304 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - hardbound - printed 2014
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1866. THE THIRD WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
ITALIAN MILITARY

The working method adopted by the Authors has much recourse to archive documentation, to newspapers, printed material and posters of that time.

The first part, that is the result of multi-decennial researches in various private and public archives and especially in the Central one of the Italian State in Rome, presents a documentation that may be considered exhaustive of the activity of Italian Military in the year 1866. It also offers the composition of every Office of Military with the names of the various employees and even the compensation collected by them during this military campaign.
The documentation widely resorts to the postal norms in force: this is the reason for the opportune reproduction of laws, decrees, ordinances and newsletters published by various sources, especially about the important and precious "Bullettini postali" of 1866.

The second part, richly illustrated and presented by means of efficacious graphics, is the inventory, divided by office of Military, of the letters found out up to now (only 680 to April 2014). The overall data and then those of every single office have persuaded the Authors not to fix points nor to give evaluations to the various postmarks of Military. A reasonable and motivated choice that, reading numbers, readers will share too.

Every postal document is studied and described in every part: franking, rates and taxations, origins and destinations, disinfections and any other postal mark. Starting from the postmarks of the numerous offices operating in the two distinct phases of the Military System, all reproduced and illustrated in their peculiar use.

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

432 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
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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.