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Cod. 1145E
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Vincenzo Fardella de Quernfort
STORIA POSTALE DEL REGNO DI SICILIA
dalle origini all'introduzione del francobollo
1130-1858

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
Cod. 2162E
EUR 150,00


Gaetano Gatto - Giuseppe Antonio Natoli
1859-1860
STORIA POSTALE DEI FRANCOBOLLI DI SICILIA

XIV+338 pp. - colour ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions and colour cover - printed 2008
Italian text

1859-1860
POSTAL HISTORY OF SICILY POSTAGE STAMPS

Thanks to the census of more than 7000 letters, the present work analyses the postal history of Sicilian postage stamps: rates, franking, destinations known, postmarks, retouches on cover, letters sent during the insurrectionary period and in the following "Garibaldi" period, last dates of use of the postage stamps for every post office.
Last part of the book is devoted to a detailed historical analysis of the period April-July 1860, with the effects that historical events had on postal communication in the island.
Hundreds of reproductions in colours, with most of the rarest letters franked with Sicilian postage stamps.

CONTENTS

Preface by Giuseppe Antonio Natoli
Introduction by Nino Aquila
Introduction by Francesco Lombardo

CHAP.1 - SICILY POSTAGE STAMPS - Postage stamps - Delivery of postage stamps by the printer - 1/2 grano I plate - 1/2 grano II plate - 1 grano I plate - 1 grano II plate - 1 grano III plate - 2 grana I plate - 2 grana II plate - 2 grana III plate - 5 grana I plate - 5 grana I plate - 5 grana II plate - 10 grana - 20 grana - 50 grana

CHAP.2 - COMMUNICATIONS IN THE ISLAND - Routes - Land communications - Maritime communications - Calendar for the year 1859 - Calendar for the year 1860

CHAP.3 - SICILIAN POST OFFICES - Post offices - Tables for every post office, from Alcamo to Vizzini

CHAP.4 - REGULATIONS AND RATES - Inland rates - Half sheet rate - Rates to the Italian States - Rates to foreign countries - Census of letters to foreign countries - Franking with Sicilian postage stamps

CHAP.5 - INSURRECTION AND OCCUPATION - The insurrection of Gancia and Garibaldian occupation - Chronicle of the uprising in Sicily from April 1860 to the capitulation of the city of Messina (4 April 1860 - 28 July 1860) - Historical notes: the insurrection of Gancia - Historical notes: the landing in Marsala - Historical notes: the fighting in Calatafimi - Historical notes: the battle in Palermo - Historical notes: the battle in Milazzo - Communications in the island from the insurrection of Gancia to the arrival of the "Thousand" - Communications in the island after the landing of the "Thousand" - The postage stamps used during Garibaldian period - The espionage of the Kingdom of Sardinia consulates - Garibaldian postal regulations - Letters confiscated by Garibaldi's soldiers - Garibaldian mail - The post office in Messina and the so-called siege

CHAP.6 - BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cod. 2211E
EUR 15,00


by Unione Filatelica Siciliana
SICILIA DUEMILANOVE
U.F.S. 1859-2009
Palermo, 18-21 giugno 2009

176 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2009
Italian text

SICILY 2009
U.F.S. 1859-2009
Palermo, 18-21 June 2009

Philatelic Exhibitions
Catalogue of the exhibition held on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Sicilian postage stamps and of the 200 years since the birth of Tommaso Aloysio Juvara, their engraver.
National exhibition upon invitation and XXIX Sicilian philatelic congress.
Palermo, 18-21 June 2009
Ex "Deposito di locomotive di S. Erasmo"

CONTENTS

- Quel sabato di capodanno del 1859, di Nino Aquila
- Le sedi della Posta a Palermo
- La stazione di Sant'Erasmo, di a.a.
- Riutilizzo del bollo "franca" in Sicilia, di Giovanni Tripodo
- La riforma postale in Sicilia del 1819, di Andrea Corsini
- I timbri borbonici "assicurata" usati in Sicilia su francobolli sardi, di Gianfranco Jannuzzo
- Timbri di emergenza del XIX secolo, di Francesco Orlando
- Il "lascito Aloysio Juvara" nel museo regionale di Messina, di Gioacchino Barbera e Giovanni Molonia
- Tommaso Aloysio Juvara a Palermo, di Giovanni Molonia
- Francesco Lao: il tipografo dei "testoni", di Franco Tomasino
SICILIADUEMILANOVE - CATALOGO DELLE COLLEZIONI ESPOSTE
- Chi c'era a "Sicilia '59", di Nino Aquila
- I miei ricordi di "Sicilia '59", di Alberto Bolaffi
- Ricordo di "Sicilia '59", di Francesco Lombardo
- Sicilia 1823: inedito nominale manoscritto di Centorbi, di Leonardo Di Bella
- Casteltermini nei suoi primi vent'anni di storia postale, di Pietro Amorelli
- Sicilia 1861-63. Storia postale del periodo "sardo italiano", di Francesco Orlando
- La targa Florio per idrovolanti, di Andrea Amoroso
IL 29° CONVEGNO FILATELICO SICILIANO
- Ubaldo Tedesco, un presidente che fece grande l'U.F.S., di Nino Aquila
- Le strade palermitane che rievocano le vicende risorgimentali, di Mario Di Liberto
- Ricordo di Pier Luigi Alliata di Pietratagliata, di Nino Aquila
Cod. 2263E
EUR 38,00


edited by Nino Aquila
LE COLLEZIONI
DELLA FONDAZIONE "IGNAZIO MORMINO"
DEL BANCO DI SICILIA
I FRANCOBOLLI

224 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2009
Italian text

THE COLLECTION
OF FONDAZIONE BANCO DI SICILIA
POSTAGE STAMPS

Fondazione Ignazio Mormino of Banco di Sicilia keeps, among historical and antiquarian property, a prestigious philatelic collection, presented in this volume, which is the first of a series devoted to the Foundation's possessions.
The collection includes 1482 items in 900 really rare postal documents relevant to the first issues of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which were used in 1858 in the Kingdom of Naples and from 1 January 1859 in the Kingdom of Sicily. The latter are known as the most beautiful stamps issued by the Old Italian States: the portrait of Ferdinando II was engraved by Tommaso Aloysio Juvara (1809-1875) from Messina, one of the best engravers in the middle of the XIX century.
To complete the work, the editor, Nino Aquila, has added material coming from private prestigious collections.
In the chapters before the presentation of the stamps, the volume follows the history of the issues in their historical background, the route and postal situation in Sicily in the XIX century, and the formation of the collection.
Cod. 2405E
EUR 35,00


Salvatore Amoroso
OGGI SI VOLA!
150 anni di aeronautica
in Sicilia
1861-2011

240 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2011
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

TODAY WE FLY!
150 years of Aviation in Sicily
1861-2011
With the cooperation of Regione Sicilia.

A historical excursus relevant to aviation in Sicily, from ascents by balloon to the events connected to "the heaviest in the air", with some reference to the relation between planes and aerophilately.
Richly illustrated with photographs, documents, drawings and postcards.

CONTENTS

* Introduction

* The myth of flight in Sicily
* Aviation and balloons
* The first successes of "the heaviest in the air"
* "Give wings to Italy"
* 1917: the air mail experiment Naples-Palermo-Naples
* Post war. Aviation starts again with difficulty
* Sicily enters in national and international air lines
* Conclusion

* Name index
* Bibliography
Cod. 2564E
EUR 50,00


Rocco Cassandri - Giuseppe Di Bella - Antonio Ferrario
1860
LETTERE DALLA GUERRA D'ITALIA
SULLE TRACCE DEI GARIBALDINI

402 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2015
italian text

1860
LETTERS FROM THE WAR OF ITALY
ON THE TRAIL OF GARIBALDI'S SOLDIERS

The Authors use postal materials as historical source, relating the historical events to postal history, and vice versa, also thanks to the fortunate recovery of two letters of that period that are systematically analyzed.

The scenery is the enterprise of Garibaldi's Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of Two Sicilies: in this context, the system of postal communications that played a strategic role in it is examined. This central event of Italian Risorgimento is narrated from a different and unreleased viewpoint, highlighting also a slice of the daily life of some participants to Garibaldi's enterprise, exploring for the first time the contents of the letters that often narrate events in a different way.

The book develops in parallel a rigorous postal-historical study of the rates and of the ways of sending mail from and to the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, highlighting the fast changes in postal communication, determined by Garibaldi's advance and by the other events connected to the development of the Kingdom of Italy.

Dealing with a period of war and revolution, the Authors have found some difficulties in finding the norms that determined the changes in the correspondence rates.
Cod. 2565E
EUR 35,00


Antonello Cerruti
I FRANCOBOLLI DA 2 GRANA
DEL REGNO DI SICILIA

36 pp. - colour ill. - saddle stitch binding - printed 2018
Italian text

2 GRANA POSTAGE STAMPS OF THE KINGDOM OF SICILY

The three plates prepared for the print of 2 grana postage stamps of the Kingdom of Sicily are reproduced in over thirty plates in colour and b/w.
All the retouches and also the single plates (whole, divided into two and four parts) are examined in detail with minute enlargements, so to make the consultation of every single postage stamp easy even to less expert people.
Cod. 2661E
EUR 30,00


Alfredo Alabiso
UFFICI POSTALI ITINERANTI IN SICILIA
Catalogo dei timbri usati dagli uffici ambulanti e dai messaggeri
dal 1862 al 1973

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.
Cod. 2725E
EUR 25,00


Alberto Barcella - Pietro Amorelli
LE CARTE SPARSE
Corrispondenze garibaldine di Ippolito Nievo
Approfondimenti di storia postale siciliana
1859-1861

112 pp. - colour illustrations - format cm 21x29,7 - high quality glossy paper - softbound - printed 2018
series "History through documents"
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)

ISBN: 978-88-96381-26-7
SCATTERED PAPERS
Garibaldine correspondences by and to Ippolito Nievo
Insights into Sicilian postal history
1859-1861

The Sicily of 1859-1861 told through postal history and Ippolito Nievo letters. Some insights into an extraordinary period, with gattopardesche atmospheres, which preceded the Unity of Italy on the island, analysing the effects of revolution on the postal system and the correspondence of a brilliant and idealist young man who spent last months of his life in Sicily following Garibaldi's troops.

From the preface by Giulio Perricone, President of the Sicilian Philatelic Union
"The two collectors authors of this work [...] if on the one hand have added a piece to the history of the patriot who was wrecked on the journey between Palermo and Naples in 1861 [...] on the other have enriched, with a learned publication, the great chapter of Italian postal history, of Sicily, of the Garibaldian period, of the emergency mail systems connected to an insurrectional situation."

From the introduction by Francesca Tamburlini, Head of the Manuscripts and Rare Items Section of "Vincenzo Joppi" Civic Library of Udine
"The text [...] turns the attention on some almost unexplored aspects of these writings, that is on the "conventional" elements and marks found on the envelopes [...] without neglecting the texts of the letters that are resumed and cited to make the meaning of those external signs better understood. [...] The essay of the two authors comes to the rescue and opens up a new world, guiding us from the place of departure of the letter to its final destination [offering] of these Ippolito's documents an additional reading."

CONTENTS

PREFACE
Giulio Perricone

A FURTHER VALUE
Last letters by (and to) Ippolito Nievo, unwitting testimony for postal history
Francesca Tamburlini

SICILIAN INSURRECTIONAL COMMITTEES
The postal system in May 1860
Alberto Barcella

SCATTERED PAPERS
Ippolito Nievo correspondence from 5 May 1860 until his death
Alberto Barcella - Pietro Amorelli

THE POST AND SICILIAN REVOLUTION OF 1860
With some notes on the political use of postal iconography
Pietro Amorelli

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