600 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 31st ed. 2022
Italian text

UNIFICATO CATALOGUE EUROPE 2022
vol.2
FRANCE - GIBRALTAR - GREAT BRITAIN

Illustrated catalogue of postage stamps of: France, Gibraltar, Great Britain, Guernsey, Alderney, Jersey, Isle of Man.

Revised and updated with all the stamps issued up to half 2022, and different price updates.

528 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 31st ed. 2022
Italian text

UNIFICATO CATALOGUE EUROPE 2022
vol.1
ANDORRA - AUSTRIA - BELGIUM - CYPRUS - DENMARK - FINLAND

Illustrated catalogue of postage stamps of: French Andorra, Spanish Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Faroer, Greenland , Finland with Aland.

Cataloguing and quotations for all the postage stamps, from the first issued until end of 2021.

144 + 240 + 352 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2013 + 2014 + 2016
Italian text

3 BOOKS OFFER

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.1 - THE ITALIAN KINGDOM POST 1861-1889 +
VOL.2 - A BELLE ÉPOQUE POST 1889-1921 +
VOL.3 - ITALY'S FASCIST PERIOD AT THE POST 1921-1943

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

"Novellario" is a new kind of catalogue about the Post and postage stamps in Italy, but also about the other aspects of philately, and everything in its historical, social and cultural background.

144 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2013
Italian text

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.1
THE ITALIAN KINGDOM POST
1861-1889

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

"Novellario" is a new kind of catalogue about the Post and postage stamps in Italy, but also about the other aspects of philately, and everything in its historical, social and cultural background.

240 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2014
Italian text

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.2
A BELLE ÉPOQUE POST
1889-1921

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

"Novellario" is a new kind of catalogue about the Post and postage stamps in Italy, but also about the other aspects of philately, and everything in its historical, social and cultural background.

The 2nd volume, devoted to one of the highest moments of Italian Post, between the birth of the Ministry of Posts and the end of World War I, and full of conquests, splendours and tragedies, focuses on the best of the original and innovative layout of "Enciclatalogue", allowing to discover, in a chronological crescendo, the birth of new and unusual postal services and of new types of postage stamps, postal stationery and other charming revenue stamps, used in the Italian Post Offices (on those days open also outside Italy) and in those of military.

240 + 352 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2014 + 2016
Italian text

2 BOOKS OFFER

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.2 - A BELLE ÉPOQUE POST 1889-1921 +
VOL.3 - ITALY'S FASCIST PERIOD AT THE POST 1921-1943

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

"Novellario" is a new kind of catalogue about the Post and postage stamps in Italy, but also about the other aspects of philately, and everything in its historical, social and cultural background.

352 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2016
Italian text

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.3
ITALY'S FASCIST PERIOD AT THE POST
1921-1943

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

This 3rd volume deals with the history of the postage stamps and of all the other Italian postal paper money of the period 1921-1943, introduced in light of the ideology, of the politics, of the news, of the wars and of the characters that have shaped them.

It is the history of the Fascist period seen through the postal services, the postmarks and the most diverse daily aspects of the communications of those years, from correspondence to telegrams up to television.

A history that includes a cataloguing of the paper money that composes it (including the postage stamps of the Air express of the Levant and of SCADTA), attentively introduced, documented and evaluated in its collectors' interest.

The narration is fluid, combined with an exhaustive regulatory documentation, for all those who wish to examine this historical period deeper, when mail was a central and fundamental element of society.

144 + 240 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2013 + 2014
Italian text

2 BOOKS OFFER

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.1 - THE ITALIAN KINGDOM POST 1861-1889 +
VOL.2 - A BELLE ÉPOQUE POST 1889-1921

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

"Novellario" is a new kind of catalogue about the Post and postage stamps in Italy, but also about the other aspects of philately, and everything in its historical, social and cultural background.

224 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2017
Italian text

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.4
FROM ONE REPUBLIC TO THE OTHER
1943-1948

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

This 4th volume, devoted to Italy 1943 to 1948, starts from the Italian Armistice of 8 September 1943 and ends with the completion of the new Italian Republic with relevant Constitution, its first President and the big star as symbol.

A volume certainly demanding in the first part, where RSI, Italian Kingdom, Allies, German Forces act, chronologically, in simultaneity.

A new, fluid, captivating way of talking about postage stamps, postal stationery, postmarks etc. (and to evaluate them, also under unusual aspects) that makes its history engaging, intriguing, maybe a real incentive to convert overprint small bands, allied postage stamps, Imperial, CLN, Democratic and Risorgimento into new, personal collections.

144 + 240 + 352 + 224 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2013 + 2014 + 2016 + 2017
Italian text

4 BOOKS OFFER

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.1 - THE ITALIAN KINGDOM POST 1861-1889 +
VOL.2 - A BELLE ÉPOQUE POST 1889-1921 +
VOL.3 - ITALY'S FASCIST PERIOD AT THE POST 1921-1943 +
VOL.4 - FROM ONE REPUBLIC TO THE OTHER 1943-1948

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

"Novellario" is a new kind of catalogue about the Post and postage stamps in Italy, but also about the other aspects of philately, and everything in its historical, social and cultural background.

352 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2018
Italian text

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.5
THE FIRST ITALIAN REPUBLIC IN POST
1949-1993

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci - Accademia Italiana di Filatelia e Storia postale.

The series of the "Novellario", relevant to the Italian State, ends with this 5th volume devoted to "The first Italian Republic in Post 1949-1993", that narrates all the postage stamps and the high values appeared in the latest 44 years of the Italian Post Office, including the various aspects of the postal service and of the Italian and international history.

A way to enable all, including those who are not collectors, to understand the values that most people know but only outwardly and marginally.
An introduction of philately of this period, by whom has lived it personally, with valuations of the subject matter, including different rarities all to be discovered.

256 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2020
Italian text

CIF/UNIFICATO - IL NOVELLARIO
VOL.6
MAIL SERVICES AND POSTAL RATES
1861-2000

Postage stamps - Postal stationery - Pre-Stamps - History - Services - Postmarks & relevant valuations

By Franco Filanci and Luigi Ruggero Cataldi - Italian Academy of Philately and Postal History

Volume 6 of this catalogue illustrates mail services and postal rates from 1861 to 2000: the epochal changes in communication one of which occurred under our nose but which no one seems to have noticed; the story of the so-called letter mail is told through its objects, concessions, services, and their costs in 140 years; postal orders and other innovations, including banking ones; parcel post, that is how, for international reasons, the post office competed with private individuals; electrical services, new technologies, via wire or wireless, relevant to communication; licensed services, where it is shown how it happened to have to pay not to get but to perform a service.

764 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 49th ed. 2022
Italian text

UNIFICATO CATALOGUE SUPER 2023
ITALY and ANCIENT STATES
SAN MARINO - VATICAN - SMOM

This catalogue puts together all the countries of the Italian area, from the Ancient States up to June 2022.

Catalogue and quotations for the postage stamps of Italian Ancient States - Kingdom of Italy - Republic of Italy - San Marino - Vatican - SMOM (Sovereign Military Order of Malta) - Local issues - Trieste A and B - Rijeka - Occupations - Offices abroad - Colonies - Somalia AFI.

Thanks to a new and more rational layout, it was possible to reduce the number of pages to make the volume more manageable while maintaining the same contents, as well as of course the necessary annual updates.

Enriched by 221 interesting articles that appeared in the monthly "L'Arte del Francobollo", available simply by framing the QR code with a smartphone. A unique opportunity to read (or to reread) what is written by the important pens of the magazine (in Italian).

VI/618 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2017
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

VINYLVALUE
THE VALUE OF YOUR RECORDS

Catalogue and guide to collecting vinyl records of pop rock music produced in Italy

By means of a chronological reconstruction, the catalogue reports the market quotations of 360 complete vinyl record making produced in Italy, corresponding to more than 11,000 45 and 33 records. The work presents, with several hundreds of images, also the imaging evolution of the Italian vinyl labels of 55 record companies, further to a story "Italy in vinyl" and to 130 biographic hints of the main performers of pop rock music.
The reference is, above all in the first part, to Italy in the vinyl years, a country at the heights of its social and economic development that, by means of millions of records produced, showed to be able also to propose original and innovative musical ways, in spite of the suggestions of foreign brands.
In the second part, a lot of room is given to the performers of vinyl pop rock, with 130 biographic hints that help lovers to link record making to the artistic life of performers.
In the third and fourth part, the catalogue introduces, with hundreds of reproductions, the history and the imaging evolution of brands as protection of copyright together with the one of record companies and of their labels, giving to collectors an additional important support to identify original productions.
The fifth part, the main one, is based upon a selection of complete vinyl record making produced in Italy, with the relevant market quotations.

72 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2018
Italian text

POSTAGE STAMPS & COLLECTING
from A to Z
Philatelic handbook and dictionary

Postage stamps are security papers issued by the State, full of cultural, social and political significance, of artistic and lifestyle interest, that go far beyond the simple franking means, and that become a reliable witness to history.

The volume, in full colour, allows to know the world of postage stamps from A to Z and is divided into four parts:
COLLECTION, a result of civilization - COLLECTORS, profiles, goals and attitudes - POSTAGE STAMPS, features and sheet setting - Philatelic and postal DICTIONARY from A to Z.