270 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2017
Italian text

MADE IN ITALY
D.O.C.G. WINES
History and Philately

Poste Italiane wanted to introduce the Italian wine product in the world, creating a succession of issues of postage stamps that, entered between 2012 and 2016, have become an undisputable advertising vehicle of wines with a Designation of Origin and Guaranteed, produced on the whole Italian national territory.

The aim of the Authors of the present work is the contribution to the distribution of such excellence through the detailed analysis of each single postage stamp, including, from time to time, both the oenological and the historical and geographical details of each single production. Postage stamps with individual wine pictures are grouped according to the region they belong in.

To completion of each dissertation, a philatelic and wine data sheet is introduced, where the technical elements are reported, in synthetic form, relevant both to wines (vineyard, colour, taste, perfume) and to postage stamps (date of issue, artist, paper, colour and cataloguing).

708 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 1st ed. 2017
German text

MICHEL - FISH OF THE WORLD 2017

The catalogue is organized alphabetically according to countries. It presents the postage stamps issued from 1866 in over 300 countries. Almost 3,000 are the issues taken into consideration with over 8,500 colour images.

160 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2017
Italian text

CURSORES
year X - n.20 - May 2017
Postal History Magazine
(new series)

Magazine of the Italian Association for Postal History - Editor Angelo Simontacchi

44 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2017
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year XVIII - n.35 - June 2017

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

256 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2017
Italian text

HISTORY OF THE STEAM NAVIGATION AND OF THE POSTAL SERVICES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
1818-1880
vol.III - 1840-1850

Kingdom of Sardinia - Kingdom of France - Line of Spain - English Lines

Series "Steamships"

Third volume of a series of three in the works scheduled from 2013, examining all the Steamship Navigation Companies and their freighters and, particularly, the ships transporting mail in the XIX century.

This volume deals with Kingdom of Sardinia, Kingdom of France, the French Line of Algeria, the Line of Sardinia Island, the Line of Spain and the English Navigation on the Italian Coasts between 1840 and 1850. This third work continues the examination of the Navigation Companies and of their units in service on the Mediterranean Sea. Over 23,000 dates are reported, allowing to identify the specific steamship that transported mail, over 100 letters travelled by postal steamships are described, and 26 Decrees that ruled the terms of transport and the agreements between Post Managements and Companies are reported. The history is narrated of the first maritime tragedy that involved the Sardinian steamship Polluce and the Neapolitan one Mongibello; the competition is related between "Marseille Route" and "Trieste Route" to shorten of some days the communications with Indie and Great Britain.

202 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2017
Italian text

THE MESSAGES OF THE HEART
ST. VALENTINES' DAY - 14 FEBRUARY

The origins, the history, the legend of Valentine's day and the messages sent on that occasion, the whole seen by means of postcards, greeting cards and postage stamps.

Easy to read and completely colour illustrated with thousands of images, postcards, postage stamps and greeting cards, the book introduces the theme of love and Valentine's day from various perspectives. From Saint Valentine to Cupid, from flowers to animals as symbols of love to sweet children, from valentines with dreaming figures to the telegrams of the heart, from Liebig or Panini trading cards to cartoons, from comics strips, with the alternation of lovers of the Victorian period to fiancés of the XX Century.

The collector-author offers to readers a precious collection realised with extreme care and passion in the course of years and he addresses both to philatelic collectors and to those who intend to approach the book pushed by curiosity of by interest in the subject concerned.

56 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2016
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year XVII - n.34 - December 2016

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

472 + 592/184 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound/softbound - printed 2014 + 2016
POINT VALUATIONS WITH RANGE IN EURO
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.

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

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.

56 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2016
Italian text

SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year XVII - n.33 - June 2016

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

652 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - 3rd ed. 2016
German text

MICHEL - FOOTBALL POSTAGE STAMPS
from ALL OVER THE WORLD
3rd edition 2016

The catalogue is organized alphabetically according to countries. It contains more than 8000 images of postage stamp issues worldwide about football and includes postage stamp issues about international competitions such as World and European Championships or famous football players, teams, coaches, stadiums and much more.
Special postage stamp types, for example official postage stamps, are always found in a special section at the end of a relevant collecting area.

280 pp. - b/w and colour ill. and 1 folded map enclosed - softbound - printed 2016
Italian text

ITALIAN MARITIME POSTAL HISTORY
MARITIME POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THE TYRRHENIAN SEA

With the cooperation of Adriano Cattani

The Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea in the West and the Adriatic Sea in the East have always constituted a privileged place for maritime traffic, with the routes of the Adriatic Sea depending on Venice and Trieste, whilst those of the Ligurian Sea and of the Tyrrhenian Sea depend on Marseille and Geneva.
The navigation in the Tyrrhenian Sea has always had to deal with the various isles and rocks existing along the route, besides the depth of water.
For this reason it deals with a real compulsory channel, and this is the reason why this kind of navigation can be called "coastal postal navigation", going from the beginning of the wheel propulsion navigation up to the moment when the extension of the railroads has proclaimed the end of the coastal navigation.

Divided into 12 chapters, the book deals with the following topics:
Features and events of the French Maritime Services - The ports of the Tyrrhenian Sea and postal navigation - The port of Naples - The port of Leghorn (maritime postal hub between North and South) - The port of Civitavecchia - The Geneva-Leghorn Line - The postal navigation of the Italian Administration - The Valery Frères & C.ie Company - The Ignazio and Vincenzo Florio & C. in Palermo Company - The Benucci later Calabro-Sicula Company - The Ligurian coastlines - The maritime postal communications between Sardinia and continental Italy.

150 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2016
Italian text

ON THE TRACKS OF HOLY YEARS
Pilgrimages of faith by means of postage stamps

Result of a deep historical and archival research, the book reports in detail, by means of postage stamps, all the 26 Ordinary Holy Years, besides the numerous Extraordinary ones, that are here examined both from the historical - religious and from the adventurist point of view.

Every Jubilee described in the volume is always accompanied by a rich iconography of deliberately philatelic type, inspired by postage stamps issued by Vatican City, Italy, San Marino and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. All data related to series, date of issue and identification of the State that has produced them are listed in the chapter "Iconographic References". The postage stamps issued to celebrate Jubilees are always represented inside a frame with halo.

The introduction of every single character, the tale of facts and events, the iconographic choice referring exclusively to the images of each postage stamp, everything is deliberately formulated according to a journalistic approach and comes out particularly pleasant.

144 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2016
Italian text

CURSORES
year IX - n.19 - May 2016
Postal History Magazine
(new series)

Magazine of the Italian Association for Postal History - Editor Angelo Simontacchi

516 pp. - more than 1000 colour ill. - hardbound - 1st ed. 2016
VALUATIONS IN EURO
with number of the known examples
German text with introduction and glossary in English, Russian, Chinese and Italian

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

PIONEER-ROCKET MAIL AND SPACE MAIL
Handbook and Specialized catalogue

The catalogue describes in detail the launches of single rockets, with the support of technical, historical, biographic and philatelic information, and gives documented prices for the analysed items.

The chapter regarding rocket mail pioneers replaces the previous editions of 1967 and 1973 by Ellington Zwisler. Compared to them, the present edition is widened e and many results of the researches are published here for the first time.

The astronauts brought documents together with their private luggage on the occasion of all the flights to the Moon, from Apollo 11 to Apollo 16. Special handstamps of the USA mail have landed on the Moon: respectively 1 with Apollo 11 and 2 with Apollo 15. All the onboard letters of the Soviet and Russian cosmonauts are catalogued for the first time, from Sojuz 4 of January 1969 to Sojuz TMA-18M of March 2016. Many space letters have flown onboard Space Shuttles or unmanned Dragon spaceships. Chinese too have transported documents in the Space, making manned and unmanned flights. In November 1960, 28 covers onboard the spy satellite Discoverer 17 have made 30 rides around the Earth. In October 2014, documents onboard the Chinese probe Chang'e 5-T1 have made a ride around the Earth. The signatures of all the 556 astronauts from Juri Gagarin to Timothy Peake complete the work.

From the introduction by the Author:

Between the two world wars, young researchers in different countries launched rockets carrying letters and cards. Some of them undertook preliminary tests towards space travels.
They wanted to supply distant villages with mail, accelerate mail-delivery over long distances and start space travels.
For the first time on 3 October 1942, an A-4 / V-2 rocket reached a height of 84.5 km, which was considered space back then.
Later on, rocket mail flights not leaving the gravity of the Earth could not significantly contribute to rocketry and space exploration. Therefore, Pioneer-Rocket Mail ends with the end of WWII.
Space mail are letters and covers that were flown into space at an altitude of 100 km (328,084 feet): Space is defined to begin at an altitude of 100 km according to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale - FAI.
Onboard covers document an event on board the space station, sometimes an event on the Earth or an anniversary. Most of them are signed by all crewmembers.
During Soviet times numerous souvenir covers with onboard postmarks were made before launch and after the landing. Many bear the signatures of the cosmonauts involved.
Not all the covers transported contain a letter inside.
At the end of 1988 a postal date stamp arrived on board the Russian Mir space station. Since then cosmonauts mark letters transported from the Earth with the date of docking of the spacecraft which transported them to the space station. Letters sent to the Earth are postmarked with the date of undocking from the space station. A board letter carries addresses and details.
Unless otherwise noted, letter means "cover with content". This includes that either the receiver is already on board the space station, or the cosmonaut writing the letter remains in space, when the letter is delivered to the Earth.

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.

64 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2015
Italian text

SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year XVI - n.32 - December 2015

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

XVI+84 pp. - colour ill. - claret cloth-bound with gold inscriptions - large format - printed 1964 - Poste Italiane, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Officina Carte Valori, Roma
Italian, French and English text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

With the introduction by Carlo Russo (Minister of Poste e Telecomunicazioni Italiane) and by Aurelio Ponsiglione (General Manager of the Administration of Poste e Telecomunicazioni Italiane)

The present volume, with its impressive historical research and its elegant graphics, is the first update of the series about the Italian state postage stamps which covers the period 1862-2006.
This one includes a cataloguing of stamped postal papers issued from 1958 to 1962.
The historical, artistic and bibliographical profiles for each issue, the subject indexes and the collection of legislative measures form an added value for this work.

XII+242 pp. - colour ill. - claret cloth-bound with gold inscriptions - large format - printed 1985 - Poste Italiane, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Officina Carte Valori, Roma
Italian, French and English text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

With the introduction by Roberto Panella (General Manager of the Administration of Poste e Telecomunicazioni Italiane)

The present volume, with its impressive historical research and its elegant graphics, is the second update of the series about the Italian state postage stamps which covers the period 1862-2006.
This one includes a cataloguing of stamped postal papers issued from 1963 to 1977.
The historical, artistic and bibliographical profiles for each issue, the subject indexes and the collection of legislative measures form an added value for this work.

X+146 pp. - colour ill. - claret cloth-bound with gold inscriptions - large format - printed 1998 - Poste Italiane, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Officina Carte Valori, Roma
Italian, French and English text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

With the introduction by Enzo Cardi (President of Poste Italiane)


The present volume, with its impressive historical research and its elegant graphics, is the fifth update of the series about the Italian state postage stamps which covers the period 1862-2006.

This one includes a cataloguing of stamped postal papers issued from 1991 to 1993.
The historical, artistic and bibliographical profiles for each issue, the subject indexes and the collection of legislative measures form an added value for this work.