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These arrived in the mail on Thursday. Paid just about origianl retail cost for them via AbeBooks. Most recent editions for both titles from Gibbons - from 2007-2008, and those were published after a 20-year break from the previous editions.  Given the very shaky finances of Gibbons at the present, hard to say if there will be future editions of the Gibbons Latin American catalogues, so decided to get these now.

I am getting a near complete run of the Gibbons regional catalogues now - have the Commonwealth volumes all complete now, and the Continental Europe that were updated in the period 2012-2018 (which include colonial issues for those areas that had colonies as well).  Four areas of Europe still haven't been updated by Gibbons - Portugal & Colonies, Italy & Colonies, Northern Balkans and Russia/CIS. Hoping these titles get new editions in the next year or so.

As for rest of world - I already have China, Middle East, Arabia and Northeast Africa volumes from the last few years, and now the two Latin America ones.  This leaves the following

1) Central Asia
2) Japan and Korea
3) Southeast Asia
4) Independent Africa (last edition was in two parts)

My hope is that at least #2 and #3 will get new editions soon, and maybe #1 as well.  Independent Africa I hold little hope for, though in the end the only thing I won't have in terms of specialized Gibbons for classical era would be Liberia (Ethiopia is in the Northeast Africa volume that I have) so worst comes to worse and Gibbons does give up the ghost, I can always use the APRL and make a copy of the couple pages covering classical-era Liberia.

For Belgium, COB actually refers to Balasse for printing info etc.
3 books, very detailed:

 

Very good catalogue. I was given mine by the widow of former member Clive Smyth (Anping) and I treasure it (and use it often).

A few recent additions:

Here’s another one that I forgot to add:

Received today France Maury almost 50 years ago (and the 106th edition)- it has answered some of my questions regarding the Type Sage Die types, they do not seem to have originated from Maury, even though they appear in the later 2009 combined catalogue of Maury, Ceres & Dallay-  The only detail for the Peace & Commerce Type Sage is the Type I/II location of th N under either the U or the N.  Details for earlier Napoleon and Ceres issues, but nothing for Type Sage, Blanc, Mouchon.  Marianne had been in print for 16 years prior to this issue, so it would be hard to say the publishers were unaware of the 'claimed" Die Types, as well as  the shades/color variants, which are mentioned by others going back to the turn of the century.

Thanks for the info classicalstamps . Some searching later and a visit to AbeBooks and I am now the proud owner of a lovely 1949 bound version of the 3 tomes of Balasse:

Arrived today-  Arhtur Mary Album and Catalogue, not in the best of condition, but interesting none the less. There is no publication date- The front cover says 15th edition, the preface indicates  it's the 16th edition, and the back cover is an vertisement for the 14th edition of the Universal Stamp Album (world wide).  Only the front and back cover are in color (probably the most expensive at the time to print!). It is approximately 2/3 album pages (only signs of hinges and a very few stamp remnants that were  glued in), the catalogue pages is from page 130 to 213
 
The most recent stamp is 1882, but only a few, 1881 is the most in quantity, and on the last catalogue page there is a small footnote/text advertisement for the 1882 supplement, Price 15 centimes!

I will post someo  f what  this catalogue tells me about early France stamps in the France Sage thread

He must have skipped a year as this has many 1881 issues and a few 1882 which leads me to believe it went to press in early 1882 *unless he was clairvoyant!