96 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2011
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BENITO CAROBENE
PHILATELIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Benito Carobene wrote his philatelic autobiography in 1997 for his family and some friends, following his philatelic career and telling about dealers and collectors he met.
The Unione stampa filatelica italiana has decided to publish his work, so that everybody could enjoy his experience. A fascinating story, which help us in understanding the character, at the same time testifying an authentic passion for the history of the Post, which is the history of men, that is our history.

240 pages - more than 400 colour and b/w illustrations - documents of the time and unpublished photographs - art paper - colour cover and case - format cm 22x30 - printed 1996
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(THE FRUIT OF PARADISE
history and culture of Vignola cherries)

"Anyone who has passed, at least once in his life, through the streets of Vignola, during the month of April, cannot surely forget the blossoming of cherry trees, those little fragile petals which transform the country completely, giving it a "paradisiac" aspect.

… It is also a recognition to everyone who has contributed to the making of its epic. A history more than one century long, involving thousands of people; however, up to now, it has remained isolated within technical studies, section analysis, reports written by experts for experts, unknown, therefore, to the general public."

Vignola and its cherries have lived side by side through last century; the history of the town identifies, from the middle of 1800, with the growth of the cherries production in the Panaro Valley.
Nonetheless, among cultural publications about Vignola there was no book on cherries.
The authors have recreated a sort of historical compendium about Vignola during last century, about people who have contributed to the economic boom of the Panaro Valley, and their brilliance in generating, besides the agronomic event, a series of industrial and technological activities which still represents the most important part of the economy of the region.

In appendix, there is a nice anecdotal and encyclopaedic dictionary on cherries (illustrated by Maria Claudia Di Genova) for the ones who are not familiar with the language of cherries or want to know curiosities and secrets.

304 pages - 70 colour and b/w illustrations - art paper - colour cover - format cm 17x24 - printed 1997
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(A HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD LIFE
Vignola and its inhabitants, memories - Love and homesick for the native village - Meditations)

With this publication, the Lions Club of Vignola carries out its double institutional undertaking: rendering homage to the memory of one of its charter members and, at the same time, serving the broadest interest of the Community of Vignola. The present work, in fact, reports memories, authentic testimonies of history, the meditations and experiences through a life of about one hundred years of an authoritative fellow-townsman - head town clerk for more than 30 years.
A series of illustrations of events and local personages completes the volume.
Photographs by Claudio Soli.

416 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - 4th ed. 2011
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ITALIAN MILITARY POST 1939-1945
World War II
POSTMARKS

With the cooperation of Piero Macrelli (for Italian East Africa) and Renato Ghiotto (for North Africa and Sicily)

Catalogue of postmarks in the Italian Military Post offices from 1939 to 1945, which includes the mobilization phase, campaign in Albania, Second world war up to 8 September 1943 and the cobelligerency with the Allies period, until the office closure.

New in the present edition, also thanks to the indications by many members of the Italian association for collectors of Military: text revision; better layout; new reproductions for some postmarks; many new kinds of marks and new dates; several updates and additions in the pages relevant to Italian East Africa; point valuation updated.

128 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2010
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CURSORES
year III - n.13 - September 2010
Postal History Magazine
(new series)

Magazine of the Italian Association for Postal History - Editor Angelo Simontacchi

144 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2011
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CURSORES
year IV - n.14 - July 2011
Postal History Magazine
(new series)

Magazine of the Italian Association for Postal History - Editor Angelo Simontacchi

AS A GIFT THE BEAUTIFUL MAP OF ESTE TERRITORIES, reproduction of the original watercolour map, dated XV century, orientation to South (presented on cover).

4 volumes - 368/432/432/312 pp. - more than 3000 colour and b/w ill. - format cm 21x29,7 - cloth with colour cover and case - printed 2001
series "History through documents"
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THE POST IN THE ESTE TERRITORIES
AND IN THE DUCHY OF MODENA
HISTORY AND POSTAL HISTORY 1453-1852

1 volume - history and postal history from 1453 to 1814
2 volume - history and postal history from 1815 to 1852
3 volume - free franking postmarks and disinfection cancellations from 1796 to 1852
4 volume - postal rates and catalogue of cancellations with point/euro valuations.

Colour print - format cm 77.6x62.5 - printed 2002
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Duchy of Modena, reproduction of the original map, dated 1849-1850.

Colour print - format cm 68x49.5 - printed 2002
Not folded

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Este territories, reproduction of the original watercolour map, dated XV century, orientation to South.

256 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - reprint 2011 with new findings and new binding
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POSTCARDS BY A. BERTIGLIA
Vol.II
the great series, costumes, sport, dogs, at the seaside, flowers, corrida, games, water effects, surrealist ones, Mickey Mouse

The work of the illustrator Aurelio Bertiglia is really vast and wide-ranging. More than three thousand different drawings in postcards, with distinct painting styles as if it were not the same author.
The present second volume, reprinted with the addition of new findings, gathers most of his productions about specific themes among the many dealt with by him: the great series, costumes, sport, dogs and cats, new-born children, at the seaside, flowers, corrida, games, water effects, surrealist ones, Mickey Mouse.
At the end of the volume the index by theme and the reproduction of the logotype of the publishing houses.

118 pp. - b/w ill. - format cm 17x24 - softbound - printed 2002 - 1st reprint 2011
series "The Recoveries"
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ITALIAN MUNICIPAL STAMPS
From their introduction to the end of 1881

Translation from the original text, published in France in 1883, about fiscal stamps issued by the Italian municipalities from 1865, the year of their introduction to collect taxes, to 1881.

Since the issue of fiscal stamps was not regulated by official decrees, there are not many official documents like decrees, notes addressed to the public, or handwritten regulations. The important pieces of information in this volume are, therefore, the result of research and analysis of documents such as letters and invoices of printers and engravers, and verbal reports by municipalities attendants.

The fiscal stamps are presented in alphabetical order and by region, following the subdivision of the Kingdom of Italy of the time (Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Venetias, Emilia, Marches, Umbria, Tuscany, Latium, Abruzzi and Molise, Campania, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Sicily, Sardinia), with the reproduction and a technical-descriptive table. At the end of the volume there are two indexes, one in alphabetical order and the other divided by region.

48 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2011
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SICIL POST MAGAZINE
Year XII - n.23 - June 2011

Magazine of the Postal History Association of Sicily

Including Supplement "Sintesi storica della filatelia siciliana dal secondo dopoguerra ad oggi" Fourth part - 1986-1992 edited by Vincenzo Fardella de Quernfort.

113 pp. - softbound - printed 2003
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ANNOTATED PHILATELIC AND POSTAL HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
LATIUM - EMIL-ROMAGNA - MARCHES - UMBRIA

Useful bibliography which lists the titles of volumes or magazines articles.

63 pp. - softbound - printed 2000
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ANNOTATED PHILATELIC AND POSTAL HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
TUSCANY

Useful bibliography which lists the titles of volumes or magazines articles.

172 pp. - softbound - printed 1997
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ANNOTATED PHILATELIC AND POSTAL HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
LOMBARDY – VENETO

Useful bibliography which lists the titles of volumes or magazines articles on Lombardy and Veneto.

334 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2011
series "Quaderni di Storia Postale" - Istituto di Studi Storici Postali, Prato
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Quaderni di Storia Postale N.31 - February 2011

Group of articles written to celebrate Aldo Cecchi on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.

288 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2011
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POSTCARDS BY A. BERTIGLIA
Vol.V
Glamour, Saucy, Fashion, Miscellaneous

The work of the illustrator Aurelio Bertiglia is really vast and wide-ranging. More than three thousand different drawings in postcards, with distinct painting styles as if it were not the same author.
The present fifth volume gathers most of his productions about women with their charm, glamour and seduction power. In the "Miscellaneous" section there are sketches, drawings, pictures, labels, photographs, cards, stickers, playbills, and much more.
At the end of the volume the index by theme, the reproduction of the back of the postcards, and an illustrated bibliography.

576 pp. - 36 pages with colour plates - format cm 17x24 - softbound - printed 2011
series «Handies»
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POSTAL RELATIONS OF ITALY IN 1800s
ITALY - FRANCE
Postal conventions and rates
Annotated list of mail in the philatelic period

This is the second volume of a series devoted to postal relations between Italy and foreign countries during the XIX century, specifically from 1850 to 1875, a quarter of century from the introduction of postage stamps in Italy to the creation of the Universal Postal Union. It is a key period, as there was a great progress in communications and the many postal conventions signed led to the unitary rate of 1875.

The work considers the whole XIX century, because it is after Napoleon's fall and the position of Italy decided by the Congress of Vienna that the idea of a renewal of postal services arose. There were the first bilateral postal conventions intended to make the forwarding of mail between the states easier, safer, and cheaper for users.

Italian postal history has been progressing during last decades, above all the study of postal conventions and rates of Italian Ancient States, Kingdom and Republic. A bit less studied the relations with foreign countries which were based - as it is known - on bilateral conventions and agreements, and sometimes on implied consent or on usual temporary procedures.

The aim of this volume, of the previous one about relations between Italy and Switzerland, and of the following ones, is that of giving a uniform picture of known or never published details relevant to conventions and rates in postal communications between Italy and foreign countries in the XIX century.

Particular attention has been given to the annotated list of mail known in the philatelic period: information comes from auction catalogues, price lists, collections and different publications. This is not a comprehensive list; however, through the description of each item, accompanied by philatelic notes, routes, postmarks and rates, collectors can have all the details relevant to the mail under examination. Moreover, the list is very useful from a statistical point of view: it illustrates postal communications between each Italian state and foreign countries, in this specific volume between each Italian state and France.

Some particularly important letters and postal documents have been selected and reproduced in colour in the tables at the beginning of the book, in order to give a picture of mail under examination.

X+112 pp. - 86 b/w ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions - gold card case - printed 2010
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WORK AND MEMORIES
Italian State Printing Works in Piazza Verdi

Texts by Giuseppe Sgarzini
Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato - Libreria dello Stato - Roma

The story of the Palace in Piazza Verdi, which was the seat of the Italian State Printing Works, and of the men and women who worked there, through several photographs taken from the beginning of the XX century to about 1955.
Some photographs are also relevant to the historic seat of the Mint, in Rome in Via Principe Umberto and Via Gino Capponi.

440 pp. - more than 1500 colour ill. - softbound - 2nd ed. 2011
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HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
THROUGH POSTAGE STAMPS

The full history of astronomy, from its origins to the discoveries effected thanks to the space telescopes, through postage stamps and postal documents that many countries have devoted to the sky, illustrated with over 1,500 colour images.

Peculiar work, unique in its kind, very interesting and educational, for lovers and stamp collectors but also for students and teachers and for all those who are interested in astronomy and in the exploration of the cosmos.