Napier, G. S. F.: The Stamps of the Brazilian Empire 1843–1889 (in: “London Philatelist”, No. 541, Jan. 1937), 7 pages (pages are good, the cover of the LP defective). Estimate: 50 Euro

BRAZIL – Guimarâes, Edgar: Catalogo historico e descriptivo dos sellos da “VARIG” (1935), 56 pages + folded page, hardcover; PLUS: Aisslinger, Horst: Die halboffiziellen Flugpostmarken der privaten Luftverkehrsgesellschaften in Brasilien (1971), 17 pages, softcover; PLUS: Oehlke, Rudolf / Nuzinger, Alfred / Wittig, Karlheinz: Zeppelinpost aus Brasilien, 1930–1936, die Bestätigungsstempel (2013), 112 pages, softcover; PLUS: Kriebel, William Victor: Correio Aéreo. A History of the Development of Air Mail Service in Brazil (1996), 206 pages, softcover. All items in good condition. PLUS: Um Catalogo completo dos Sellos da VARIG, published by Casa Philatelica M. Dias & Cia. Estimate: 60 Euro

BRAZIL – Juchert, Bernd (all titles): Ochsenaugen auf Brief / Bull's Eyes on Covers. Eine Studie zur ersten Briefmarkenausgabe Brasiliens und ihrer Verwendung auf Briefen (1st edition 1999), 152 pages, softcover; PLUS: ditto 2nd edition, trilingual 2014, 355 pages with gold edging, hardcover with dust jacket, dedication by the author for Brian Moorhouse; PLUS: Goat's Eyes on Covers / Ziegenaugen auf Brief. A study for the use of the second issue of Brazil on covers (2001, bilingual), 86 pages, softcover; PLUS: Ochsenaugen im Viererblock. Eine Studie zum Vorkommen der ersten Briefmarkenausgabe Brasiliens in Einheiten (1st edition of 50 books 2014), 88 pages, softcover. All items in good condition. Estimate: 200 Euro

BRAZIL – Kloke, José: Os Olhos de Boi (1938), 83 pages + 15 plates, softcover (the cover with some faults) + the German translation of the book ("Die Ochsenaugen"), newly illustrated, 98 page, softcover, as new; PLUS: Brookman, L. G.: Bulls Eyes. Stamps of Brazil (reprinted from the July, 1943, ‘American Philatelist’), 22 pages, softcover, with signature of the author; PLUS: Alemany, Luis: Brazil: “Bull's Eyes”. First America's stamps 1843 (2004), 95 pages, softcover, good condition; PLUS: Studart, Marcelo G. C.: Falsificaçôes e Fraudaçôes na Filatelia Brasileira (1995), 256 pages, softcover, good condition. Estimate: 100 Euro