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Cod. 1070E
EUR 65,00


Paolo Bianchi
COLONIA ERITREA. STORIA POSTALE 1885-1903

210 pp. - 7 colour plates - 270 b/w ill. - cloth
Italian text

COLONY ERITREA
POSTAL HISTORY 1885 – 1903

The volume illustrates, with technical tables, all the important items of the collection, created thanks to several years of research and study. The documents reproduced are a testimony not only of the history of postal communications within Eritrea and between Eritrea and its motherland, particularly with respect to sea routes, but also of the unfortunate military campaign (1895 – 96) of General Baratieri, destined to a tragic conclusion in Adua.
The items connected to this campaign, as stated by Mr Diena in the introduction, give a postal documentation so extraordinarily rich that they deny the widespread belief according to which the material connected to lost wars is more difficult to find than the one connected to victorious campaigns.

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