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
History of the British Army Postal Service (Vol. 1 – 1882 to 1902)	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.
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 Works

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

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	Col. Sir R.Slatin Pasha and Lt. Col. Sir F.R. Wingate	Edward Arnold, London. 1899

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

2.5 World War 2

Title	Author	Publisher
The Battle of Egypt	Ministry of Information (M.o.I.)	Ministry of Information, 1943
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

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

(b) World War II

Title	Author	Publisher
The History of the 4th Armoured Brigade	Brig. R.M.P. Carver	J.J. Augustin, Gluckstadt, Germany

SECTION THREE: General Geographical and Historical Works

3.2 Commercial Publications

Title	Author	Publisher
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 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

3.3 Egyptology and Its History

Title	Author	Publisher
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

Title	Author	Publisher
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
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

Title	Author	Publisher
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 Arabic by Sherif Hetata	Zed Books Ltd., London, 1985

SECTION FIVE: Biographical and Memoirs

Title	Author	Publisher
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
The Road to Harley Street	William Byam	Geoffrey Bles, London, 1963
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, Canterbury, 1925
Samuel 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)

Description	Author/Details
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 (Part 1)	Bound photostats of Gold Medal Collection of Samir Amin Fikry
The Nile Collection - 1984 (Part 2)	Bound photostats of Gold Medal Collection of Samir Amin Fikry
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” 2. First Pictorial Issues of Egypt 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.