MARITIME DISASTER MAIL by Norman Hoggarth and Robin Gwynn		Country Index
	The book is based on the personal research of the two authors in Lloyd's records, newspapers, the Post Office Archives and other reference facilities at home and abroad. It significantly updates the standard works on the subject, recording many new discoveries. This is particularly evident in the two wartime periods. The book following the introduction is divided into seven chapters, with an appendix for seized mail. This book should be of considerable appeal to anyone interested in wreck mail, with the comprehensive index a great help to all, including collectors of related subjects	Whole world
	352 pages B/W illustrations Card cover Published 2004 Price £37.50 + postage and packing .

PIGEON MAIL THROUGH HISTORY By SALVADOR BOFARULL		Country Index
	This book deals with the history of carrying messages and mail by carrier pigeon. It covers The Ancient World; The Medieval Near East; Europe before 1867; The Franco Prussian war 1870 – 1871; America and Europe before 1914; European Colonies and Dominions; Russia; The First World War; The period between the First and Second World wars; The Second World war and the period after 1945. There is an extensive bibliography and there is an index to both text and the many illustrations. The book breaks new ground in its field and reviews in the UK and abroad have brought to the author recognition for his research.	Alaska,Ancient Egypt Arab World, Australia Austria, Belgian Congo, Belgium Canada, China Cuba, Dutch East Indies, Egypt Etruria ,Fiji Flanders ,France German East Africa Greece, Greenland Hungary, India Italian Colonies Italy, Japan Middle East, New Zealand, Nigeria Persia, Poland Roman Empire Russia, Sierra Leone South Africa South America Spain, Sweden Switzerland Syria United Kingdom United States Venice Western Europe
	167 pages. B/W illustrations. Card cover with colour illustrations back and front. Price £25 plus postage and packing

ROSSITER POSTAL HISTORY JOURNAL VOLUME No 6: 2005		Country Index
	The United States of America: Suspension of mail services to other countries in Wartime, Revolution and Civil Commotion by Robert Johnson The article mostly concerns civilian mails to, through or from United States citizens or residents which were affected by events of a military or a revolutionary nature and is not intended to be descriptive of mails to or from soldiers, sailors or airmen. The article deals with the American Civil War, the Spanish American War of 1898, the first and second World Wars and their aftermath, the Korean War,the events in Hungary in 1956 and the invasion of the Falkland Islands. It ends with the postal wars of the 1960s, the problems in Iran in 1979, trade union disputes, subversive activities and fraudulent mail. There are very useful appendices listing the conflicts for which suspended mail should exist and giving the dates when the mail was suspended to various countries. There are 41 figures illustrating covers with service suspended markings.	United States of America World  Estonia Latvia Lithuania
	Mail Routes through the Baltic States by Geoff Lovejoy This is a detailed monograph relating to the Horse Posts and the documentation of the Coach Post in the nineteenth century before the advent of railways. It begins with a map of postal routes circa 1796 and shows several covers with various markings. Further maps of circa 1831 and 1850 show how the post routes changed. A public notice of 1821 in German and also translated into English is illustrated describing the stage coach service. About 10 other documents in Russian and German are illustrated with English translations give details of the coach service including timetables. In all there are 37 figures showing covers from the period with postal markings up to 1855 and providing an explanation of the rates.
	120 pages B/W illustrations throughout. Card cover. Published 2005 Price £11.50 + postage and packing

ROSSITER POSTAL HISTORY JOURNAL VOLUME No 8: 2008		Country Index
	The Post Office : the other side of the Counter or what the Customer does not see by Robert Johnson The article is based on the Stuart Rossiter Trust lecture of November 2006 and describes some of the work and official rules that a postal clerk might have to deal with in the course of a day including letters, parcels, postal and money orders, the savings bank, the telegraph and telephone, insurance, licences, airmails and savings banks. These are profusely illustrated with pictures of forms and of pages from books of postal regulations. The forms are from the Great Britain and many other countries around the world are represented for example a savings form from Southern Rhodesia, a French Service Suspended label concerning nuclear tests in the Pacific, Belgian and French social security forms, a Netherlands authority to collect mail card, an Indian radio licence some of which bear postage stamps	Great Britain Australia USA France Belgium World  Netherlands East Indies
	Netherlands East Indies Postal History 1789 to 1877 by by Richard Wheatley Postal markings were introduced by the old Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) in 1789and this forms an appropriate point to start to unravel the postal history of the area. This comprehensive article traces the routes and postal rates up to 1877 when the Colony joined the General Postal Union. Both inland mail and mail to overseas destinations are dealt with. From the VOC Company period (1789 -1808), through the French (1808 - 1811) and British (1811 - 1816) Occupations and finally the Dutch Colonial time. Nearly all the pages bear a cover to illustrate a rate or route and there are many tables which provide this information. There is an exhaustive section dealing with the Dutch East Indies Landmail Labels - the Worlds' first Postage Due Stamp! The considerable bibliography gives testament to the scope of research and translation that has been needed to present this study in English.i
	110 pages B/W illustrations throughout, one colour plate. Card cover. Published 2005 Price £12.50 + postage and packing

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