144 pp. - softbound - 2nd ed. 2011
ITALIAN TRANSLATION only text

ITALIAN TRANSLATION BY DANILO VIGNATI of the publication "THE POSTAL HISTORY OF SICILY FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO THE INTRODUCTION OF THE POSTAGE STAMPS".

3 vols. - 1274 pp. - 472 ill. of which 196 in colour - 10 b/w colour plates - 173 postal documents - 1 postal map of Sicily - more than 1000 cancellations - glossary (76 names) - index of names (718 headwords) - index of subjects (215 headwords) - archiv and bibliography (234 headwords) - printed 2000
500 numbered copies
WITH VALUATIONS
Italian text

POSTAL HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM OF SICILY from the origins to the introduction of postage stamps 1130-1858

WITH THE CATALOGUE OF CANCELLATIONS 1786-1861

1st VOLUME
* Travelling post offices 2nd class from the Normans to the Suevians, Aragonese and Castilians (1130-1516)
* The "Regia Correrìa" from the Habsburg to De Tassis (XVI c.)
* From the administration "Saponara" to the administration "Villafranca" (XVII-XVIII cc.)
* Bourbon postal organization from 1786 to 1858
* Postal routes
* Rates and free franking (1735-1858)
* Sea routes (XIV-XIX cc.)

2nd VOLUME
* Post and Health Service
* Local Chancelleries
* Telegraph
* Military Service
* DOCUMENTS: Edicts, decrees, regulations - Times and rates of mail and letters - Postal agreements - Trade and navigation agreements

3rd VOLUME
* Specialized CATALOGUE of handstamps and cancellations, from 1786 to 1861; second edition, with evaluations
* Handstamps and marks of the capital city
* Handstamps of the "Officine Postali" and of the "Cancellerie Comunali Postali"
* Maritime handstamps
* Free franking marks (civilian, military, sanitary, telegraphic, of the Swiss troops)
* Forwarders

* General index
* Subject index
* Index of most important nouns
* Small postal-historical dictionary

* Appendix: Genealogy of the families Tasso, Zappata de Tassis, Di Giovanni and Alliata

194 pp. - b/w ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2016
RARITY SCALE VALUATIONS
Italian text

TRAVELLING POST OFFICES IN SICILY
Catalogue of the postmarks used by travelling offices and by couriers
from 1862 to 1973

The subject dealt with is related to the non occasional use in Sicily of travelling post offices, both overland and by sea route, that have been working in a period that can be defined "classical" for the Italian postal history, that is the one included in the first century of adjustment of the administrative activity after the Unification of Italy.
An amazing number of postmarks has come out, attesting the fervour with which the development of communications was welcome and encouraged also in Sicily. The largest possible number of the postmarks described has been reproduced in the book.