MISCELLANEOUS, LITERATURE

Lot 31		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 Victoria: 'The Stamps of Victoria' by Geoff Kellow, hardbound with dust-jacket. New. Retail AU$155
Lot 32		Estimate: $150 Victoria: 'The Pre-UPU Destination Mail of Victoria' (2009) by Ben Palmer, hardbound with dust jacket, profusely illustrated. New
Lot 33		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $60 Victoria: Two Purves handbooks - 'The Postal History of the Port Phillip District 1835-1851' and 'The Barred Numeral Cancellations 1856-1912'
Lot 34		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $230 Australia: 'The Australian Commonwealth Specialists' Catalogue' (1999-2004), loose-leaf set of nine editions in four binders (KGV 2nd edition, KGVI and QEII 1st editions). Valuable international award-winning references, published by Brusden-White. New. Normal retail AU$600
Lot 35		Estimate: $300 'King George VI Stamp Album' 4th edition (1968), printed by Stanley Gibbons Ltd., green cover. As new in cardboard slip-case
Lot 36		'The Postage Stamps, Envelopes and Post Cards of Australia and the British Colonies of Oceania' (Philatelic Society, London, 1887), hardbound with plates, title page torn otherwise in very fine condition for this scarce title
Lot 37		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $70 New Guinea: 'The Postal History of the Territory of New Guinea from 1888 to 1942' by Powell (Hawthorn Press, 1964); also the 'S.P.A. Journal' of May 1971 containing a 12 page article on 'New Britain' by Thomas Belknap
Lot 38		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $60 'Between the Lines - A Short History of the Development of the Post Office in Western Australia', published by Wim Smits in 1979, two volumes in slipcase comprising text and souvenir covers
Lot 39		Estimate: $50 Realised Price : $75 Auction Catalogues: 'The Philatelic Collection formed by Sir Gawaine Baillie, BT' (2005) Sotheby's in Melbourne. Invaluable reference
Lot 40		Estimate: $75 Afghanistan: '1840-2002 Postal History Handbook' (2002), 108 pages, revised edition by J.M. Wilkins, including postmark grid. New
Lot 41		Estimate: $140 Realised Price : $110 Robson Lowe Encyclopaedias Vol. 1 Great Britain and the Empire in Europe (1st ed, 1948) and Vol. II The Empire in Africa (1949), both in good condition
Lot 42		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $60 U.S.A.: Robert A Siegel sales, largely U.S.A. with many of the important name sales from 1970s onwards, also few rarities sales (approx 50). Great reading