64 pp. - format cm 17x24 - softbound - printed 2004
series "The Recoveries"
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)

POSTAL CENSORSHIP IN LOMBARDY

Violation of the secrecy of the mail has always been a very usual practice in any time and everywhere, not only towards state and diplomatic letters, understandable even though unjustifiable, but also towards civil and ecclesiastic mail. Everybody knew that, so people used codes and never wrote names or about important events.

This volume deals with the subject in Austrian Lombardy, then Lombardy-Venetia, in one century or a bit more when the Austrian dominated, including French interlude.

Most information comes from the State Archives in Milan.

205 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2008
German text

CAPELLARO COLLECTION
AUSTRIA 1850/1854

The volume presents the part relevant to Austria of the important collection of Emil Capellaro, one of the world greatest collectors of the subject, collection which has obtained several prestigious awards and maximum appreciation.
Reproductions of postage stamps, cancels, covers divided by subject: issue 1850 (hand-made paper) and 1854 (machine-made paper) unused; first dates of use 1-30 June 1850; examples of franking in kreuzer from 1 to 207; registration, cancels and covers; Austrian cancellations; flag cancels; dumb cancellations; Austrian office in Belgrade; the Post in Liechtenstein; Lake Garda and Mediterranean Sea Post; Field Post; ornamental covers; mixed franking, issues 1850/54 and 1858; mixed franking, postage stamps and revenue stamps; revenue stamps, postal use.

240 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2017
Italian text

1867 - 1884
THE VI ISSUE OF AUSTRIA IN THE AUSTRIAN COASTLINE
(KUESTENLAND)
150th Anniversary 1867 - 2017

The book presents a large postal documentation of the Kuestenland, according to the office of departure, of destination, the rate, the means of transport, the agreements, quoting the most significant dates of postal-historical nature. Maps, posters and decrees have been inserted, all with short notes whose goal is to make their meaning clearer, placing them inside a precise geographical-historical context. Between the most significant dates to remember, 1 October 1869, when the first Correspondenz-karte or postcard in the world was introduced, 1 July 1875, year in which the Treaty of the General Union of Post entered into force and, on 1 August 1878, was renamed becoming Universal Postal Union, hence the various conventions between the States expired except for the Treaty of the Austrian-German League, that remained in force being the most beneficial for both communities. The opening year of the Post Offices, the types of cancellations known, the colour and the period of use are reported.

206 pp. - colour and b/w illustrations - hardbound - printed 2022
Italian text

1770-1850 TRENTO REGION AND SOUTH TYROL
POSTMARKS CATALOGUE

This catalogue of the postmarks of the Trento and South Tyrol regions is aimed at illustrating, in a concise form, the political and postal histories of the said regions whose territories are nowadays included in the autonomous region by the same name with special statute.

Besides the Catalogue itself with a detailed listing of the postmarks found on mail processed by 52 post offices, this volume proposes the masterful study on postal history of the late August Zoppelli, an excursus on the Menz family and its formidable archive from which a lot of letters showing postmarks, many of them rare or very rare, come.
Another appealing chapter is the one delving into the mail from the Napoleonic military campaigns that afflicted the area from 1796 to 1813. Indeed a turbulent period with a very complex postal history.

There is much more, for example a very informative chapter on postal history, rates and postmarks, postal routes, the various phases of history, the detailed listing of handwritten place of provenance information on the address side of the outgoing mail, the free-frank handstamps accompanied by a detailed and informative listing in alphabetical order, registered mail and its auxiliary postmarks used during the various administrations also with a listing in alphabetical order, and also an exhaustive listing of the various postmarks utilizing a rarity scale from very rare to very common.

A very useful bibliography concludes the impressive volume.