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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