Published on the occasion of Monacophil 2019
106 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions and colour cover - printed 2019
English and French text

This book gives us a comprehensive and unprecedented historical overview of Egyptian maritime navigation.

Because of its unique location, Egypt has historically been the crossing point of trading and mail routes. Its sea costs stretch a distance of 2.900 km, 1.931 km of which overlook the Red Sea shores and the rest of the Mediterranean. This direct access by sea to both the Est and West, along with the centrality of its location, gave the control of Egypt immense strategic importance.

The author not only names and lists documents, many of which are highly rare, but also places us in the historical context.
His perfect mastery of the various languages in which the Egyptian archive documents have been preserved, enables us to immerse ourselves in the vision of the Egyptians when they were faced with the all-powerful European society during the 19th century. As a result, the shipping companies responsible for transporting mail suffered ups and downs due to the political context and power struggles.

More than a publication about sea mail, this history book takes us back to Egypt during the time of the viceroys and the 19th century, at a time when the Western world is showing a growing interest in rediscovering the traces of an ancient civilisation.

92 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - 1st ed. 2011
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

COLLECTION FENICE
EGYPT
Maritime postal services of Italian offices 1863-1880
Series "Great Italian Collections" n.1
Preface by Ulrich Felzmann

The author intends to publish a series of volumes to illustrate important Italian collections, before they get sold or separated, in order to show the collectors' original work.

In the present first volume, the rarities of Italian offices in Egypt, postal history, rate, cancellations used on the different issues. The most important items have been reproduced, in chronological order by issue, rate, navigation line. One chapter is devoted to issues specially overprinted for Italian offices abroad.

Particular attention has been given to Italian, French, Austrian and English navigation lines, which carried mail from and to Alexandria. A really useful special table, the result of many years of research, lists all the departure and arrival dates of "Rubattino" ships in the Egypt line.