BFV COSMOS  -  Belgian Astrophilatelic Society Cosmos

Literature

Catalogues


This is a list of catalogues on spaceflight, to be completed.
Sometimes, it might be interesting to do some research in older catalogues to find some or more details on these older space events.

Title
- Author
- Description
- Number of pages
- Year of publication

    Astrophil Autogram Katalog
- Michael Göde
- Autograms and autopens from astronauts and cosmonauts
- 30 pages
- 1979
    Astrophil Weltraum-Philatelie-Katalog
- Michael Göde - 1st Edition
- Manned and unmanned spaceflight in USA, USSR, Europa and Japan
- 84 pages
- 1981
 
  Astrophil Weltraum-Philatelie-Katalog
- Michael Göde - 2nd Edition
- Manned and unmanned spaceflight in USA, USSR, Europa and Japan
- 108 pages
- 1982
  Astrophil Weltraum-Philatelie-Katalog
- Michael Göde - 3rd Edition
- Manned and unmanned spaceflight in USA, USSR, Europa and Japan
- 136 pages
- 1984
    Astrophil Weltraum-Philatelie-Katalog
- Michael Göde - 4th Edition
- Manned and unmanned spaceflight in USA, USSR, Europa and Japan
- 160 pages
- 1986
 
  Astrophil Weltraum-Philatelie-Katalog
- Michael Göde - 5th Edition
- Manned and unmanned spaceflight in USA, USSR, Europa and Japan
- 176 pages
- 1988
    Astrophilatelie
- Handbuch für den Weltraumsammler

- Band 1
- Sowjet Union, stamps & cancelations
    Astrophilatelie
- Handbuch für den Weltraumsammler

- Band 2
- Germany, stamps & cancellations
    Astrophilatelie
- Handbuch für den Weltraumsammler

- Band 3
- Belgium, Greece, Holland, Austria, Switzerland
    Astrophilatelie
- Handbuch für den Weltraumsammler

- Band 4
- Bulgary, CSSR, Romania
    Astrophilatelie
- Handbuch für den Weltraumsammler

- Band 5
- Stamps from 24 countries
    Astrophilatelie
- Handbuch für den Weltraumsammler

- Band 6
- Hungary, Spaceflights, FIP Regulations
    Astrophilatelie
- Handbuch für den Weltraumsammler

- Band 7
- 40 years Raketenflugplatz Berlin
    Astrophilatelie - Thematikkatalog der US-Raumfahrt
- Eberhard Cölle / Wolfgang Richter
- Part 1: Manned US spaceflight from Mercury to Apollo-Soyuz
- Part 2: Unmanned spaceflight, planetary flights, spacelab and space shuttle, KSC covers, stamps and FDC, Europe and Japan
- Part 3: Chronology of all US spaceflights up to October 1977
- 280 pages
- 1977
  Catalogue des Cosmodromes
- Lollini
- Start and landing covers from USA, Baikonur, Kagoshima, Kourou, Woomera
- 1974 (4th edition) / 196 pages
- 1979 (5th edition)
- 1994 (7th edition)
- 1998 (8th edition)
- 2005 (8bis edition) supplement
  China Space Catalogue
Part I / (-1996)
- China Space Philately Club
- In honouring the 40th Anniversary of the decision of the Party Central Committee to develop China's aerospace industry in 1956.
In 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong issued the call "We will also develop a man-made satellite".
- 166 pages
- 1996

The catalogue is in Chinese, but each cover is mentioned with a small English text to explain the reason of the flight.

  China Space Catalogue
Part II / (1996-1998)
- China Space Philately Club
- This is de second volume covering al the launch covers edited by the different organisations in China, honouring the spaceflights.
- 152 pages
- 1999

The catalogue is in Chinese, but each cover is mentioned with a small English text to explain the reason of the flight.
  Conquête de l'Espace
- Lollini
- Cosmos stamps according to country and date, als IGY, Astronomers,Atoms, Stars and Observatories
- 384 pages
- 1972 (12th edition)
- 1981 (16th edition)
- ----- (17th edition)
- 1991 (18th edition)
- 1997 (19th edition)
- ----- (20th edition)
- 2008 (21st edition)
    C.O.S.M.O.S.
- Lollini
- Sowjet special cachets and side cachets, other countries to 1964
- 96 pages + 50 pages
- 1964 (2nd edition) + 1973
    Cosmospace
- M. Languil
- Catalogue des Oblitérations Spatiales Européennes
- 180 pages
- 1983
    First Men on the Moon
- R.F. Kitchen
- Handbook of stamps
- 139 pages
- 1972
    Interplanetare Raumsonden
- Peter Hubl
- Technical data, covers, cachets from Pioneer to Viking 2
- 80 pages
- 1976
    Kennedy Space Center Philatelic History
- Yorio
- KSC cachets and NASA cachets
- 44 pages
- 1973
    Kosmos - Sonderstempel der UDSSR
- Georg Paedelt
- Katalogue on special cancellations on Cosmos (only USSR), place of cachet, list of cosmonauts in Cyrrilic and German, start list of USSR manned spaceflight
- 46 pages
- 1977
  Le Guerin - CD 1
- Y. Guerin, J-L. Lafon
- 471 covers of European astrophilately
- Period 1932-1975
- CD-Rom (numbered)
- 2011
    Philatelic History of the Conquest of Space
- McMahan
- Chronological research on all US rocket starts from 1944-1971
- 150 pages
- 1971
  Raketenpost Katalog
- Hermann W. Sieger
- An overview of rocketmail, private and official from the beginning until the Apollo 15 covers.
- 244 pages
- 1971 (3. Auflage)
  Raketen-Post von Friedrich Schmiedl
- R.F.Kohl & W.M.Hopferwieser
- Full color catalogue on the flights and covers by Friedrich Schmiedl in Austria.
- 60 pages, 120 pictures
- 2003
- Verlag Pollischansky, Dreyhausenstrasse 16, 1140 Wien, Österreich
  Raumfahrt und Astronomie-Motiv Katalog
Teil I - Europa
- D. Steinbrecher
- This is the first volume in a series on spaceflight stamps catalogues, compiled and edited by Dipl.-Ing. D. Steinbrecher, Germany.
-
- 2007


The catalogues are only available by pre-inscription (before the book goes to press), so there is no way to get the catalogue afterwards.
Already sold-out
  Raumfahrt und Astronomie-Motiv Katalog
Teil II - Asien
- D. Steinbrecher
- This is the second volume in a series on spaceflight stamps catalogues, compiled and edited by Dipl.-Ing. D. Steinbrecher, Germany.
- 580 pages
- 2009
  Raumfahrt und Astronomie-
Motiv Katalog

Teil III - Amerika 
- D. Steinbrecher
- This is the third volume in a series on spaceflight stamps catalogues, compiled and edited by Dipl.-Ing. D. Steinbrecher, Germany.
- 470 pages
- 2011
  Raumfahrt und Astronomie-
Motiv Katalog

Teil IV - Australien, Ozeanien un Antarktis 
- D. Steinbrecher
- This is the fourth volume in a series on spaceflight stamps catalogues, compiled and edited by Dipl.-Ing. D. Steinbrecher, Germany.
- 470 pages
- 2011
Planned 2012    Raumfahrt und Astronomie-
Motiv Katalog

Teil V - Karibik 
- D. Steinbrecher
- planned for Spring 2012
 
Planned 2013 - 2014    Raumfahrt und Astronomie-
Motiv Katalog

Teil VI - Afrika 
- D. Steinbrecher
- Planned for 2013 - 3 Volumes 6.1 / 6.2 / 6.3
    Raumfahrt-Katalog
- Carsten Fuchs
- Manned and unmanned projects in USA
- 166 pages
- 1970
    Raumfahrt-Katalog
- Carsten Fuchs
- Space covers on Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and unmanned sattelites
- 224 pages
- 1973
    Raumfahrt-Katalog / Skylab and others
- Carsten Fuchs
- Space covers on Apollo, Skylab and unmanned sattelites
- 70 pages
- 1975
    Raumfahrt-Katalog
- Carsten Fuchs
- Space covers on Apollo-Soyuz
- 35 pages
- 1975
    Rocket Mail Catalog
Volume 1
- Ellington-Zwisler
- This catalogue is confined primarely to covers, cards or stamps which were actually flown in rockets. Covers are attributed to the countries, not to the experimenters.
- --- pages
- ---- by AAMS
  Rocket Mail Catalog
Volume 2
- Ellington-Zwisler
- The second part is mostly an update and additional information on the rocket mail events published in the first volume.
- 420 pages
- 1973 by AAMS
  Rocket Mail flights of the World
Dr. Max Kronstein
- Compilation of over 60 individual articles by the late Dr. Max Kronstein. All of Dr. Kronstein's widely-scattered Airpost Journal articles on the postal rocket and related events are included. The period before World War II is broken down into groups of articles on rocket developments in Europe, the USA, and other countries.
- 191 pages
-
1986
    Soviet Space Catalogue
- Lester E. Winick
- Soviet special cachets and club cachets
- 345 pages
- 1978
  Sowjetunion I
- H.R. Pfau
- Stamps, cachets, ganzsachen and starts
- 184 pages
- 1977 (4th edition)
  Sowjetunion II
- H.R. Pfau
- Sidecachets, vignettes and special letters
- 205 pages
- 1976 (1st edition)
  Sowjetunion IV
- H.R. Pfau
- Postcards, Ganzachen, Maximum cards of the USSR
- 120 pages
- 1988 (5th edition)
  Space Covers
- Filatelie "CIFAR" - Renato de Paolo
- World wide catalogue CIFAR, listing of covers available by CIFAR Philately in Rome.
- 250 pages
- 1983 (1st edition)

Club Internazionale Filatelico d'Astronautica di Roma - C.I.F.A.R.
    Space Covers - ATA Handbook
- Betty Peters editor
- ATA Handbook #60
- Vol. 3 - N° 1
- 1968
    Spaceflight Stamp Catalogue
- Leo Malz
- Book on space stamps (# Scott & Michel)
- *
- 1979
    Space Shuttle
- G. Koridaβ / Karl v.d.Wiede
- Handbook for astrophilatelists : all about space shuttle, precursors, stamps and cachets
- 40 pages
-1976
    Spezialkatalog der Raumfahrtmarken
- Hermann E. Sieger
- Space stamps catalogue
- *
- 1976 (?)
    United States Postal Cancellations Man's Conquest of Space
- Wesley Smith
- US special cachets on the Conquest of Space
- 35 pages
- 1979
    U.S. Space Covers
- Courtney
- Chronology of launches (rockets and sounding rockets)
- 4 parts : 1958-1962/1963-1965/1966-1968/1969-1971
- 1972
    U.S. Space Covers 1973-1974
- Dr. Reuben A. Ramkissoon
- US space covers
- 48 pages
- 1975
  Weebau
- M&R Weemaels, P. Bauduin
- Catalogue on stamps worldwide
- 1010 pages
- 1988
  Weebau
- M&R Weemaels, P. Bauduin
- Catalogue on stamps worldwide
- 1132 pages
- 1991 (2nd Edition) + suppl. 1994
    Weltraumfahrt
- Astronauten, Sputniks und Raketen
- Sieger Verlag
- Spezialkatalog 1st Edition
- 74 pages
- 1962
 
    Weltraumfahrt
- Astronauten, Sputniks und Raketen
- Sieger Verlag
- Spezialkatalog 2nd Edition
- 156 pages
- 1964
    Weltraumfahrt
- Astronauten, Sputniks und Raketen
- Sieger Verlag
- Spezialkatalog 3rd Edition
- 208 pages
- 1965
    Weltraumfahrt
- Astronauten, Sputniks und Raketen
- Sieger Verlag
- Spezialkatalog 4th Edition
- 324 pages
- 1966
    Weltraumfahrt
- Astronauten, Sputniks und Raketen
- Sieger Verlag
- Spezialkatalog 5th Edition
- 376 pages
- 1967
    Weltraumfahrt
- Astronauten, Sputniks und Raketen
- Sieger Verlag
- Spezialkatalog 6st Edition
- 432 pages
- 1968
    Weltraum Philatelie Katalog
- Gesellschaft der Weltall-Philatelisten / Dr. Th. Dahinden
- Stamps Switzerland, Liechtenstein, UNO
-
- 1976
  Wilhelm Catalogue
Band 1 - Mercury
- Peter Wilhelm
- This is the first part "MERCURY" of Peter Wilhelm's Catalog on US manned spaceflight, now known as
'The Wilhelm'.
It is a philatelic history of manned space flight events, documented with covers and supplemented with technical and mission related details. Also included are tips regarding forgeries of
philatelic material.
-
-
2001

  Wilhelm Katalog
Band 2 - Gemini
- Peter Wilhelm
- This is the second part "GEMINI"
of Peter Wilhelm's Catalog on US manned spaceflight.
-
- 2002
  Wilhelm Katalog
Band 3 - Apollo
- Peter Wilhelm
- This is the third part "APOLLO" of Peter Wilhelm's Catalog on US manned spaceflight.
-
- 2004

 
 

Wilhelm Katalog
Band 4 - U.S. Raumstationen
- Peter Wilhelm
- In this 4th part, the United States Space Stations Skylab, Project Dyna Soar and MOL, are presented with all the covers AND stamps.
-
- 2006