Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Five Philatelic
A Collection of Five Philatelic Reference Books Including Stanley Gibbons Simplified Catalogue 2005 Edition and The Stamp Atlas - This is a collection of five philatelic reference books comprising a complete four-volume set of the Stanley Gibbons Simplified Catalogue: Stamps of the World in Colour, 2005 Edition, and a hardcover copy of The Stamp Atlas. The Stanley Gibbons set consists of Volume 1 (Countries A-D), Volume 2 (Countries E-J), Volume 3 (Countries K-R), and Volume 4 (Countries S-Z), all bound in large-format softcover trade paperback. The Stamp Atlas is authored by W. Raife Wellsted, Stuart Rossiter, and John Flower, with an introduction by the American Philatelic Society, and is a hardcover volume with its original dust jacket. An adhesive barcode label on the lower front cover of The Stamp Atlas reads NUERNBERG HIGH SCHOOL above 3 4407 00017 5031. A circular ink marking on the front cover of Stanley Gibbons Volume 4 contains the handwritten note ALL THE ST'S. The items are housed in a cardboard box bearing external auction lot labels, including a white label printed 26 26 and an orange label with handwritten 192A.