Books Pictured On Stamps

Singapore 2018 First Schools for Girls' Education - Girls reading books.

Brazil
Frankfurt Book Fair
May 27, 1994
The stamp commemorates the 1994 Frankfurt Book Fair which focused on Brazilian literature.

Macedonia
Struga Poetry Evenings
June 15, 2011
The stamp celebrates the 50th anniversary of Struga Poetry Evenings, an international poetry festival held annually in Struga.

Colombia
Bogota - Latin American Capital of Spanish Culture
October 23, 2007
Set of three, one stamp celebrates the designation of Bogotá as the World Book Capital City 2007.

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH Post)
Christian doctrine for Slavic people
December 23, 2016
The stamp shows Croatian Franciscan writer Matija Divkovi#263; (1563–1631) and his book Nauk krstjanski (Venice, 1611).

Australia 2019.
Authors : Children's books.

Books shown:
"Where is the green sheep?"
"Once"
"Mr Chicken goes to Paris"
"Magic Beach"
"The Lost Thing" (Won an Oscar for the film adaptation)

France
10th June 1937
300th Anniversary of the publication of "Discours de la Méthode" by René Descartes.

Original and corrected versions of stamp (incorrect title used, size unchanged despite my scans)
Other books by Descartes "Traité de l'Homme" and "La Géométrie" also visible.




Designed and engraved by Henry Cheffer, printed by recess.

Saudi Arabia
9th September 2006
International Book Fair, Riyadh

Lebanon
12th April 2007
50th Anniv of Book Fair

Croatia
250th Anniversary of Printing Arithmetika Horvatszka
January 25, 2008
The stamp depicts the first arithmetic book in the Croatian language.

The 6c values of Norfolk Island's 1971 set commemorating the death centenary of John Coleridge Patteson shows a Bible open to Acts chapter 7. Patteson was the first Anglican bishop of Meslanesia. He died a martyr, being killed by tribesmen in the Solomon Islands. His death reflects that of early Christian martyr Stephen, who was stoned by the Sanhedrin as described in Acts 7.

Here are images of the two stamps in a set depicting book readers and the IBY, designed and engraved by French artist Pierre Forget (1923-2005), and issued by Ivory Coast on April 22, 1972 to publicize the UNESCO's International Book Year, Scott Nos. 325 & 326.

- nethryk

Boys reading


Girls reading, designed after original artwork by E. Odio Affognon

Two stamps of Bolivia's 2007 set of 6 honoring the golden (50th) anniversary of CEFILCO (Centro Filatelico Cochabamba/ Cochabamba Philatelic Center) are book related.

The .50 Bolivianos stamps shows various magazines related to Bolivian philately. The inscription reads, "Educational campaigns encourage young people to practice philately." The 2.50 Bs. stamp depicts a 1999 CEFILCO Catalog of the Stamps of Bolivia and an older Bolivian stamp showing "Simon Martinic founder of the CEFILCO catalog."

The 1.50 Bolivianos stamp from Bolivia's July 10, 1998 set of 3 depicts a n open book and Dr. Werner Guttentag (1929-2008). In 1939, Guttentag and his parents fled nazi Germany as Jewish emigrants to Bolivia.

From Wikipedia, "He was first a bookseller and founded in 1950 the publishing house "Los Amigos del Libro" (Friends of the Book)."

From the educabolivia website. "His commitment to the book and especially the Bolivian culture was recognized with several awards and the highest Bolivian decoration. the Condor of the Andes in 1987."

On July 12, 1988 Guernsey issued a set of 5 stamps honoring archaeologist, naturalist, and native son Frederick Corbin Lukis (1788-1871). The 16p value of the set, Scott #386, depicts bound manuscripts containing illustrations painted by Lukis's daughter Mary Anne.