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British Mandate in Palestine and Early Zionism: Documents, Reports, Narratives
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1 DAS ARBEITENDE EREZ JISRAEL: EIN SAMMELBUCH. HÄSSLEHOLM, Hechaluz I Sverige, 1946.
Royal octavo. Pp. 164. With full-page halftone photographic plates. Printed throughout on quality paper. Glossary. Original illustrated wrappers. In about fine condition (short nicks to wraps fore edges.) Overall a bright copy.
First edition. Published for internal use, not for sale.
€ 95 --
2 DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE PALESTINE PROBLEM. LONDON, The Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1945.Octavo. Pp. 96. Plus a folding lithographed map of Palestine, printed in 4 colours, verso with “Facts and Figures Concerning the Palestine Land Transfers Regulations”. Upper wrapper gone, lower wrapper just holding. Interior well preserved.
- - First edition. Deals with subjects such as Balfour declaration and the mandate, Arabs and Jewish national home, Zionist policy towards Arabs, the White Papers, American policy on Palestine, Zionist statements. The handsome map illustrates the Land Transfers Regulations of February 1940. The majority of Palestine was still prohibited for land purchase by Jews. TO THIS IS ADDED: Single-leaf, printed on both sides, reprinted from The New Judaea, entitled “Jewish Agency’s Reply to [the British Foreign Secretary] Mr. Bevin’s Statement.”
€ 85 --
3 GREAT BRITAIN AND PALESTINE, 1915-1945. Information Papers No. 20. London, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1946.8vo. Pp. 177. Plus folding map of Israel and a single-page map of Israel and Syria; footnotes, bibliography, 7 appendices. Original beige wrappers, printed in green. Very good condition. (Light soiling to wraps.) Internally bright. Excellent copy.
Third, revised and expanded edition with new material added. The first and second editions covered the period from 1915 to 1936 and 1939 respectively. This edition describes the situation in Palestine down to the Statement of Policy by the British Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons on November 13th, 1945. Covers issues such as the significance of Palestine, the wartime promises to Jews and Arabs, the land settlement controversy, immigration, economic conditions, the Arab rebellion, and the working of the British Mandate through all these years.
€ 25 --
4 GREAT BRITAIN, Palestine and the Jews: Jewry’s Celebration of its National Charter. London, The Zionist Organisation, 1918.8vo. Pp. iv, 59. Gathered signatures stapled as issued. In fine condition internally. (Wraps gone; staples rusted.)
First edition. With the text of the letter to Lord Rothschild in which Arthur Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, declared the sympathy of the British Government with Zionist aspirations and its favourable attitude towards the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish people. This small publication intended to give a summary of the reactions in world Jewry, land by land, in honour of the declaration which “constitutes the greatest event in the history of the Jews since their dispersion”.
€ 95 --
5 JEWISH VILLAGES IN ISRAEL. [ATLAS AND GAZETTEER]. JERUSALEM, Jewish National Fund, 1949.Crown 8vo. Pp. xxiv, 191. Plus map section of 10 maps, printed in 2 colours on both sides of 5 sheets (4 of which extending), and a single-page Key to Symbols, all printed on heavy paper bound at rear; index. With an introduction, facts and figures, glossary, and list of towns and cities. Printed, uncommonly, on a watermark paper. With an insert of additional names. Original stiff wrappers, lettered in black. In a very good condition. (Some yellowing to wraps, small chip to head of lower cover close to spine, some light pencil marking to upper cover.) An excellent copy, bright and clean, with all maps present and well preserved.
The book, which lists 373 Jewish villages in Israel is a revised edition of the mimeographed pamphlet published in 1948 while Jerusalem was under siege. The present edition has been brought up to date until the end of March, 1949. Each entry provides schematically general information such as type of settlement, area, population, and date of establishment, but goes further to provide historical background of the settlers, the settlement in relation to the region and the war, current occupation, and more. Published during a state of emergency, the publishers, Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) withheld certain details relating to the settlements described. These omissions include the exact location of new villages. For security reasons population figures have been given only as at the end of 1947. Final names of a number of new villages were still to be determined, and in those cases provisional names have been listed. A remarkable undertaking in a most unlikely period, and a great witness to the settlement activities of the JNF during the early days of the State of Israel. Scarce. ADDED: a small map, in colour, identifying 130 new villages established from January 1948 till October 1949.
€ 75 --
6 PALESTINE ROYAL COMMISSION REPORT. LONDON, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1937.Royal 8vo. Pp. 404. Plus one folding colour map bound in the text, and 8 folding maps, printed in two- and three colours, bound at end. Tables, appendices. His Majesty’s Government seal to upper cover and title. Original wrappers, title printed on both covers. Very good condition. (Neat paper repair to verso of one map; ownership signature to title.) Fine and very clean copy, with a nice set of maps.
First edition. Command Paper 5479, presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. The Committee was appointed to ascertain the causes of the disturbances which broke out in Palestine in April, 1936. A fascinating reading into one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the Land of Israel during the British Mandate.
€ 125 --
7 REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON THE PALESTINE DISTURBANCES OF AUGUST, 1929. AND: The Jewish Agency for Palestine Memorandum on the Report. London, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1930.Royal 8vo. Pp. 202. Plus 3 folding maps (one coloured lithograph, one printed in two colours) bound in the text, 4 graphs printed in two colours bound at end. Frontispiece folding map. Tables, appendices. His Majesty’s Government seal to upper cover and title. Original printed wrappers, punched through upper cover and margin of consecutive 9 leaves and 2 folding maps, with removable blue cotton string threaded through. Good condition. (Paper repair to verso of one map; single stain from rusted staples to each cover.) Else, nice and very clean copy.
First edition. Command Paper 3530, presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. It includes a detailed narrative of the events, the difficulties inherent in the Mandate, defence and security, analysis of the causes of the outbreak of violence, and conclusions. Scarce historical document and a fascinating reading into the early days of the Land of Israel. ADDED: The Jewish Agency for Palestine “Memorandum on the ‘report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929,’” London, 1930. (Original lettered wrappers, pp. 112, with side notes). Submitted to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, the Memorandum’s purpose was to subject the Report to a critical analysis. It provides such analysis on the nature and causes of the disturbances, and tries to give an answer to the question of premeditation. It questions the refusal to arm Jews and the decision to disarm Jewish Special Constables and to remove sealed armouries from Jewish colonies particularly at times when they were most needed. Important historical document in a very good condition, in a scarce combination with the main Report.
€ 100 --
8 SUPPLEMENT TO SURVEY OF PALESTINE: NOTES COMPILED FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PALESTINE. JERUSALEM, Government Printer, 1947.Royal 8vo. Pp. 154. His Majesty’s Government seal to upper cover and title. Original printed wrappers. Very good condition. (Upper wrap bit soiled, stained.) Internally very clean.
First edition. The Survey of Palestine was prepared in 1946 and presented to the Government of Palestine and the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. In June 1947, this Supplement was prepared in order to bring up-to-date some of the information contained in the Survey. It provides details about population, immigration, land legislation, settlement, agriculture and forestry, economy, law and order, urban planning, religious affairs, and political parties.
€ 56 --
9 A SURVEY OF PALESTINE. PREPARED IN DECEMBER 1945 AND JANUARY 1946 FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY. VOLUMES I-II. AND: SUPPLEMENT TO SURVEY OF PALESTINE: NOTES COMPILED FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PALESTINE, June 1947. [THREE VOLUMES]. Washington, Institute for Palestine Studies, 1991.3 volumes. BRAND NEW. Virgin copies, not yet traded. Royal octavo. Pp. vi, 534; v, 535-1139; 153. Numerous tables, appendices, index. Hardcover, uniformly bound in navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jackets. Excellent set.
Reprint of the 1946 (1947) edition. The 2-volume compendium “Survey of Palestine” was prepared for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, dispatched to Palestine by Prime Minster Atlee and President Truman, in 1946. The “Supplement”, designed to update, was issued a year later for the use of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). Long out of print, this edition reprints the complete texts verbatim. Handsome set, scarce in its completion. ISBN:#0887282113 ISBN:#0887282148 ISBN:#0887282164
€ 155 --
10 ANDREWS, Fannie Fern. The Holy Land under Mandate. Volumes I-II. Boston, Mifflin, 1931.Two volumes. 8vo. Pp. xvii, 361, plus 16 halftone plates; xii, 436, plus 12 halftone plates, folding map in rear pocket. Frontispiece to each volume. Footnotes, index, appendix, bibliography. Hardcover, original green cloth. Both volumes partly unopened. In fine condition. Save for a small punched hole to lower board of first volume, an excellent set, practically unused.
First edition. A thorough study, based on first hand experience, of the historical, social, and political aspects of the British Mandate in Palestine and early Zionism.
€ 135 --
11 ASSAF, Michael. Die arabische nationale Bewegung in Palästina [Palaestina]: Ursprung und gestaltung. [Beilage zum Zionistischen Bulletin “Taamula”]. Prague, Zionistische Propagandastelle, 1936.8vo. Pp. 68. Letterpress device in Hebrew to half title. Original orange wrappers, lettered in black. Very good condition. (Wraps bit creased along extremities.)
First edition. Translated from the Hebrew manuscript by Dov Biegun. A collection of five essays, published as a supplement to the Zionist Bulletin “Taamula” (Propaganda).
€ 175 --
12 ASSAF, Michael. Die arabische nationale Bewegung in Palästina [Palaestina]: Ursprung und gestaltung. (Kleine Zionistische Bücherei. Beilage zum Zionistischen Bulletin “Taamula”). Prague, Zionistische Propagandastelle, 1936.Octavo. Pp. 68. Letterpress device in Hebrew to half title. Footnotes. Original orange wrappers, lettered in black. In about fine condition. (Short inscription, dated 1936.)
- - First edition. Translated from the Hebrew manuscript by Dov Biegun. A collection of five essays, published as a supplement to the Zionist Bulletin “Taamula” (Propaganda).
€ 175 --
13 AUERBACH, Elias. Pionier der Verwirklichung: Ein Arzt aus Deutschland erzählt vom Beginn der zionistischen Bewegung und seiner Niederlassung in Palästina [Palaestina] kurz nach der Jahrhundertwende. Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1969.8vo. Pp. 414. Portrait frontispiece. Index. Hardcover, original light blue cloth, spine gilt on black. In a very good condition.
First edition.
€ 26 --
14 BENARI, Nachum. Zur Geschichte der Kwuza und des Kibbuz: Eine Monographie. Berlin, Hechaluz, 1934.Crown octavo. Pp. 144. Title-page corner rather neatly replaced with a facsimile. Original pale grey wrappers, lettered in blue. In good condition.
First edition.
€ 25 --
15 BENTWICH, Norman. My 77 Years: An Account of My Life and Times, 1883-1960. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1961.8vo. Pp. 344. Index. Hardcover, original cloth, with dust-jacket (this good). Book is in a very good condition.
First edition.
€ 28 --
16 BORCHSENIUS, Poul. And it was Morning: The Story of the Jews in our Time. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1962.8vo. Pp. 218, (6) publisher’s catalogue. Plus 12 plates with numerous halftone photographic illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in. With one map, index. Hardcover, original decorated red cloth, spine gilt. In fine condition.
First English edition. Translated from the Danish by Reginald Spink. With a nice collection of historic photographs, several from the Sinai Campaign.
€ 20 --
17 BUBER, Martin (foreword). Jiskor: Ein Buch des Gedenkens an gefallene Wächter und Arbeiter im Lande Israel. Berlin, Jüdischer Verlag, 1918.Octavo. Pp. 223. With a line-drawn portrait of each of the fallen. With index containing words in Hebrew, spelled phonetically next to the original type, and explained. Appendices. Hardcover, original paper-covered boards, printed in red and black, Star of David to spine, this worn; foxed, edges spotted. Overall a clean, good copy though not very attractive.
- - First, illustrated German edition, translated from the Hebrew. Commemorating the death of 14 Jewish pioneers in Palestine. With their biographies, words, memories of their friends, portraits.
€ 65 --
18 BUNZL, John (Editor). Israel / Palästina [Palaestina]: Klasse, Nation und Befreitung im Nahost-Konflikt. Hamburg, Junius, 1980.Octavo. Pp. 190 (2) publisher’s ads. Notes, bibliography. Original illustrated stiff wrappers, creased. In a very good condition.
First edition.
€ 20 --
19 CASPARIUS, Hans. Text by Arthur Rundt. Das Palästina-Bilder-Buch [Palaestina]. Leipzig, Tal, 1934.Royal 8vo. Pp. (2), 96, (14). With 96 full-page (helio)gravure plates. With captions in German, English, Polish, Hebrew. Hardcover, original cloth-backed beige paper-covered boards, printed in blue. In a very good condition. (Bottom corner of upper board scuffed.) Fine set of plates in excellent condition.
First edition. A beautiful gallery of images, exquisitely reproduced in delicate gravures, showing a fantastic view of Palestine. With numerous portraits, landscapes, views, and rare visual documents of early Zionist life in the Holy Land.
€ 97 --
20 COHEN, Israel. The Journal of a Jewish Traveller. London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1925.Octavo. Pp. xv, 288, (8) publisher’s ads. Plus frontispiece and 30 other halftone illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in. Endpapers illustrated with a map. Index. Hardcover, original brown cloth, spine gilt, small shelf number in neat hand. Excellent copy in fine condition.
First edition. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate pasted onto verso of front flyleaf. Set out from Palestine in Spring 1920, Cohen travelled for nine months to the Jewish communities of Australia, India, and the Far East in order to gain their support, financial mainly, for building the Jewish state in Palestine.
€ 40 --
21 COHEN, Israel (Editor). Foreword by David Wolffsohn. Zionist Work in Palestine by Various Authorities. London & Leipzig, T. Fisher Unwin, on behalf of the Zionist Central Office, 1911.12mo. Pp. xii, 208. Plus 23 halftone photographic plates, printed on different paper, including portrait frontispiece of Dr. Theodor Herzl, and one facsimile to the text. Graphs, tables, appendices. Original paper-covered card wrappers, lettered in black, with a Star of David and the word “Zion” in Hebrew. Very good condition. (Covers bit soiled; spine bit worn, lightly chipped at ends, with shelf-label in manuscript.) Overall clean, rather flawless interior.
- - First edition. Most interesting collection of essays and articles, which have been selected from the special Palestine issue of Die Welt, published in autumn 1910, and translated into English particularly for this book. The authors discuss issues such as the Jewish population of Palestine, agriculture, the University of Jerusalem, the Bezalel Institute of Art, public health, education, libraries in Palestine, women’s work, and the renaissance of the Hebrew language. The photographs bring a gallery of Zionist leaders, as well as historical images of the first major public buildings in Jewish Palestine, landscapes, plantation, one of the very early images of Herzl Street in Tel Aviv, and two rare images of early Israeli graphic design, one of a very charming bookplate and the second of a rare book cover. A valuable historical and cultural document, and a fascinating memorial to the spirit of the Zionist pioneers.
€ 225 --
22 COHEN, Israel (Editor). Foreword by David Wolffsohn. Zionist Work in Palestine by Various Authorities. New York, Judaean Publishing Company, 1912.12mo. Pp. xii, 208. Plus 23 halftone photographic plates, printed on different paper, including portrait frontispiece of Dr. Theodor Herzl, bound in, and one facsimile to the text. Graphs, tables, appendices. Original paper-covered card wrappers, lettered in black, with a Star of David and the word “Zion” in Hebrew. Very good condition. (Covers bit rubbed, soiled, lightly bent; spine bit worn and tender, lightly chipped at ends; very light dampstain to lower margin of some plates, light sporadic spotting.) Overall clean, rather flawless interior.
First edition published by the Judaean Publishing Company. Most interesting collection of essays and articles, which have been selected from the special Palestine issue of Die Welt, published in autumn 1910, and translated into English particularly for this book. The authors discuss issues such as the Jewish population of Palestine, agriculture, the University of Jerusalem, the Bezalel Institute of Art, public health, education, libraries in Palestine, women’s work, and the renaissance of the Hebrew language. The photographs bring a gallery of Zionist leaders, as well as historical images of the first major public buildings in Jewish Palestine, landscapes, plantation, one of the very early images of Herzl Street in Tel Aviv, and two rare images of early Israeli graphic design, one of a very charming bookplate and the second of a rare book cover. A valuable historical and cultural document, and a fascinating memorial to the spirit of the Zionist pioneers.
€ 225 --
23 CORCOS, Fernand. A travers la Palestine Juive [Le Sionisme au Travail]. Paris, Jouve, 1925.Crown 8vo. Pp. xxiii, (i), 302. Hardcover, contemporary brown half-cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. Very good condition. (Old institutional bookplate and stamp; pencil underlining.) Nice copy.
First edition.
€ 55 --
24 CROSSMAN, Richard. Palestine Mission: A Personal Record. London, Hamish Hamilton, (1946).8vo. Pp. 256. Appendices. Hardcover, original blue cloth. Good condition. (Cloth faded, flyleaves browned.) Internally very good and clean. With a lovely bookplate, incorporating a fox reading a book in the Centre of a Star of David.
First edition. Crossman, M.P., was a member of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry regarding the problems of European Jewry and Palestine.” Here he shares his thoughts and view regarding “a problem which has remained unsolved for nearly 2,000 years.” With extended appendices, including Terms of Reference of the Committee, the Mandate for Palestine, and the 1939 White Paper.
€ 18 --
25 CRUM, Bartley C. Behind the Silken Curtain: A Personal Account of Anglo-American Diplomacy in Palestine and the Middle East. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1947.8vo. Pp. xiv, 298. Frontispiece map. Decorated title page. Hardcover, original black cloth, lettered in gilt, spine gilt. In near fine condition. (Front flyleaf excised.) Else, an excellent copy.
First edition. Crum, a member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, appointed in December 1945 by President Truman, looks here at the Palestine question from moral and political points of view. Having spent time in Displaced Persons camps in Europe he realized that the Jewish return to Palestine is a process that should not be stopped.
€ 25 --
26 CUST, L. G. A. The Status Quo in the Holy Places. London, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1929.Royal 8vo. Pp. v, (i), 70. Plus a Corrigenda and Addendum leaf, dated March 1930, tipped-in. With 4 appendices, footnotes. Stapled as issued. Original printed wrappers. In about fine condition. (Small chip to upper wrap and title-page at tail corner.)
First edition. A confidential document, printed for the Government of Palestine. Cust, formerly District Officer of Jerusalem, examines the origins and history of the status quo at the Holy Places, and gives a detailed account of the situation in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Sanctuary of the Ascension, the Tomb of the Virgin at Gethsemane, the Church of the Nativity, the Wailing Wall, and Rachel’s Tomb. In an annex, Abdulla Effendi Kardus, formerly District Officer of Bethlehem, gives an account of the status quo in the church of the Nativity. Very rare.
€ 475 --
27 (GOVERNMENT OF PALESTINE). GOVERNMENT OF PALESTINE: SUPPLEMENTARY MEMORANDUM BY THE GOVERNMENT OF PALESTINE, including Notes on Evidence given to the United Nations’ Special Committee on Palestine up to the 12th July, 1947. Jerusalem, Government Printer, 1947.Royal octavo. Pp. 60. Original printed green wrappers, spine bit sunned. In a near fine condition. Excellent copy.
- - First edition. With a chronological historical summary of the principal political events in Palestine since 1st January, 1946. With a note on the cost of lawlessness in Palestine, a note on Education, and two other chapters whose purpose is “to correct some of the mis-statements made to the Committee.” Scarce.
€ 325 --
28 HANOCH, G. Die Jüdische Stadt Tel Aviv. Jerusalem, Keren Hajessod, 1932.Royal 8vo. Pp. 32. With numerous halftone photographic plates throughout, printed in brown ink. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good condition. (Upper wrap very lightly soiled.) Very well preserved copy.
First edition. A celebration in words, but mostly in photographs, of the first city in Israel, Tel Aviv.
€ 40 --
29 (HECHALUZ, Deutscher Landesverband). Arbeiterinnen Erzählen: Kampf und Leben in Erez Jisrael. Berlin, Kedem, 1935.Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 323. Plus folding map bound at rear. Footnotes, glossary. Hardcover, original buckram, printed in brown. In a very good condition (faint smudge to upper cover, bit dust-soiled). Internally bright.
First edition.
€ 75 --
30 HERRMANN, Hugo. Palästina [Palaestina] heute: Licht und Schatten. Hamatarah, Tel Aviv, 1935.Small 8vo. Pp. 249, (5) advertisements. Plus folding map, printed in black and blue, and 49 halftone illustrations on numerous plates, printed on different paper, bound in. With lists of common Hebrew words and place names, spelled phonetically. Hardcover, original light grey cloth lettered in blue. In a very good condition. Nice copy.
First edition. Commemorating 15 years of work of the Palestine Foundation Fund “Keren Hayesod,” the principle financial instrument of the Jewish Agency in the upbuilding of Palestine. With a very nice collection of historical photographs, documenting the result of Zionist work in Palestine, with Tel Aviv as its crown.
€ 65 --
31 HOEFLICH, Eugen (M. J. Ben Gawriël). Die Pforte des Ostens: Das Arabisch-Juedische Palaestina [Palästina] vom panasiatischen Standpunkt aus). Berlin, Benjamin Harz, 1923.8vo. Pp. 223, (1) publisher’s ad. Footnotes. Hardcover, original decorated boards. Good condition. (Corners slightly rubbed; some loss at head of spine; endpapers very slightly spotted.) Else, sound, very clean copy.
First edition.
€ 35 --
32 HOEFLICH, Eugen (M. J. Ben Gawriël). Die Pforte des Ostens: Das Arabisch-Juedische Palaestina [Palästina] vom panasiatischen Standpunkt aus). Berlin, Benjamin Harz, 1923.Crown 8vo. Pp. 223, (1) publisher’s ad. Footnotes. Original gilt-stamped black wrappers. Good condition. (Neat repair to verso of upper wrap; bit dog-eared, spine bit faded, marked.) Else, clean copy.
First edition.
€ 25 --
33 HOLDHEIM, Gerhard. Palästina [Palaestina]: Idee, Probleme, Tatsachen. Berlin, Schwetschke, 1929.Royal octavo. Pp. 180, (11) publisher’s ads. Plus folding map bound at rear, tables; footnotes, index. Letterpress device to title. Original grey wrappers, printed in brown. Uncut and unopened. In a very good condition (wraps bit soiled). Internally fine, practically unused copy.
First edition.
€ 35 --
34 HUREWITZ, J. C. The Struggle for Palestine. New York, Schocken, 1976.Crown 8vo. Pp. ix, 404. Full-page maps. Notes, bibliography, index. Original illustrated wrappers. Very good condition. (Bit rubbed at extremities; price sticker to lower wrap.)
First published in 1950. Tells the history of British mandate over Palestine, from the time of the Balfour Declaration to the proclamation of Jewish statehood. With a new introduction by the author.
€ 21 --
35 HYAMSON, Albert M. Palestine: The Rebirth of an Ancient People. New York, Knopf, 1917.Crown octavo. Pp. xv, 299. Frontispiece. Plus 14 halftone photographic illustrations on 7 plates, printed on different paper, bound in. Bibliography, index. Hebrew citation to title. Hardcover, bound in the original dark blue cloth, lettered in red and turquoise, front flyleaf excised, some foxing. In a very good condition.
- - First edition. Here, the author claims to have written a book which has no concern with Palestine either as a religious or an archaeological centre, but instead deals with the present and the future. Front paste-down bears a small, lovely old bookseller ticket of R. Mazin & Co., London, “Publishers, Booksellers, Printers, Bookbinders, etc.” with a banner in Hebrew.
€ 30 --
36 (JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE). THE JEWISH PLAN FOR PALESTINE: MEMORANDA AND STATEMENTS, Presented by the Jewish Agency for Palestine to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1947.8vo. Pp. xiv, 559. With 33 diagrams. Original printed wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
First edition. The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine conducted its inquiry in Jerusalem in the summer of 1947. This publication contains in full the written and oral testimony submitted to the Committee by the Jewish Agency for Palestine. It includes all the memoranda and interrogation statements in their original form. A special section is devoted to the evidence of Dr. Chaim Weizmann.
€ 95 --
37 KANIEVSKY, I. Social Insurance in Palestine and its Reconstruction. Tel Aviv, The Social Insurance Committee, 1946.Royal octavo. Pp. 88. With numerous halftone photographic plates, printed on different paper. Charts, tables; summary, appendix, errata. Original decorated wrappers. In a very good condition. (Wraps bit chipped and nicked along edges.) With an attractive bookplate pasted onto verso of upper wrap, small shelf label, faint stamp of the “Ihud Olami [International Union], Palestine”. Internally bright and clean.
- - First English edition. Published by the General Federation of Jewish Labour in Palestine, this publication is an interesting survey of the work done in Palestine by the Jewish pioneers “who are reclaiming the Land of Israel.” It contains a nice collection of photographs showing the men and women at work in the fields and in the cities, in agriculture and industry, clearly with a socialist, idealist tint. Further, it brings information about health of the population, sickness rate in the malarial areas, infant mortality, and disability, as well as a survey of national health service and the care for the elderly. “Then came the Jewish pioneers,” reads the caption to one chapter of photographs. “They drained the marshes, reclaimed the soil, and transformed the Valley of Death into a Valley of Hope.”
€ 55 --
38 (LIPSKY, Louis; The American Jewish Conference). Statement Submitted to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine by the American Jewish Conference. New York, American Jewish Conference, 1947.Royal octavo. Pp. 24. Appendix. Original printed wrappers. In fine condition.
- - First edition. The American Jewish Conference on the Palestinian Question addressed the United Nations on behalf of the five million Jews living in the USA. With an appendix which details national organizations affiliated with the AJC, as of June 1, 1947. Scarce. KVK does not locate a single copy. Not in British Union Catalog, not in OLIS, nor in British Library. OCLC 6757792, locating only 4 copies worldwide (California, Boston, and Brandeis University Libraries; Cleveland Public Library).
€ 220 --
39 LÜTH, Erich. Israel: Heimat für Juden und Araber. Hamburg, Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit, 1958.Crown octavo. Pp. 72. Plus 8 plates with 16 halftone photographic illustrations printed on different paper. Original plain wrappers. In good condition.
- - First edition. With historic photographs (the building of towns, soldiers in parade, the young Moshe Dayan, industry, etc.).
€ 25 --
40 MACHOVER, J. M. Jewish State or Ghetto: Dangers of Palestine Partition. Royal Commission’s Proposals Examined. London, Anscombe, 1937.12mo. Pp. 208. Plus folding map tipped in. Footnotes, appendix. Hardcover, original pale blue cloth, spine lettered in white, with dust-jacket (this damaged). Book is in a very good condition. (Endpapers lightly spotted.)
€ 30 --
41 MAIN, Ernest. Palestine at the Crossroads. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1937.Crown 8vo. Pp. 309. (1) publisher’s ad. With one map. Appendices. Tail-piece letterpress device. Hardcover, original blue cloth. Good. (Cloth thumbed, some spotting to fore-edge, old institutional bookplate and stamp, pencil underlining.)
First edition. A thorough examination of the political situation in Palestine. With extended documentation which includes the Feisal-Weizmann Agreement, the Balfour Declaration, and the Mandate for Palestine.
€ 28 --
42 MAINZ, Annie. Das ist Tel-Aviv! Hamburg, Leßmann, (1934).Crown octavo. Pp. 63. Collection of over 50 photographs, printed on thick paper. Original card wrappers with integral pictorial dust-jacket. In a very good condition (stamp to title-page).
- - First edition. Photographic essay, celebrating the sui generis Tel Aviv, “the most bourgeois city in Jewish Palestine,” (Maurice Samuel, “What Happened in Palestine,” 1929). Scarce. KVK lists 5 copies in Germany and one copy in Denmark (Det Kongelige Bibliotek). OCLC 274326 locates 2 copies only, in Hoover Institute on War, Revolution & Peace, and in Ohio State University.
€ 175 --
43 MEINERTZHAGEN, R. Middle East Diary, 1917-1956. London, Cresset, 1959.8vo. Pp. xi, 376. Map, chronology, index. Hardcover, original pale blue cloth, spine in rust red and gilt, with dust-jacket (this fair, chipped and dusty). Book is in a very good condition. (Private ownership stamps to blank prelims, faintly spotted; light spotting to fore-edges.)
First edition. Recounts Colonel Meinertzhagen’s long association with Palestine and Israel.
€ 79 --
44 MELITZ, Rudolf (Editor). Jeruschalajim, den... Briefe junger Menschen schildern Erez Israel. Berlin, Atid, 1936.Octavo. Pp. 158. Glossary of Hebrew words. Hardcover, original buckram. Fair. Rather unattractive copy, but internally sound and clean; complete in all respects.
- - First edition. Noted classicist Dr. Henriëtte Boas’ copy, with her bookplate. A collection of letters written by young pioneers in the Land of Israel.
€ 65 --
45 MOCH, Maurice. Preface by Justin Godart. Le mandat britannique en Palestine. [Presentation Copy]. Paris, Mechelinck, 1932.Royal 8vo. Pp. 416. With letterpress map. Footnotes, appendices, bibliography. Original grey wrappers, lettered in black. Entirely unopened. Practically unused copy in a very good condition.
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author.
€ 75 --
46 NEIL, James. Palestine Re-Peopled, or Scattered Israel’s Gathering: A Sign of the Times. London, James Nisbet, 1877.Crown 8vo. Pp. vii, 194. Appendices, indices; footnotes. Hardcover, original green cloth, lettered in gilt. Fair.
Sixth edition. “Palestine is awakening to new life, and Israel actually returning to its shores,” opens the book, which celebrates “the restoration of the Jews” as a sign that “the mystery of God is about to finish.” With interesting appendices about farming in Palestine, the scenery of the land, the Papal railway, the state of Europe and Russia. With detailed General Index and Index of Texts, which lists all passages of scripture explained or referred to in the text.
€ 25 --
47 NEWTON, Frances E. Fifty Years in Palestine. London, Coldharbour, 1948.8vo. Pp. 328. Footnotes. Hardcover, original green cloth, gilt. Excellent copy in fine condition.
First edition. Newton, Dame of Justice and Fellow of both the Royal and the American Geographical Societies, divides her book into two. The first part is her personal experiences of life and work in various places along a period of time in Palestine. The second part, The Case for the Arabs, deals with the political situation, the British Mandate and Commissions, and the question of the place of Zionism in the Middle East. A fascinating reading.
€ 82 --
48 PAASSEN, Pierre van. The Forgotten Ally. New York, Dial, 1943.8vo. Pp. 343. Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover, original maroon cloth, lettered in yellow. Very good. (Some spotting to binding and a leaf or two.)
First edition. Written in the midst of the Second World War, the author is perhaps among the first to realize that the destruction of European Jewry is a calulated attempt at a final solution of the Jewish problem.
€ 15 --
49 PREUSS, Walter. Die jüdische Arbeiterbewegung in Palästina. Volume II: Das Werk der organisierten Arbeiterschaft und seine Problematik. Berlin, Hechaluz, 1933.Small octavo. Pp. (iv), 159. Footnotes; tables. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition. (Wrappers marked, repaired; small marginal stain to few leaves.)
First edition. After receiving his doctorate in economics, Preuss left Europe to established and to head the statistical department of the Histadrut in Israel.
€ 35 --
50 REVUSKY, A. Jews in Palestine. London, King, 1935.Octavo. Pp. xvi, 390. Frontispiece map. With numerous halftone illustrations, printed on different paper. Footnotes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, original blue cloth, spine gilt, with dust-jacket. In fine condition. Excellent copy.
First British edition. Revusky offers “The first complete description of contemporary activities and developments in Palestine, and a clear and interesting panorama of the various phases of Jewish work there.” A fine copy of this rare edition.
€ 40 --
51 RUPPIN, Arthur. Die landwirtschaftliche Kolonisation der Zionistischen Organisation in Palästina [Palaestina]. Berlin, Aufbau, 1925.Royal 8vo. Pp. 206. Tables, footnotes, appendices. Hardcover, cloth-backed boards with original cover and spine laid down. Fair. (Covers water-stained, slightly bent, prelims and last leaves spotted, marginal spotting throughout; stamp in Hebrew to title.) Not glamorous but solid, complete reading copy.
First edition. The Agricultural Colonization of the Zionist Organization in Palestine.
€ 30 --
52 RUPPIN, Arthur. Three Decades of Palestine: Speeches and Papers on the Upbuilding of the Jewish National Home [Autograph Copy]. Jerusalem, Schocken, 1936.8vo. Pp. xiv, 342. Plus mounted portrait of the author, and three maps, one of which folding, printed on semitransparent paper, mounted at rear as issued, with gazetteer. Glossary, index. Hardcover, original dark blue cloth, spine gilt. In fine condition. (Traces of rust from a paper clip to blank prelims.) Excellent copy, fresh and bright, with a crisp set of maps, practically unused.
Autograph copy, signed “A. Ruppin, Jerusalem 7th June 1938” on front flyleaf. First edition. ADDED: “Catalogue of Autographed Books for Sale, Palestine Exhibition and Fair, in Aid of the Jewish National Fund, Queen’s Hall, 21st, 22nd & 23rd June, 1938.” The catalogue lists this copy, which the author signed just a fortnight earlier, apparently as an item for the Autographed Book Auction. The fair, chaired by Lord Rothschild, promised to “serve the purpose of raising money for the Jewish National Fund.” Rare.
€ 125 --
53 RUPPIN, Dr. Arthur. Der Aufbau des Landes Israel: Ziele und Wege jüdischer Siedlungsarbeit in Palästina [Palaestina]. Berlin, Jüdischer Verlag, 1919.8vo. Pp. 311. Ribbon marker. Hardcover, original decorated green boards, printed in red and black. Near fine condition. (Spine bit faded, neat old signature to blank prelim.) Very neat copy.
First edition. By one of the founding fathers of the Zionist Movement.
€ 45 --
54 SAMUEL, Edwin (Second Viscount). A Lifetime in Jerusalem: The Memoirs of the Second Viscount Samuel. London, Valentine, Mitchell, 1970.8vo. Pp. xi, 335. Plus a number of halftone illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in. Index. Hardcover, original brown cloth, spine gilt, with dust-jacket (this very good, rubbed). Book is in fine condition. Fresh copy. Excellent.
First edition.
€ 25 --
55 SAMUEL, Horace B. Unholy Memories of the Holy Land. London, Hogarth, 1930.8vo. Pp. vii, 314. Plus frontispiece, tissue guard. Hardcover, original . Very good condition. (Old institutional bookplate, stamp; spotting to prelims, to edges, and last leaves; some pencil underlining and marginalia.) Nice copy.
First edition. Samuel arrived in Palestine in 1918 as a soldier in the Jewish Regiment, served later as a British military judge, and became a lawyer. Here he deals with history and politics, the courts of the Holy land, religion, social life, etc. In a supplement he gives his view of the 1929 riots and their aftermath. An important reading into the political scene of the early days of Zionism and Jewish Palestine.
€ 45 --
56 SAMUEL, Maurice. Harvest in the Desert. New York, Knopf, 1945.Octavo. Pp. 316. Hardcover, original decorated pale blue cloth. Very good condition. (Spine bit sunned, small signature to title.) Very neat copy.
Tells the story of early Zionism.
€ 20 --
57 SAMUEL, Maurice. What Happened in Palestine: The Events of August 1929, their Background and their Significance. Boston, Stratford, 1929.Crown 8vo. Pp. 222. Hardcover, original blue cloth, lettered in white. Very good condition.
First edition, 4th printing. An eyewitness account to the “disturbances” of August 1929, published shortly afterwards.
€ 30 --
58 SCHÄCHTER, Edmund. Kampf um Zion: Die Freiheitsbewegung Israels und der Völker. Wien, Glanz, 1938.Royal octavo. Pp. 208. Hardcover, original wine red limp boards, gilt stamped, spine gilt, with dust-jacket (this chipped, soiled). Book in a very good condition. (Boards slightly bent.)
First edition. Scarce.
€ 45 --
59 SCHECHTMANN, Josef. Transjordanien im Bereiche des Palästinamandates [Palaestinamandates]. Wien, Glanz, n.d.Octavo. Pp. 275. With 16 maps and illustrations. Footnotes, tables, appendix, bibliography, glossary. Original wrappers with integral illustrated dust-jacket. Very good condition.
First edition. Scarce.
€ 55 --
60 (SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, by Command of His Majesty). Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry regarding the problems of European Jewry and Palestine, Lausanne, 20th April, 1946. London, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1946.Royal 8vo. Pp. 80. Appendices, tables. His Majesty’s Government seal to upper cover and title. Hardcover, cloth-backed boards with original printed wrappers laid-down. Excellent ex-lib copy in fine condition. (Old stamp, pocket.)
First edition of this important document. The Committee was appointed by the Governments of the United States and of the United Kingdom to examine political, economic, and social conditions in Palestine in view of the position of the Jews in Nazi Europe, while considering the possible consequences of Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine on the “well-being of the peoples already living therein”.
€ 95 --
61 (SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, by Command of His Majesty). Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry regarding the problems of European Jewry and Palestine, Lausanne, 20th April, 1946 (Miscellaneous No. 8). London, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1946.Royal octavo. Pp. 80. Appendices, tables. Original printed wrappers with His Majesty’s Government seal to upper wrap, repeated on title. In fine condition. A very well-preserved copy.
- - First edition of this important document. The Committee was appointed by the Governments of the United States and of the United Kingdom to examine political, economic, and social conditions in Palestine in view of the position of the Jews in Nazi Europe, while considering the possible consequences of Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine on the “well-being of the peoples already living therein”.
€ 60 --
62 SEIDEL, Hans-Joachim. Der britische Mandatstaat Palestina im Rahmen der Weltwirtschaft. Berlin, de Gruyter, 1926.8vo. Pp. 136. Original grey wrappers, printed in black. Partly unopened. Very good condition.
First edition.
€ 23 --
63 SERENI, Enzo, and R. E. Ashery (Editors). Jews and Arabs in Palestine: Studies in a National and Colonial Problem. New York, Hechalutz Press, 1936.8vo. Pp. 101, 315. Bibliography, glossary. With errata slip tipped-in. Hardcover, original pale grey cloth, printed in red. Very good condition. (Spine faded, cloth bit marked, stain to 3-4 leaves.)
First edition. Opens with historical survey, this collection of essays is divided into Studies in Fact, and Studies in Interpretation. The first part deals with the economic and social background and structure of Arab Palestine, and the Jewish immigration and the consequence land development. The second part covers issues such as politics, Zionist foreign policy, Jewish unions and Arab labour, and the question, still actual almost 70 years later: Is Zionism Imperialistic? Includes essays by key figures in the Zionist Movement, among them Arlosoroff, Beilinson, Ben-Gurion, Hazan, and Katznelson.
€ 50 --
64 SHAREF, Zeev. Three Days: An Account of the Last Days of the British Mandate and the Birth of Israel. London, Allen, 1962.8vo. Pp. 298. Hardcover, original light blue, spine gilt, with illustrated dust-jacket (this considerably chipped along flap folds). Book is in a very good condition. (Top edge dusty and lightly stained.) Else, bright copy.
First British edition. Translated from the Hebrew by Julian Louis Meltzer. A documented account on a state in the process of creation, May 12-14, 1948.
€ 20 --
65 [SHAW, Sir Walter Sidney]. (Secretary of State for the Colonies). Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August, 1929. Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty, March, 1930. [Douglas V. Duff’s Copy]. London, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1930.Royal octavo. Pp. 202. Plus 4 folding maps (of which one is a coloured lithograph by Malby, one printed in two colours) and 4 graphs (printed in two colours). Tables, appendices. Original printed wrappers with His Majesty’s Government seal on upper wrap, repeated on title. In a very good internal condition. (Upper wrap chipped and loose, lower wrap gone, 2 last leave loose.) Else, good and clean copy.
- - First edition. Douglas V. Duff’s copy, with a manuscript leaf of his book “Sword for Hire” loosely inserted. Commander Douglas Valder Duff (1901-1978) joined the Palestine Police in 1922, after serving with the Royal Irish Constabulary, and became the commander of the Jerusalem police force. He wrote some 100 books in his lifetime, drawing heavily on his experiences. During the 1930’s his focus was very much on Palestine, describing the people and the places that he had come to know so well. The manuscript is machine-typed on thin paper. It is titled: “Sword for Hire, by Douglas V. Duff. Copy.” Tension regarding the question of the status quo in the holy places escalated and the ensuing violence resulted on August 1929 in riots, with hundreds of casualties on both Arab and Jewish sides. The British sent in a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the cause of the “disturbances”. The Commission, headed by Sir Walter Shaw, former Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements, arrived in Palestine in October that same year and remained there for two months. Shaw’s Report was shortly thereafter presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the British Parliament. It contains a detailed narrative of the events of August 1929; the difficulties inherent in the Mandate, defence and security; analysis of the causes of the outbreak of violence, and conclusions. A scarce historical document with a most interesting provenance.
€ 250 --
66 SIMPSON, Sir John Hope. Palestine: Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development [Text Volume]. AND: Appendix Containing Maps [Map Volume]. London, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1930.Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. Text Volume: 185, plus folding graph-sheet bound at rear, 23 appendices. Map Volume: (2), with five large folding maps (four of which in colour) loosely inserted in end-pocket as issued. Original printed card wrappers. In a very good condition. (Neat ownership signature on cover, complimentary slip of His Britannic Majesty’s Minister, The Hague, mounted inside; rust stain to title-page; map volume’s covers slightly worn, discoloured; largest maps with short splits at folds’ cross-sections, other three maps flawless.)
First edition, presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. Rare complete set of both text and map volumes. The two large maps, each measuring ca. 128 x 59 cm, are printed with the additional colours of green and red (Map No. 1), and blue, green, brown, yellow (Map No. 6). Two of the three smaller maps are also printed with additional colours. Exceedingly scarce.
€ 240 --
67 SLEKOW, Ria. Flammen in Palästina [Palaestina]: Eine Urenkelin der Katharina von Bora zwischen Arabern und Juden. Haag, Van Stockum, 1936.Crown 8vo. Pp. viii, 178. Plus a number of halftone illustrations, printed on different paper, bound in. Hardcover, original pale yellow boards, printed in green, embossed endpapers, with dust-jacket (this defective). Book is in a very good condition. (Small rust stain to fore-edge of few consecutive leaves.)
First edition.
€ 35 --
68 SOSKIN, S. E., et al. Erez Israel. Mitteilungen des Hauptbüros des Jüdischen Nationalfonds. Heft 4. Berlin, Jüdischer Verlag, 1920.Royal octavo. Pp. 140. Plus 9 photo-plates, some of which are full-page, printed on fine paper bound-in. Footnotes. Original ochre wrappers printed with contents and publisher’s catalogue. In a very good condition. Nice copy.
- - First edition. A detailed report of the Jewish National Fund. With nice photographs, not published elsewhere. Pictures of tree-planting on sand dunes, with infant Eucalyptus just planted, groves, etc., and a picture of the grave of the pioneer Josef Bussel of Dagania, on the shore of Kineret, who drowned at the 11th year to his immigration to Eretz Israel. Uncommon; OCLC lists a few copies of the 1916 report, published by Löwit, The Hague, but does not record a single copy of this current report.
€ 75 --
69 STEWART, Basil. The Restoration of Palestine: An Account of the forthcoming changes, political and physical, in Palestine as foretold by Ezekiel, the preliminary stages of which being fulfilled to-day. London, Covenant, 1930.8vo. Pp. x, 62. With two full-page plans; footnotes. Hardcover, original purple cloth, spine gilt. Very good condition. (Old signature to front paste-down made illegible, endpapers bit tanned, spotting to first- and last leaves, brown patch to gutter margin of 2 leaves caused by a paper marker, short clean tear to fore-edge of one leaf.)
First edition. A fascinating study of Ezekiel’s vision of the valley of the dry bones in light of the return of the Jews to Palestine.
€ 45 --
70 SURVEY OF ISRAEL; STATE OF ISRAEL, Public Works Department. State of Israel: Tosefet le’shnaton ha’memshala [leshnaton hamemshala]. [Supplement to the Government Annual Report]. [MAP CARTA CARTE KAART KARTE MAPA]. Jerusalem, Survey of Israel; State of Israel, Public Works Department; Government Printer, 1950.The Supplement contains: I. Large colour lithograph map of Southern Israel, printed in Hebrew, measuring 100 x 65cm, scale 1:250,000; II. Road Map of Israel, measuring 60 x 45cm, scale 1:500,000, with inset at a scale of 1:750,000, printed in English; III. Same map, printed in Hebrew. In the original printed folder, bearing the Emblem of the State of Israel. In fine condition.
- - Supplement to the State of Israel’s Government Annual Report, 1950. Compiled, drawn, and printed by Survey of Israel.
€ 80 --
71 (THE COLONIAL OFFICE). REPORT BY HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT TO THE COUNCIL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF PALESTINE AND TRANS-JORDAN FOR THE YEAR 1927. LONDON, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1928.Royal octavo. Pp. 130. Original printed green wrappers, rusted staples. In a very good condition, internally fresh.
- - First edition. One of the earliest Reports on Palestine issued by the Colonial Office, the first two being published for the years 1925 and 1926.
€ 275 --
72 UNIKOWER, Inge. Suche nach dem gelobten Land. Berlin, Nation, 1978.Octavo. Pp. 303. Plus a suite of plates printed on different paper, bound at rear, with dozens of photographs including 2 panoramic views. Hardcover, original buckram with dust-jacket. In a very good condition.
First edition.
€ 17 --
73 WEISL, Wolfgang. Der Kampf um das Heilige Land: Palästina [Palaestina] von heute. Berlin, Ullstein, 1925.8vo. Pp. 312, (3) publisher’s ads. Plus 44 halftone photographic illustrations on numerous plates, printed on different paper, bound in. With four letterpress maps, three of which full-page. Appendices. Hardcover, original beige cloth, lettered in red. Very good condition. (Cloth bit marked, edge of lower cover little damp-stained, foot of spine very slightly rubbed.) Internally fine condition, clean and bright.
First edition. Examines the political situation in Palestine, and the progress of the Jewish pioneers. With a remarkable fine set of photographs, many by Soskin, documenting many aspects of the early days of the Zionist Movement in Palestine. With fine examples of early architecture in Haifa, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, rare first views of Nahalal, Beth Alpha, and other fundamental Jewish settlements, as well as fine portraits of Herzl, Weizmann, Jabotinsky, and Herbert Samuel. With detailed statistical information, accurate to the time, in the appendices.
€ 45 --
74 WIRSING, Giselher. Engländer, Juden, Araber in Palästina [Palaestina]. Jena, Eugen Diederichs, 1938.8vo. Pp. 280. Plus frontispiece, and 11 other halftone photographic plates, printed on different paper, bound in. With six letterpress maps to the text, some full-page. Notes, index. Hardcover, original off-white cloth, lettered in green. In a very good condition. (Few marginal spots, very light pencil markings here and there.) Overall, an excellent copy.
First edition, first printing, 1st to 3rd Thousand. With a nice collection of historical portraits, many of which original.
€ 30 --
75 WIRSING, Giselher. Engländer, Juden, Araber in Palästina [Palaestina]. Jena, Eugen Diederichs, 1938.8vo. Pp. 280. Plus frontispiece, and 11 other halftone photographic plates, printed on different paper, bound in. With six letterpress maps to the text, some full-page. Notes, index. Hardcover, original off-white cloth, lettered in green. In a very good condition. (Cloth and frontispiece spotted.)
First edition, first printing, 1st to 3rd Thousand. With a nice collection of historical portraits, many of which original.
€ 30 --
76 (WOODHEAD, Sir John, et al). Palestine Partition Commission Report. London, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1938.Royal 8vo. Pp. 310. Plus 10 folding maps bound at end, and 2 folding maps loosely inserted in pocket at rear as issued, all printed in two colours. With one single-page map to the text; tables, appendices. His Majesty’s Government seal to upper cover and title. Original printed wrappers. Very good condition. (Wraps bit rubbed, lightly creased; lower cover, which holds a rather thick set of maps, has few very small nicks at tail and a neatly repaired tear. Ownership signature to title.) Fine, clean copy with exceptionally fine set of maps, crisp and practically unused.
First edition. Command Paper 5854, presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. Scarce, complete historic document, a milestone chapter in the history of the Land of Israel and its neighbours.
€ 225 --
77 WORSFOLD, W. Basil. Palestine of the Mandate. [Sir Herbert Samuel’s, the High Commissioner for Palestine, Copy]. London, Unwin, 1925.Octavo. Pp. xii, 275. Frontispiece. Plus 28 halftone and line-drawn plates, three maps, all printed on different paper, bound in. Text illustration. Footnotes, index. Hardcover, original red cloth, title embossed, spine gilt. In near fine condition. Save some spotting to fore-edge, an excellent copy.
- - First edition. Sir Herbert Samuel’s, the High Commissioner for Palestine personal copy, inscribed by the author: “To Sir Herbert and Lady Samuel with the author’s kind regards and grateful thanks. 5 May, 1925.” An account of the work of the British Administration and the Zionist Executive in Palestine. Worsfold was surprised to see how sharp the contrast between West and East is manifested in Palestine, and in this light he studies the progress of industry, agriculture, education, and health. A scarce collectible.
€ 135 --
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