387th Auction

FRANCE – Beaufond, E. H. de: Catalogue des Oblitérations des Timbres Poste de France 1876–1900 Émission au Type Sage avec le concours du Dr. G. Loew et de nombreux spécialites (1960), 254 + II pages, softcover, a special print for Mr. Pedro Ponge on a different thick paper. Unique? Estimate: 100 Euro

FRANCE – Beaufond, E. H.: Catalogue des Oblitérations des Timbres de France 1876–1900. Émission au type Sage (1960), 254 pages, with dedication and signature, hardcover, the spine is partially open at one seam, otherwise the book is good. Estimate: 100 Euro

FRANCE – Belloc, Alexis: Les Postes Françaises. Recherches historiques sur leur Originie, leur Développment, leur Législation (Paris 1886), 783 pages, hardcover with gold title imprint on the spine. Paper inside partly with marginal toning/patina, but overall acceptable and rare! Estimate: 200 Euro

FRANCE – Bernede, Charles: Des Postes en général et particulièrement en France (1826), 177 pages, early and important postal history work, hardcover, not listed in Crawford catalogue, some pages with age toning/Patina. Estimate: 150 Euro

FRANCE – Bertrand, Gustave: Vignettes de France. Catalogue de Vignettes non postales et non fiscales de France avec indication de leur valeur (1937), 714 pages, hardcover (half leather bibliophile binding). After page 714 there is a numbering of this book (number 6 of 60) with the author's signature. Very rare book. Estimate: 300 Euro

FRANCE – Blanc, Emmanuel: Bibliographie française des Postes et de la Philatélie (1949), 170 pages, softcover; PLUS: Nougaret, Pierre: Bibliographie Critique de l'Histoire Postale Française, Tome 1 + 2 (1970), these books have no pagination, but the book was so thick that it had to be divided in two volumes. Softcover. Good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro

FRANCE – Bosredon, Ph. de: Observations sur Le Papier Timbré du Comté de Montfort (1884), 21 pages, softcover. Not listed in Crawford Cat., cover some faults, but rare! Estimate: 60 Euro

FRANCE – Bosredon, Philip: Monographie des Timbres Fiscaux Mobiles de la France et des Colonies françaises (1874), 100 pages, coloured paper wrapper, printed on normal white paper, but this brochure is very special. Not only because it was the first (?) publication on fiscal stamps ever, it also contains a dedication by the publisher – this was Pierre Mahé in Paris! – to the legendary first philatelist of Spain (Dr. Thebussem > Pardo de Figuero). A unique copy! The condition is respectable for the time and age. Estimate: 200 Euro

FRANCE – Bouvet, P.: Étude sur le 25 Centimes Sage Colonial noir sur laque Rouge (1936), 16 pages, 16 pages; PLUS: Bouvet, P.: Le 5 Centimes de l'Empire, 32 pages; PLUS: Bouvet, P.: Le 20 Centimes non dentelée de l'Empire au type primitif (dit “Type I”), 1946, 21 pages. PLUS: Crustin, J.: Le 20 Centimes au type Médaillon de la Planche de 300 de 1861–1865, 150 copies printed, this is No. 128, with signature of the author. Estimate: 100 Euro

FRANCE – Braun, Thomas: Philatélie (1910), 26 pages, softcover; PLUS: Les Études de l'Assocation Timbrologique du Midi, Cahier No. 1–4 (1948–1952), each issue with different studies and up to 60 pages, softcover; PLUS: Frégnac, E.: Catalogue des marques postales estampilles et oblitérations de la Corse de 1739 à 1904 (1947), 41 pages, softcover; PLUS: Gethin, R. G.: Fakes and Forgeries of 20th Century French Postage Stamps (2006), A4 format, 148 pages, softcover; PLUS: Mehrtens, G.: Some remarks on the public German Post Offices in France with special reference to foreign mails (2015), 42 + 2 pages, softcover; PLUS: Noel, Gilbert / Blanc, Joel / Delwaulle, Jean-Claude: Les Chiffres-Taxe Carrés 1859–1882 (1996), 132 + 12 pages, softcover. – All publications in good condition. Estimate: 180 Euro

FRANCE – Brunel, Georges: La Poste à Paris depuis sa création jusqu' à nos jours (1920), 396 pages, with 372 illustrations, hardcover. Inside is an ex libris bookplate by Pedro-Antonio de Guezala y Ayrivie (1889–1956), a spanish artist, philatelist and literature collector. Rare! Estimate: 120 Euro

FRANCE – Brunel, Georges: Le timbre-post français étude historique et anecdotique de la poste et du timbre en France et dans les colonies françaises (1896), 302 pages, the original had a coloured paper wrapper, this copy is a wonderful half leather bibliophile binding. The endpapers and paper edges partly with slight toning. Estimate: 250 Euro

FRANCE – Brunel, Georges: Les Émissions de Timbres-Poste Française de 1849. Étude Historique à Philatélique (2nd edition 1929, 301 pages + 10 plates, softcover; PLUS: Dillemann, Paul: Description Générale des Timbres-Poste de l'Emission Bordeaux 1870–1871 (1929), 249 pages, limited special edition of 50 copies, this is No. 9 with dedication/signature of the author; the front of the paper cover is separated from the book, but here fixed by a glassine binding around it, also housed in a bibliophile box. Rare work; PLUS: Dubois, Henri: Histoire Postale du Département des Pyrénées-Orientales, 140 pages, softcover. Estimate: 120 Euro 

FRANCE – Brunel, Georges: Les Mutations des Bureaux de Poste de Paris de l'origine 1760 à nos jours (1934), 42 pages, softcover; PLUS: Chamboissier, Léon: La Poste a Paris pendant le Siege et sous la Commune 1870–1871, 85 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Beaufond, E. H. de: Catalogue des Marques Postales dites “Noms Révolutionnaires” 1793 (1945), 54 pages, softcover, rare; PLUS: Desmonts, Michel: Les Postes Locales 1758–1810 et la Petite Poste de Rouen 1778–1800 (1932), 41 pages, softcover; PLUS: Chapier, G. / Demange, V.: Les Vignettes de Colis Postaux de Paris (1933), 20 pages, softcover. Good ensemble. Estimate: 100 Euro

FRANCE – Chase, Carrol: Les Cachets de routes du Bureau Central de Paris 1838–1856 (1937), 48 pages, half leather hardcover with gold title imprint on spine. This is No. 11 of the 25 copies printed. Good condition. Rare. Estimate: 100 Euro

FRANCE – Chauvet, Michèle (+ Alain Trinquier for the 2nd vol.): Les Colonies Françaises. Tarifs et Service Postal 1848–1878 Les Colonies d'Amerique (2008), 440 pages, hardcover, dedication by the author for T. Bjäringer; PLUS Les Colonies Françaises. Tarifs et Service Postal 1848–1878 Les Colonies d'Asie et d'Océanie, 526 pages, hardcover, both books as new. Former publisher's price: 285 Euro. Out of print! Estimate: 300 Euro

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FRANCE – Chauvet, Michèle: La collection La Fayette. Timbres mythiques de France (2003), 297 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, signed by the author and dedicated to T. Bjäringer; PLUS: Chauvet, Michèle & Brun, Jean-François: Cérès 1849. La Première Émission de France et ses Usages Postaux de la collection Joseph Hackmey (publ. by D. Feldman 2009). IV + 193 pages, hardcover, both books as new. Estimate: 100 Euro

FRANCE – Chauvet, Michelle: L'Empire Lauré (2020), 304 pages, hardcover, including a personal letter of the author to T. Bjäringer; PLUS: Chauvet/Duteau: La vie quotidienne dans les lazarets. Vivre ou mourir, 60 pages, softcover. Both as new. Estimate: 100 Euro

FRANCE – De Pomyers, Comte Olivier: Les Précursors des Colonies Françaises (1935), 1 + 68 + pages, softcover;  PLUS: De Pomyers, Comte Olivier: Les Premiers Timbres de Colonies Françaises (1957), 157 pages. 60 special numbered copies printed, this is No. 15. Softcover, Good condition. Rare! Estimate: 160 Euro

FRANCE – Delrieu, Henri / Moutafoff, L.-J.: Marques postales et oblitérations du Comté de Nice. Les Alpes-Maritimes 85–87 (1947), 274 pages, 1 map, 4 tabl., softcover, number IX/L, signed and dedicated. Estimate: 150 Euro

@Heinrich Köhler auction 364, 21.3.2017, lot No. 10063, No. 2/50, 130 Euro + 20%

FRANCE – Devaux, Alexandre: Les papiers et parchemins timbrés de France, ancien régime 1673–1781 (Lille 1911), 376 pages, perfectly bound in a beautiful bibliophile hardcover, inside ex libris Monge y Pineda, not in Crawford, very good condition and very rare! Estimate: 350 Euro

FRANCE – Doé, F.: Les Estampiles postales françaises (1900), 8 + 415 pages + 4 p., originally published with a coloured wrapper, this copy is privately bound in half leather, good condition, rare! PLUS: Doé, P.: Les Chiffres-Taxe de France 1858–1928 (1929), 44 pages, hardcover; not common; PLUS: Chapellier, Marcel: Les Oblitérations des Bureaux de Paris sur les timbres au type Sage 1876–1900 (1952), 109 pages, softcover, with author's dedication; PLUS: Blanc, Emmanuel: Les Anciens Timbres Français et leurs oblitérations (1946), 168 pages, softcover (the cover is loose); PLUS: Cailler, André: Le 20 Centimes Emission du Siège de Paris de 1870. Reconstitution du Panneau D4 (1958), format ca. A4, 27 pages, softcover; PLUS:  Cailler, André: Etude de la Grande Cassure du 25 Centimes Cérès de 1871 et de ses Remplaçants (1955), 26 pages + 2 photoplates, softcover. A nice ensemble of rare publications! Estimate: 450 Euro

FRANCE – Dubus, L.: Les Acheminées ou Forwarded Français (1944), 48 pages + supplement (1975), 40 pages, both softcover, good condition; PLUS: Bouvet, P.: Les Commandes de Timbres ètrangers a la Monnaie de Paris (1948), 47 pages, softcover; PLUS: Chase, Dr. Carroll/Lenain, Louis; Les Bureaux Français a l'Etranger du XVI' siècle à 1817. Les bureaux étranger à Rome avant 1810 (1961), 80 pages, softcover; PLUS: Carnévale-Mauzan, Marino: La Purification des Lettres en France et a Malta (1960), 75 page, softcover; PLUS: Lenain, Louis: Les Marques Postales du Bureau Français de Genève 1669–1798 (1955), 32 pages, softcover, some toning; PLUS: Lorne, Henri: Catalogue des Cachets des Bureaux de Passe (1954), 23 pages, softcover. Most items in good condition. Estimate: 120 Euro

FRANCE – Dubus, L.: Marques Postales, Series with No. 16 (La Charente Inférieure (1958, 64 pages), 30 (La Haute-Garonne (1945, 42 pages), 48 La Manche (1945, 50 pages), 57 Le Nord (1947, 90 pages), 61 Le Pas-de-Calais (1945), 52 pages), 68-88-84 Le Rhone et La Loire (1957, pp. 65–150), 78 Le Var (1949, 64 pages). No. 48, 57 and 78 are signed by the author with the numbers 17/25, 35/35 and 23/25. Contemporary preservation. Estimate: 70 Euro

FRANCE – Dumont, G.-A.-L. / Janet, H.: 20 centimes Empire lauré, type 2 1868–1871 (1938), 44 pages (large format), 13 plates, signed Dumont, softcover; PLUS: 20 centimes Empire non lauré, type retouché 1860–1868, 34 pages, 6 plates, softcover. Both together in a slip case and in good condition. Very rare! Estimate: 300 Euro

FRANCE – Durant, Oswald: Les Timbres des Colonies Françaises (1943), 216 pages, softcover; PLUS: de Vinck de Winnezeele, Baron: Projet de Statut des Variétés pour les Timbres des Bureaux Français et des Colonies émis de 1852 à 1918 (1929), 47 pages, softcover; PLUS: Histoire des Timbres-Poste au Type Sage 1875–1976 (1980), 223 pages, softcover. Estimate:80 Euro

FRANCE – Dutau, Guy: La Désinfection du Courrier en France et dans es Pays Occupés. Histoire, réglements, lazarets, pratiques (2nd edition 2021). Format A4, XXXII + 825 pages, hardcover, with a letter and a dedication of the author to Tomas Bjäringer. Estimate: 80 Euro

FRANCE – Etude sur les accidents des clichés du 25 cent Cérès 1872–75: the three types and the hundreds of varieties. As the author A. Riom himself writes on September 1, 1942 ("Exemplaire Unique"). The extensive privately bound book contains photos and full-page enlarged photos of the varieties. It is truly unique in this way. Well preserved. Estimate: 200 Euro

FRANCE – Ferrier, Maurice: La Poste aux Armées (1975), 445 pages, hardcover with dust jacket; PLUS: Bianchi, Paolo: The history of the mail organization inside the Greatest Army of the XIX century (2022), 144 pages, bilingual (French/English), hardcover with dust jacket. Both books in very good condition.. Estimate: 100 Euro

FRANCE – Fontaines, R. de: Histoire Postale ou Territoire de Belfort (1961), 259 + 30 pages, bibliophile bound hardcover with title imprint on spine; PLUS: Barrier, Louis: Essai sur “Les Semeuses” (1952), 231 pages, softcover; PLUS: Marques Postales et Oblitérations de Savoie 1792–1975 (1960), 32 pages, softcover; PLUS: Hermand, Paul: Notes sur l'Emission Provisoire des Timbres-Poste Français dits de “Bordeaux” (1901, 45 + 4 pages, hardcover with silver title imprint, good condition, rare study! Estimate: 200 Euro

FRANCE – François, L.: Guerre de 1870–1871. Les Correspondances par Ballon Monté du siége de Paris (1925), 119 pages, 1 tableau, illustrated, half leather bound, good condition. With a dedication. No 17 of a special print. Good condition; PLUS: Lhéritier, Gérard: Les Ballon Montes. Boules de Moulins Pigeongrammes Papillons de Metz (1994), 310 pages, hardcover, as new; PLUS: Lhéritier, Gérard: Collection 1870. Ballon Montés Boules de Moulins. Valeurs & Références, Edition 2000, in five languages, 432 pages, hardcover, as new. Nice lot! Estimate: 140 Euro

FRANCE – Frank, P. de: Les marques postales de la Grande armée par son histoire, 1805–1808 (1948), 285 pages, softcover. Estimate: 80 Euro

FRANCE – Gachot, Henri: Histoire de la Poste aux Lettres a Strasbourg (1964), 291 pages, hardcover, good condition; PLUS: Lagassagne, Jean: Les Bureaux de Poste du département de l'Aveyron. (11) 1695–1876 (1975), 136 pages, softcover, with a dedication of the author to Jean Storch, the ex libris of Storch is inside! Nice item! Estimate: 80 Euro

FRANCE – Germain, Pierre: Le 25 centimes Cérès de 1871 au type I. Reconstitution des planches dans l'ordre numerique d'après les défauts des clichés (1952), 289 pages, hardcover; No. 94 of a special edition, signed by the author + publisher; hardcover; PLUS same author/title, but subtitle: Méthode pratique pour trouver la place d'un timbre dans l'un des six panneaux (1952), hardcover, both in good condition. Estimate: 120 Euro

FRANCE – Germain, Pierre: Le 25 centimes Cérès de 1871 au type II (2 volumes 1963), vol. 1: 230 pages, vol. 2: 138 pages, ca. 700 illustrations, softcover. Good condition. Estimate: 120 Euro

FRANCE – Issanchou, Henri: Le livre d'or des Postes (1885), 230 pages, bibliophile bound as half leather hardcover, not in Crawford, rare; PLUS: Pothion, Vincent: Nomenclature des Bureaux de Postes Français 1852–1876. Petits & gros chiffres cotés (1988), 107 pages, softcover; PLUS: 3 small brochures written by Thouvignon, F. (1953–1955). All in good condition. Estimate: 120 Euro