350 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2004
VALUATIONS IN EURO
Italian text

MILITARY NAVY POSTAL SERVICE - Volume I
FROM CRUISES TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1892-1915

The volume is divided into different parts.
The first one deals with the period before the postal agreement of 1892 between the Ministries of the Post and the Navy; the postal agreement and the first stage of its application.
Then the postal historical part with chapters devoted to franking and military free franking, and to the postal service on board.
In the second part - the main one - the historical treatment, that is all the events connected to ships outside national ports, cruises in the Atlantic and some missions in the Red Sea, the Italian-Turkish war commonly called "Libyan War". Most important ships are illustrated and all the postmarks known are reproduced; there are also valuation tables for each period.
In the third part, there is the list and description of merchant ships chartered or commandeered during the Italian-Turkish War.
In the fourth one, there is the list of postal regulations for military free franking, postal rates and valuation of letters according to the rate used.
At the end an index with the ships operating in the period.