444 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2021
Italian and English text

The idea of a book presenting the Postal History of Tuscany came to the authors after the presentation of Vittorio Morani's collection at the "Royal Philatelic Society London".
It was believed that the exhibition illustrated all the chapters of Tuscan postal history in the period 1 April 1851, the date of the Tuscan postage stamps issue, until 31 December 1862.
With effect from 1 January 1863, an Italian postal law unified the postal regulations of all the Italian provinces, putting an end to Tuscan postal history.

It is the first text that comprehensively deals with the postal use of these postage stamps and explains their use to frank Tuscan correspondence inland and abroad. It also explains the rates applied for correspondence arriving in Tuscany, thus offering a complete overview of the historical-postal situation of the period.

The book is organized in three parts:
- rates for the interior of Tuscany;
- rates of correspondence exchanged with the states of the Italian peninsula;
- rates for correspondence exchanged with foreign states beyond the Italian peninsula.

In each chapter, the evolution of postal rates and postal routes in the period 1851-1862 is presented chronologically. In this period mail was often sent without being franked; these documents, important for a complete description of the historical-postal development, are also included.
The parts illustrating the postal relations with foreign Countries present all the recorded origins and destinations.

To complete the volume, 4 analytical indexes: currencies, contract packets, conventions, postal markings.

198 pp. colour ill. - softbound - printed 2020
and attached quotation 2021
Copies not all numbered as per the author's information.
Italian text

IONIAN ISLANDS and moments of the Second World War

The political and military history of the Ionian Islands, a province of the Kingdom of Greece but for a short period annexed to the Kingdom of Italy of Vittorio Emanuele III, during the Second World War, from 1940 to 1945, told through postal history.

The historical and military-historical introduction, with explanatory maps of military and political events, is followed by the presentation of postal services thanks to postal documents, postage stamps, overprints, postmarks, censorship stamps, military post offices ...

Enclosed, "Valuations of postal items and postage stamps"

144 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2021
Italian text

ORIGINALS AND FORGERIES
Overprints of the Italian area
Part one

First part of this new study on the forgeries and the overprints of the Italian area.

Hundreds of images and enlargements of the postage stamps of: Kingdom of Italy, Trentino - Alto Adige, Venezia Giulia, Austrian occupation, Arbe and Veglia, Pechino and Tientsin; local issues Base Atlantica, Alessandria, Castiglione d'Intelvi, Teramo; postage stamps of the C.L.N. of Aosta, Arona, Barge, Cuvio, Domodossola, Imperia, Maccagno, Mantova, Ponte Chiasso, Savona, Sesto Calende, Bormida Valley; S.A.B.E. values; French occupation of Fezzan; Ljubljana; Free Territory of Trieste Zone B; Zara.

168 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2021
Italian text

ORIGINALS AND FORGERIES
Overprints of the Italian area
Part two

Second part of this new study on the forgeries and the overprints of the Italian area.

Hundreds of images and enlargements of the postage stamps of: G.N.R. (ordinary mail, air mail, war propaganda, express, postage due stamps, postal stationery) and R.S.I. (ordinary mail, war propaganda, parcel post, postal stationery).

64 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2021
series "Quaderno AISP" n.1
Italian text

DOTTED PAPERS FOR THE USE OF THE BLIND
A definitive (hopefully!) discussion

The project of the «Aisp Notebooks» continues in order to offer the deserved visibility on a specialized topic of great interest from a collecting and socio-cultural point of view, which is the study of dotted papers for the use of the blind.

This Notebook aims to demonstrate how in the past the topic has sometimes been described with inaccuracies or unclear statements: by resorting to primary sources, that is decrees, circulars, press releases, bulletins, the author has been able to clarify the obscure points.
A fundamental tool for collectors and postal history scholars, especially of the modern-contemporary period, who usually deal with correspondence for the blind in their collections, even at an exhibition level.

217 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2022
Italian text

LIBYA
History, Post, Philately - vol.1

The work, which for the authors closes a truly broad human and research path, intends to systematize knowledge, propose it in a modern way and create a work that intends to be definitive, at least for many years: the framework that is proposed is well defined. in all its main lines and its interpretative aspects.

Historical text followed by the catalogue of the offices, with their postage stamps and examples of use and the catalogue with the summary and evaluations of the registered stamps.
The main novelty of this volume is the breadth of the context: it is not considered a subject limited in time, but a wide Mediterranean region, which has had various political (and therefore postal) regimes, from the beginning until almost contemporaneity. A broad overview of synthesis that has its roots in classical antiquity and reaches up to the last, difficult years of today's Libya.

68 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - 2nd ed. 2022
Italian text

WOMEN IN ART

By Associazione Filatelia Italiana Specializzata

The ordinary series dedicated to women in art, in its currency transition from lira to euro, conceals many interesting facts about how the production of Italian postage stamps has evolved over time.

The author provides data and information that is often not found in other works, describing the various aspects of each single value of the series, including what is contained in the sheet borders, in cards that report, in addition to the image of the stamp in question, date of issue, value, description of the image, sheet, colours, borders, paper, watermark, perforation, perforator, sketcher, engraver, printing technique, implant, any notes.

44 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - 2nd ed. 2022
Italian text

CLASSIFICATION OF POSTAGE STAMPS WITH WATERMARK LETTERS OF THE VATICAN CITY

By Associazione Filatelia Italiana Specializzata

Postage stamps are classified starting from 1933, with the Pontificate of Pope Pius XI, up to 1963, including air mail.

The author has described every characteristic in as much detail as possible, including the two types of the "crossed keys" watermark, with the relevant positions of the handle and any position different from the normal one, as well as the different height of the letters, and the side where they are positioned.

128 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2022
Italian text

FRANCESCO PERCIVALLE: THE FORGER OF TWO WORLDS
From Amantea to Buenos Aires and back

By Associazione Filatelia Italiana Specializzata

This short monograph aims at establishing the state of the art in the search for all the forgeries by Francesco Percivalle, unused as well as on documents franked with them, here reproduced and described.

The difficulty in finding material and news is mainly due to the incredible ability shown by the forger in misleading anyone who wanted to know more details, as can be read directly in his letters, where there is no lack of imaginative descriptions and reconstructions.

134 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2002 - reprinted 2022
Italian text

ABOUT THE 100 LIRE OF THE DEMOCRATIC ISSUE

Although this stamp has been the subject of numerous studies, it is still possible to identify new and interesting aspects both in its postal history and in its technical details.

The work contains numerous topics never dealt with before, but also where already known varieties are presented, in addition to their placement on the sheet the author provides hypotheses on the causes and evolutionary processes. He also identifies the frequencies of use for the various perforations related to the plates, the time difference that separates the appearance of the "vanishing triangle" from the "vanishing angle"; he interprets the rhythmic distribution of spaces by means of graving traces designed to mark the paper size.

Important are the numerous sequences of new varieties detected for both plates with the demonstration of the appearance of the "floating" posthumously with respect to the "vanishing triangle", and the proposal of a grouping on three fundamental categories of perforators, from which the concept of "family" derives.

176 + 152 + 190 + 152 + 90 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2009 - reprinted 2022
Italian text

TRANSFER VARIETY IN THE POSTAGE STAMPS OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC

By Associazione Filatelia Italiana Specializzata

This work, divided into five volumes, lists those small printing defects, generated by modest manufacturing inaccuracies in the preparation of the cylinder or the plate or even by poor cleaning of the tool, which are constantly repeated in the same position in all the sheets or at least in a large part of the them.
The typology of these peculiarities, such as dots, spots, colour marks, white dots or light spots, is very variable, and is depicted and described here in detail.

vol.1 - winged wheel watermark
vol. 2 - 1955-1960
vol. 3 - 1961-1966
vol. 4 - 1967-2006
vol. 5 - air mail, express, pneumatic mail, authorized delivery, parcel post, authorised private parcels, postage-due labels

368 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2022
Italian text

DEMOCRATIC
The ordinary that rode the waves

After the first work on correspondence and internal services, this new book deals with correspondence and services in the six tariff periods for foreign countries, once again exceeding December 31st, 1952, and in the twelve of air mail without neglecting the particularities, the cunning of those who used it, as already done for the inland.

The correspondence to foreign countries has always appeared fascinating, intriguing, almost bewitching, beautiful to look at due to the frequent presence of numerous postage stamps necessary to achieve the high rates whose variety of colours made them lively and stimulating to the eye.
The mysterious destinations to disappeared, annexes or even new-born states that oblige the collector to research and historical insights are not negligible. While on the one hand they require less classification effort as the range of postal services is more restricted, on the other they definitely engage the scholar of postal history, in particular in air mail postal rates which have numerous variables, resulting in often indecipherable franking.

The first part concerns only the items of correspondence (letters, postcards, printed matter, etc., in addition to some unusual uses), which are carried and delivered to the address indicated by the sender on the object itself or on its wrapping.

These are accompanied by the accessory and special services offered by the Post Administration, used in addition to the ordinary shipping rate in relation to the needs of the sender to ensure traceability, speed of delivery or refund in case of loss.

One chapter is deserved by the immigration of Italians abroad and in particular in France, which was among the winning powers, and still the mingling with the other ordinary issue Italy at work.

Of particular historical-postal interest, and highly sought after in the collecting sector, is the correspondence of the embassy staff forwarded in the diplomatic bag.

This is followed by the air mail service, with its many facets, and the fake 100 lire Democratic postage stamp, attributed by scholars to Percivalle.

It ends with a small space dedicated to the U.N.R.R.A. A simple testimony of the experience of these refugees in the post-war period in the lands of Salento, a region rich in welcome and hospitality.

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.

Published on the occasion of Monacophil 2022
272 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions and colour cover - printed 2022
English and French text

A new book for the first time sheds light on the history and postal history of the Indian subcontinent in the years of conquest and struggle for dominance among European powers up to the establishment of British rule.
It focuses on the pre-philatelic history of India while comprising a comprehensive view on historical developments of all the European nations and the interacion among them. It closely ties history with postal history.

Starting with the battle of Plassey in 1757 and settling with the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the subsequent peace negotiations until around 1819, India transitioned from a multipower country to one British Rule.
The British very early realized that putting up a reliable postal system was a significant means of consolidating power; they were successful in establishing post offices and postal services even in the settlements of other European nations.
The year 1819 marks the end of this period of struggle and sees Britain as the leading power in India as well as the sole provider of domestic postal services even on the territory of the remaining European powers, which were left with no political or economic importance.

Many significant philatelic objects were gathered from collectors all around the world. Among them there are several items from archives which have never been shown before. A strong focus was given to describe them correctly and in their historical context.

432 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
POINT VALUATIONS WITH RANGE IN EURO

ITALIAN MAIL IN THE FAR EAST

The work is meant to illustrate the postal implications of the Italian military presence in the Far East, from 1861 to 1947 (from the unification of Italy until the return to China of the Tientsin Concession, following the Paris peace treaty).
The aim is to tell the story of the Italian presence that derives from the use of soldiers and/or civilians and which is accompanied by postal aspects of interest for the purposes of postal history.

The book is developed in seven parts:
- the years from 1861 to 1899: the first institutional contracts with China, with the sending of the R.N. "Magenta" (1866), up to the issue of San Mun Bay;
- the years from 1900 to 1905: the "Boxer" war (1900), with the sending of an Expeditionary Corps, the establishment of a Royal Navy Detachment in China and the creation of an Italian territorial Concession in Tientsin;
- the years from 1906 to 1914: the period preceding the outbreak of the First World War, with the Beijing-Paris car raid and the urban development of the Italian Concession of Tientsin;
- the years from 1915 to 1919: the First World War, with the story of the "Unredeemed" (who arrived in Tientsin from prison camps in Russia) and the sending of an expeditionary force to the Far East (1918/19);
- the 1920s: from the establishment in China of a battalion of sailors of the "St. Marco", to the local establishment of river companies up to air raids from Italy to Japan;
- the 1930s: from attempts to penetrate China commercially (with specific missions by the fascist government) up to the sending of a Battalion of the "Grenadiers of Savoy" at the time of the Sino-Japanese war (1937). The birth of Manchukuo;
- the 1940s: from Italy's entry into the Second World War up to the armistice of 1943 and then up to the conclusion of the conflict, with the restitution of the Tientsin Concession to China, on the basis of the Paris peace treaty of 1947.

An extensive bibliography concludes the volume.

262 pp - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2022
Italian text

UN BOLLO IN MASCHERA
Philatelic authors and the pandemic
With a review of the issues relevant to Covid-19

Published by USFI

The purpose of this book is to give the word to philatelic authors on the topic of the coronavirus. Spanning between memories, emotions and sensations, the texts are enriched by appropriate philatelic and postal historical references.

Promoted by the Italian Philatelic Press Union, this "Single Number" collects the testimonies of forty authors, with a single common thread, that of the pandemic, however developed in different ways, according to their own interests, knowledge, specializations. There are those who have made a general analysis, those who have described themselves as a collector stuck at home, those who have seen the consequences in prisons or in sport, those who have examined the effects on sectorial exhibitions, those who have highlighted the traces of postmarks…

The Covid-19 pandemic is an event that will remain in history and in history there will also be specific reflections and insights, some very technical and others more "light" and curious, entrusted to the printed paper by journalists and authors who write with continuity of postage stamps and postal history.

The publication is completed with a review of about 1,500 stamps, from 118 countries, issued since 2020 on the theme of the pandemic, starting from the prescriptions to stem the contagion to get to the celebration of the heroes of the first hour, up to the variants and vaccines.

36 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
Italian text

SELF-ADHESIVE PRIORITY LABELS
Edition 2023

Almost fifteen years after the first one, this edition benefits from new discoveries that confirm or, sometimes, correct and complete the information already acquired.

The tables of this brochure describe in detail the various elements that distinguish both the single values and the sheets and booklets of the priority adhesive "labels" which, with the issue of the new ordinary series called "Posta Italiana", have closed their cycle.

These labels have attracted the attention of collectors not only for the unprecedented characteristics (at least for Italy) of printing on self-adhesive paper, the particular "perforation", of the label combined with the postage stamp, etc., but also for the continuous variations that have followed in the phase of new issues and/or reprints, including the change of the thousandth, the elimination of the Bates Italia writing (the company that created the essay), the modification of the diameter of the central disc and the font of the writings, the introduction of the acronym "Spa" "in company", the change of the printing method (from serial-type-flexographic to rotogravure) etc.

The blue label deserves a brief mention which, although it has no postal value, has fulfilled its specific role as a priority service in correspondence.

160 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2013
Italian text

ITALY
ORIGINALS AND FORGERIES

The compendium of some studies on the subject to help, in an easy and clear way, to understand, and identify, the main differences between original issues and forgeries. The postage stamps of the Kingdom of Italy, of the Italian Social Republic and of the Italian Republic are reproduced and examined one by one with the list of their characteristics, for both originals and forgeries.

At the beginning of the chapters devoted to the different periods, there is a short postal-historical introduction.

Hundreds of colour reproductions.