Best Catalogues For Worldwide Collector

As a worldwide collector I collected mostly to Scott Standard Catalogue. In my opinion, it is the easiest catalogue to work with, at lease for me. However, it is the worst catalogue for varieties. Even the Scott Specialized Classic does a pour job at this. I want to dive deeper into the stamps I have and do a little more work on varieties and shades, and I'm trying to find out the most in depth catalogues for every country. I have Scott USA which is the best one for US stamps. I have Commonwealth and British Empire through 1970, which is the best one for everything British. But what about the rest of the world? I know Yvert and Michel are best for France and Germany, but they also cover other countries and not doing much better job at those than Scott. Can you help me compile the list of the catalogues to cover the rest of the world at least to the depth at which Gibbons covers British Empire.
Thank you.

If you could narrow things down a bit it would be easier to help you.
Facit for Scandinavia. I think it might be Edaphil for Italy?? (or is that for Spain?) Ma is one of the ones for China. Bale for Israel.

There are a lot of specialized catalogues for countries. To name just a few:
Yvert for France as mentioned by Eyeonwall, but there is also an Yvert for French colonies (very good)
Zumstein for Switzerland and Liechtenstein
NVPH for Netherlands and colonies
OBP for Belgium and colonies
Sakura for Japan
Austria Netto Katalog (ANK) for Austria

Maury produces the best catalogue for France. It also produced the best catalogues for French colonies, but these are out of print and harder to find. Yvert's French colonies catalogue is, I think, already out of print, although the digital version is available. Its specialised catalogue of French classics (i.e. pre-1900) is still available.

Edifil Spain: several editions exist. You are talking at least the Bronze edition as the 'unificado' does not list varieties beyond imperforates.
Sassone Italy
Mundifil Portugal
Hibernian Ireland
Yang for Hong Kong and China.

Spink has older copies of the Maury France catalogue and older copies of the Maury/Dallay colonies catalogues at reduced prices. Beware of postage costs, of course.

https://spinkbooks.com/collections/stamps

POFIS for Czechoslovakia
Chuchin, Zverev, and Zagorsky for Russa/USSR
Persiphila for Persia/Iran
Sassone for Italy
Philatelia Hungarica for Hungary

If you're into Canadian stamps then you should get
The Unitrade Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Stamps

Well, the easiest answer is it all depends on what you are using them for.
For general worldwide, I like Scotts.
For Canada I still use Scotts, but Unitrade is much better.
One time I had a friend load me a catalog from England for my British stamps.
I also had access to digital catalogues, and they worked out ok.
I also asked on here a similar question, and as many have said here, certain countries have specific catalogues and offer better pricing if that is what you are looking for.

Thank you all so much. Looks like these are all good advises. It sounds like there are no major catalogue producers that provide in depth listing for all the countries, not even for majority of them. As I already said, I have Scott and Gibbons to work with US and British Empire. I found older copies of Yvert on Archive.org: one for France, Monaco, French, Andorra, Europa Common Designs, and UN (don't know why UN) at ***Removed by Mod*** I assume this one may be good for France and Monaco. Also another one for all of the above except France ***Removed by Mod*** don't know if it is any better. I'll try to use those to see if they are any better than my Scott Classics. I'll be on look out for others. Still, it sounds like there are a lot of regions not covered like South East Asia, Middle East, South and Central America, post colonial Africa.

***Mod Note: The 'Internet Archive" violates copyright laws, takes everyone's website content without permission, and the websites they take are more often than not have incomplete content and broken links.***

Gibbons's area catalogues should, in general, give you as much detail as you need. I have its South-East Asia catalogue, which was more than enough for my purposes, and its Middle East catalogue.

danko I forgot about the ones on Archive. I use them at times when I am researching. Wish they had a better search when in the Catalogs, but for free it is not bad.

Also, Stamp Collector magazine put one out on Great Britain which was helpful to me. Also, their Magazine has many good resources on stamp history.

In my opinion, they are bad. The 'Internet Archive' violates copyright laws, takes everyone's website content without permission, and the websites they take are more often than not have incomplete content and broken links.

While others might not agree, they probably have not experienced investing hundreds or thousands of man-hours in developing a book or a website only to have it re-published by these people.
Don

Don,

My apologize for posting those. Digital archives are sort of a gray area. Technically, Libraries and Archives are sort of exempt from copyright laws, but I think it is only applies to paper copies. However, these laws were written way before digital age. It is sort of a Library, but is it....?

Personally, I have no issues using those, as I treat them as a library book. Besides, catalogue publishers, like college textbooks publishers, have no morals. I actually strongly believe that they are one of the main reasons for decline in the hobby.

Huge thank you for your work on this website.

Gibbons Area Catalogues could be a way to go. It looks like it is better than Scott Standard, but not as good as Gibbons British Empire. Sort of a compromise I guess. And it is in English, big plus

No worries, but please note that I do not see digital libraries as a gray area. Digital libraries can follow the same copyright laws as paper libraries; they can loan out as many copies as they own (one to one). But they cannot simply allow unlimited access to their digital copy simultaneously (which is what the Internet Archive did). A library like APRL (and tens of thousands of other Libraries across the internet) have no issues with following the copyright laws and properly lend out digital content all the time.

I agree that some publishers, authors, and other content producers have done no favors to this hobby. I have experienced this firsthand. But from my chair, supporting links that give access copyright violation content is not a good thing and can cause significant harm to the hobby too.

For example, I have numerous links to full digital copies of various stamp catalogs. These are links to the 'dark web' that are typically physically located in difficult (impossible?) jurisdictions. They are clearly copyright violations. But just because I may not like some of these catalog publishers does not mean I think the 'dark web' links to their copyrighted catalog should be posted here.
Don