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HOLLAND FIRST FLIGHT TO NEW YORK 1946

HOLLAND FIRST FLIGHT TO NEW YORK 1946

plain cover for the First Flight Amsterdam – New York, franked with Wilhelmina 7½c, 12½c, 15c + 5c Cruiser & 12½c small portrait issues (SG 599, 601-2, 598, 509), all cancelled Rotterdam 6 May 1946; with special First Flight cachet in violet; red h/s ‘Retour à l’expéditeur; b/s New York 22 May 1946

ITALIAN PARCEL CARD WITH PACCHI POSTALI LABELS 1929

ITALIAN PARCEL CARD WITH PACCHI POSTALI LABELS 1929

Italian 2 lire 50 ‘Bulletin d’expédition’ to Zurich with 4 different ‘pacchi postali’ labels affixed (only the left hand portion goes on the parcel card) 3 lire, 20c, 25c, 30c, cancelled Naples 18 December 1929; with datestamp Chiasso Stazione Poste Italiane 21 December 1929: also with unclear control cachet & large MS endorsement 1,30 charge mark: on revese Zurich 22 arrival 27 December 1929: a neat attractive example

BOOK RED CROSS INTERNATIONAL, CENTENARY HISTORY 1959

BOOK RED CROSS INTERNATIONAL

Hardback work ‘Red Cross International & the Strategy of Peace’ by James Avery Joyce, Hodder & Stoughton 1959, 270pps with dust jacket, many illustrations, indexed, wth summary of the Geneva Conventions: a centenary history of the organisation since its foundation by Henri Dunant after the terrible carnage at the Battle of Solferino 24 June 1859: (postage GB 1st £3.50, 2nd £3.00, abroad £9.00)

BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY FIRST-AID MANUAL 1939

BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY FIRST-AID MANUAL 1939

Small pocket-sized hardback, British Red Cross Society First-Aid Manual No 1 by St J D Buxton, 8th edition, Cassells 1939, 340pps indexed, very detailed with instructions and illustrations of how to deal with many situations (ex Manchester Casualty Service); slight wear to spine but in good sound condition (marked in the introduction where a name has been crossed out): (postage GB 1st £3.50, 2nd £3.00, abroad £5.00)

AUSTRALIAN FORCES IN PALESTINE CENSORED ENVELOPE 1942

AUSTRALIAN FORCES IN PALESTINE CENSORED ENVELOPE 1942

Envelope bearing the logo ACF cancelled with the datestamp of Field Post Office 550 (Palestine 1942-5); blue-grey censor cachet ‘Passed by Censor No 1478’; no backstamps, to Malvern, Victoria, a neat clean cover

BUGARIA MULTI-FRANKING ON POSTCARD 1936

BUGARIA MULTI-FRANKING ON POSTCARD 1936

Postcard of Sophia 26 July 1936, to Czechoslovakia, franked with 4 x 10stot & 50stot Arms, 50stot & 30stot Lion & 2 x 1 lev portrait, cancelled with large single ring cds of Sophia, a spectacular ‘artistic’ franking

BOOK THE SPIRIT OF PARIS, BATSFORD 1937

BOOK THE SPIRIT OF PARIS

An interesting and detailed study of the city as it was just before the Second World War, by Paul Cohen-Portheim, 118 pps, illustrated & indexed, Batsford 1937: with a long list of Batsford publications at the end, no dust jacket: (postage GB 1st £3.50, 2nd £3.00, abroad £9.00) title page shown

BOOK THE DRAGON WAKES, CHINA & THE WEST 1793-1911

BOOK THE DRAGON WAKES

Scholarly work on the development of China and its relations with the Western world 1793-1911, by Christopher Hibbert, Longmans 1970, 427 pps, illustrated, indexed, with bibliography, with dust jacket, a classic work of importance for the modern world (postage GB 1st £3.50, 2nd £3.00, abroad £9.00)

BOOK, RUHLEBEN A PRISON CAMP SOCIETY

BOOK

A fine historical description of life in the famous internment camp of the First World War, by John Davidson Ketchum, who had been interned in the camp for four years, Toronto University Press & Oxford University Press 1965, 397 pps, sealed-in dust cover, indexed, ex Suffolk County Library but in sound condition, most interesting; (postage GB 1st £3.50, 2nd £3.00, abroad £9.00)

CHINA NOW, BOOK BY D J DWYER

CHINA NOW

A survey of the basic aspects of the development of modern China, intended as an educational work for students of present day China, by D J Dwyer, written from Hong Kong, Longmans 1973, 510 pps with sealed in dust-jacket, ex Essex County Library but sound, illustrated with maps and diagrams (postage GB 1st £3.50, 2nd £3.00, abroad £9.00)