387th Auction

DANISH WEST INDIES – Birch, J. Alfred: Postal History of the United States Virgin Islands (Formerly the Danish West Indies) (1966), 40 pages, softcover, good condition (plus a second copy with faults, but formerly in the Ringström library); PLUS: Hagemann, G. A.: Dansk-Vestindiske Postfrimærker 1855–1917. Dansk-Vestindiske Julemærker (1942), 8 pages, softcover; PLUS: Mathiesen, Henning: Dansk Vestindiske Portotakster 1856–1917 (1981, article, published in Nordisk Filatelistisk Tidsskrift, pp. 137–173), softcover; PLUS: Engstrom, Victor E.: Danish West Indies Postal Stationary (1971), 52 pages, softcover; PLUS: Hagemann, G. A.: The Stamps of the Danish West Indies (Copenhagen 1930), 110 pages, hardcover, signed, rare book, the book has a hole in the top left corner, the cover is dirty and has some flaws, but the text is still in perfect condition. - This is the original copy of the book that Hagemann always exhibited with his collection and attached to a frame, therefore the hole in the book!Estimate: 100 Euro

DANISH WEST INDIES – DuBois, John L.: Danish West Indies Mails 1754–1917. Volume I – Postal History (2nd edition 2000), 191 pages, hardcover. PLUS: Wijnants, Paul: Bibliography of Danish West Indies Philately (2001), 88 pages, hardcover, No. 31 of 200 copies, signed for Tomas Bjäringer. PLUS: Hagemann, G. A.: The Stamps of the Danish West Indies (Copenhagen 1930), 110 pages with all the original reprints, hardcover with a slipcase, No. 125 of 300 copies, all items in good condition. Estimate: 180 Euro

@ Corinphila Veilingen, # 257, 13.9.2023, lot 785: 100 Euro + 25% (for the Hagemann book only)

DANISH WEST INDIES – Hagemann, G. A.: Danmarks og Dansk Vestindiens Frimærker (Copenhagen 1942), 135 pages, hardcover, de-luxe edition (No. 203), with all the original reprints, good condition. PLUS: Hagemann, G. A.: Danmarks og Dansk Vestindiens Tofarvede Frimærker 1870–1905 (Copenhagen 1940), 203 pages, hardcover, de-luxe edition, with dedication page of the author, good condition. PLUS: Hagemann, G. A.: Danmarks og Dansk Vestindiens Frimærker (Bind 4, Copenhagen 1951), 190 pages, hardcover, de-luxe edition, numbered and signed copy No. 1A ("own copy G. A. Hagemann" wth two cancelled stamps and his ex libris inside!. Very rare ensemble like this! Estimate: 200 Euro

DANISH WEST INDIES – Stone, Robert G.: Danish West Indies Mails, 1754–1917 (Washington 1979), Vol. I: Postal History, five chapters with ca. 180 pages, signed by Victor E. Engstrom; + Volume II (1981) written by different authors: The Postal Emissions, numbered 001, ca. 200 + pages; Volume III: ditto (1982). A fundamental and rare work, three red hardcover books in good condition. Estimate: 300 Euro

DOMINICA – Mueses, Danilo A. / Prida, Juan Manuel: Tarifas Postales Dominicanas 1851–2009 (2010), 148 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Toeg, E. V.: Dominica. Postal History, Stamps and Postal Stationary to 1935. Volume I (1994), 216 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, No. 145 of 300 copies printed. Both books in good condition. Estimate: 80 Euros

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – Mueses, Danilo A.: El Correo Español en Santo Domingo / The Spanish Postal System in Santo Domingo (2013), bilingual, 188 pages, hardcover with slip case, as new; PLUS: Mueses, Danilo A. / Prida, Juan Manuel: El Correo Yankee en Santo Domingo / Yankee Post Offices in Santo Domingo (2015), 248 pages, softcover, as new; PLUS: Stoddard, T. Lothrop: The French Revolution in San Domingo (1914), 410 pages, hardcover, library copy. Estimate: 100 Euro

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – Mueses, Danilo A.: emisiones postales dominicanas 1865–1965 (1999), 333 pages, softcover, good condition; PLUS: Mueses, Danilo A.: Dominican Republic. The Classic Stamps / República Dominicana. Los Sellos Clásicos (2001), 240 pages, leather hardcover with gold title imprint on front and spine, the book is well preserved, but the book block is partially detached (can be glued back together!). PLUS: Mueses, Danilo A.: La Emisión de 1880 y sus derivaciones (2008), 118 pages, softcover, good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro

EL SALVADOR – Gallegos, F. / Hahn, Joseph D.: The Prestamp Period of El Salvador (1525–1866) (Chicago 2015), 297 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, as new. Estimate: 75 Euro

GRENADA – Bacon, E. D. / Napier, F. H.: Grenada: to which is prefixed an account of the perforations of the Perkins Bacon printed stamps of the British Colonies. Stanley Gibbons handbook No. 7 (1902), 173 pages + 4 plates. Pages with gold edging, hardcover with decorative gold title, unprinted front covers and only a few pages in the book have foxing, otherwise the book is in good condition. PLUS: Sefi, Alexander J.: The Postage Stamps of Grenada (London 1912, The ‘W.E.P.’ Series of Philatelic handbooks, No. 8), 40 pages, softcover, good condition. Estimate: 120 Euro

GRENADA – Pearce, Tim: Grenada. The Stamps and Postal History from 1763–1952 (2021), VI + 188 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, as new. Estimate: 40 Euro

GUADELOUPE – Dubus, L. / Pannetier, P. / Marchand, A.: Les Correspondences des Colonies Françaises avec Timbres des Emissions Générales, La Guadeloupe (1958), 214 pages, half leather hardcover with gold titel imprint on spine; PLUS: Bulletin de La Société d'Histoire de la Guadeloupe (No. 7/1967), 78 pages, softcover; PLUS: Tableaux. Destinés à illustrer l'etude sur les Timbres de La Guadeloupe. Commencée dans le Bulletin Mensuel Théodore Champion du 25 Mars 1914, 12 plates. Average condition. Estimate: 50 Euro

GUATEMALA – Bose, Walter B. L.: Los orígines del correo terrestre en Guatemala (1939), 42 pages, softcover, signed and dedicated by the author to Dr. Elicabe! PLUS: Narath, Prof. Dr. Albert: Beiträge zur Stempelkunde von Guatemala. I. Teil: Die Nummernstempel, 34 pages + II. Teil: Die stummen Stempel, 40 pages text + 703 illustrated cancellations, hardcover with gold title imprint on spine; PLUS: Andrews, James C.: A Handbook of Guatemalan Telegraph Stamps, 24 pages, softcover; PLUS: Andrews, James C.: Guatemala. Postal use of its fiscal stamps and fiscal use of its postal stamps (1971), 12 pages, softcover; + 4 more small studies in Dutch and Spanisch language. All items in good condition. Estimate: 70 Euro

GUATEMALA – Herrera, J. Humberto Rodriguez: Guia Geografica Postal (1961),  304 pages + 2 folded maps, hardcover; PLUS: Gruson, Cécile: Guatemala Postal Markings. A Philatelic Exhibit (2015), 139 pages, softcover. Both items in good condition. Estimate: 50 Euro

GUATEMALA – Large Box with photocopies of different high class Guatemala collections: Fritz Lange Collection: The Small Quetzal Issues, BM / AW Collection; José Luis Castillejo Collections plus Arthur K M Woo: Guatemala – The 1879 and 1881 Quetzal Issues (Singapore 95: Gold). Estimate: 50 Euro

GUATEMALA – The 1879 and 1881 Small Quetzal Issues. Colour copies of an extensive Guatemala special collection; the loose pages are not numbered. PLUS: A second loose-leaf collection of black-and-white copies documents a collection entitled ‘Guatemala. Postal History 1871–1900’ (‘Gilbert Coll.’) Good material for the researching philatelist. Estimate: 30 Euro

HAITI – Jeannopoulos, Peter C.: A Study of Haiti's 20 Centime lithographed stamp of 1895 and Plating Guide (1987), 57 + 2 pages, spiral binding; PLUS from the same author: Haiti's 50c Alexis Stamp of 1904, 72 pages, softcover; PLUS from the same author: Haiti's 1902 Provisional Issue (2008), 118 pages, softcover, No. 84 of 125 printed copies. All in good condition. Estimate: 70 Euro

HAITI – Jeannopoulos, Peter C.: Early Air Mail of Haiti (2010), 28 pages, softcover; PLUS: same author: U.S. Navy Postmarks in Haitian Waters, 1914–1939 (2014), 116 pages, softcover; PLUS: Levine, Barbara A.: Haiti's First Flights (2015), 45 pages, softcover. All items in good condition. Estimate: 50 Euro

HAITI – Montés, Leon: La Timbrologie Haitienne 1881–1954 (1954), 205 pages, hardcover with gold title imprint on spine; PLUS: Melville, Fred J.: The Postage Stamps of Hayti (London), 69 pages, privately bound with gold title imprint on spine; PLUS: Hennan, Clarence W.: Haiti. Postal History and Stamps (1953), a good photocopy of the 336 pages of the original book, privately bound with gold title imprint on spine; all in good condition. Estimate: 100 Euro

HAITI – B/W Copies of specialized Haiti exhibits: Classic of Haiti. 1st July 1881. The Imperforated Issue (65 pages) PLUS: 1882–1885. The Perforated Issue, both together 160 pages. In plastic folder. PLUS: The L. Wallace Dean Collection: Postal History of Saint-Domingue and Haiti to 1881, with evaluations of the material. PLUS: Copies of 86 expert certificates, which Brian Moorhouse made for Haiti-material. Rare lot for the specialist and fantastic research material. Estimate: 100 Euro

HONDURAS – Bendeck, Nazry: Prefilatelia de Honduras (1982), 23 pages, softcover, 500 copies printed; PLUS: Green, Irving I.: The Black Honduras. The World's Rarest Air Mail Stamp  (1962), 32 pages, softcover; PLUS: Lawrence, Ken: World's Rarest Air Mail Stamp. The Black Honduras (2016), 19 + 2 pages, softcover; PLUS: Huston, R. G.: Journey in Honduras and Jottings by the way. Inter-oceanic Railway (1875, REPRINT 1988), 39 pages, softcover. All items in good condition. Estimate: 30 Euro

HONDURAS – Photocopies of two excellent exhibits: Giana Wayman: Classics (colour copies) and Henry Madden: Morazans, both in a large folder. Estimate: 20 Euro

JAMAICA – Collet, G. W. / Buckland, E. W. / Morton, C. S.: Jamaica. Its Postal History, Postage Stamps and Postmarks (1928), VIII + 248 + 8 pages with gold edging, bound in a decorative and bibliophile hardcover in very good condition and impressive; PLUS: Potter, Ian A.: The Postal Markings of Jamaica, 424 pages, hardcover, as new. Estimate: 100 Euro

JAMAICA – Foster, Thomas: Jamaica. The Postal History 1662–1860 (1968), XII + 180 pages, hardcover with dust jacket; PLUS: Johnson, Alfred N.: Jamaica. A Review of the Nation's Postal History and Postage (1964), 62 pages, softcover; both items in good  condition. Estimate: 40 Euro

MARITIME MAIL – Rego, Michael R.: Steamship Lines to the Caribbean, vol. I–III (2005–2008), 778 pages, softcover. vol. III, signed. Good condition. Estimate: 100 Euro

MEXICO – Aguirre, Eduardo: Los Timbres Provisiorios de Campeche. Algunas onsideraciones sobre Fechas de Emision, Valores, Uso y Falsificacion de estos Timbres (1914), 35 pages, softcover. This lot includes No. 117 of the 200 copies printed (redbrown softcover) + No. 5/200 (nearly black softcover, this one a bit faded). A rare “couple”, preserved in a bibliophile box. Estimate: 200 Euro

MEXICO – Bellows, Walter Clarke: Campeche. Some Notes on the Most Remarkable Postage Stamp Ever Issued (1909), 103 pages, hardbound, No. 9 of 100 books produced! Signed by the author. – One of the most remarkable and beautiful philatelic books ever published. Produced on handmade rag paper with facsimile stamps, maps, historic photographs all of which detail the provisional stamps of Mexico once belonging to author. A veritable treasure. The book is in good condition and in a special preservation box. Only the hardcover shows some patina and signs of age. Estimation: 500 Euro

MEXICO – Bellows, Walter Clarke: Campeche. Some Notes on the Most Remarkable Postage Stamp Ever Issued (New York, "1st edition” 1908)! Type written manuscript and duplicated with 77 pages, in a cardboard  folder. Amrhein wrote to T. Bjäringer about this copy: “Your ‘1908’ is a real rarity. I do not know how many copies were made”. Amrhein only knew about a copy at the Smithsonian (perhaps the one of George Turner). Bjäringer's copy is signed by the author (6th Nov. 1908) and is much rarer than the version of 1909. For the time in a good condition, preserved in a bibliophile box. Estimate: 300 Euro

MEXICO – Billings, R. R.: Mexico. Postal Issue of 1874–1883 (Hidalgo Heads) (ca. 1961), 81 pages, hardcover; PLUS: Chittenden, J. Brace: Mexico Issue of 1873–1883 (1918), the first Collectors Club Handbook! 61 pages, hardcover, edition of 250 copies, both books in good condition. Estimate: 70 Euro

MEXICO – Chapman, S.: The Eagle and Maximilian Stamps of Mexico (London 1912), XIII + 149 pages (pages with gold edging)  + coloured maps in a slip case, full leather binding with gold title imprint on spine, of this edition only five presentation copies were printed, this is No. 4, signed by the author. A nearly unique bibliophilic item in perfect condition. In the last 30 years only three times offered. Estimate: 3.000 Euro

@ Balasse # 1526, 2.3.2005, lot 246: 3.000 Euro + 14 %

MEXICO – Chapman, S.: The Postage Stamps of Mexico from the commencement in 1856, to the end of the provisional period in 1868 (1926), 29 + CCCVII + 17 pages and 5 plates, pages with gold edging, leather bound hardcover, this is one of the rarest philatelic books ever! No. 3 of 15 copies of this kind (normal edition: 150 copies), signed by the author. Good condition. Already the normal edition is sold between 300 and 700 Euros, but this de-luxe edition is much rarer. Estimate: 1.500 Euro

MEXICO – Collin, Henry / Calman, Henry L.: Catalogue of the Stamps, Envelopes, Wrappers and Postal Cards of Mexico including the Provisional Issues of Campeche, Chiapas, Guadalajara, Etc. (1895), 117 pages, hardcover, with gold title imprint; PLUS: Ferrer Zavala, Arturo: Catálogo de Enteros Postales de México. Volumen I: 1874–1894 (2010), 273 pages, softcover. Both items in good condition. Estimate: 120 Euro

MEXICO – Corbett, Leo V.: Imperial Eagles of Maximilian's Mexico (1993), VII + 406 + VII pages with gold edges, hardbound, copy 224 of 300 printed, good condition. Estimate: 200 Euro

MEXICO – Cossio, José L.: Breves Apunted Sobre los Timbres del Correo Mexicano de 1874 a 1883 (1935), 80 pages, softcover (cover with minor signs of age, inside is the brochure in good condition.), No. 167 of 250 copies printed; PLUS: Enfield, Roderick: Stamps of Oaxaca, 11 pages, softcover (this with some faults); PLUS: Gutman, Isaac / Liera, Roberto: Guadalajara. Distrito Postal, 61 pages, 1 map + 9 pages with 161 cancellations illustrated, softcover, good condition; PLUS: Heath, John M.: The British Postal Agencies in Mexico City, Vera Cruz and Tampico 1825–1876 and the use of British Postage Stamps in Mexico, 20 pages, softcover, good condition; PLUS: Wijnants, Paul: The Mail of the Foreign Expeditionary Forces in Mexico 1861–1867 (2018). 44 pages, softcover, good condition. Estimate: 70 Euro

MEXICO – Cossio, José L.: Sellos usados en las oficinas de Correos de La Republica Mexicana durante los años de 1868 à 1879 (1961), 465 pages, hardcover, with a dedication to Albert Quast, good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro

MEXICO – Heath, John / Stout, Doug: Mexico. The 1868 Issue. A Specialist Handbook (2nd edtion 2005), 262 pages + 8 colour plates, hardbound with dust jacket, copy No. 12 of 200 copies printed. Good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro

MEXICO – Herrasti, Salvador: Relations of Value and Study of Prices of all Stamps in Mexico pertaining to the various Districts that used quantities of known stamps (1937, bilingual), 351 + 2 pages, hardcover, No. 5 of 100 copies printed and signed by the author. Good condition. Estimate: 80 Euro