Stanley Gibbons - Bangladesh, Burma, Pakistan & Sri Lanka Stamp Catalogue 3rd Ed 2015

Description

• This 3rd edition of the catalogue provides a comprehensive priced listing of the stamps of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and also includes the British colonial and Japanese Occupation issues of Burma.
• New for this Edition:
  - There have been a number of new listings among earlier stamps, but the major development is the addition of government telegraph stamps.
  - In Burma this comprises just one set, but the Ceylon listings have added 8 new pages to the catalogue, with clear colour illustrations of the various overprint and surcharge types. 
  - This section also includes watermark varieties and the telegraph stamps of India used in Ceylon between 1869 and 1880
• The authoritative priced listing of the stamps of Bangladesh, Pakistan (including Bahawalpur) and Ceylon/Sri Lanka, from the earliest colonial stamp of Ceylon (1857) to date, all to a level of detail familiar to users of the Part 1 British Commonwealth listings.
• Fully priced listings of booklets, official stamps and the postal fiscals and the Parliament stamps of Sri Lanka.
• On-cover ‘multipliers’ are provided for all stamps to 1945.
• Major plate flaws, watermark varieties, errors, paper, watermark and perforation changes and ‘Specimen’ overprints all fully listed and priced.
• Comprehensive introduction and international philatelic glossary.
• Prices fully revised and updated throughout.
• Numerous additions and revisions to the listings of earlier issues.
• Prices for issues up to 1970 have been taken from the 2015 Commonwealth and British Empire Stamps 1840-1970 catalogue.
• Later issues have been specially updated for this catalogue.
• Detailed Contents/Countries Covered;
  - Bangladesh
  - Burma (1937-47)
  - Japanese Occupation of Burma (1942-4)
  - Pakistan
  - Bahawalpur
  - Ceylon
  - Sri Lanka