256 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - reprint 2011 with new findings and new binding
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POSTCARDS BY A. BERTIGLIA
Vol.II
the great series, costumes, sport, dogs, at the seaside, flowers, corrida, games, water effects, surrealist ones, Mickey Mouse

The work of the illustrator Aurelio Bertiglia is really vast and wide-ranging. More than three thousand different drawings in postcards, with distinct painting styles as if it were not the same author.
The present second volume, reprinted with the addition of new findings, gathers most of his productions about specific themes among the many dealt with by him: the great series, costumes, sport, dogs and cats, new-born children, at the seaside, flowers, corrida, games, water effects, surrealist ones, Mickey Mouse.
At the end of the volume the index by theme and the reproduction of the logotype of the publishing houses.

280 pp. - 800 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2009
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POSTCARDS BY A. BERTIGLIA
Vol.III
greetings

The work of the illustrator Aurelio Bertiglia is really vast and wide-ranging. More than three thousand different drawings in postcards, with distinct painting styles as if it were not the same author.
The present third volume gathers the prolific theme of greetings, mainly "Happy Christmas" and "Happy Easter", but also "Happy Birthday" and "Happy Name Day", with 800 postcards reproduced.
At the end of the volume the index by theme.

272 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2010
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POSTCARDS BY A. BERTIGLIA
Vol.IV
regionalism, landscapes, commemorative, politics, advertising

The work of the illustrator Aurelio Bertiglia is really vast and wide-ranging. More than three thousand different drawings in postcards, with distinct painting styles as if it were not the same author.
The present fourth volume gathers most of his productions about specific themes among the many dealt with by him: regionalism, landscapes, commemorative, politics, advertising.
At the end of the volume the index by theme and the reproduction of the back of the postcards.

288 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2011
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POSTCARDS BY A. BERTIGLIA
Vol.V
Glamour, Saucy, Fashion, Miscellaneous

The work of the illustrator Aurelio Bertiglia is really vast and wide-ranging. More than three thousand different drawings in postcards, with distinct painting styles as if it were not the same author.
The present fifth volume gathers most of his productions about women with their charm, glamour and seduction power. In the "Miscellaneous" section there are sketches, drawings, pictures, labels, photographs, cards, stickers, playbills, and much more.
At the end of the volume the index by theme, the reproduction of the back of the postcards, and an illustrated bibliography.

5 vols. - 1362 total pp. - colour ill. - softbound
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POSTCARDS BY A. BERTIGLIA
COMPLETE WORK

In five volumes the work of the illustrator Aurelio Bertiglia, really vast and wide-ranging. More than three thousand different drawings in postcards, with distinct painting styles as if it were not the same author.

66 pp. - 200 b/w ill. - softbound - 2nd ed. printed 2003
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REGIONAL - ITALIAN POSTCARDS
1889/1950

Volume dedicated to regional postcards catalogued following criteria such as the importance of the animation, the perfection of the edition and of the photograph, the print, the rarity, the represented event. Ordered by region. For the first time listed the "glossy" b/w postcards of post-war period (the great 50's).

456 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 1st ed. 2011
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First volume of the simplified catalogue of Asian postage stamps divided by country in alphabetical order: Afghanistan, Alexandretta, Alwar, Austro-Hungarian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire, Bahawalpur, Bamra, Bangladesh, Barwani, Bhople, British Levant, Bushire, Bussahir (Bashahr), Ceylon, Chamba, Charkhari, Cilicia, Cochin, Dhar, Dungarpur, Faridkot, Free French Forces in Levant, French Indian Settlements, French Post Offices in the Turkish Empire, Gwalior, Hatay, Hyderabad, India, Indian Expeditionary Forces, Indore (Holkar State), Iran, Italian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire, Jaipur, Jammu and Kashmir, Jasden, Jhalawar, Jind, Kazakhstan, Kishangarh, Kyrgyzstan, Morvi, Nabha, Nandgaon, Nawanager, Orchha, Pakistan, Patiala, Polish Post Offices in Turkey, Poonch, Portuguese India, Rajasthan, Rajpipla, Romanian Post Offices in the Turkey Empire, Russia, Russian Post Offices in the Turkish Empire, Shahpura, Siberia, Simoor, Soruth, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Travancore, Travencore-Cochin, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan, Wadhwan.
Information is provided at the beginning of each country covering history, early stamp issues and currency changes.

144 + 240 + 352 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2013 + 2014 + 2016
Italian text

3 BOOKS OFFER

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.1 - THE ITALIAN KINGDOM POST 1861-1889 +
VOL.2 - A BELLE ÉPOQUE POST 1889-1921 +
VOL.3 - ITALY'S FASCIST PERIOD AT THE POST 1921-1943

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

"Novellario" is a new kind of catalogue about the Post and postage stamps in Italy, but also about the other aspects of philately, and everything in its historical, social and cultural background.

144 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2013
Italian text

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.1
THE ITALIAN KINGDOM POST
1861-1889

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

"Novellario" is a new kind of catalogue about the Post and postage stamps in Italy, but also about the other aspects of philately, and everything in its historical, social and cultural background.

240 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2014
Italian text

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.2
A BELLE ÉPOQUE POST
1889-1921

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

"Novellario" is a new kind of catalogue about the Post and postage stamps in Italy, but also about the other aspects of philately, and everything in its historical, social and cultural background.

The 2nd volume, devoted to one of the highest moments of Italian Post, between the birth of the Ministry of Posts and the end of World War I, and full of conquests, splendours and tragedies, focuses on the best of the original and innovative layout of "Enciclatalogue", allowing to discover, in a chronological crescendo, the birth of new and unusual postal services and of new types of postage stamps, postal stationery and other charming revenue stamps, used in the Italian Post Offices (on those days open also outside Italy) and in those of military.

240 + 352 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2014 + 2016
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2 BOOKS OFFER

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.2 - A BELLE ÉPOQUE POST 1889-1921 +
VOL.3 - ITALY'S FASCIST PERIOD AT THE POST 1921-1943

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

"Novellario" is a new kind of catalogue about the Post and postage stamps in Italy, but also about the other aspects of philately, and everything in its historical, social and cultural background.

352 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2016
Italian text

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.3
ITALY'S FASCIST PERIOD AT THE POST
1921-1943

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

This 3rd volume deals with the history of the postage stamps and of all the other Italian postal paper money of the period 1921-1943, introduced in light of the ideology, of the politics, of the news, of the wars and of the characters that have shaped them.

It is the history of the Fascist period seen through the postal services, the postmarks and the most diverse daily aspects of the communications of those years, from correspondence to telegrams up to television.

A history that includes a cataloguing of the paper money that composes it (including the postage stamps of the Air express of the Levant and of SCADTA), attentively introduced, documented and evaluated in its collectors' interest.

The narration is fluid, combined with an exhaustive regulatory documentation, for all those who wish to examine this historical period deeper, when mail was a central and fundamental element of society.

144 + 240 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2013 + 2014
Italian text

2 BOOKS OFFER

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.1 - THE ITALIAN KINGDOM POST 1861-1889 +
VOL.2 - A BELLE ÉPOQUE POST 1889-1921

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

"Novellario" is a new kind of catalogue about the Post and postage stamps in Italy, but also about the other aspects of philately, and everything in its historical, social and cultural background.

224 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2017
Italian text

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.4
FROM ONE REPUBLIC TO THE OTHER
1943-1948

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

This 4th volume, devoted to Italy 1943 to 1948, starts from the Italian Armistice of 8 September 1943 and ends with the completion of the new Italian Republic with relevant Constitution, its first President and the big star as symbol.

A volume certainly demanding in the first part, where RSI, Italian Kingdom, Allies, German Forces act, chronologically, in simultaneity.

A new, fluid, captivating way of talking about postage stamps, postal stationery, postmarks etc. (and to evaluate them, also under unusual aspects) that makes its history engaging, intriguing, maybe a real incentive to convert overprint small bands, allied postage stamps, Imperial, CLN, Democratic and Risorgimento into new, personal collections.

144 + 240 + 352 + 224 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2013 + 2014 + 2016 + 2017
Italian text

4 BOOKS OFFER

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.1 - THE ITALIAN KINGDOM POST 1861-1889 +
VOL.2 - A BELLE ÉPOQUE POST 1889-1921 +
VOL.3 - ITALY'S FASCIST PERIOD AT THE POST 1921-1943 +
VOL.4 - FROM ONE REPUBLIC TO THE OTHER 1943-1948

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

"Novellario" is a new kind of catalogue about the Post and postage stamps in Italy, but also about the other aspects of philately, and everything in its historical, social and cultural background.

352 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2018
Italian text

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.5
THE FIRST ITALIAN REPUBLIC IN POST
1949-1993

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

The series of the "Novellario", relevant to the Italian State, ends with this 5th volume devoted to "The first Italian Republic in Post 1949-1993", that narrates all the postage stamps and the high values appeared in the latest 44 years of the Italian Post Office, including the various aspects of the postal service and of the Italian and international history.

A way to enable all, including those who are not collectors, to understand the values that most people know but only outwardly and marginally.
An introduction of philately of this period, by whom has lived it personally, with valuations of the subject matter, including different rarities all to be discovered.

256 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2020
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CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.6
MAIL SERVICES AND POSTAL RATES
1861-2000

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci and Luigi Ruggero Cataldi - Italian Academy of Philately and Postal History

Volume 6 of this catalogue illustrates mail services and postal rates from 1861 to 2000: the epochal changes in communication one of which occurred under our nose but which no one seems to have noticed; the story of the so-called letter mail is told through its objects, concessions, services, and their costs in 140 years; postal orders and other innovations, including banking ones; parcel post, that is how, for international reasons, the post office competed with private individuals; electrical services, new technologies, via wire or wireless, relevant to communication; licensed services, where it is shown how it happened to have to pay not to get but to perform a service.

512 pp. - more than 1200 colour ill. - hardbound with gold inscriptions and colour cover - 2nd ed. 2004
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HISTORICAL POSTAL CATALOGUE OF THE STAMPS OF VITTORIO EMANUELE II KING OF ITALY - II Edition - I volume: The Matraire stamps of Italy

Second edition, completely revised, which deals with the use of Matraire in the Kingdom of Italy starting from the first day of issue (1 March 1862) to 31 December 1863.
The exhaustive work is divided into eight chapters, each on a different postage stamp: 10c, 20c, 40c, 80c perforated, 2c yellow, 15c Sardinia, two 15c lithographed. Quotations in Euro are also given for print varieties, perforations, franking, use.

Four appendixes complete the book: postal forgeries, "December '63" including "De La Rue", the Matraire postage-due label used in 1863, every Italian destination. Very useful tables for the more than 700 franking on cover.

Quite every item known has been reproduced and many important philatelic and postal-historical notes accompany the text, making the work an essential instrument for collectors and scholars of the Kingdom of Italy.

128 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
POINT VALUATIONS
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CATALOGUE OF THE TRANSFER VARIETIES OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC POSTAGE STAMPS
1964-2014
Vol.3 Year 2024

By Associazione Filatelia Italiana Specializzata

In this catalogue the varieties are described in detail and individually quoted, with points ranging from 0 to 4 based on the importance of the defect. For those with points equal to 1 and 0, the generic indicative quotations are shown.

The prices have been determined taking into consideration the catalogue value of the standard copy and the conspicuousness of the defect.

For each postage stamp, next to the image of the "normal" example, some of the most significant varieties are sometimes shown, also chosen from among those recently discovered.

For each variety, the group it belongs to and its position within the group itself is reported.

This vol.3 shows the issues from 1964 to 2014. The series is completed by vol.1 from 1945 to 1955 and vol.2 from 1956 to 1965.

116 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
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CATALOGUE OF THE TRANSFER VARIETIES OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC POSTAGE STAMPS
1956-1965
Vol.2 Year 2023

By Associazione Filatelia Italiana Specializzata

In this catalogue the varieties are described in detail and individually quoted, with points ranging from 0 to 4 based on the importance of the defect. For those with points equal to 1 and 0, the generic indicative quotations are shown.

The prices have been determined taking into consideration the catalogue value of the standard copy and the conspicuousness of the defect.

For each postage stamp, next to the image of the "normal" example, some of the most significant varieties are sometimes shown, also chosen from among those recently discovered.

For each variety, the group it belongs to and its position within the group itself is reported.

This vol.2 shows the issues from 1956 to 1965. The series is completed by vol.1 from 1945 to 1955 and vol.3 from 1964 to 2014.