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Cod. 2855E
EUR 40,00


Hany Salam
THE EGYPTIAN MARITIME POSTAL HISTORY
1845-1899
LA POSTE MARITIME EN EGYPTE
1845-1889

Published on the occasion of Monacophil 2019
106 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions and colour cover - printed 2019
English and French text

This book gives us a comprehensive and unprecedented historical overview of Egyptian maritime navigation.

Because of its unique location, Egypt has historically been the crossing point of trading and mail routes. Its sea costs stretch a distance of 2.900 km, 1.931 km of which overlook the Red Sea shores and the rest of the Mediterranean. This direct access by sea to both the Est and West, along with the centrality of its location, gave the control of Egypt immense strategic importance.

The author not only names and lists documents, many of which are highly rare, but also places us in the historical context.
His perfect mastery of the various languages in which the Egyptian archive documents have been preserved, enables us to immerse ourselves in the vision of the Egyptians when they were faced with the all-powerful European society during the 19th century. As a result, the shipping companies responsible for transporting mail suffered ups and downs due to the political context and power struggles.

More than a publication about sea mail, this history book takes us back to Egypt during the time of the viceroys and the 19th century, at a time when the Western world is showing a growing interest in rediscovering the traces of an ancient civilisation.

CONTENTS

Foreword
Acknowledgments

* Egypt's first attempt to have its national merchant shipping company
The Packet Boats of the Egyptian Company, 1845-1849
The fleet of El Dayra El Elhameya, 1858-1859
The steamers of the Red Sea (The steamers of Suez) 1855-1856
The Madjidieh Company, 1857-1861
Maslahet El Waburat EL Mireya
The Egyptian Company for Steamships touring

* The coming of age of the Egyptian merchant navy
The Azizieh Company, 1864-1870
The Mediterranean lines
The Local Post, Liannos
The Red Sea lines

* Administration of the Khedivial Packet Boat Post (PPK)
The Mediterranean lines
The Uffizio Natante
The Red Sea Lines

* The shipping agents
The Agencies in the Mediterranean Ports
The Agencies in the Red Sea Ports

Bibliography
Cod. 57EP
EUR 120,00
Special Price
EUR 96,00


SASSONE 2024
CATALOGO COMPLETO DEI FRANCOBOLLI
D'ITALIA E PAESI ITALIANI
SPECIALIZZATO vol.1 + vol.2 + vol.3

1st + 2nd + 3rd VOLUME - 3 vols. - 1200+636+744 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - 83rd ed. 2023

SASSONE 2024 - COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF POSTAGE STAMPS OF ITALY AND ITALIAN TERRITORIES - SPECIALIZED vol.1 + vol.2 + vol.3

Catalogue in three volumes: the first one is devoted to the postage stamps of Italy and the Italian territories with no more issues; the second one deals with collections which can be updated with new issues, that is the Italian Republic; the third one is dedicated to San Marino, Vatican City and SMOM postage stamps.

Volume 1: Italian States - Kingdom of Vittorio Emanuele II - Kingdom of Italy - Italian Social Republic - Regency - Trieste AMG-VG - Trieste AMG-FTT - Trieste B - Local issues - Independent issues - C.L.N. issues - Polish Corp - World War 1 (Foreign Occupations of Italian territories + Liberated territories) - World War 2 (Italian Occupations + Foreign Occupations of Italian territories) - Post Offices abroad - Colonies - Foreign Occupations of the Colonies.

Volume 2: Italian Republic
Updates with new issues include the stamps issued up to June 2023.

Volume 3: Republic of San Marino - Vatican City - Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Updates with new issues include the stamps issued up to June 2023.
Cod. 2851E
EUR 22,00


Marco Occhipinti
SFIZI. DI. POSTA
La storia attraverso la posta, la posta attraverso la storia

216 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2023

SFIZI. DI. POSTA
History through mail, mail through history

Preface by Gianfranco Jannuzzo
Historical introduction by Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi

The «sfizi di posta», in this volume 30 never published before, are "pieces" that are streamlined, short, immediate, and above all curious, fun, intriguing.

Anecdotes and stories told using letters, postcards, telegrams, observing their postage, postmarks of departure, arrival, transit and postal censorship and investigating the various underlying worlds. In a sequence of postal documents, chosen in a time span ranging from 1820 to 1949, we encounter stories of marriages of the past, natural disasters, village squabbles, the tragedy of two wars, Silvio Pellico, Umberto Nobile, Cesare Pavese.

Men and women in their public or private lives, actors in small and large events that have fuelled history, crystallized in postal memories, brought to life for the time of a brief reading.

For some 'sfizi' the reader will find a box entitled "The eye of the graphologist" in which Mirka Mantoan, Criminalist expert in Forensic Sciences, specialized in expert-judicial Graphology, Expert and Consultant Graphologist registered with the Civil and Criminal Court of Verona, will delve into the graphological aspects of the cursive text of some writings in order to trace the character profile of the protagonists.

CONTENTS

* Premessa
* Prefazione, di Gianfranco Jannuzzo
* Introduzione, di Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi

Gli "Sfizi"
* 17 marzo - giugno 1820, di Breme, Pellico e Maroncelli
* 1 ottobre 1848, Il blocco navale di Venezia
* 7 luglio 1857, Il sergente e il sacerdote
* 3 giugno 1875, Mi paghi? già fatto!
* 4 agosto 1889, Il certificato di povertà
* 6 giugno 1897, Oggi sposi!
* 8 ottobre 1910, Reggio e Messina distrutte
* 4 aprile 1911, Vostro babbino abbandonato!
* 10 giugno 1912, Chiamate "Chi l'ha visto?"
* 14 aprile 1917, Dentro le trincee
* 28 aprile 1918, Chiusi per guerra
* 8 febbraio 1927, Arrigo Olivetti da Ivrea, piacere
* 22 marzo 1927, Devi fare l'antirabbica!
* 19 agosto 1928, Una tenda rossa al polo nord
* 12 ottobre 1934, Alla piccola italiana
* 29 maggio 1936, A Lucera c'è Gifuni
* 18 luglio 1936, Mi sono doluti gli orecchi
* 14 aprile - 30 luglio 1940, Le leggi razziali
* 16 aprile 1940, Hai marinato la scuola? Problemi tuoi!
* 18 luglio 1941, Lotta contro le mosche
* 6 settembre 1942, Unghie e corna?
* 5 marzo 1943, Un seminarista a Fraschette
* 13 marzo 1944, Gli I.M.I. nell'organizzazione Todt
* 30 aprile 1944, Roma città aperta
* 14 aprile 1945, Hanno incendiato il municipio di Catania!
* 9 luglio 1945, L'hanno detto a radio Mosca!
* 15 agosto 1945, Destinatario: Cesare Pavese
* 10 marzo 1946, Baciamo le mani!
* 13 agosto 1948, Dentatura da leone! Groarrr!!
* 13 settembre 1949, Di guisacché

* Conclusione
* Ringraziamenti
Cod. 2852E
EUR 40,00


Michele Apicella - Ketty Borgogno
SERIE LEONI
Studio delle tirature

160 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023

LEONI SERIES
Study of print runs

This volume deals with the method of printing "typographic" postage stamps with royal effigy, starting from the first series of the Kingdom, up to the dawn of rotogravure printing, in particular the Leoni series.
Relevance was given to the plate numbers, through which the chronological reconstruction of the different print runs that followed one another in approximately a quarter of a century becomes possible.

Research conducted with a scientific method and adequately in-depth allows us to compare the results and verify the validity of the hypotheses made following the analysis of large quantities of specimens and historical sources.

The aim is to collect, in a single text, as much information as possible on the topic of Italian typographic postage stamps and, at the same time, make readers participate in this research, show the new evidence found and provide tools and methods to those who wish to undertake or deepen the study of this branch of philately.
CONTENTS

* The authors
* Preface

* FIRST PART - PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES
* Typographical stamps with royal effigy
* Umberto I
* Letterpress printing procedures in France
* King Victor Emmanuel III

* SECOND PART - THE «LEONI»
* Nestore Leoni
* First period: the 5 and 10 centimes
* Second period: 15 centimes
* Plate numbers
* Stereotypes
* First analyzes - chronological and chromatic
* The colour over the years
* The pigments
* The plates
* The size of the impression
* The transfer varieties
* Variety of printing
* The other varieties of Leoni

* Equipment and methods
* Bibliography
Cod. 2773E
EUR 39,00


edited by Fabrizio Balzarelli
CATALOGO UNIFICATO - MARCHE DA BOLLO 2024
Catalogazione e quotazione di Antichi Stati, Regno e Repubblica Italiana, Trieste, Fiume, Colonie e Possedimenti Italiani, Occupazioni straniere delle Colonie, San Marino, Vaticano

576 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 7th ed. 2024
Italian text

UNIFICATO CATALOGUE - REVENUE STAMPS 2024

Catalogue and quotation of Ancient States, Kingdom and Republic of Italy, Trieste, Rijeka, Italian Colonies and Possessions, Foreign Occupations of the Colonies, San Marino, Vatican City

All the revenue stamps issued from 1750 to the present day, with the countless types which have marked the history of Italy: from Livestock Registry to Wines and Spirits, Playing cards, Pharmacists, Matches, Journalists, Driving Licenses, Notebooks, Cigarettes, Silkworms Seeds, etc.

Besides the additions in the various chapters and the revaluation of prices, the new volume has been particularly enriched with band brands for DOC and DOCG wines of different formats and colours depending on the type of wine, with the presence or absence of their names and of the brand of the consortium to which they belong, brands for electronic cigarettes affixed on containers of liquids with or without nicotine, brands for reductions in railway fares issued on the occasion of fairs, events, jubilees or Holy Years, INPS brands for requesting duplicates of personal booklets.
Cod. 61E
EUR 110,00


SASSONE 2024
FRANCOBOLLI
ANTICHI STATI ITALIANI - REGNO D'ITALIA
1850-1900

600 pp. - colour ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions - 83rd ed. 2023
Italian text

SASSONE 2024 - POSTAGE STAMPS
ITALIAN STATES - KINGDOM OF ITALY 1850-1900

The prestigious catalogue of classic Italian postage stamps to 1900.

Catalogue and valuations of: Lombardy Venetia Kingdom - Duchy of Modena - Kingdom of the two Sicilies (Naples) - Duchy of Parma - Papal State - Provisional Government of Romagne - Kingdom of Sardinia - Kingdom of the two Sicilies (Sicily) - Grand Duchy of Tuscany - Kingdom of Italy - San Marino - Post offices abroad and Colonies (Levant, La Canea, Eritrea) - Postal Stationery (Italy, S.Marino, Eritrea).

New in the present edition, for the Royal Provinces of Emilia, Parma and Romagne have been added to Modena. A note concerns Papal State shipments with postage payable on delivery, with the list of known items, both from the Papal State and from Romagna and the related Provisional government. Furthermore, the use of papal postage stamps after 20 September 1870, also for mixed franking with Italy.
Cod. 1389E
EUR 25,00


SASSONE BLU 2024
Antichi Stati - Regno - RSI - Luogotenenza - Repubblica Italiana - Trieste A.M.G.-V.G. - Trieste A.M.G.-F.T.T. - San Marino - Vaticano - SMOM

736 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 83rd ed. 2023
Italian text

SASSONE BLU 2024

Short edition. No quotations on cover.

Italian States - Kingdom - Italian Social Republic - Regency - Italian Republic (up to June 2022) - Trieste AMG-VG - Trieste AMG-FTT - San Marino (up to July 2023) - Vatican (up to June 2023) - Sovereign Military Order of Malta (up to June 2023).
Cod. 57E
EUR 90,00
Special Price
EUR 72,00


SASSONE 2024
CATALOGO COMPLETO DEI FRANCOBOLLI
D'ITALIA E PAESI ITALIANI
SPECIALIZZATO vol.1 + vol.2

1st + 2nd VOLUME - 2 vols. - 1200+636 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - 83rd ed. 2023

SASSONE 2024 - COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF POSTAGE STAMPS OF ITALY AND ITALIAN TERRITORIES - SPECIALIZED vol.1 + vol.2

Catalogue in two volumes: the first one is devoted to the postage stamps of Italy and the Italian territories with no more issues; the second one deals with collections which can be updated with new issues, that is the Italian Republic, San Marino, Vatican.

Volume 1: Italian States - Kingdom of Vittorio Emanuele II - Kingdom of Italy - Italian Social Republic - Regency - Trieste AMG-VG - Trieste AMG-FTT - Trieste B - Local issues - Independent issues - C.L.N. issues - Polish Corp - World War 1 (Foreign Occupations of Italian territories + Liberated territories) - World War 2 (Italian Occupations + Foreign Occupations of Italian territories) - Post Offices abroad - Colonies - Foreign Occupations of the Colonies.

Volume 2: Italian Republic
Updates with new issues include the stamps issued up to July 2023.
Cod. 2802E
EUR 29,00


CATALOGO UNIFICATO - BOLLETTINI ILLUSTRATIVI 2023
Catalogazione e quotazione completa dei bollettini ministeriali e di Poste italiane
dal 1999 al 2022

624 pp. colour ill. - softbound - 2nd ed. 2023
Italian text

UNIFICATO CATALOGUE - POSTE ITALIANE
BROCHURES 2023
Complete cataloguing and quotation
of the brochures by Poste italiane

Second edition of this catalogue where all the Italian illustrative brochures are listed and catalogued, over 2,000, from the first one, issued in 1954, to 2022.
Thanks to QR-codes, it is possible to read the complete brochure.
Cod. 2856E
EUR 60,00


James Van der Linden
MAIL ACROSS THE OCEANS
From the beginning to 1875
LA CORRESPONDANCE À TRAVERS LES OCÉANS
Des origines jusqu'à 1875

Published on the occasion of Monacophil 2019
608 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions and colour cover - printed 2019
English and French text

This work is intended to serve as a practical handbook covering all the different packet ship lines, with a short description of each line, a map showing the routes (missing from many studies), the name of the ships used by the lines (often found in letters) and, finally, an overview of the specific stamps that appear on letters transported via these lines.

The study is divided into five parts: the North Atlantic, the South Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the letters which have travelled through two or three Oceans, a theme that has, until now, been less widely known and rarely covered. It includes connection routes overland via Suez and Panama.

Each Ocean part is subdivided into two parts: the first dealing with sailing packets from ca. 1674 to 1840; the second with steam packets from 1840 to 1875.
The sailing and packet lines are classified in chronological order.
Rates and ports are not discussed.

Images of the original English broadsheets (postal notes) concerning the packet lines are illustrated, as well as service orders and newspaper advertisement from Belgium, France, Germany and other countries.

CONTENTS

Foreword
Foreword by the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction

* The North Atlantic Ocean
Sailing packets
Steam packets

* The South Atlantic Ocean
Sailing packets
Steam packets

* The Indian Atlantic Ocean
Sailing packets
Steam packets

* The Pacific Ocean

* The multiple ocean mail crossings

Sources

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