Philatelic Bibliopole, Leonard H. Hartmann

BOOKS on PHILATELY

Postal History of the Spanish Philippines 1565 - 1898 by Don Petterson and Geoffrey Lewis

2000, 237 pages, color dj, 160 black and white illustrations, cloth $95.00

At last, a serious philatelic book about any Early Spanish Colonial Philately, it is on the Philippines thus a special US interest and it is in English!

Spain controlled the Philippines for over 375 years, creating an interesting and complex story of the Islands' postal routes, rates and markings. The Spanish period spanned from 1521 when Ferdinand Magellan discovered the islands through Commodore Dewey defeating the Spanish fleet in Mainila Bay in 1898.

INDEX

• Stampless Mail from the Philippines, 1565 -1820
• Stampless Mail to Spain, 1820s - 1850s
• Early European (non-Spanish) presence in the Philippines, 1500s - 1860s
• Ship Letter Mail to Great Britain via Cape of Good Hope Route, 1700s - 1840s
• Stampless Packet Mail to Great Britain, via Overland Suez route, 1830s - 1860s
• Stampless Mail to Far East Ports, 1820s - 1860s
• Stampless Mail to France and European Countries, 1700s - 1860s
• Stampless Mail to the United States, 1820s - 1860s
• Interior Mail System, 1500s - 1850s
• Postal Rates and Usage of the Early Stamp Period, 1854 - 1879
• Use of British Asian Stamps on Overseas Philippine Mail, 1850s - 1870s
• Postal Rates and Usage of the UPU Period, 1879-1898
• Maritime Transportation and Ships known to have carried Philippine Mail
• Other Mail

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