174 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
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THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
VOL.VI - THE "PIEDMONTESE NATION" POSTMARKS (1800-1802)
Second part

The departure postmarks used by Piedmont post offices since the middle of the year 1800, prepared for as many as 102 post offices existing at the time. The offices covered in the first part were 50; in this second part the remaining ones, again in order of first use of the relative mark.

The authors were able to detect unknown postmarks and dates that anticipated or extended the period of use that appeared in Vollmeier's great work.

Considering the places where the High Police Courts were established, namely Turin, Ivrea, Mondovì, Asti, Alessandria, Vercelli, it was possible to establish that the post offices of these localities were the first to receive the departure postmarks of the "Piedmontese nation".

An element that positively characterized the postal service in the Kingdom of France was the use of postmarks, which allowed clerks to apply the correct rates and recipients to know the place from which the letter had left. With the second French invasion in 1800, postal customs from across the Alps made their way into occupied Piedmont. The postal clerks had already noticed the presence of the postmarks on correspondence from France and understood their usefulness. They also knew that this use would sooner or later also be introduced in the Piedmont offices and, while awaiting these postmarks, they were precursors, since they added the name of the departure place by hand.

With the annexation of Piedmont to the French Republic, the Sardinian postal service was also Frenchised and the Paris Post Administration Office sent the new departmental marks, characterized by the department number, to the most important post offices in Piedmont. They replaced the postmarks of the "Piedmontese nation".

264 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2021
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THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
VOL.VI - THE "PIEDMONTESE NATION" POSTMARKS (1800-1802)
First part

The departure postmarks used by Piedmont post offices since the middle of the year 1800, prepared for as many as 102 post offices existing at the time. The offices covered in this first part are 50 in order of first use of the relative mark.

The authors were able to detect unknown postmarks and dates that anticipated or extended the period of use that appeared in Vollmeier's great work.

Considering the places where the High Police Courts were established, namely Turin, Ivrea, Mondovì, Asti, Alessandria, Vercelli, it was possible to establish that the post offices of these localities were the first to receive the departure postmarks of the "Piedmontese nation".

An element that positively characterized the postal service in the Kingdom of France was the use of postmarks, which allowed clerks to apply the correct rates and recipients to know the place from which the letter had left. With the second French invasion in 1800, postal customs from across the Alps made their way into occupied Piedmont. The postal clerks had already noticed the presence of the postmarks on correspondence from France and understood their usefulness. They also knew that this use would sooner or later also be introduced in the Piedmont offices and, while awaiting these postmarks, they were precursors, since they added the name of the departure place by hand.

With the annexation of Piedmont to the French Republic, the Sardinian postal service was also Frenchised and the Paris Post Administration Office sent the new departmental marks, characterized by the department number, to the most important post offices in Piedmont. They replaced the postmarks of the "Piedmontese nation".

348 pp. - more than 300 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2019
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THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
VOL.V - THE KINGDOM OF CARLO EMANUELE IV
(16 October 1796 - 4 June 1802)

This book examines the Piedmontese events from 10 October 1796, coronation of Carlo Emanuele IV, up to 4 June 1802, his abdication.

The historical facts of this timeframe of six years are: the French occupation, the escape of the King to Sardinia, the Republican Provisional Government, the Austro-Russian Restoration, the new pro-French Provisional Government, the "Piedmontese Nation", the 27th military division and, in the course of these events, the life of Post until the modifications of postal distances in 1801.

334 pp. - almost 500 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2017
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THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
VOL. IV THE KINGDOM OF VITTORIO AMEDEO III (1773-1796)
AND THE POSTAL RATES OF 1795 BASED ON THE DISTANCE IN "POST"

The Kingdom of Vittorio Amedeo III lasted from 1773 to 1796, for a period of almost twenty years.
Regarding Post, everything happened according to the well-known patents of 1772, with the rate system described in the 3rd volume.
The second period of kingdom of this unfortunate king was, instead, anything but quiet, starting from the French Revolution that, in 1789, upset the entire Europe.

Just during this troubled period, an important postal reform was implemented in Turin, modifying completely the method used in correspondence taxation. A criterion completely new for Piedmont was introduced with the patents of 1795, that is binding the postage of letters to the distance between the location of departure and to the one of destination (criterion already applied in France on the basis of the leagues travelled). The longer was the route the higher was the postage to pay on delivery. Since the journeys used for post by horse were measured in "post", the same was done for letters. So the parameters became two: one was the kind of letter (simple, covered, double, by ounce) and the other one was for the distance measured in "post".

342 pp. - almost 500 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2016
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THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
vol.III CARLO EMANUELE III AND THE NEW REGULATIONS FOR POST OF 1772 (1730-1773)

This third volume follows the long kingdom of Carlo Emanuele III, from 1730 to 1773.

Like in the two previous volumes, the authors continue the chronological path, identified with the political or postal events that have particularly characterised it (the coexistence of Vittorio Amedeo II and Carlo Emanuele III, the wars of succession, Polish first and Austrian then, the period of peace, the changes in rates and the important postal regulations of 1772).

Moreover they focus their attention on some specific subjects of essentially postal nature, trying to give exhaustive answers to some doubtful interpretations of the past (the relationships between the Post in Turin and the French couriers, hoping to definitively prove the nonexistence of a French office in Turin), that is evidencing particular aspects not always taken into the right consideration (The Country Offices of military from 1733 to 1748, the start up of a Piedmontese Post Office in the town of Rome in 1734, the official introduction of the forwarding of correspondence by sea between Piedmont and the Kingdom of Sardinia).

The work is completed by the interesting controversy arose between the bookseller Fontana and the clerks of the Post Office in Turin with rate-related implications regarding the "gazettes"; the relationships, not always peaceful, between the Piedmontese Post and the Post Office in Milan, with the first introduction of Milanese postmarks; the exemption from postal fee on the letters coming from and on those sent abroad.

263 pp. - almost 500 colour ill. - softbound - printed 2014
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THE EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION FROM AND TO TURIN
vol.II VITTORIO AMEDEO II AND THE FIRST RATES FOR LETTER POST (1684-1730)

This second volume is connected to Vittorio Amedeo II, the Duke of Savoy who became first King of Sicily and then King of Sardinia. As a duke he introduced the first postal rates for letters (1698), as King of Sicily he issued the first organic edict about Post (1718) and as King of Sardinia he made approve the definitive edict of 1720 that was in force up to 1772.

The book is enriched with almost 500 images and it is divided into three chapters: the first one covers the ducal period (1684-1713), the second one concerns the period when Vittorio Amedeo II was King of Sicily (1713-1720) and the third one is about the period when he was King of Sardinia (1720-1730).

High significance is given to the postal rates related to the town of Turin, but there are also particularly interesting documents, such as the first postal agreements undersigned by France and Piedmont at the end of XVII century and continued during the following one. Furthermore much attention is given to the interventions of the Health Magistrate in Turin, to explain the consequence of the frequent epidemics and infectious illnesses on the treatment of letters: the simple external perfuming, the de-sealing with internal perfuming and the subsequent re-sealing, the use of fumigation and the exposure to heat.

The volume is completed by the tables of the rates for letters, by the Generalship of Post and the chronology of popes and kings, by the analytic index of the most significant writings, by the bibliographic references, by the works and the institutes consulted, by the funds consulted in the history Archives of Turin.