Description
Wellsted/Rossiter/Flower, The Stamp Atlas, A unique assembly of geography, social and political history, and postal information, 1986, 336 pages, here a good copy, dust jacket with small defects as usual, otherwise good, this recommendable work that no good library should be without! Probably the best stamp atlas ever published, contains all countries that issued stamps up to the mid-1980s, with information on currency and national history, often with illustrations and/or maps. Contains a total of 750 illustrations, some in color, and 144 maps. The editors, Raife Wellsted (former curator of the British Postal Museum) and Stuart Rossiter (founder of the Rossiter Foundation for Postal History) are well-known postal historians, John Flower joined as a map expert. #26122