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Cod. 2546E
EUR 35,00


Lorenzo Carra - G. e D. Carraro
1866. LA TERZA GUERRA D'INDIPENDENZA.
LA POSTA MILITARE ITALIANA

304 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - hardbound - printed 2014
Italian text

1866. THE THIRD WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
ITALIAN MILITARY

The working method adopted by the Authors has much recourse to archive documentation, to newspapers, printed material and posters of that time.

The first part, that is the result of multi-decennial researches in various private and public archives and especially in the Central one of the Italian State in Rome, presents a documentation that may be considered exhaustive of the activity of Italian Military in the year 1866. It also offers the composition of every Office of Military with the names of the various employees and even the compensation collected by them during this military campaign.
The documentation widely resorts to the postal norms in force: this is the reason for the opportune reproduction of laws, decrees, ordinances and newsletters published by various sources, especially about the important and precious "Bullettini postali" of 1866.

The second part, richly illustrated and presented by means of efficacious graphics, is the inventory, divided by office of Military, of the letters found out up to now (only 680 to April 2014). The overall data and then those of every single office have persuaded the Authors not to fix points nor to give evaluations to the various postmarks of Military. A reasonable and motivated choice that, reading numbers, readers will share too.

Every postal document is studied and described in every part: franking, rates and taxations, origins and destinations, disinfections and any other postal mark. Starting from the postmarks of the numerous offices operating in the two distinct phases of the Military System, all reproduced and illustrated in their peculiar use.

CONTENTS

* Forward
* Introduction
* Chronology
* Chapter 1. Events and letters
* Chapter 2. Themes and episodes of the war
* Chapter 3. Italian Military
* Chapter 4. Letters and postmarks of Italian Military
* Chapter 5. Postmarks of Italian Military
* Chapter 6. The registers of the offices
* First phase
* Second phase
* Armed Bands in Venetia - Cadore Section
* Bibliography
* Acknowledgements

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