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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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