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SECTION ONE:	Catalogues and Handbooks	Page
1.1	Stamp Catalogues including Revenues, Meter Post and Postal Stationery	iii
1.2	Philatelic Handbooks	iv
1.3	Auction Catalogues	ix
1.4	Guide Books and Maps	x
1.5	Military Philatelic Handbooks	xii

SECTION TWO:	Non Philatelic Military Reference Works	Page
2.1	General background	xiii
2.2	Napoleonic Period Historical Reference	xiii
2.3	History of the Late 19th Century Campaigns	xiii
2.4	World War I	xiv
2.5	World War II	xv
2.6	Regimental Histories - World War I and World War II	xvii

SECTION THREE:	General Geographical and Historical Works	Page
3.1	Issued by Governments and "Official" bodies	xviii
3.2	Commercial Publications	xviii
3.3	Egyptology and its History	xx
3.4	Non Egyptian	xx

SECTION FOUR:

Novels

SECTION FIVE:

Biographical and Memoirs

xxi

SECTION SIX:	Reference Collections & Miscellaneous Articles	Page
6.1	Reference Collections	xxiii
6.2	Miscellaneous Articles and meeting handouts	xxiv

SECTION SEVEN:	Periodicals	Page
7.1	With long or complete runs	xxv
7.2	Odd 'one-off' or a few numbers only	xxvi

SECTION EIGHT:	Tourist Literature	Page
8.1	Tourist leaflets	xxvii
8.2	Books and booklets	xxvii

SECTION NINE:

Archives

xxviii

SECTION TEN:	Exhibition Catalogues and Yearbooks	Page
10.1	Exhibition Catalogues - Egypt	xxix
10.2	Exhibition Catalogues - elsewhere	xxix
10.3	Yearbooks	xxix

SECTION ONE: Catalogues and Handbooks

1.1 Catalogues

Title	Author	Publisher
Classification des Timbres d’Egypte et des variétés	Georges N. Zéhéri	Membre du club philatélique d’égypte
Catalogues des Timbres d’Egypte	Georges N. Zéhéri	The Philatelic Society of Egypt. 1933 1st Supplement to Second Edition. 1941
Catalogues des Timbres d’Egypte	Georges N. Zéhéri (one bound volume)	The Philatelic Society of Egypt. 1st Edition 1937 2nd Edition 1939 3rd Edition 1945
Catalogues des Timbres d’Egypte	Georges N. Zéhéri	The Philatelic Society of Egypt. 3rd Edition 1945
Catalogues des Timbres d’Egypte	Georges N. Zéhéri	The Philatelic Society of Egypt. 4th Edition 1946
Catalogues des Timbres d’Egypte	Chaftar Bey	The Philatelic Society of Egypt. 5th Edition 1950 (4)
Catalogue Zéhéri des Timbres d’Egypte et du Soudan	Ahmed Mazloum	The Philatelic Society of Egypt. 6th Edition 1956 (3)
Catalogue Zéhéri des Timbre Poste d’Egypte de la Republique Arabe Unie et du Soudan	Ahmed Mazloum	The Philatelic Society of Egypt. 7th Edition 1960 (5)
Zéhéri Catalogue for Postage Stamps of Egypt, U.A.R. and the Sudan	Mehanny Eid	The Philatelic Society of Egypt. 8th Editon 1967 (2)
Catalogue for Postage Stamps of Egypt, U.A.R. and the Sudan	Mehanny Eid	The Philatelic Society of Egypt. 9th Editon 1972 (2)
Zéhéri Catalogue Supplement to the Ninth Edition	Mehanny Eid	The Philatelic Society of Egypt.1978
The Commonwealth Specialists Catalogue 10th Edition	Orlo-Smith	Orlo-Smith & Co. Melbourne. 1947
Catalogue of Egytian Aerophilately	K Hagopian	Oriental Philatelic House, Cairo. 1992
Catalogue of Egyptian Revenue Stamps	Peter R. Feltus	Postilion Publishers (USA)
Egypt Stamps Handbook Vol. I	Magdi Moukhtar Abdel-Hadi	Magdi Moukhtar Abdel-Hadi, Cairo. 2010
Egypt Stamps Handbook Vol. II	Magdi Moukhtar Abdel-Hadi	Magdi Moukhtar Abdel-Hadi, Cairo. 2010
Handbuch der Türkischen Philatelie Teil I Die Zeitrechnung Osmanisches Reich Hendbook of Turkish Philately Part I The Ottoman Empire – The Calendar.	Andreas Birken	Andreas Birken
The Meter Post Stamp Catalogue	S.D. Barfoot and Werner Simon	Universal Postal Frankers Ltd
Palestine Stamp Catalogue - Gaza Egyptian Administration 1948-1967	K. Hagopian	K. Hagopian
Postage Stamps of Egypt (Simplified Catalogue)	Dr. Abdel Hamid Lotfy & Gen. Habib Abdel Raouf	The Philatelic Society of Egypt. 1981
Priced Catalogue of Postal Stationery of the World	Edward Fladung	Higgins & Gage Inc., Pasadena Egypt 1st Edition 1966 Egypt 2nd Edition 1975 Sudan 1st Edition 1975
Scott’s Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue	Scott	Sections on Egypt and Sudan (photocopy). 1912
The Stamps of Egypt: with Egypt used in Palestine and the Sudan	Leon Balian	Leon Balian, Heliopolis, Egypt, 1998.
Stamps of Egypt Book Two	Leon Balian	Leon Balian, Heliopolis, Egypt, 2007.
The Nile Post Handbook & Catalogue of Egyptian Stamps	Joseph H. Chalhoub with expansive contributions by Charles F. Hass.	Joseph H. Chalhoub, Quebec, Canada. 2003
The Stamps of Palestine Specialised Catalogue	Hoexter and Lachmaun	Dr. E. Hoexter. 1946
Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Part 19 Middle East	Stanley Gibbons	Stanley Gibbons Publications Ltd. 1st Edition. 1980
Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Part 19 Middle East	Stanley Gibbons	Stanley Gibbons Publications Ltd. 4th Edition. 1990
Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Part 19 Middle East	Stanley Gibbons	Stanley Gibbons Publications Ltd. 5th Edition. 1996
Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Part 19 Middle East	Stanley Gibbons	Stanley Gibbons Publications Ltd. 6th Edition. 2005
Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Part 19 Middle East	Stanley Gibbons	Stanley Gibbons Publications Ltd. 7th Edition. 2009
Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Part 1 British Commonwealth	Stanley Gibbons	Stanley Gibbons Publications Ltd.London 1985
Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth Stamp Catalogue East Africa with Egypt & Sudan 4th Edition	Stanley Gibbons	Stanley Gibbons Publications Ltd.London 2018
World Postal Stationery Catalogue (Sect. 5/E) (Photocopy enlarged to A4)	Higgins & Gage	Classic Philatelics (also 1985 supplement)
Zeppelin Post Katalog	Sieger-Verlag	Sieger-Verlag, Württemburg. 1981.

1.2 Philatelic Handbooks

Title	Author	Publisher
Administration des Postes - Note Historique	(Published on the 80th anniversary of the first Egyptian postage stamps.)	Ministère des Communications, Cairo. 1946
Airmails Across the Middle East 1918 - 1930	Laurence Kimpton	Laurence Kimpton, Solihull, UK. 2015
Die Administrazionsmarken Aegyptens (together with English translation)	G. Koch	Germany. 1880
The Airmails of Egypt	John Sears	John Sears, London 1990
The Airmails of Egypt - Addendum to the above	John Sears	John Sears, London 1993
Austrian Post Offices Abroad, Part 1	S.D. Tchillinghirian and W.S.E. Stephen	Keith Tranmer
Billigs Philatelic Handbook, Vol. 21 (contains Egypt)	E.A. Kehr	Fritz Billig, Jamaica, New York. 1954
British Post Office Numbers 1844 – 1906	G. Brumell	R.C. Alcock, Ltd. Cheltenham, 1946
Les Cachets á Date des Bureaux de Poste des Hotels d’Egypte	Jean Boulad d’Humières FRPSL	An extract from L’Orient Philatélique No. 114
20th Century Stamps of Egypt	E.A. Kehr	Chambers, USA, 1942
Consular . . . . in Egypt	Themis Dacos	Collectio, Athens, 1994
De La Rue History of British and Foreign Postage Stamps1855 – 1901	John Easton	Faber & Faber
The Edwardian Stamps of the British Empire	D.B. Armstrong	Bright & Son, London. 1912
Egypt	F.J. Melville	Stanley Gibbons, London. 1915
Egypt: the First Portrait Issue – A Compilation since 1928	John Sears	John Sears, London 1997
Egypt – A History of its stamps	R.E.R. Dalwick	Mekeel-Severn-Wylie Co. Boston, USA, 1922
Egypt and Sudan	Eugene Klein	Philadelphia, USA. 1919
Egypt Flight LZ 127 - The Graf Zeppelin	Fred F. Blau and Cyril Deighton	German Philatelic Society Inc., Germany, 1981
Egypt Interpostals	O. May	Bridger & Kay, London, 1915
Egyptian Postal Markings (in Arabic)	Chirchini	Chirchini, Egypt (2 – 1 unbound)
The Postal Markings of Mandate Palestine 1817 – 1948	Michael Sacher FRPSL	Royal Philatelic Society. London. 1995
Egypt – Royal Imperforate Printings	George L.Lee (Ed).	George L.Lee, USA, 1959
Egypt: The Rural Postal Service – An Introduction	Mike Murphy and Ibrahim Shoukry	Mike Murphy and Ibrahim Shoukry, Cairo, 2010.
Entiers Postaux dEgypte	J. Boulad et A. Cocatre	Paris, 1947
The FIP Guide to Exhibiting and Judging Traditional and Postal History Exhibits	F.I.P.	FIP 1994
Forgery and Reprint Guide: 14 – Suez\ Canal	J. Barefoot	J. Barefoot Ltd. 1983
The Fourth Issue – Pt.1. The Fourth Issue	P.A.S. Smith FRPSL	P.A.S. Smith
The Fourth Issue – - Pt.2. The 1914 and 1921-1922 Pictorials	P.A.S. Smith FRPSL	P.A.S. Smith
Gambia	Fred J. Melville	Stanley Gibbons incorporating W.H. Peckitt, London
Great Britain Stamps of 1942 Overprinted M.E.F.	John Firebrace	The Regent Stamp Co. Ltd. London
Guidelines for Successful Exhibiting	Francesca Rapkin FRPSL	British Philatelic Trust & BPF Melville & Youth Committee
The Interpostal Seals of Egypt 1864 – 1891	E.A. Kehr	USA. 1943
The Interpostal Seals of Egypt 1864 – 1891 (1962 Edition)	E.A. Kehr	USA. 1962
Introducing Postal History	Vivien Sussex	British Philatelic Trust in conjunction with the Postal History Society, London
Introducing Thematic Collecting	Alma Lee FRPSL	British Phil. Trust in conjunction with the Postal History Society, London.
The Kings of Egypt and their Stamps	Robson Lowe	Robson Lowe Ltd. London. 1969
Notes on the Cancellations of Turkish Arabia	Maj. T.L.C. Tomkins	John Huxley (Stamps) Ltd.
Osterreichischer Philatelistenclub Vindebona Wien 1880 – 1990 containing an article entitled: “The Austrian Post in Egypt”	Kurt Wolfsbauer	Die Elementar, Vienna. 1990
The Overland Mail	John K. Sidebottom OBEs	Geo. Allen & Unwin Ltd. London. 1948 (for Postal History Soc.)
Overseas Letter Postage from India 1854-1876	Martin and Blair	Robson Lowe, London. 1975
Paquebot Cancellations of the World	Roger Hosking	Roger Hosking, 1977
Philatelistischer Atlas des Osmanischen Reiches (Philatelic Atlas of the Ottoman Empire	Andreas Birken	Andreas Birken, Hamburg. 1992
The Paquebot Marks of Africa, the Mediterranean Countries, and their Islands	Edwin Drechsel	Robson Lowe, London. 1980.
La "Posta Europea" Nel Contesto della Storia Postale dell'Egitto Nel sec. XIX (1820-1865)	Luca Daniele Biolato.	Luca Daniele Biolato (Libreria Giovanni Carnevali – Foligno)
Postage Stamps of the Great Bitter Lake Association	Capt. Brian Hill	Capt. Brian Hill 1975
Postal Censorship in Israel 1948-1978	Norman Gladstone	Norman Gladstone, London. 1978
Postal History of British Palestine 1918-1948	Edward B. Proud	Proud Bailey Co. Ltd. 1985
Postal History of Egypt to 1900	Samir Amin Fikry	The Royal Philatelic Society, London, 1996
La Poste Maritime Française - Tome 1: Les Entrées Maritimes et les Bateaux a Vapeur	Raymond Salles	L’Academie de Philatelie, Paris
La Poste Maritime Française - Tome II: Paquebots de la Meditéranée	Raymond Salles	L’Academie de Philatelie, Paris
La Poste Maritime Française - Tome V: Paquebots de l’Extreme Orient	Raymond Salles	L’Academie de Philatelie, Paris
La Poste Maritime Française - Tome VI: Paquebots de l’Océan Indien	Raymond Salles	L’Academie de Philatelie, Paris
La Poste Maritime Française - Tome 1: Les Entrées Maritimes et les Bateaux a Vapeur	Raymond Salles	Reprint Publ. James Bendon, Limassol. 1992
The Postmarks of Aden	M.H. Robertshaw	H. Garrat-Adams & Co. 1946
The Private Shipletter Stamps of the World, Part 3 The Suez Canal Company	J. Boulad d’Humières, S. Ringstrøm and H.E. Tester	Leonard H. Hartman. 1985
Process of Manufacture of the Rivadavia Plates	Charles Jewell	Charles Jewell. 1960
Route of the Overland Mail to India	Gallery of Illustration	Gallery of Illustration, London. 1851 (photo-copy)(2)
Ramleh Alexandria: Its Development and Postal History,1863 – 1929	Ronnie Van Pellecom, Antwerp, Peter Grech, London and Alain Stragier, Brussels	Ronny Van Pellecom, Antwerp, 2010
The French Post Offices in Egypt Part 1 Before 1876. (Third Printing)	Pierre Louis Grech	Pierre Louis Grech, London. October, 2013
The French Post Offices in Egypt Part 2 1876 – 1931.	Pierre Louis Grech	Pierre Louis Grech, London. October, 2013
The Romance of Postage Stamps	Fred J. Melville	W.H. Peckitt, London
Ship Postmarks – an article from Fil-Italia, Bulletin of the Italy & Colonies Study Circle	G.F. Whitfield	Fil-Italia 1989 (and revised 1991).
The Stamp Booklets of Egypt	John A. Revell	John A. Revell, Whitstable, 1997
Stamp Collecting	Stanley Phillips	(Second Edition) Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. London
Stamps of Egypt 1952-1957	Egyptian Postal Administration	Egyptian Postal Administration (2)
The Stamps of Great Britain 1911-1921	Stanley Phillips	Stanley Gibbons Ltd. London 1921
Stamps of the Russian Empire Used Abroad Part 1; Constantinople, The Danube Principalities, Bulgaria	S.D. Tchillinghirian and W.S.E. Stephen	The British Society of Russian Philately, London 1957
Stamps of the Russian Empire Used Abroad Part 2: The Black Sea and Aegean Ports, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Crete: Ship Mail in the Levant.	S.D. Tchillinghirian and W.S.E. Stephen	The British Society of Russian Philately, London 1957
The Postage Stamps of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan	D.B. Armstrong	Bright & Son, London. 1912
Sudan – The Postal Markings 1867-1896	E.C.W. Stagg	R.P.S. London, 1974
Sudan – Scrapbook of cuttings relating to Philately and Postal History of Sudan.	C. Minett	Assembled by C. Minett
Sudan – The Stamps and Postal Stationery 1867-1970	E.C.W. Stagg	Harry Hayes
Sudan – The Postal Markings of the Travelling Post Offices	John Dight	The Sudan Study Group
Sudan – Stamps and Posts of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan	Gisburn and Thompson.	Stanley Gibbons Ltd. London, 1947
Timbres d’Egyte et de la Compagnie du Canal de Suez	J.B. Moens	Brussels, 1880
The Travelling Post Offices of Egypt	P.A.S. Smith FRPSL	Mobile Post Office Society, USA. 1983
United Arab Republic (Egypt): Commemorative Stamps 1952-1969	Postal Authority	Postal Authority, Cairo. 1970 (3)
A History of Wreck Covers	Adrian Hopkins	Robson Lowe, London. 1967

1.3 Auction and other Catalogues

Auction Description, Auction House and Date

Aden by Charles Hornal Robson Lowe, London. 1957.

All World featuring 'Major E.L.G. MacArthur' Egypt Stanley Gibbons Auctions, London. March 1980

Byam's Egypt Robson Lowe Ltd, London. October 1961

The Burrus Collection: Greece & Egypt Nov. 1962 by Robson Lowe Ltd. London

The Col. J.R. Danson Egypt Robson Lowe International, Geneva. April 1977

Covers of the World Carried by French Mailboats T.V. Roberts. Sotheby, London. 1982

Egypt - George Gougas of New York, USA Robson Lowe International, Basle. February 1973

Egypt including collection formed by Charles Cotta and a portion of the study formed by Ernest Kehr
January 1965 by Robson Lowe Ltd. London.

The John Gilbert 'Egypt' Robson Lowe International, Basle, March 1977

The G.L. Hearn Collection of Egypt, Sudan, GB used in Constantinople and Jordan. April, 1953 by Robson Lowe Ltd. London

William C. Hinde Specialised Collections of Egypt & Sudan. October, 1957 by Robson Lowe Ltd. London

The "Hind" Collection. Tenth Sale, Asia and Africa H.R. Harmer, London. May 1935

1. Great Britain and Commonwealth
2. Karl Jaeger Balkans, Levant POs Karl Jaeger Middle East, Europe
David Feldman Nov/Dec 1982

The Mackenzie-Low Gold Medal Collection H.R. Harmer, London. October 1929.

The Michael Sacher Collection of Palestine Robson Lowe International, Geneva, April 1977

The Osprey Collection of Aviation and Airpost Covers and Cards. Phillips, London. November 1983

The Palace Collections of Egypt -the Stamp Collections Advance Publicity, H.R. Harmer

The Palace Collections of Egypt H.R. Harmer, London. February 1954

Waghorn cachets of Rowland Hill Christies Robson Lowe, London 1989

1.4 Guide Books and Maps

(a) Guide Books

Author	Title	Publisher
Baedeker	Baedeker's Egypt 1929	(Reprint)
Baedeker	Baedeker’s Lower Egypt - Handbook for Travellers	Baedeker, Germany. 1885
Baedeker	Baedeker’s AA Egypt	Automobile Association, Norwich c. 1981
Veronica Seton-Williams, Peter Stocks	Blue Guide Egypt	A. & C. Black, London. 2nd Edition 1988
Budge, E.A. Wallis	Cook’s Handbook for Egypt and the Sudan	3rd Edition London, 1911
John Murray	Murray’s Handbook of Egypt	7th Edition 1880
	Services Guide to Cairo 1st Edition	Co-ordinating Council for Welfare Work in Egypt
	Services Guide to Alexandria 3rd Edition	Co-ordinating Council for Welfare Work in Egypt
	Services Guide to Cairo Later Edition	Co-ordinating Council for Welfare Work in Egypt

(b) Maps

See also: Section 2.3 and Section 8

Description	Publisher/Other
Agypten-Egypt. Strassenkarte Road Map 1:950.000	Kümmerley + Frey, c. 1990.
Map of Cairo	Middle East Publishing Co. 1953
Map of Cairo	VIP
Index to Place Names:Appearing on the Normal 1: 100,000 Scale Map Series of Egypt by Survey of Egypt.	Ministry of Finance and printed by Government Press, Cairo, 1932.
Series of 35 large scale maps of various parts of Egypt * Scale 1:100,000	The Department of Survey and Mines, Cairo. 1938
Sheet Nos.	(a) Northern Sinai
1.	Qatia
3.	Rafa
6.	El Qusaima
7.	Little Bitter Lake
9.	Bir el Hasana
10.	Bir el Ma'ein
11.	Mitla Pass
12.	Qal'at el Nakhi
14.	El Kuntilla
16.	Gebel Bodhiya
	(b) Southern Sinai
1.	Hamam Fara'un
3.	Gebel Egma
4.	Wadi Watir
5.	Abu Zenima
7.	Nuweiba
8.	Feiran
9.	G. Katherina
11.	Wadi Kid
12.	Ras Muhammad
(c) Elsewhere	Survey of Egypt, Cairo. 1944
	Baris
	Bulaq
	Gebel el Barqa
	Kurkur
	Survey of Egypt, Cairo. 1949
	el Allaqi
	Tahta
	Nag Hammadi
	Idfu
	Asyut
	Isna
	Survey of Egypt, Cairo. 1956
	Bir Gindali
	Bitter Lake
	Bu-Daiya
	Gebel Musa
	Port Said
	Qal 'et el-Nakhi
	Suez
	Tanta East
	Wadi Sannur
130	Maghagha
150	El-Minya
* Please ask for individual maps by name — these are suitable only to be passed by hand at meetings: all maps are photo-copies.
Provisional Issue (Photocopies of Historic Map) Scale 1:100.000
Alexandria	Benha
Damanhour	Damietta
Kafr el-Zaiyat	Port Said
Tanta
Scale 1: 100,000	Survey of Egypt Maps, with hardback covers Ministry of Finance:
Beni Suef Sheet No. 68 Beni Suef Sheet No. 60	Dairut Sheet Nos. 52 & 52 Dairut Sheet Nos. 54 60
Luxor Sheet No. 32 & 32 Luxor Sheet No 72 78	Manfalut Sheets 48 & 48 Manfalut Sheets 54 60
Minya Sheet Nos. 56 & 56 Minya Sheet Nos. 54 60	Samalut Sheets 60 & 60 Samalut Sheets 54 60
International Maps of the World. 1:100.000
Aswan 2nd Edition 1946.	Wadi Halfa 2nd Edition 1946
Topographical Map of Egypt Scale 1:100.000 1st Edition 1953
Bitter Lake	Suez
War Map – Europe and the Mediterranean Countries by G. Philip & Son Ltd. & the London Geographical Institute	The Daily Mail, 1940

1.5. Military Philatelic Handbooks

Title	Author	Publisher
Nineteenth Century Wars in Egypt and the Sudan	John Firebrace	The Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund & Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd. Bristol, 1997
A Brief Outline of the British Army Postal Services during World War I	Charles Entwhisle	Charles Entwhisle, 1983
Army and Field Post Offices of Egypt and the E.E.F. 1914 to 1920	Michael M. Sacher	The London Philatelist. London. 1972 (2)
Australian Imperial Forces Postal History 1914 – 1918	Bob Emery	Bob Emery 1984
British Army Field Post Offices 1939 – 1950	Col. C.R. Crouch and Norman Hill.	Lava, USA
British Empire Campaigns and Occupations in the Near East 1914 – 1924. A Postal History	John Firebrace	Christie’s Robson Lowe, London. 1991
British Forces in Egypt Postal Services 1932-1940, 2nd Edition	J.E.O. Hobbs FRPSL	J.E.O. Hobbs, London 1984.(2)
Egypt: from the Postal Concession until Suez 1932 to 1956 Part I – Until 1st May 1941.	John Davis	John Davis, Pershore, UK. 2014
Egypt: from the Postal Concession until Suez 1932 to 1956 Part 2—Commonwealth and Allied Forces, May 1941. through World War II.	John Davis	John Davis, Pershore, UK. 2018
Egypt: from the Postal Concession until Suez 1932 to 1956 Part 3—Forces Postal Stationery and End of World War II and the British Withdrawal leading to Operation Musketeer.	John Davis	John Davis, Pershore, UK. 2020
Egypt Postage Prepaid Military Datestamps	F.W. (Jim) Benians	National Philatelic Society, London. 1978 (2)
History of the British Army Postal Service Vol 1 -- 1882 to 1902	Edward B. Proud	Proud Bailey Co. Ltd
History of the British Army Postal Service Vol.2 -- 1903 to 1927	Edward B. Proud	Proud Bailey Co. Ltd
History of the British Army Postal Service Vol.3 -- 1927 to 1963	Edward B. Proud	Proud Bailey Co. Ltd
History of the Indian Army Postal Service Vol.1 -- 1854 to 1913	Edward B. Proud	Proud Bailey Co. Ltd
History of the Indian Army Postal Service Vol.2 -- 1914 to 1931	Edward B. Proud	Proud Bailey Co. Ltd
History of the Indian Army Postal Service Vol.3 -- 1931 to 1947	Edward B. Proud	Proud Bailey Co. Ltd
History of the RAF Postal Service Overseas 1942 to 1957	John Smith	John Smith. 1957
Naval Mails 1939 – 1949	John Goldup	TPO & Seapost Society, London 1950 (2)
Postage Rates for British Forces 1795 -1899	W.G. Stitt-Dibden	The Postal History Society
Postal Services of the British Forces in Egypt 1932- 1940	J.E.O. Hobbs	J.E.O. Hobbs, London. 1979
The Postal History of the British Army in World War I before and after.1903 to 1929	A.L. Kennedy and G. Crabb	G. Crabb, London. 1977

SECTION TWO: Non Philatelic Military Reference Workss

2.1 General background

Title	Author	Publisher
Badges of H.M. Services	Wm. Briggs	Wm. Briggs & Co. Ltd. Manchester 1946
But Not in Anger – The RAF in the Transport Role	Cole and Grant	Ian Allen Ltd. 1979
Heraldry in War: Formation Badges 1939 – 1945	Lt. Col. Howard N. Cole	Wellington Press, Aldershot. 1950.
Her Majesty’s Army - Vol. 1	Walter Richard	J.S. Virtue & Co. & Co. Ltd. London 1889
Her Majesty’s Army - Vol. 2	Walter Richard	J.S. Virtue & Co. & Co. Ltd. London 1889
Her Majesty’s Army - Vol. 3	Walter Richard	J.S. Virtue & Co. & Co. Ltd. London 1889
Regimental Badges	Major T.J. Edwards	Gale & Polden Ltd. Aldershot. 1953

2.2 Napoleonic Period Historical Reference

Title	Author	Publisher
History of the British Expedition to Egypt	Robert Thomas Wilson	T. Egerton, London. 1802

2.3 History of the late 19th Century Campaigns

Title	Author	Publisher
The Egyptian Campaigns 1882 – 1885, Vol. I	Charles Royle	Hurst & Blackett, London. 1886
The Egyptian Campaigns 1882 (New and Revised Edition continued to December 1889)	Charles Royle	Hurst & Blackett, London. 1890
Fire and Sword in the Sudan (A personal narrative of fighting the Dervishes 1879 – 1895)	Col. Sir R.Slatin Pasha and Lt. Col. Sir F.R. Wingate	Edward Arnold, London. 1899
Founders of Modern Egypt	Mary Rowlatt	Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1961
History of the War in the Sudan Vols. 1 to 6 and maps for the above (one is missing)	James Grant	Cassell & Co. London
Military History of the Campaign of 1882 in Egypt Revised Edition	HMSO	HMSO London, 1908.
Ten Years’ Captivity in the Mahdi’s Camp 1882 – 1892	Father Joseph Chrwalder	Translated by Major F.R. Wingate
With Kitchener to Khartoum (15th Edition)	G.W. Steevens	Blackwood & Sons. 1898

2.4 World War 1

Title	Author	Publisher
Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the command of Gen. Sir Edmund Allenby GCB, GCMG	The Palestine News	The Palestine News, 1919
Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the command of Gen. Sir Edmund Allenby GCB, GCMG (Reprint)	The Palestine News	The Palestine News, 1919
Allenby in Egypt (Vol II of Allenby; a Study in Greatness)	Field-Marshal Viscount Wavell	George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. London, 1943
Allenby’s War. The Palestine-Arabian campaigns 1916 – 1918	David L. Bullock	Blandford Press, 1988.
Allenby: Soldier and Statesman	Field Marshall Viscount Wavell	George Harrap & Co. London. 1945
Desert Journey	George Rodger	The Cresset Press, London. 1914
The Desert Campaigns (E.E.F.) Illustrated by James McBey	W.T. Massey	Constable & Co. London.1920
In the Clouds Above Baghdad	Lt. Col. J.E. Tennant	Cecil Palmer, London. 1920
In the Hands of the Senoussi	Capt. R. Gwatkin-Williams.	C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. London. 1916
Lawrence and the Arabs	Robert Graves	Jonathan Cape, London. 1927
Military Operations in Egypt and Palestine: From the outbreak of war with Germany to June 1917.	HMSO	HMSO London, 1928
Military Operations in Egypt and Palestine: From the outbreak of war with Germany to June 1917. Maps of the above.	HMSO	HMSO London, 1928
New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine	Lt. Col. C. Guy Powles CMG, DSO	Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. 1922
Sir Archibald Murray’s Despatches (1916/1917)	Archibald Murray	J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. London. 1920

2.5 World War 2

Title	Author	Publisher
The Battle of Egypt		M.o.I.Ministry of Information 1943 (2)
The Battles of Alam Halfa and El-Alamein	Major R.C.W. Thomas OBE RWK	William Clowes and Sons Ltd. Beccles
Cairo to Riyadh Diary	George Bilainkin	Williams and Norgate Ltd. London. 1950
Calling all Arms- ~The Story of munitions factories in 1942	Ernest Fairfax	Hutchinson & Co. London
The Conquest of North Africa		Burke Publishing Co. Ltd. London c1945.
Desert Angels – The story of a concert party in Egypt during the 1939 -1945 War	Gabriella Barker	Gabriella Barker, 1956.
The Eighth Army	HMSO	HMSO (2)
Fighters Over the Desert	Christopher Shores and Hans Ring	Neville Spearman, London. 1969
Forces Francaises Libres	George Philip & Son Ltd.	George Philip & Son Ltd.
War Map – Europe and the Mediterranean Countries	The Daily Mail.	The Daily Mail.
L’Egypte et la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale	Jean Lugol	E. & R. Schindler. 1945 (in French)
Italian P.O.W. and Internees in Africa	Giorgio Migliavacca	Giorgio Migliavacca. 1980
Near East	Cecil Beatof	T. Batsford Ltd. London. 1943
Private Army	Lt. Col. Vladimir Peniakoff	Jonathan Cape, London. 1950
RAF Middle East – The official story of air operations Feb. 1942 to Jan. 1943.	HMSO	HMSO London. 1945
R.A.M.C.	Anthony Cotterell	Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.
Report My Signals	Anthony Brett-James	Harrap & Co. London. 1948
Rommel	Desmond Young	Collins, London.
The Tiger Kills – The History of Indian Troops with the 8th Army in North Africa	HMSO	(for the Govt. of India) HMSO, London.1944
The Tiger Strikes – History of the Middle East Theatre 1940 – 41	HMSO	Dir. of Public Relations, HMG India HMSO 1942
Up Periscope	David Masters	Eyre & Spottiswood, London 1942
The War in Pictures - Vols. 1 to 6	Odhams Press	Odhams Press, London, 1946.
World War II P.O.W. & Internment Camps	D. Tomlin	Norprint Ltd.

2.6 Regimental Histories

(a) World War I

Title	Author	Publisher
Reminiscent Sketches 1914 – 1919 by Members of H.M. Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service	Q.A.I.N.S.	John Bate Sons & Danielson Ltd. London. 1922
The Story of the 5th Australian Division	Capt. A.D. Ellis	Hodder & Stoughton, London
War History of the 6th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment (T.F.) 1914 – 1918	William Heinemann	William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1922
West Kent (Q.O.) Yeomanry and 10th Yeomanry Battalion, The Buffs 1914 -1919	Charles Ponsonby	Andrew Melrose Ltd. London. 1920
With the 8th Scottish Rifles 1914 – 1919	Col. J.M. Findlay	Blackie & Son Ltd. 1926

(a) World War II

The History of the 4th Armoured Brigade

Brig. R.M.P. Carver

J.J. Augustin, Gluckstadt, Germany

SECTION THREE: General Geographical and Historical Works

3.1 Issued by Governments and ‘Official’ Bodies

All about Postal Matters in Egypt	Willard Fiske	Landi Press, Florence, 1898 Reprint in 1977 by Harry Hayes
Arab Handbook for U.A.R. (Egypt)	U.S. Government.	U.S. Government. 1970
Budget du Gouvernement Egyptien pur l’Exercice 1883	Ministere des Finances	Imprimerie Nationale de Boulac, (in French)’
Budget Provisoire du Gouvernement Egyptien pur l’Exercice 1884	Ministere des Finances	Imprimerie Nationale de Boulac, (in French)’
Diplomatic Correspondence Respecting the War	French Government	HMSO, London. 1914
L’Egypte: Apercu Historique et Géographique Gouvernement et Institutions vie économique et sociale.	French Government	Imprimerie de l’Institut Francais d’Archéologie Orientale 1926 (Index only).
Egypt Post: List of Post Offices with what may be post-codes	Egyptian Postal Administration	Egyptian Postal Administration 1983. (In Arabic).
Egypt Post	Another similar, but shorter!	Egyptian Postal Administration 1991. (In Arabic).
Egyptian Postal Guide (Photo-copy)	Egyptian Postal Administration	G.P.O. Alexandria 1914
Egyptian Postal Guide No. 46	Ministry of Communications, General Post Office, Cairo	Government Press, Cairo, 1932.
Greater Cairo Wastewater Project – East Bank Scheme		British Water & Waste Ltd. 1992
Index to Place Names Appearing on the Normal 1.000.000 Map Series of Egypt	Survey of Egypt.	Ministry of Finance, Cairo, 1932
Ismailia: A narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Organised by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt	Sir Samuel W. Baker Pacha	Macmillan & Co. London. 1879 (Index only)
List of Names of Mudirias, Principal Towns and Villages Forming Fiscal Units	Survey of Egypt (Photo-copy)	Government Press, Cairo. 1920. (2)
List of Post Offices in Egypt and Sudan 1939 (in Arabic)	Egyptian Postal Administration	Egyptian Postal Administration 1939
List of Post Offices in Egypt 1984 (in Arabic)	Egyptian Postal Administration	Egyptian Postal Administration 1984
Rapport sur L’Exercice de l’Annee 1978	Egyptian Postal Administration	Administration des Postes Egyptiennes. (In French).
Report on Egypt (Compiled in the Intelligence Branch Quartermaster-General’s Department, War Office	HMSO	HMSO London. 1882 (Index only)
What appears to be a listing of towns and villages in English with the Arabic equivalents; hardback publ. in 1955, with the title in just Arabic	I am at a loss!	Looks official.

3.2 Commercial Publications

Anglo-Egyptian Relations 1800 – 1953	John Marlowe	The Cresset Press, London. 1953.
Aspects of Egypt – some travels in the United Arab Republic	Ethel Mannin	Hutchinson of London, 1964.
Memoirs of Napoleon’s Egyptian Expedition 1798 – 1801	Captain Joseph-Marioe Moiret Translated and Edited by Rosemary Brindle.	Grenfell Books, London 2001
Between Two Seas	Lord Kinross	John Murray, London. 1938
The Blue Nile	Alan Moorhead	Hamish Hamilton, London. 1962
Building the Suez Canal	Editors of Horizon Magazine,Author S.C. Burchell	Cassell, London 1967.
Cairo in the War 1939 – 1945	Artemis Cooper	Hamish Hamilton Ltd. London 1989
Cairo; the City Victorious	Max Rodenbeck	Picador an imprint of MacMillan Publishers Ltd. London, 1998
Desert and Delta	Major C.S. Jarvis	John Murray, London. 1938
Eastward: Travels in Egypt, Palestine and Syria	Norman Macleod	Charles Burnet and Co. Ltd. London. 1891
Egypt 1798 – 1952	J.C.B. Richmond	Methuen & Co Ltd. 1977
Egypt and Sinai Eternal Battlegrounds	Gregory Blaxland	Funk & Wagnalls, 1966
Egypt: Politics and Society 1945 – 1984 (Second Edition)	Derek Hopwood	Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1985
England in Egypt	Alfred Milner	Edward Arnold, London. 1894
Frogs and Scorpions – Egypt, Sadat and the Media	Doreen Kays	Frederick Muller Ltd. London. 1984
Great Britain in Egypt	Maj. E.W. Polson Newman	Cassell & Co. Ltd. London. 1928
Independent Egypt	Amine Youssef	John Murray, London. 1940.
The Land of Egypt	Robin Fedden.	Batsford, London. 1939.
The Last Pharaoh – The Ten Faces of Farouk	Hugh McLeave	Michael Joseph, London. 1969
Napoleon to Nasser; the Story of Modern Egypt	Raymond Flower	Tom Stacey Ltd, London, 1972
Lifting the Veil: British Society in Egypt 1768 – 1956	Anthony Sattin	J.M. Dent, London 1988.
Lloyd Triestino (Societa di Navigazione a Vapore a Trieste) 1836 – 1920	Note e Ricordi. Publ. Officine dell’ istituto Italiano d’arti grafiche	Bergamo, 1920 (in Italian)
The Making of Modern Egypt	Sir Auckland Colvin	ISeely & Co. Ltd., London. 1906
Modern Egypt - Vol I	The Earl of Cromer	Macmillan & Co. 1908
Modern Egypt - Vol II	The Earl of Cromer	Macmillan & Co. 1908
Modern Egypt	Tom Little	Ernest Benn Ltd. 1967
The Modern History of Egypt	P.J. Vatikiotis	Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London. 1969
The History of Egypt from Muhammad Ali to Mubarak (Third Edition)	P.J. Vatikiotis	Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London. 1985.
The Mysteries of Egypt, or The Secret Rites and Traditions of the Nile.	Lewis Spence	Rider & Co. Ltd.
Napoleon to Nasser: the Story of Modern Egypt	Raymond Flower	Tom Stacy Ltd. London. 1972
Nasser’s New Egypt	Keith Wheelock	Frederick A, Jaeger. 1960
Objective Egypt	Gregory Blaxland	Fred Muller. 1966
Pharaoh to Farouk	H. Wood Jarvis	John Murray, London. 1955
The Phoenix in the Desert	Dunstan Thompson	The Travel Book Club, London. 1951
Soviet Foreign Policy towards Egypt	Karen Dawisha	The MacMillan Press Ltd. London 1979
Spoiling the Egyptians	John Marlowe	André Deutsch. 1974
Story of the Khediviate	Edward Dicey	Rivingtons. 1902
Shepeard’s Hotel	Nina Nelson	Barrie & Rockliff, London. 1960
Suez Canal Clearance: Operation Rheostat April to November 1974	James Rapp	James Rapp (Ed).
The Suez Canal	Hugh J. Schonfield	Penguin Books, London.
Sun & Shadow at Aswan	Herbert Addison.	Chapman & Hall Ltd. London. 1959
Upper Egypt: its People and Products	Dr. C.B. Klunzinger	Blackie & Son. 1878
Whatever happened to the Egyptians? Changes in Egyptian Society from 1950 to the Present	Galal Amin.	The American University in Cairo, 2000.

3.3 Egyptology and its History

Egypt (The ancient Lands and Bible series)	JW.H. Boulton	Simpson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd
The First Hundred Years: Egyptology at University College London 1892 – 1992	Rosalind M. Janssen	University College London. 1992

3.4 Non-Egyptians

A Foreigner looks at the British Sudan	Odette Keun.	Faber and Faber
The History of Pitney Bowes Limited	S.T. Roberts	Pitney Bowes Ltd. Harlow. 1957
Cyrenaica	R.A. Bontoft	The Printing & Stationery Service, MEF, 1944 (2)
Cyrene and Ancient Cyrenaica	C.G.C. Hyslop	Government Press, Tripolitania. 1945.
Libya under the Second Ottoman Occupation 1835 – 1911.	Maj. A.J. Cachia	Govt. Press,Tripoli. 1945

SECTION FOUR: Novels

A Woman of Cairo	Noel Barber	Eton Books AG. Printed for Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.Gütersloh. 1984.
Cross and Crescent; a tale of Egyptian Revolt	E.A. Berkwood	Mills & Boon Ltd. London. 1925.
The Stamp King	G. de Beauregard and H. de Grosse; translated by Miss E.C. Phillips	Stanley Gibbons, London. 1899.
God Dies by the Nile	Nawal el Saadawi Translated from the Arabic by Sherif Hetata	Government Press, Tripolitania. 1945.
Libya under the Second Ottoman Occupation 1835 – 1911.	Maj. A.J. Cachia	Zed Books Ltd. London. 1985

SECTION FIVE; Biographical and Memoirs

Abbas II	The Earl of Cromer	MacMillan & Co. 1915
Bimbashi McPherson – A Life in Egypt	Barry Carman and John McPherson	BBC, London. 1983
Bonaparte in Egypt	J. Christopher Herold	Hamish Hamilton, 1962.
Doctor Byam in Harley Street	William Byam.	Geoffrey Bles, London, 1962. (2)
The Road to Harley Street	William Byam.	Geoffrey Bles, London, 1963. (2)
The Diaries of Parker Pasha	E.F.V. Winstone	Quartet Books, London 1983.
Egyptian Service 1902 – 1946	Sir Thomas Russell Pasha	John Murray, London, 1949
Eothen (Travels in the Near East	Alexander W. Kinglake	Alexander W. Kinglake 1844.
Ferdinand de Lesseps	Charles Beatty	Eyre & Spottiswood, London. 1956
From Private to Field Marshal	Field Marshal Sir William Robertson	Constable & Co. Ltd. London. 1921.
General Gordon – The Christian Soldier and Hero.	G. Barnett Smith	S.W. Partridge & Co. London. 1903
Gordon: Martyr and Misfit	Anthony Nutting.	The Reprint Society. London. 1966.
How I found Livingstone in Central Africa.	Sir Henry Morton Stanley.	Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. London.
The leisure of an Egyptian Official	Lord Edward Cecil	Hodder & Stoughton. 1921.
The Memoirs of Major-General Sir Hugh McCalmont.	Ed. by Sir C.E. Caldwell	Hutchinson & Co. London. 1924.
One Thousand Miles Up the Nile	Amelia Edwards.	Hooper, Clarke & Co. Chicago. 1877.
Palestine Memories 1917 – 1925	Robert H. Goodsall	Cross & Jackman, Camterbury. 1925.
Samual Shepheard of Cairo, a Portrait	Michael Bird.	Michael Joseph. London. 1957.
Temple Gairdner of Cairo	Constance E. Padwick.	S.P.C.K. London. 1929.
Too Rich: the High Life and tragic Death of King Farouk.	William Stadin	Caroll & Graf, New York. 1991.
Watson Pasha	Stanley Lane-Poole.	John Murray, London. 1919.

SECTION SIX: Reference Collections and Miscellaneous Articles

All that follow were kindly donated by the collector concerned.

6.1 Reference Collections (Bound or loose photostats)

The Airmails of Egypt (1910 to 1945)	Bound photostats of collection of John Sears (Won Large Silver-Gilt and the British Aerophilatelic Award 1995)
The Collection of Lars Alund August 1993	(Hardback bound)
Antonini Collection 1982	Photostats of Gold Medal Collection
The Nile Collection - 1984	Bound photostats of Gold Medal Collection of Samir Amin Fikry.(Part 1).
The Nile Collection - 1984	Bound photostats of Gold Medal Collection of Samir Amin Fikry.(Part 2)
Hooghuis Collection (undated and unbound)	See also Section 9 – Archives.
Jeidel Collection – 1982 Bound photostats of Gold Medal Collection	Rudi Jeidel
The ‘Reda’ Collections (unbound)	1.De La Rue “Sphinx and Pyramid”
The ‘Reda’ Collections (unbound)	2.First Pictorial Issues of Egypt
The ‘Reda’ Collections (unbound)	3.Kingdoms of Egypt
Richard Notman Collection	“The Classic Period”
Shams el-Din of Cairo	Photostats of Medal collection of Postal Stationery at Hafnia 1987.
Egypt – The Classic Period, with emphasis on the Offices Abroad	Photostats of London 1980 exhibit by Prof. P.A.S. Smith.
The First Three Issues of Egypt	Photostats of an exhibit by Prof. P.A.S. Smith
Egypt – 4th Issue of De La Rue	Photostats of 1989 Collection of Prof. P.A.S. Smith
Egypt Early Airmail 1910 – 1936	Lucien Sami Toutounji, October 2013 A large gold winner at Portugal 2010 and includes copy certificate.
Aegypten	Photostats of a display given by Kurt Wolfsbauer London 1990 Meeting.

*Articles taken from L'Orient Philatelique by their authors and donated to the Library.

   6.2. Miscellaneous Articles & Meeting Handouts

Description Author

Civil censors in the Cairo Postal Museum J.M. Murphy

Egyptian Cancellations – Some Comments Dr. Sava Michel Vestakis*

Les Entiers Postaux D’Egypte Jean Boulad d’Humières FRPSL*

The “Estero” Stamps of Italy and where they were used. H.R. Holmes FRPSL*

Finds in Early Egyptian Postmarks Ibrahim Chaftar FRPSL*

Souakin et Massawah Ibrahim Chaftar FRPSL*

Les Timbres des Bureaux Etrangers du Levant. S.E. Ahmed Bey Mazloum *

Egyptian Philately before the 20th Century.
(Paper accompanying a display to RPS London) Samir A. Fikry

The Official Stamps 1972 – 1985 P. Andrews, C. Defriez and G.A. Jeyes.

Ship Postmarks (Copyright Fil-Italia)
(Covers Italian mailboats 1890 to 1957) G. Whitfield

A Brief History of the Suez Canal Surg. Lt. Cdr. C.W. Evans

History of the Suez Canal.
Publ. Egypt Study Circle, London. 1992. C. Th. J. Hooghuis

*Articles taken from L'Orient Philatelique by their authors and donated to the Library.

  SECTION SEVEN: Periodicals

   7.1 Periodicals With Long Runs

Bolletino Prefilatelico e Storico Postale (Official Organ of the International Study Centre for Postal History) Whole Numbers 29 onwards to 1995

Camel Post (Bulletin of the Sudan Study Group) Whole Numbers 1 to 49 (less four relevant missing 2, 11, 20 and 22 all four of which are purely newsletters).
Camel Post Index for Spring 1987 (Nos. 1 to 35).

Egyptian Topics (Organ of the Egyptian Philatelic Society of America) Whole Numbers 1 to 44
Complete run from Nov. 1968 to Feb. 1976 (when it ceased).

Forces Postal History Society Newsletter/Journal Whole Numbers 1984 to date.

The London Philatelist (The Journal of the Royal Philatelic Sociey, London) Whole Numbers 636 (April 1945), 703, 928, 930, 931, 953 to 967, 970 to 977, 980 to 982.
Cumulative Index of the London Philatelist 1892 to 1944.

L'Orient Philatelique (Organ of the Philatelic Society of Egypt) Whole Numbers 4 (Feb. 1930), 5, 6. 8 to 17, 20,21, 23 to 27, 29 to 31,33, 38, 41 to 46, 48, 55, 58, 59, 61, 65, 66, 68, 70, 71, 87, 88, 90, 94,96, 97, 99, 101 to 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 121 to 123, 125,126, 127, 132, 133, 134, 135, 140, 141 (Feb. 2009) plus five more without numbers issued in recent years

L'Orient Philatelique (Organ of the Philatelic Society of Egypt) Numbers 1 to 119 (bound in several ‘books’)

Quarterly Circular (Organ of the Egypt Study Circle) Whole Numbers 1 to date (i.e. a complete run).

T.P.O. and Seapost Society Whole Numbers 1 to 140 less 48 copies; we also lack 141 to date.

A.R. Egypt Postal Authority A small box of Philatelic Bulletins concening new issues of the early 1970s (approx. 30).

   7.2 With ‘one-off’ numbers only

The Cinderella Philatelist (April 1966) Whole Number 18 (includes an article by P.R. Feltus on Salt Tax Stamps).

The Cinderella Philatelist Whole Number 22 (includes an article by P.R. Feltus on Fiscals).

The Cinderella Philatelist October 1989 Whole Number 29 (includes an article by Mark Dorman on The Sellschopp Fantasies of the 1887 Issue)

Collectors’ Club Philatelist Vol.17 No. 1 (Includes a Translation by A.S. Arnold of an extract from Kohl’s Handbook on Egypt by Dr. Herbert Munk) Publ. Federalsburg, Maryland. 1927.

Collectors’ Club Philatelist Vol. 66 Nos. 2, 3 and 4 (Includes an article by S.A. Fikry on varieties on Modern Egyptian philately, 1920 – 1986).

France & Colonies Philatelist January 1983 Whole Number 191 (Includes “A chronology of French campaigns and expeditions with their postal markings” by W.M. Waugh and S.J. Luft).

Der Philatelist (Organ für Postwerthzelchenkunde) February 1980 No. 2 (in German) (Which includes a listing and information on Interpostals Seals by L. Merlander).

  SECTION EIGHT: Tourist Literature (see also Section 1.2)

  8.1 Leaflets

Aswan )

Cairo )

Christianity in Egypt )

Enjoy your summer vacation in Egypt )

Khan il-Khalili – (The Cairo Bazaar) )

Helwan, City of Health ) all borrowable as one item

Luxor )

The New Valley – el-Wady Guedid )

The Pyramids of Giza )

North Sinai )

Sinai )

Welcome to Egypt (1960) )

    Modern Egyptian Hotels
    (A Collection of Hotel brochures collated in the 1980s)
    Souvenir of Cairo (A4 size pictures many issued as postcards)
    Publ. by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo. 1910.

  8.2 Books and Booklets

    Egyptian Museum
    Publ. The State Tourist Information, Cairo c 1970
    Tourist Information – Egypt by Moustafa Essa
    Publ. The Egypt General Authority for the Promotion of Tourism c 1970
    Taeckholmia 16: 1996 20th Anniversary of the Archaeobotany
    Laboratory, Cairo University Herbarium (1976 – 1996) by
    M. Nabil el-Hadidi.

  SECTION NINE: Archives

    Originated in a series of ten large envelopes with articles written mostly in French by JeanBoulad d’Humières.     Material also from Señor C. Th. J. Hooghuis is included, mostly in Spanish, including an article,
    “El Istmo de Suez y su importancia para el correo”.
    This is related to his collections (which see), and deals with the Isthmus of Suez and its importance for the post.
    Relevant as regards a number of study subjects including ancient documents, Napoleonic campaign,
    Overland Mail, the Suez Canal, the Consular offices and Posta Europea.

Listed by envelope number:     1. Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign

     2. Miscellaneous Articles on Egyptian Philately

     3. Egypt: General Stamps and Postmarks

     4. Posta Europea

     5. Egypt Air Mail

     6. Hotel Postmarks

     7. Suez Canal Postal History

     8. Egyptian Post Offices Abroad

     9. Foreign Post Offices in Egypt

    10. Maritime Postmarks.

    Handbook of Egyptian Philately (1798 to 1952 and beyond)     Chapters in draft for book by P.A.S. Smith FRPSL.

    Proposed chapter outline:

Chap.I     The Napoleonic Post

Chap.II      The Courier Post of Mohammed Ali.

Chap.III     Official Mail and Stamps

Chap.IV     The Greek Post Office

Chap.XIV     Commemorative issues of the Monarchy

Chap.XVIII     The Second Portrait Issue

Chap.XX     The King Farouk Definitives

Chap.XXI     Issues of the Republic

Chap.XXVI     Postal Markings and Cancellations

Chap.XXXIII     Interpostal Seals

  10.1 Exhibition Catalogues - Egypt

    Alexandria Exposition Philatelique d' Alexandria 10 April, 1939

    Egyptian Stamp Exhibition, Cairo 1991 Preview Booklet and Catalogue

    Premiére Exposition Philatelique du Caire 28th February — 8th March, 1946
    Collection of catalogues, handbooks and results.

  10.2 Exhibition Catalogues - Elsewhere

    Bangkok Worldwide Philatelic Exhibition 1993 Bulletin No. 3

    Egypt: The Hotel Post Offices Presented to the Royal Philatelic Society, London.
    by Richard Wheatley FRPSL Publ. The Author, London 2019

    Egyptian Stamp Exhibition, Cairo 7 to 12 October 1991 The Nile Hall, Cultural Center, el-Gezira,
    Cairo Publ. December 1990 (3 Bulletins)

    London International Stamp Exhibition, Grosvenor House, London 6th- 13th May, 1950

    Centenary Exhibition: The Royal Philatelic Society, London 11th — 20th April, 1969
     — Contains descriptions of displays by members of Egypt Study Circle.

    Philympa: International Exhibition, Olympia, London 18th - 26th September, 1970 (2)

    London 1980: International Stamp Exhibition, Earls Court, London 6th - 14th May, 1980

    Rare Stamps of the World Exhibition at Claridges, London. 1995

    Stamp World London 90 Souvenir Handbook by John Sussex
    Publ, Stamp World Exhibitions, London 1990

    World Philatelic Exhibition in Vienna - WIPA 08 Bulletins 1, 3 and 4, and Palmares, Vienna 2008

  10.3 Yearbooks

    BPA Philatelic Societies’ Yearbook 1969-70

    Philatelic Congress of Great Britain Yearbook, Cambridge, 1938

    Fortieth Philatelic Congress of Great Britain Exhibition Souvenir Catalogue, Folkestone, May, 1958

    Philatelic Congress of Great Britain Yearbook Harrogate, 1965

    Philatelic Congress of Great Britain Yearbook Bristol, 1969

    Philatelic Congress of Great Britain Yearbook Folkestone, 1970

    Philatelic Congress of Great Britain Yearbook Plymouth, 1979

    Sixtieth American Philatelic Congress, August, 1994
    (Contains article "The Express Stamps and Services of Egypt" by Peter A.S. Smith FRPSL
    and O.A.T. and A.V. 2 Markings and their forerunners by S.H. Thorsteinsson)

  Complete List as PDF

Description	Author
Civil censors in the Cairo Postal Museum	J.M. Murphy
Egyptian Cancellations – Some Comments	Dr. Sava Michel Vestakis*
Les Entiers Postaux D’Egypte	Jean Boulad d’Humières FRPSL*
The “Estero” Stamps of Italy and where they were used.	H.R. Holmes FRPSL*
Finds in Early Egyptian Postmarks	Ibrahim Chaftar FRPSL*
Souakin et Massawah	Ibrahim Chaftar FRPSL*
Les Timbres des Bureaux Etrangers du Levant.	S.E. Ahmed Bey Mazloum *
Egyptian Philately before the 20th Century. (Paper accompanying a display to RPS London)	Samir A. Fikry
The Official Stamps 1972 – 1985	P. Andrews, C. Defriez and G.A. Jeyes.
Ship Postmarks (Copyright Fil-Italia) (Covers Italian mailboats 1890 to 1957)	G. Whitfield
A Brief History of the Suez Canal	Surg. Lt. Cdr. C.W. Evans
History of the Suez Canal. Publ. Egypt Study Circle, London. 1992.	C. Th. J. Hooghuis

Bolletino Prefilatelico e Storico Postale	(Official Organ of the International Study Centre for Postal History)	Whole Numbers 29 onwards to 1995
Camel Post	(Bulletin of the Sudan Study Group)	Whole Numbers 1 to 49 (less four relevant missing 2, 11, 20 and 22 all four of which are purely newsletters). Camel Post Index for Spring 1987 (Nos. 1 to 35).
Egyptian Topics	(Organ of the Egyptian Philatelic Society of America)	Whole Numbers 1 to 44 Complete run from Nov. 1968 to Feb. 1976 (when it ceased).
Forces Postal History Society Newsletter/Journal		Whole Numbers 1984 to date.
The London Philatelist	(The Journal of the Royal Philatelic Sociey, London)	Whole Numbers 636 (April 1945), 703, 928, 930, 931, 953 to 967, 970 to 977, 980 to 982. Cumulative Index of the London Philatelist 1892 to 1944.
L'Orient Philatelique	(Organ of the Philatelic Society of Egypt)	Whole Numbers 4 (Feb. 1930), 5, 6. 8 to 17, 20,21, 23 to 27, 29 to 31,33, 38, 41 to 46, 48, 55, 58, 59, 61, 65, 66, 68, 70, 71, 87, 88, 90, 94,96, 97, 99, 101 to 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 121 to 123, 125,126, 127, 132, 133, 134, 135, 140, 141 (Feb. 2009) plus five more without numbers issued in recent years
L'Orient Philatelique	(Organ of the Philatelic Society of Egypt)	Numbers 1 to 119 (bound in several ‘books’)
Quarterly Circular	(Organ of the Egypt Study Circle)	Whole Numbers 1 to date (i.e. a complete run).
T.P.O. and Seapost Society		Whole Numbers 1 to 140 less 48 copies; we also lack 141 to date.
A.R. Egypt Postal Authority		A small box of Philatelic Bulletins concening new issues of the early 1970s (approx. 30).

The Cinderella Philatelist	(April 1966) Whole Number 18	(includes an article by P.R. Feltus on Salt Tax Stamps).
The Cinderella Philatelist	Whole Number 22	(includes an article by P.R. Feltus on Fiscals).
The Cinderella Philatelist	October 1989 Whole Number 29	(includes an article by Mark Dorman on The Sellschopp Fantasies of the 1887 Issue)
Collectors’ Club Philatelist	Vol.17 No. 1	(Includes a Translation by A.S. Arnold of an extract from Kohl’s Handbook on Egypt by Dr. Herbert Munk) Publ. Federalsburg, Maryland. 1927.
Collectors’ Club Philatelist	Vol. 66 Nos. 2, 3 and 4	(Includes an article by S.A. Fikry on varieties on Modern Egyptian philately, 1920 – 1986).
France & Colonies Philatelist	January 1983 Whole Number 191	(Includes “A chronology of French campaigns and expeditions with their postal markings” by W.M. Waugh and S.J. Luft).
Der Philatelist (Organ für Postwerthzelchenkunde)	February 1980 No. 2 (in German)	(Which includes a listing and information on Interpostals Seals by L. Merlander).

Originated in a series of ten large envelopes with articles written mostly in French by JeanBoulad d’Humières. Material also from Señor C. Th. J. Hooghuis is included, mostly in Spanish, including an article, “El Istmo de Suez y su importancia para el correo”. This is related to his collections (which see), and deals with the Isthmus of Suez and its importance for the post. Relevant as regards a number of study subjects including ancient documents, Napoleonic campaign, Overland Mail, the Suez Canal, the Consular offices and Posta Europea.
Listed by envelope number:	1. Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign
	2. Miscellaneous Articles on Egyptian Philately
	3. Egypt: General Stamps and Postmarks
	4. Posta Europea
	5. Egypt Air Mail
	6. Hotel Postmarks
	7. Suez Canal Postal History
	8. Egyptian Post Offices Abroad
	9. Foreign Post Offices in Egypt
	10. Maritime Postmarks.
Handbook of Egyptian Philately (1798 to 1952 and beyond)	Chapters in draft for book by P.A.S. Smith FRPSL.
Proposed chapter outline:
Chap.I	The Napoleonic Post
Chap.II	The Courier Post of Mohammed Ali.
Chap.III	Official Mail and Stamps
Chap.IV	The Greek Post Office
Chap.XIV	Commemorative issues of the Monarchy
Chap.XVIII	The Second Portrait Issue
Chap.XX	The King Farouk Definitives
Chap.XXI	Issues of the Republic
Chap.XXVI	Postal Markings and Cancellations
Chap.XXXIII	Interpostal Seals