The list given here is not exhaustive but probably covers the main works for the Egyptian philatelist. The Egypt Study Circle for many years, at
least from 1936 to the early 1990s, been promising "The Book", and had even compiled preliminary chapters for many years. These "studies", each supervised by
a "study leader", were intended to fill out knowledge on a particular aspect of Egyptian philately. Many of the studies, however, comprised little more then
rough notes, mainly in the hand of Charles Minett, and much of the information was published over the years in the QC under the editorship of Minett himself,
and later for many years of John Grimmer. The Circle owes both a great deal.
Peter Smith finally gathered together all the published data, added to it his virtually encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject, and produced the definitive work on
Egyptian philately. His magesterial volume covers much of the published material from L'Orient Philatélique and the QC with new data never before published.
Rather like London buses - you wait a long time and then several all come along together - the late 1990s produced several seminal works in the Egyptian area.
Alongside Peter's Egypt Peter Smith's stand the two books of John Firebrace, the monumental work of Luca D. Biolato, and new catalogues of stamps and related material by
fellow members Leon Balian and Joe Chalhoub.
Not included in the compilation below are the standard catalogues like Gibbons pt 19, Scott etc.
Nor do we mention many of the books relating to military matters, such as Proud, Collas, Stobbs, Emery, Collins and Dickson, Entwistle, Virk, Kennedy and Crabb,
Findeiss, Marchese, Buzzetti, Sorani, Migliavacca, the War Cover Club with Sheffer, Waugh Luft. Also omitted are related areas which contain some Egyptian references,
such as the Sudan (Stagg and Dight); and Palestine (Sacher, Pollock, Alexander, Collins, Steichle etc). We also exclude magazines that often contain Egyptian-related
material - OPAL, BAPIP, TOPS, HLMP, The Camel Post. In the past Egyptian references were quite common, but those magazines still in existence now seem to concentrate
almost exclusively on Sudan or Turkish related articles.
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The Quarterly Circular Published virtually continually since 1938 four times a year. |
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L'Orient Philatélique July 1929 until Feb 1978, 131 issues. The trilingual (Arabic/English/French) magazine was resurrected in January 2002, and further issues have since been published in Cairo |
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Egyptian Topics Publised by Gorden Garrett from 1968 until 1976 in the United States. |
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Zeheri Catalogue for Postage Stamps of Egypt, U.A.R. and the Sudan. Published by the Philatelic Society of Egypt from 1937 (first edition). For long the "bible" of Egyptian collecting, the ninth and last edition came in 1972 |
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The Stamps of Egypt Leon Balian, 1998 |
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The Nile Post: Handbook and Catalogue of Egyptian Stamps Joe Chalhoub, 2003 |
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Egypt Stamps Handbook by Magdi M. Abdel-hadi. Vol. I, 717 pp., Vol. II, 636 pp., 2010 |
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Egypt: Stamps and Postal History Peter A. S. Smith, 1999 |
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La Posta Europea nel contesto della storia postale dell'Egitto nel sec. XIX (1820-1865) Luca D. Biolato, 1997 |
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The Airmails of Egypt John Sears, 1st Edition 1990, 3rd edition 2001 |
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The Egypt Flight LZ 127 - Graf Zeppelin Fred Blau and Cyril Deighton, 1981 |
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Postal History of Egypt to 1900 Samir A. Fikry, 1996 |
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Perfins on Egyptian Stamps Vahe Varjabedian, 1999. In 2004 Vahe also produced an update on CD |
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Consular.. in Egypt Themis Dacos, 1994 |
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The French Post Offices in Egypt, Part 1 (Before 1876); 1939 Pierre Louis Grech 2013 |
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The French Post Offices in Egypt, Part 2 (1876-1931); 1939 Pierre Louis Grech 2013 |
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La Poste Maritime Française, Les Paqebots de La Mèditerranèe de 1837 à 1939 Raymond Salles, 1962, (reprinted 1992) |
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Philatelistischer Atlas des Osmanischen Reiches Andreas Birken, 1992 |
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Catalogue of Egyptian Revenue Stamps Peter Feltus, 1982 |
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The Interpostals of Egypt 1864-1892 Erhest A.Kehr, 1962 |
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The Posta Europea and Kehr Catalogue of Interpostals Erhest A.Kehr and Phillip Cockrill, 1984 |
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The Travelling Post Offices of Egypt Peter A.S.Smith, 1983 |
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Egypt: The Rural Postal Service Mike Murphy and Ibrahim Shoukry, 2010 |
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Taarega el-barid Tarikh Chichini, 1981 |
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Egyptian Postal Markings of 1865-1879. ESC Study VI Part One Peter Feltus, 1983 |
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Army and Field Post Offices of Egypt and EEF 1914-20 Michael Sacher, 1970 |
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British Empire Campaign and Occupation in the Near East, 1914-1924, A Postal History. John Firebrace, 1991 |
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Nineteenth Centaury Wars in Egypt and the Sudan John Firebrace, 1997 |
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British Forces in Egypt Postal Services 1932 to 1940 John E.O. Hobbs, 1st edition 1970, 2nd edition 1984 |
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Egypt Postage Prepaid Military Date Stamps 1941 to 1947 F. W. Benians, 1978 |
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The Palace Collection of Egypt H.R.Harmer Auction, February 1954 |
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Byam's Egypt Robson Lowe Auction, 1961 |
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Danson's Egypt Robson Lowe Auction, 1977 |
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Stamps and Postal History, Egypt David Feldman Auction, February 1999 |
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Egypt National Philatelic Museum, National Philatelic Museum, 1952 |
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Palestine Stamp Catalogue, Gaza Egyptian Administration Ketcho B.Hagopian, 1987 |
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All About Postal Matters in Egypt Willard Fiske 1898; reprint Harry Hayes 1977, P.Feltus 1991 |
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United Arab Republic (Egypt) Commemorative Stamps 1952-1969 Egyptian Postal Authority |
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Guide to Exhibiting and Judging Traditional Philately Fédération Internationale Philatélique, 1993 |
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The Kings of Egypt and their Stamps Robson Lowe, 1969 |
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The Suez Canal Company by Jean Boulad d’Humieres, S. Ringstrom, H.E. Tester.Ed. Leonard Hartman, USA, 1985. |
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Suez Cannel, Forgery and Reprint Guide J. Barefoot, 1983 |
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The Overland Mail John K.Sidebottom, 1948 |
