2 vols. - 300+402 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound with slip-case - printed 2017
RARITY SCALE VALUATIONS
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POSTAL HISTORY OF CORSICA

Reference work to get closer to Corsican postal history, divided into history and catalogue, from its origins to 1960.

In the first volume, in addition to a historical overview of the island, the history of the Post Office in chronological order with a first pre-philatelic period and a second philatelic one, with its sometimes complex mechanisms before the adoption of postage stamps in 1849, often identical to the continental ones, but with particularities due to its insularity.

The second volume is a catalogue of all postmarks and cachets divided by office in alphabetical order, with tables showing all the data (including known extreme dates of use), and rarity scale in euros.

To complete this, a rich historical and philatelic bibliography and office indexes divided also by period.

276 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - ed. 2023
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UNIFICATO CATALOGUE CLASSICS OF EUROPE 2023
vol.2 East Europe

Catalogue and quotation of postage stamps up to 1945 of Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Balkans, Batum, Bulgaria, Caucasus, Czechoslovakia, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania, Memel, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey, Tuva, Ukraine, Hungary and the U.S.S.R.
Services and occupations are included.

1st + 2nd VOLUME - 2 vols. - 1200+636 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - 83rd ed. 2023

SASSONE 2024 - COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF POSTAGE STAMPS OF ITALY AND ITALIAN TERRITORIES - SPECIALIZED vol.1 + vol.2

Catalogue in two volumes: the first one is devoted to the postage stamps of Italy and the Italian territories with no more issues; the second one deals with collections which can be updated with new issues, that is the Italian Republic, San Marino, Vatican.

Volume 1: Italian States - Kingdom of Vittorio Emanuele II - Kingdom of Italy - Italian Social Republic - Regency - Trieste AMG-VG - Trieste AMG-FTT - Trieste B - Local issues - Independent issues - C.L.N. issues - Polish Corp - World War 1 (Foreign Occupations of Italian territories + Liberated territories) - World War 2 (Italian Occupations + Foreign Occupations of Italian territories) - Post Offices abroad - Colonies - Foreign Occupations of the Colonies.

Volume 2: Italian Republic
Updates with new issues include the stamps issued up to July 2023.

600 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2024
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UNIFICATO CATALOGUE EUROPE 2024
vol.11

Catalogue and quotation of postage stamps from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Batum, Karelia, Caucasus, Estonia, Georgia, Nahicevan, Ingria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan Kep, Latvia, Lithuania, Memel, Moldavia, Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

New edition completely revised and updated with the addition of thousands of images for all chapters.
Countless price changes and all new issues up to mid/late 2023.

328 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
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CREATIVITY FOR A POSTAGE STAMP
The essays of the Historical Museum of Communication

From the archives of the Historical Museum of Communication in Rome, a "treasure" of approximately 1,700 essays for postage stamps never materialized or sometimes "crystallized" at an earlier stage than they would have arrived at the post office counters. Items that have only partially, so far, been published in any specialist article.
Now they are collected, all together, in the book created by the Museum itself in collaboration with the Italian Philatelic Press Union.

The image of each item is proposed, associated with the title, summary description, main thematic categories, author, measures, inventory code attributed by the Museum.

There are numerous specialists, famous and otherwise, who in almost one century, from 1922 to 2000, have tried their hand at this communication method. Their works tell the story of the past, from great characters to battles, from artistic expressions to monuments. But they also document their present, such as institutional and political aspects, sporting events, the post-war recovery effort, European construction, campaigns against smoking and drugs, the protection of nature, road accidents...
Thus we discover the alternatives set aside, titles hypothesized and never realised. In short, a... behind the scenes that brings the reader closer to a fascinating sector, rich in cultural ideas that deserves to be valorised.

600 pp. - colour ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions - 83rd ed. 2023
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SASSONE 2024 - POSTAGE STAMPS
ITALIAN STATES - KINGDOM OF ITALY 1850-1900

The prestigious catalogue of classic Italian postage stamps to 1900.

Catalogue and valuations of: Lombardy Venetia Kingdom - Duchy of Modena - Kingdom of the two Sicilies (Naples) - Duchy of Parma - Papal State - Provisional Government of Romagne - Kingdom of Sardinia - Kingdom of the two Sicilies (Sicily) - Grand Duchy of Tuscany - Kingdom of Italy - San Marino - Post offices abroad and Colonies (Levant, La Canea, Eritrea) - Postal Stationery (Italy, S.Marino, Eritrea).

New in the present edition, for the Royal Provinces of Emilia, Parma and Romagne have been added to Modena. A note concerns Papal State shipments with postage payable on delivery, with the list of known items, both from the Papal State and from Romagna and the related Provisional government. Furthermore, the use of papal postage stamps after 20 September 1870, also for mixed franking with Italy.

736 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 83rd ed. 2023
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SASSONE BLU 2024

Short edition. No quotations on cover.

Italian States - Kingdom - Italian Social Republic - Regency - Italian Republic (up to June 2022) - Trieste AMG-VG - Trieste AMG-FTT - San Marino (up to July 2023) - Vatican (up to June 2023) - Sovereign Military Order of Malta (up to June 2023).

390 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2024
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Second volume of the work, dedicated to the Italian-Turkish war and the first Italian years (1911-1920).
Richly illustrated and with the usual rigor of the text, it also contains the catalogue of office stamps, ships, aeronautical departments and unpublished catalogues of oval and censorship stamps, with many reproductions of documents.

In appendix, updates to vol.1

XVI+614 pp. - - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2023
WITH VALUATIONS
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STAMPS AND POSTAL HISTORY OF TRIESTE, PULA, RIJEKA, ISTRIA AND THE SLOVENIAN COAST UNDER THE YUGOSLAVIAN MILITARY ADMINISTRATION
1945-1947

Extremely accurate philatelic and postal-historical study, based on Italian and Yugoslavian sources: the overprinted Italian postage stamps and stationery and the "Istra Littorale sloveno" occupation issues.

The most complete work on that dramatic period on the eastern Italian border, with postage stamps and postal history events that are rightfully part of Italian postal history.

This is the Italian translation of the volume published in English in 2009.

94 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2024
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The first specialized catalogue of the corner blocks of Kingdom of Italy, Italian Republic, Trieste A, Somalia A.F.I.S., Kingdom of Libya, San Marino and Vatican.
Ordinary mail, commemorative stamps, air mail, with specialization in postal parcels and authorised private parcels.
Technical notions, varieties and valuations of each block.