168 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
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LETTERS ON THE OCEAN ROUTES OF TWO 19TH CENTURY TUSCAN DEALERS

The book proposes a selection from approximately 300 letters, from 1833 to 1874, of two people from Volterra, Mr. Vito Viti (1787-1866) and his nephew Giuseppe Viti (1816-1860), dealers eager to find a favourable market at the cost of many travels.
Vito Viti settled in Philadelphia achieving high success following his rapid integration into the socioeconomic local life; Giuseppe Viti reached approximately 40 locations around the world in just 25 years. The book reports their successes achieved with the sale of alabaster.

From a historical postal point of view, thanks to the analysis of the external and internal elements of the letters contextualising them with the historical period, those letters help to delve deeper into the complex methods adopted by the postal service, by land and sea in the 19th century, fundamental to share the geographic location and timing of shipments of the products and ensure the transfer of the money.

Their letters, written to their respective suppliers, relatives and friends, are full of testimonies about the geopolitics of the time, commercial secrets, anxieties, attempts to meet other merchants, the desire to have news about the distant family and comments relating to political processes connected to our Risorgimento.

328 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
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CREATIVITY FOR A POSTAGE STAMP
The essays of the Historical Museum of Communication

From the archives of the Historical Museum of Communication in Rome, a "treasure" of approximately 1,700 essays for postage stamps never materialized or sometimes "crystallized" at an earlier stage than they would have arrived at the post office counters. Items that have only partially, so far, been published in any specialist article.
Now they are collected, all together, in the book created by the Museum itself in collaboration with the Italian Philatelic Press Union.

The image of each item is proposed, associated with the title, summary description, main thematic categories, author, measures, inventory code attributed by the Museum.

There are numerous specialists, famous and otherwise, who in almost one century, from 1922 to 2000, have tried their hand at this communication method. Their works tell the story of the past, from great characters to battles, from artistic expressions to monuments. But they also document their present, such as institutional and political aspects, sporting events, the post-war recovery effort, European construction, campaigns against smoking and drugs, the protection of nature, road accidents...
Thus we discover the alternatives set aside, titles hypothesized and never realised. In short, a... behind the scenes that brings the reader closer to a fascinating sector, rich in cultural ideas that deserves to be valorised.

112 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2024
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CIF/UNIFICATO - STORIES OF THE POST
new series - vol.29 May 2024
Studies, News, Deep Analysis on Postal History & Communication
Magazine of the Italian Academy of Philately and Postal History

112 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
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CIF/UNIFICATO - STORIES OF THE POST
new series - vol.28 November 2023
Studies, News, Deep Analysis on Postal History & Communication
Magazine of the Italian Academy of Philately and Postal History

XVI+614 pp. - - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2023
WITH VALUATIONS
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STAMPS AND POSTAL HISTORY OF TRIESTE, PULA, RIJEKA, ISTRIA AND THE SLOVENIAN COAST UNDER THE YUGOSLAVIAN MILITARY ADMINISTRATION
1945-1947

Extremely accurate philatelic and postal-historical study, based on Italian and Yugoslavian sources: the overprinted Italian postage stamps and stationery and the "Istra Littorale sloveno" occupation issues.

The most complete work on that dramatic period on the eastern Italian border, with postage stamps and postal history events that are rightfully part of Italian postal history.

This is the Italian translation of the volume published in English in 2009.

390 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2024
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Second volume of the work, dedicated to the Italian-Turkish war and the first Italian years (1911-1920).
Richly illustrated and with the usual rigor of the text, it also contains the catalogue of office stamps, ships, aeronautical departments and unpublished catalogues of oval and censorship stamps, with many reproductions of documents.

In appendix, updates to vol.1

576 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - 7th ed. 2024
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UNIFICATO CATALOGUE - REVENUE STAMPS 2024

Catalogue and quotation of Ancient States, Kingdom and Republic of Italy, Trieste, Rijeka, Italian Colonies and Possessions, Foreign Occupations of the Colonies, San Marino, Vatican City

All the revenue stamps issued from 1750 to the present day, with the countless types which have marked the history of Italy: from Livestock Registry to Wines and Spirits, Playing cards, Pharmacists, Matches, Journalists, Driving Licenses, Notebooks, Cigarettes, Silkworms Seeds, etc.

Besides the additions in the various chapters and the revaluation of prices, the new volume has been particularly enriched with band brands for DOC and DOCG wines of different formats and colours depending on the type of wine, with the presence or absence of their names and of the brand of the consortium to which they belong, brands for electronic cigarettes affixed on containers of liquids with or without nicotine, brands for reductions in railway fares issued on the occasion of fairs, events, jubilees or Holy Years, INPS brands for requesting duplicates of personal booklets.

94 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2024
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The first specialized catalogue of the corner blocks of Kingdom of Italy, Italian Republic, Trieste A, Somalia A.F.I.S., Kingdom of Libya, San Marino and Vatican.
Ordinary mail, commemorative stamps, air mail, with specialization in postal parcels and authorised private parcels.
Technical notions, varieties and valuations of each block.

2 vols. - 402+300 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound with slip-case - printed 2017
RARITY SCALE VALUATIONS
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POSTAL HISTORY OF CORSICA

Reference work to get closer to Corsican postal history, divided into history and catalogue, from its origins to 1960.

In the first volume, "History", in addition to a historical overview of the island, the history of the Post Office in chronological order with a first pre-philatelic period and a second philatelic one, with its sometimes complex mechanisms before the adoption of postage stamps in 1849, often identical to the continental ones, but with particularities due to its insularity.

The second volume, "Catalogue", is a catalogue of all postmarks and cachets divided by office in alphabetical order, with tables showing all the data (including known extreme dates of use), and rarity scale in euros.

To complete this, a rich historical and philatelic bibliography and office indexes divided also by period.

624 pp. colour ill. - softbound - 2nd ed. 2023
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UNIFICATO CATALOGUE - POSTE ITALIANE
BROCHURES 2023
Complete cataloguing and quotation
of the brochures by Poste italiane

Second edition of this catalogue where all the Italian illustrative brochures are listed and catalogued, over 2,000, from the first one, issued in 1954, to 2022.
Thanks to QR-codes, it is possible to read the complete brochure.