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Cod. 2536E
EUR 25,00


Italo Robetti & Achille Vanara
LA COMUNICAZIONE EPISTOLARE DA E PER TORINO
VOL.II - VITTORIO AMEDEO II E LE PRIME TARIFFE PER LA POSTA DELLE LETTERE (1684-1730)

263 pp. - almost 500 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2014
Italian text

THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
vol.II VITTORIO AMEDEO II AND THE FIRST RATES FOR LETTER POST (1684-1730)

This second volume is connected to Vittorio Amedeo II, the Duke of Savoy who became first King of Sicily and then King of Sardinia. As a duke he introduced the first postal rates for letters (1698), as King of Sicily he issued the first organic edict about Post (1718) and as King of Sardinia he made approve the definitive edict of 1720 that was in force up to 1772.

The book is enriched with almost 500 images and it is divided into three chapters: the first one covers the ducal period (1684-1713), the second one concerns the period when Vittorio Amedeo II was King of Sicily (1713-1720) and the third one is about the period when he was King of Sardinia (1720-1730).

High significance is given to the postal rates related to the town of Turin, but there are also particularly interesting documents, such as the first postal agreements undersigned by France and Piedmont at the end of XVII century and continued during the following one. Furthermore much attention is given to the interventions of the Health Magistrate in Turin, to explain the consequence of the frequent epidemics and infectious illnesses on the treatment of letters: the simple external perfuming, the de-sealing with internal perfuming and the subsequent re-sealing, the use of fumigation and the exposure to heat.

The volume is completed by the tables of the rates for letters, by the Generalship of Post and the chronology of popes and kings, by the analytic index of the most significant writings, by the bibliographic references, by the works and the institutes consulted, by the funds consulted in the history Archives of Turin.
Cod. 1675E
EUR 10,00
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Vito Salierno
BIBLIOGRAFIA FILATELICA E STORICO POSTALE RAGIONATA
LAZIO-EMILIA-MARCHE-UMBRIA

113 pp. - softbound - printed 2003
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)

ANNOTATED PHILATELIC AND POSTAL HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
LATIUM - EMIL-ROMAGNA - MARCHES - UMBRIA

Useful bibliography which lists the titles of volumes or magazines articles.
Cod. 1324E
EUR 20,00


Carlo Ciullo
I SEGNATASSE PROVVISORI DI BOLZANO E DELL'ALTO ADIGE
alla fine della prima guerra mondiale
LOKALE PORTOPROVISORIEN IN BOZEN UND SÜDTIROL
am Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges

128 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 1999
Italian and German text

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PROVISIONAL POSTAGE DUE LABELS OF BOLZANO AND UPPER ADIGE at the end of the first world war

The first world war is at its end. On 3/11/1918 Italy and Austria subscribe a Peace Treaty, which will be signed only on 10/9/1919. In Bolzano and Upper Adige reigns a situation of uncertainty about the destiny of the occupied territory, which influences also the postal service.
The forwarding of mail during these months is really difficult for the authorities in charge, above all when letters are not franked or only partly franked. On the one hand, the territory is under Italian occupation – therefore forced to use Italian postage due labels; on the other hand, these labels, even overprinted, are completely lacking, at least up to the first days of March 1919. This situation compels the Main Post Office in Trent to authorize, with two circulars, Upper Adige post offices to transform, whenever necessary, the postage stamps into provisional postage due labels through hand-stamp or overprint. Each office has the possibility to take its own measures.
Cod. 1587E
EUR 100,00
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Gianni Carraro - Luigi Sirotti
IL 100 LIRE DELLA DEMOCRATICA
Il francobollo e la Storia Postale

600 pp. - 911 colour ill. - hard bound with colour cover - printed 2003
+ 14 pp. separated reference catalogue with Italian text

THE "100 LIRE" POSTAGE STAMP OF THE "DEMOCRATIC" ISSUE

The most exhaustive and usefull monograph about one of the very appreciated and collected postage stamps of the Republic of Italy (issued from 1946 to 1952).

CONTENTS

IL FRANCOBOLLO
* Presentazione
* Chiave del catalogo
* Capitolo I: I decreti ufficiali - La stampa in calcografia - La macchina usata per la stampa - Le caratteristiche delle due lastre - L'usura delle lastre - Le dentellature - Le soprastampe per la Zona A della Venezia Giulia e per il Territorio Libero di Trieste
* Capitolo II: Le caratteristiche della carta - La filigrana ruota alata I tipo e ruota alata II tipo - La gommatura - La dentellatura
* Capitolo III: La classificazione specializzata
* Capitolo IV: Catalogazione illustrata degli esemplari singoli e in blocchi delle varie tirature, dentellature e varietà conosciute della I lastra ruota alata II tipo
* Capitolo V: Catalogazione illustrata degli esemplari singoli e in blocchi delle varie tirature, dentellature e varietà conosciute della II lastra ruota alata II tipo
* Capitolo VI: catalogazione illustrata degli esemplari singoli e in blocchi della I e della II lastra con le varietà conosciute della ruota alata I tipo
* Capitolo VII: Catalogazione illustrata degli esemplari singoli e in blocchi delle varie tirature, dentellature e varietà conosciute della I e II lastra ruota alata II tipo dei valori soprastampati per la Venezia Giulia e per il Territorio Libero di Trieste

LA STORIA POSTALE
* Capitolo VIII: Elenco dei Paesi del mondo e relativa denominazione nel periodo 1946-1952 - I nuovi confini territoriali dell'Italia - Le tariffe postali per l'interno, via di superficie e via aerea - Gli oggetti postali per l'interno viaggiati per le vie di superficie - Gli oggetti postali per l'interno viaggiati per via aerea - Le tariffe per la Repubblica di San Marino e per la Città del Vaticano
* Capitolo IX: Gli avvenimenti politici e militari nella Venezia Giulia - Gli oggetti postali scambiati per la Venezia Giulia.
* Capitolo X: I servizi postali per l'estero - Le date di riattivazione del servizio con i vari Paesi - Gli avvenimenti politici e istituzionali che condizionarono il servizio postale con i Paesi esteri - L'evoluzione territoriale dei vari Stati esteri nel periodo 1946-1952 - Le tariffe per l'estero via di superficie - Gli scali aerei internazionali - La soprattassa aerea per i Paesi europei - La soprattassa aerea per i Paesi extra-europei - Gli oggetti postali per i vari Paesi esteri viaggiati per le vie di superficie - Gli oggetti postali per i vari Paesi esteri viaggiati per via aerea
* Capitolo XI: Le affrancature miste
* Capitolo XII: I "Perfin"
* Capitolo XIII: Le tassazioni
* Capitolo XIV: I falsi di Buenos Aires: catalogazione, usi postali e affrancature
Cod. 1759E
EUR 48,00


edited by Andrea Giuntini
SUL FILO DELLA COMUNICAZIONE
La telegrafia nell'Ottocento fra economia, politica e tecnologia
Quaderni di Storia Postale n.28 - ottobre 2004

320 pp. - softbound with cover - printed 2004
Italian and English text

COMMUNICATION AND ITS LINES - Telegraphy in the 19th Century among economy, politics and technology
Postal History Notebooks n.28 - October 2004

Symposium Proceedings - Prato, 20 September 2002

A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH
* Angel Calvo, University of Barcelona, "Network industries and economic development. An economic-historical approach"

BETWEEN MARKET AND STATE
* Donard De Cogan, School of Information Systems, University of East Anglia, Norwich, and Dominic De Cogan, St Hugh's College, Oxford, "Private enterprise and State control in trans-Atlantic telegraph (the early period)"
* Richard John, University of Illinois, Chicago, "Private enterprise, public good? Communications deregulation as a national political issue, 1839-1851"

THE REVOLUTION OF TELEGRAPHS
* Andrea Giuntini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, "The power of cables. Submarine communication in the Mediterranean"
* Stefano Baia Curioni, Luca Fantacci, Bocconi University, Milan, "Telegraphy and new financial procedures"
* Pascal Griset, Sorbonne University, Paris, "France and the adoption of the electric telegraph: an achievement without a real future"

THE ITALIAN EXPERIENCE
* Gianni Paoloni, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, "The telegraph service in Italy after its Unification. Institutional aspects"
* Simone Fari, University of Bari, "Technology on wire. Technological changes in the first thirty years of the Italian telegraph experience: achievements and difficulties"
Cod. 1789E
EUR 50,00
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EUR 25,00


edited by Benito Carobene, Emanuele M. Gabbini and Piero Macrelli
TARIFFE POSTALI ITALIANE 1863-2000
AICPM 1974-2004 - STORIA DELL'ASSOCIAZIONE

468 pp. - no ill. - softbound - printed 2005
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

AICPM 1974-2004 - STORY OF THE ASSOCIATION
ITALIAN POSTAL RATES 1863-2000
Italian association for collectors of Military - Vastophil 2005

Useful instrument for any collector of postal history, but also of thematics, airmail and many other subjects, the volume presents the postal rates of the Kingdom and Republic of Italy, both inland from 1 January 1863 and abroad rates from 1 October 1907, until the first months of 2000. As to air mail, inland rates start from 1926, and abroad ones from 1951 to Europe and from 1975 to the rest of the world.
The volume celebrates the thirty years of the national association with interesting information for all Italian philatelists.

CONTENTS

The association - Members - Publications - Bibliographical index of the magazine "Posta Militare" from 1974 to 2004 (by author and by subject) - Italian postal rates, both inland and abroad 1.1.1863-14.2.2000: Kingdom of Italy, Italian Social Republic (RSI), Italian Republic.
Cod. 2317E
EUR 40,00
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EUR 32,00


IL LAVORO E LA MEMORIA
Il Poligrafico a Piazza Verdi

X+112 pp. - 86 b/w ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions - gold card case - printed 2010
Italian text

WORK AND MEMORIES
Italian State Printing Works in Piazza Verdi

Texts by Giuseppe Sgarzini
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato - Libreria dello Stato - Roma

The story of the Palace in Piazza Verdi, which was the seat of the Italian State Printing Works, and of the men and women who worked there, through several photographs taken from the beginning of the XX century to about 1955.
Some photographs are also relevant to the historic seat of the Mint, in Rome in Via Principe Umberto and Via Gino Capponi.

CONTENTS

Presentation
Notes
CHAPTER I
Notice about industrial archaeology
CHAPTER II
Building industry and Town planning in Rome between 1870 and 1911
Birth of a building: The new palace and the variant to the town plan - The palace as seat of the State Audit Court - The building of the palace - Chronology - Architecture - Inside structure - The second building stage
CHAPTER III
The State Printing Works and Mint: Short historical notes - Precious publications by the Printing Works - The State Printing Works and Mint today
CHAPTER IV
The Mint
The new brand
Cod. 2318E
EUR 30,00
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EUR 24,00


by Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi
POSTA PER ALDO
Scritti di amici in onore di Aldo Cecchi
per il suo ottantesimo compleanno - Q.31

334 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2011
series "Quaderni di Storia Postale" - Istituto di Studi Storici Postali, Prato
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

Quaderni di Storia Postale N.31 - February 2011

Group of articles written to celebrate Aldo Cecchi on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.

CONTENTS

A mo' d'introduzione: uno sguardo sulla storia postale dal collezionismo alla ricerca scientifica e sul ruolo di Aldo Cecchi - Bibliografia di Aldo Cecchi, a cura di Cristina Mariotti e Filippa Morra - Fernando Frattolillo, Lettera ad un amico… vero! - Cristina Mariotti e Filippa Morra, Una squadra all'Istituto di studi storici postali - Giorgetta Bonfiglio Dosio, Si fa presto a dire lettere: qualche riflessione sulla descrizione archivistica delle lettere - Federico Borromeo d'Adda, I "precursori" delle guide postali - Armando Serra, Viaggio a mezza posta (e un inedito di Codogno) - Andrea Giuntini, La navigazione a vapore e il trasporto della posta all'epoca della prima rivoluzione industriale. Un profilo d'insieme - Gabriele Serra, Le comunicazioni postali nel Veneto e nel Mantovano durante la guerra del 1866 - Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi, "Ho risposto a quel matto di no". Tre uffici postali italiani nella Dalmazia occupata dal 1918 - Fabio Bonacina, Il 1931 in posta - Beniamino Cadioli e Aldo Cecchi, Gli aspetti postali del controllo e della censura delle corrispondenze durante la guerra italo-etiopica (1935-1937)
Cod. 2374E
EUR 20,00
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EUR 18,00


Benito Carobene
BENITO CAROBENE
AUTOBIOGRAFIA FILATELICA

96 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2011
Italian text

BENITO CAROBENE
PHILATELIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Benito Carobene wrote his philatelic autobiography in 1997 for his family and some friends, following his philatelic career and telling about dealers and collectors he met.
The Unione stampa filatelica italiana has decided to publish his work, so that everybody could enjoy his experience. A fascinating story, which help us in understanding the character, at the same time testifying an authentic passion for the history of the Post, which is the history of men, that is our history.
Cod. 2435E
EUR 25,00
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EUR 20,00


GASTONE RIZZO
IL MAESTRO DEI FRANCOBOLLI
IN "UNA SCUOLA COSÌ"

196 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2012
Italian text

GASTONE RIZZO
THE TEACHER OF POSTAGE STAMPS

Published by USFI, the Italian Union of Philatelic Press, it is the story of a schoolteacher, Gastone Rizzo, who used postage stamps as a didactic method. He taught the different subjects with the help of the stamps featuring historical events, geographical places, Jesus' life, concepts of geometry, mathematics, grammatical and logical analysis,...
His method caught the interest of Unesco and of Italian and foreign journalists, and his work was presented in a documentary film titled "A school like this".
He retired in 1978, but his activity aimed at the diffusion of philately among young people goes on.
Cod. 2439E
EUR 25,00
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EUR 20,00


Gian Franco Mazzucco
LE MANIFESTAZIONI
DELLE TRUPPE ALPINE

288 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2012
Italian text

ALPINE TROOPS EVENTS
Notes by Giovanni Cuomo.

All the special postmarks relevant to the Alpine Troops, with all the places in the Italian Alps which have created an event to celebrate them and have obtained a special postmark.
Cod. 2467E
EUR 30,00
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EUR 24,00


MARINI 100 ANNI
1913-2013, UN SECOLO DI FILATELIA ITALIANA

148 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2013
Italian text with Preface also in English

MARINI CENTENARY
1913-2013, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF ITALIAN PHILATELY

The company celebrate 100 years of activity and in the present publication follow their most important steps and illustrate the events and products for which they are known by Italian and European philatelists and Postal Administrations. An important documentary wealth, albums, catalogues, objects used, photographs of the time, many text from the diary of Ernesto Marini, the company's founder.

CONTENTS

Preface
Marini Centenary - 1913-2013, one hundred years of Italian Philately
Philately is faith
A son of Risorgimento
Ernesto Marini - One man, many undertakings
From Ernesto's diary
1913-1945 - Thirty years of ideas and success
"Fascetti" - Genoa printing
1949, the homage to founding fathers
After the War - A new world, a colour world
The turning point in 1963 - King, the king of Albums
The '80s and '90s - Technological innovation
The new millennium - In the net towards the future
The Italian Post celebrate Marini Centenary
Cod. 2506E
EUR 60,00


Antonello & Maria Isabella Cerruti
ITALIA
ORIGINALI E FALSI

160 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2013
Italian text

ITALY
ORIGINALS AND FORGERIES

The compendium of some studies on the subject to help, in an easy and clear way, to understand, and identify, the main differences between original issues and forgeries. The postage stamps of the Kingdom of Italy, of the Italian Social Republic and of the Italian Republic are reproduced and examined one by one with the list of their characteristics, for both originals and forgeries.

At the beginning of the chapters devoted to the different periods, there is a short postal-historical introduction.

Hundreds of colour reproductions.

CONTENTS

* I saggi Barone del Regno di Sicilia
* I saggi Sparre del Regno d'Italia
* Italia Regno: la prima emissione dentellata - il 15 centesimi tipo Sardegna - i soprastampati del 1878 - il 15 centesimi tipo Leoni - la serie "Vittoria soprastampata" - il "Congresso Filatelico Trieste" - la "Crociera Italiana" - il segnatasse n.1 - i segnatasse cifra in ovale - i segnatasse "Mascherine" - gli Enti Parastatali - i B.L.P.
* R.S.I.: il 25 cent. soprastampa rossa "fascetto" - il 20 cent. "Giulio Cesare" sopr. fascetto - pacchi postali "fascetto" - i segnatasse con soprastampa fascetto - i valori del S.A.B.E.
* Italia Repubblica: il 30 lire "Democratica" - il 100 lire "S. Caterina" - il 100 lire "Repubblica Romana" - il 55 lire "Radiodiffusione" - il 55 lire "Tabacco" - il 55 lire "Triennale di Milano" - il 300 lire "Ciclismo" - "Olimpiadi Invernali TO. 2006" - il 15 lire Recapito Autorizzato - il 300 lire pacchi postali fil. ruota - il 50 lire pacchi in concessione - i pacchi in concessione fil. stelle - il 70 lire pacchi in concessione - il segnatasse 8 lire fil. stelle
* La vendetta della settima stella
* La volpe bianca
* La sorpresa di quello sguardo
* Cabriolet e maestri del restauro
* Capovolto è bello
Cod. 2508E
EUR 40,00


Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi - Piero Macrelli
L'ITALIA IN AFRICA ORIENTALE
STORIA, POSTA, FILATELIA
Volume I

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

ITALY IN EAST AFRICA
HISTORY, MAIL, PHILATELY
Volume I

The text, conceived in two separate volumes, represents a complete work about the Italian presence in East Africa from the point of view of post and of philately.

The first volume is about pre-imperial Italian East Africa and the second one is about the Italian Empire. Nevertheless, in order to facilitate readers, the chapters of Volume I concerning Eritrea and Somalia are developed up to 1941, above all as long as the card-indexing of the offices and their postmarks is concerned.

The study is realised with the maximum historical and documentary rigour; all the information are in fact the result of official and controlled sources. It is useful both to postal history researchers and to collectors, with pages about the organization and the method of services, as well as complete and clearly organized tables of all the post and telegraph offices; for each one of these, all the known postmarks are reproduced. Moreover, the work is accompanied by a rich iconographical background (postal documents, maps, views, people) with images realised with care and reproduced in the original format. The rich quantity of material of every office, that proposes letters and other postal documents left from or arrived there, besides the images of the places and of the environments, represents a quality of the work.

Every volume starts with a historical-descriptive part, followed by the lists of offices and postmarks, divided into chapters like the historical-descriptive part, and placed, in every chapter, in alphabetical order. Every postmark is numbered. Together with the second volume, a catalogue with point valuation is present.

CONTENTS of vol.I

Introduction
Greetings and acknowledgments
Foreword

* 1. Eritrea 1869-1935
* 2. The 1895-1896 Campaign
* 3. Somalia 1889-1935
* 4. Italian Djuba1925-1926
* 5. Ethiopia and other Somalias 1862-1936

* List of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks of Eritrea (1881-1941)
* List of the offices of military of the 1895-1896 Campaign and of their postmarks
* List of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks of Somalia (1903-1941)
Cod. 2515E
EUR 18,00


Francesco Giuliani
IL CANONE
DEI FRANCOBOLLI
Gli scrittori italiani nella filatelia

276 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2014
Italian text

THE RULE OF POSTAGE STAMPS
Italian writers in philately

The book dissects in a monographic and comprehensive way the connections between Italian writers and philately: the Author, in his extensive treatment, has followed the way how Italian writers were represented on postage stamps, that thus become a precious means for disseminating information and culture.
He follows in detail the thread of the philatelic issues of traditional Italian nations in the Italian area, namely Italy, San Marino and Vatican City, dividing the treatment into 14 dense chapters.
The first author celebrated in philately was Dante Alighieri, in 1921, followed by Alessandro Manzoni, two years later. Since then, dozen writers have been impressed in a postage stamp. They often are classic authors, but in recent decades the faces and writings of the most important authors of the XXth century have found a place too, Primo Levi to Tomasi di Lampedusa, Montale to Quasimodo.
The book also talks about not Italian writers (Latin and foreign). There are, then, guessable connections to history, since postage stamps also contain a political message, in a more or less evident way, and reflect the changes in habits (think, for example, about the role of women in postage stamps, regarding which the author writes persuasive and informed pages).
159 colour postage stamps of writers are displayed in the appendix to the book, so to have an immediate visual feedback.

CONTENTS

Foreword
Chap. I - The Pantheon of paper
Chap. II - Constants and news of the Fascist period
Chap. III - Dante Eagle
Chap. IV - The homage to Manzoni
Chap. V - The gallery of 1932
Chap. VI - Iconographical sources and philatelic fortune of writers
Chap. VII - The writers enlisted for the cause
Chap. VIII - D'Annunzio from commander to writer
Chap. IX - from 1945 to early Sixties; Latin and foreign
Chap. X - The 12 postage stamps of 1965
Chap. XI - Women, new introductions e rediscoveries
Chap. XII - The rule of the XXth century
Chap. XIII - Secondarily to thematic: details and curiosities
Chap. XIV - Postage stamp: effect, synthesis and complement
Philatelic plates
Index of names
Cod. 2558E
EUR 18,00


Francesco Giuliani
SULLE ROTTE
DELL'AQUILA
Gli scrittori italiani nella filatelia mondiale

252 pp. - 56 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2015
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

ON EAGLE'S COURSES
Italian writers in world philately

The title of the book draws on the juxtaposition between Dante and the eagle, present on an Italian stamp of 1921. The Florentine writer has always been considered abroad, properly, one of the most pregnant symbols of Italian character and, as a consequence, the interest towards his person and work has often coincided with the attention towards the Italian culture in general or, at least, towards the literary one.
This is the starting point to examine the way how Italian writers have been considered in foreign philately, for a long time, up to the present days.
Starting from the interpretation of philatelic data, widening the speech with data taken from history, history of art and, in general, from the universe of communication, the text spreads onto the consideration shown abroad towards the main Italian writers. In fact all the stamps studied in this book are the ones that various nations, among which USA, Russia, Germany and Argentina, have devoted to writers of the calibre of Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Machiavelli and Goldoni, up to more recent ones, such as Grazia Deledda, Dino Buzzati and Dario Fo.
In appendix, a section in colour of philatelic plates shows the main postal values proposed in the text.

CONTENTS

Chap. I - Confirmations and discoveries beyond the Alps
Chap. II - Italian exceptions and Latin classics
Chap. III - The two times of Dante's fortune
Chap. IV - Dante abroad: a global view
Chap. V - The first Dantesque issues of 1965
Chap. VI - Dante in the New World: USA, Argentina and Mexico
Chap. VII - The five Dantesque postage stamps of the Principality of Monaco
Chap. VIII - Dante in vignettes: from 1966 to 1971
Chap. IX - Dante: new anniversaries and other starting points
Chap. X - The role of Petrarca
Chap. XI - From Boccaccio to Giordano Bruno
Chap. XII - The Goldoni case
Chap. XIII - The Greek Foscolo
Chap. XIV - The eclipse of Collodi
Chap. XV - The importance of a Nobel: Carducci and Deledda
Chap. XVI - The importance of a Nobel: from Pirandello to Dario Fo
Chap. XVII - The latest philatelic surprises
Philatelic plates
Index of names
Cod. 2567E
EUR 50,00


Nicola Luciano Cipriani - Claudio Ernesto Manzati - Giovanbattista Spampinato
IL SERVIZIO PRIORITARIO
storia, francobolli, tariffe ed aspetti collezionistici
MONOGRAFIA FILATELICA E STORICO POSTALE

352 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2015
Italian text

THE PRIORITY SERVICE
History, postage stamps, rates and collecting aspects
PHILATELIC AND POSTAL HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH

The work, after an introduction about the services of urgent mail as forerunners of the Priority Service in Italy, narrates the economic political context which Italian Post conceived and started this postal product in; it is therefore the tale of its history from the origin of the service on 1 December 1997 as experimental phase, its real start on 21 June 1999 and its end in May 2006.

Like the Express service, it was represented by peculiar postage stamps, initially golden, the first self-sticking ordinary postage stamps. The first one of these postage stamps was issued 7 days before the creation of the service; during this period, they have been used improperly generating interesting combinations and uses for the happiness of collectors. The postage stamp continued being printed until mid-2009, though it was no more necessary, it was replaced by the issue of the subsequent ordinary series of Italian Post (Flying little letter with tricolour contrail).

The volume accompanies readers in a chronological way through the issue of various postage stamps (fifty including booklets) the innumerable varieties and fakes, the rate changes and so the possible uses, some of which extremely rare for printings some of which very limited. The authors have also identified postage stamps that show the interference disc of different sizes; these findings, not catalogued yet, can be count on the fingers of one hand.
Cod. 2594E
EUR 40,00


Antonello & Maria Isabella Cerruti
ORIGINALI E FALSI
Appunti sparsi

62 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2018
Italian text

ORIGINALS AND FORGERIES
Scattered notes

This is the third volume of the series "Originals and Forgeries". It takes into consideration different examples, in addition to those represented in the previous volumes, of: Lombardy Venetia, Kingdom of Italy, World War I, Trentino-Alto Adige, Constantinople, Italian East Africa, Italian Occupations of World War II, Local issues in the R.S.I. period, Committees of National Liberation, Italian Republic, Trieste A, San Marino, Vatican State and China.

CONTENTS

* Lombardo Veneto: l'annullo a tre cerchi di Peschiera
* Italia Regno: I francobolli definitivi delle emissioni De La Rue/Torino; I francobolli con appendice pubblicitaria
* I guerra mondiale: Occupazione Austriaca, Francobolli per espressi
* Trentino Alto Adige
* Costantinopoli: il francobollo da 1 piastra della prima emissione
* Africa Orientale Italiana: i non emessi della serie Fratellanza d'armi
* Occupazioni della II Guerra Mondiale: Cefalonia e Itaca
* Emissioni locali in periodo di R.S.I.: Teramo
* Comitati di Liberazione Nazionale: Aosta
* Italia Repubblica: Il 500 lire degli "Stati Generali; Il foglietto "Italia '85"; I falsi di Acquaviva dei francobolli di ITALIA '90; francobolli moderni; il "G7" non emesso
* Trieste A: le soprastampe differenti realizzate nel 1954
* San Marino: Cinquantenario del Palazzo del Governo; il 1000 lire di posta aerea del 1972
* Vaticano: la serie soprastampata chiamata "Provvisoria"; "Basiliche soprastampato" del 1952
* Cina: la serie dei Panda; la serie dei Pesci
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Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi - Piero Macrelli
L'ITALIA IN AFRICA ORIENTALE
STORIA, POSTA, FILATELIA
Volume II + CATALOGO DEI BOLLI POSTALI

592/184 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound/softbound - printed 2016
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Italian text

ITALY IN EAST AFRICA
HISTORY, MAIL, PHILATELY
Volume II + CATALOGUE OF POSTMARKS

The first volume started from the beginnings of the Italian colonisation and arrived to the War of Ethiopia excluded, the new volume deals with the War of Ethiopia, The Italian Empire, the second war and the immediate postwar period in those territories.

A text with clear summary charts is present for each subject. The book talks about offices, rates, postmarks, postcards, postal traffic, forwarding routes. The whole with a unique and prestigious collection of images. The list of the offices of military and civil mail (included some unrealised) each one with its chronology, reports all the known postmarks and a selection of postal documents of interest for every office.

At work conclusion, a rich annotated bibliography, an abstract in English and a complete analytical index, referred to both volumes. In addition, also the manageable catalogue of postmarks.

CONTENTS of vol.II

Introduction
Greetings and acknowledgments
Foreword

* 1. The conquest of Ethiopia 1935-1936
* 2. The Empire 1936-1941
* 3. The second world war in the Empire 1940-41
* 4. Conclusion

* Catalogue of the offices of military 1935-1937 and of their postmarks
* Catalogue of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks of the Governorship of Addis Ababa, later Governorship of Scioa
* Catalogue of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks of Amhara
* Catalogue of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks of Galla-Sidamo
* Catalogue of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks of Harar
* Catalogue of the offices of military in Italian East Africa 1940-1941 and of their postmarks
* Update to the catalogues of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks or Eritrea and Somalia

Sources and bibliography
Abstract in English
Analytical index
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Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi - Piero Macrelli
L'ITALIA IN AFRICA ORIENTALE
STORIA, POSTA, FILATELIA
OFFERTA 2 LIBRI INSIEME
Volume I + II e CATALOGO DEI BOLLI POSTALI

472 + 592/184 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound/softbound - printed 2014 + 2016
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Italian text

ITALY IN EAST AFRICA
HISTORY, MAIL, PHILATELY
OFFER 2 BOOKS TOGETHER
Volume I + II and CATALOGUE OF POSTMARKS

The text, conceived in two separate volumes plus, joint to the second volume, the catalogue of postmarks, represents a complete work about the Italian presence in East Africa from the point of view of post and of philately.

Accompanied by a rich iconographical background (postal documents, maps, views, people), every volume presents, besides a historical-descriptive part: offices of military and civil mail (included some unrealised), rates, postmark (all numbered, divided into chapters and in alphabetical order), postage stamps, postcards, postal traffic, forwarding routes.

In the second volume, at work conclusion, a rich annotated bibliography, an abstract in English and a complete analytical index of the two volumes.

The first volume is about pre-imperial Italian East Africa; nevertheless, the chapters about Eritrea and Somalia are developed up to 1941.
The second volume deals with the War of Ethiopia, the Italian Empire, the second war and the immediate postwar period in those territories.
Of great importance is the catalogue of postmarks, joint to the second volume.

CONTENTS of vol.I

Introduction
Greetings and acknowledgments
Foreword

* 1. Eritrea 1869-1935
* 2. The 1895-1896 Campaign
* 3. Somalia 1889-1935
* 4. Italian Djuba1925-1926
* 5. Ethiopia and other Somalias 1862-1936

* List of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks of Eritrea (1881-1941)
* List of the offices of military of the 1895-1896 Campaign and of their postmarks
* List of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks of Somalia (1903-1941)

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CONTENTS of vol.II

Introduction
Greetings and acknowledgments
Foreword

* 1. The conquest of Ethiopia 1935-1936
* 2. The Empire 1936-1941
* 3. The second world war in the Empire 1940-41
* 4. Conclusion

* Catalogue of the offices of military 1935-1937 and of their postmarks
* Catalogue of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks of the Governorship of Addis Ababa, later Governorship of Scioa
* Catalogue of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks of Amhara
* Catalogue of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks of Galla-Sidamo
* Catalogue of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks of Harar
* Catalogue of the offices of military in Italian East Africa 1940-1941 and of their postmarks
* Update to the catalogues of the post and telegraph offices and of the postmarks or Eritrea and Somalia

Sources and bibliography
Abstract in English
Analytical index
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