Bibliography

Call number is given in brackets if the title is held by National Postal Museum Library.

General works on the Pontifical State postal service:

  • Georges Brunel. Le Service Postal et les Timbres des États de l'Église. Paris: Bibliothèque du Philatéliste, 1942. [HE6185 .V3B89 1942]
  • Clemente Fedele and Mario Gallenga. Per Servizio di Nostro Signore: Strade, Corrieri e Poste dei Papi dal Medioevo al 1870. Quaderni di Storia Postale 10. Modena: E. Mucchi, 1988. [HE7016 .P37F44 1988X]

Stamps:

  • Fritz Billig. Roman States: The Originals and Counterfeits of the First Issue. L.W. Morrissey, trans. Expert Billig’s Great Handbook on Forgeries 45. New York: Billings Stamp Company, n.d. (circa 1940- 1943).
  • Floyd A. Jenkins. Roman States Essays and Reprints: The Issues of 1867-1870. Weston, MA: Triad Publications, 1997. [HE6185.I83 P365 1997]
  • Frederick J. Levitsky, ed. Roman States Forgeries: The Issue of 1852. 1986. Reprinted with a new supplement by the editor. Chester, CT: Triad Publications, 1990. [HE6184.F6 R66 1990]
  • Frederick J. Levitsky and Floyd A. Jenkins. Roman States Forgeries: The Issue of 1867-1868. Weston, MA: Triad Publications, 1990. [HE6184.F6 L47 1990]
  • Peter N. G. Rayner. The Papal States: The Stamps of the 1852-67 Issue. Fil-Italia Handbooks 5. Teddington (Middlesex), UK: Italy and Colonies Study Circle, 2008. [HE6185.I83 P364 2008]
  • Paolo Vaccari, ed. Francobolli e Storia Postale: Trattato Storico e Catalogo con Valutazioni. 12th edition, 2006-2007. Vignola (Modena), Italy: Vaccari srl, 2005. [HE6185.I8 V34 2005]

Postal Markings:

  • Alfonso Burgisser. Stato Pontificio: Bolli ed Annullamenti Postali. Florence: Olimpia, 1960. [NOT CURRENTLY HELD BY NPM]
  • Fernando Ceccarelli. Studien über die Postempel des Kirchenstaates. Vienna: Die Postmarke, 1927. [HE6185 .V3C38 1927]
  • Mario Gallenga. I bolli delle Romagne dalle Origini alla Fine del XIX Secolo. Storia Postale Italiana 1. Rome: Ars nova, 1968. [HE6185 .I72R64X]
  •          . I Bolli delle Marche dalle Origini alla Fine del XIX Secolo. Storia Postale Italiana 2. Rome: Ars nova, 1972. [HE6184 .C3G35X]
  •          . I Bolli dell’Umbria e della Sabina dalle Origini alla Fine del XIX Secolo. Storia Postale Italiana 3. Rome: Ars nova, 1973. [NOT CURRENTLY HELD BY NPM]
  •          . I Bolli del Lazio dalle Origini alla Fine del XIX Secolo. Storia Postale Italiana 4. Rome: Italphil, 1976. [NOT CURRENTLY HELD BY NPM]
  •           . I Bolli di Roma dalle Origini al XX Settembre 1870. Storia Postale Italiana 5. Rome: Italphil, 1980. [HE6185 .I82G16]
  • Karl Friedrich Meyer. Disinfected Mail. Holton, KS: Gossip Printery, 1962. [HE6184
    .D56M6 1962]
  • Francesco Ramella. Catalogo degli Annullamenti dello Stato Pontificio, 1852-1870. Genoa: Ghiglione, 1946. [NOT CURRENTLY HELD BY NPM]

Postal History:

  • Alberto Barcella et al. États Pontificaux/Papal States/Stato Pontificio: 1852-1870. Principauté de Monaco: Musée des Timbres et des Monnaies, 2006. [HE6185.I83 P36 2006]
  • Mario Mentaschi and Thomas Mathà. Letter Mail from and to the Old Italian States, 1850-1870. History Through Documents 23. Vignola (Modena), Italy: Vaccari srl, 2008. [HE6185.I8 M46 2008]
  • Susan and Stephen Luster. “Papal States Postal Rate Revision of 1844: Part 1.” Mare Nostrum 15 (Spring 1985). [HE6187 .M323]
  •          . “Papal States Postal Rate Revision of 1844: Part 2” Mare Nostrum 16 (Spring 1987). [HE6187 .M323]

Journals:

  • Fil-Italia. [NOT CURRENTLY HELD BY NPM]
  • Vaccari Magazine. [HE6009.I85 V33]
  • Vatican Notes. [HE6183 .C34V34]