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19231784971923-31. Policing Palestine An absorbing day-to-day record of British policing in Mandatory Palestine these diaries chart the volatile years from 1920 to the early 1930s offering a granular view of religious and social tensions and of Britain's often self-serving pursuit of "law and order". Major Laurence Harrington joined the Palestine Police at its inception in July 1920 rose rapidly and served mainly in Jerusalem and Jaffa. He witnessed the 1929 disturbances and later gave evidence to the Shaw Commission. His diaries consist of brief functional entries kept for official purposes with gaps when volumes were sent for inspection and frequent references to named officers and local figures. Religious violence dominates the record. Harrington repeatedly investigates killings framed explicitly in religious terms orders precautionary deployments and manages flashpoints such as Labour Day nationalist demonstrations anniversaries strikes and boycotts. He records crowd control operations armed patrols prison break-outs manhunts with shoot-to-kill authority and the tense aftermath of the 1929 riots including censorship confiscations and plain-clothes operations to suppress unrest. Alongside this the diaries document routine but hazardous police work - drug-smuggling busts raids on suspected agitators and the exposure of corrupt informants - as well as Harrington's ceremonial duties escorting senior British officials and visiting dignitaries. His proximity to power brings an active social life offset by football as a constant release. The final volume anticipates the worsening climate of the 1930s with police on continual alert for political and communal triggers. No other diaries by Harrington are known to survive making this candid administrative record an unusually fortunate and valuable witness to the mandate's daily realities. 6 vols octavo. Original quarter cloth five black one red rebacked boards lettered in black. Bindings rubbed covers with splash stains and tidemarks and labels torn away internally some foxing and finger soiling. Overall in condition commensurate with maintaining a diary on active duty: well preserved. hardcover
24766672 original photograps size 25 x 31 cm mounted on 64 heavy cardboards. Contemporary red half calf rubbed inner hinges cracked. Some foxing to cardboards. . hardcover
1940ABC_484251940. Contemporary embossed brown calf with flowers on the front and back board and an aluminium view of David's Tower and Jerusalem's old city wall embedded in the front board. Oblong album 30 x 20 cm. With 128 gelatin silver prints most ca. 6.5 x 9.5 cm. Beautiful album with 128 photographs of Egypt and Palestine present day Israel and the West Bank during the British Mandate. It was likely compiled by a British soldier who was stationed in the Middle East during the 1940s. Some of the photographs are numbered in the negative and may have been made by important photographers active in the area at the time like G. Eric Matson and his wife Edith the founders of the Matson Photo Service. The images show Cairo and various locations in Palestine including Jerusalem Bethlehem Nazareth Tiberias Sea of Galilee Nathanya Tel Aviv the Jordan river Haifa Beirut and the Dead Sea. Other than important locations like churches and gates the photographs also show many locals including for example street barbers in Cairo shepherds and farmers in Palestine and beautifully dressed women in Haifa. In the back of the work a few dried leaves from local plants have been mounted namely orange lemon fig eucalyptus grapevine and mulberry. The eucalyptus leaf still retains some of its scent.The edges and vorners of the boards are somewhat scuffed with some loss of material at the head and foot of the spine and around the edges of the embedded aluminium plate. The photographs mounted on the inside of the front board are slightly stained the fig leaf mounted on one of the final pages is damaged and the cyprus leaf is missing. Otherwise in good condition. unknown
1919ABC_47443Istanbul: Matbaa-yi Orhaniye 1919. Original publisher's orange printed paper wrappers. 8vo ca. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. With the Turkish text printed using Arabic script. First and only edition of a report about the Sinai and Palestine campaign 1915-1918 in Ottoman Turkish translation. This second half of this campaign was led by General Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby 1st Viscount Allenby 1861-1936. He commanded the Egyptian Expeditionary Force EEF then part of the British army against the Ottoman Empire in the conquest of Palestine in 1917-1918. The EEF succeeded in capturing Beersheba Jaffa and Jerusalem in late 1917 as well as the Jordan valley and Northern Palestine in 1918. The present work is a translation of Allenby's reports which cover the period between December 1917 when the British entered Jerusalem and September 1918 when General Allenby started a new campaign resulting in the capture of Damascus and Aleppo. The report begins with operations to make Jaffa and Jerusalem safe against Turkish counterattacks and continues with Allenby's succesful attacks on Jericho the Jordan Valley and As-Salt. The EEF won numerous other battles in the region before the Armistice of Mudros ended the campaign in October 1918. Allenby then became the High Commisioner in Egypt and Sudan from 1919-1925.With an inscription on the title page and on the back wrapper. With a water stain on the head margin throughout including the wrappers the spine is somewhat torn but the wrappers are still connected. Somewhat browned throughout the edges of the leaves are frayed the leaves are folded and loose in the wrappers as issued. Otherwise in good condition.l WorldCat 777059280 3 copies; Özege 5787; cf. The campaign in Palestine: General Allenby's official report of the fighting north of Jerusalem up to September 18 1818. In: Current history 1916-1940 vol. 9 1 part 2 1919 pp. 167-172. Matbaa-yi Orhaniye, unknown
1923181603London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1923 but 1924. Lines in the sand First trade edition one of 250 copies of the text of the Paulet-Newcombe Agreement including three maps delineating the newly agreed Palestine-Syrian border. The agreement was signed in March 1923 a few months before the Britain's Palestine mandate came into force. Whitehall was represented in the Anglo-French negotiations by Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart Francis Newcombe 1878-1956 a close wartime associate of Lawrence of Arabia who is cited frequently in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Newcombe was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1898 and transferred into the Egyptian Army in 1901. Shortly before the outbreak of war he travelled to southern Palestine in the company of Lawrence and Leonard Woolley to complete a secret survey for the British government - "this initial encounter with Lawrence set up a lifelong friendship between the professional soldier and the young scholar-archaeologist. Newcombe's extraordinary exploits and courage coupled with an inexhaustible supply of energy made him a legend in the desert causing the Arabs to complain that 'Newcombe is like fire he burns friend and enemy'" ODNB. In 1935 he was one of the six pallbearers at Lawrence's funeral. According to the printer's slug the agreement was first published in July 1923 in the Parliamentary Papers series. Octavo pp. 16. With 3 folding colour maps. Text in English and French. Original printed self-wrappers. Wrappers and maps repaired with archival tape rear cover chipped: very good. Khalidi & Khadduri 1648. unknown
189257643<p>PHOTOGRAPHS 1890s INCLUDING SOME OF JEWISH COLONISTS</p><p>oblong folio album 28 x 27.5 cms. 22 thick card leaves on guards on the card sides are mounted 170 original sepia tinted photographs 9.5 x 12 cms. 4 photographs per 'page' except two 'pages' at the end with 3 photographs and the last 'page' blank all photographs neatly captioned in pen bound in contemporary half black morocco spine with gilt decorated raised bands black cloth on sides front cover boldly lettered at centre 'Palestine' and at foot "M. & A. W." and 1892 or 3 final numeral defaced cloth on fore edges of both boards damp stained with loss of the final numeral of the date see below front endpapers likewise damp stained at fore edges contents otherwise very good.</p><p>The damp damage to the fore-edge of the cloth has caused the loss of the gilt on the last numeral of the date but a trace remains of the top part of the impressed numeral and from that shape it must be either a 2 or a 3.<br />This album records a visit and tour through Palestine by two English speaking persons "M & A. W" that we have not been able to identify. The photographs obviously taken by one of the party record their progress guides local people villages bedouin encampments encountered buildings horses etc. One photograph on the first page clearly shows a member of the travelling party a fairly elderly woman about to travel on a mule-borne palanguin. Another of the party in a boat about to cross the Sea of Galilee appears to show two women. Places depicted include Sebastiych in Samaria Shumem modern Sulan of which there are many views Bethel Mount Tabor region Sea of Gallilee and the River Jordan Atlit Castle Tanturah modern Tantura Calvary Mar Saba monastery views along the road to Hebron and of the Russian hospice there etc. Very many of photographs show local people encountered along the way and three photographs at Tanturah show "Jewish colonists" there. Baron Rothschild owned land there and had in 1884 a Russian Jewish farmer establish a farm there and "In 1891 Baron Rothschild financed the development of a bottle factory in Tantura as he planned to use the fine sand on the shore to manufacture glass bottles for the fledgling wine industry . A building was constructed . dozens of workers were hired and three ships were purchased to transport raw material and bottles. But he abandoned the factory in 1895 after a string of failures" wikipedia. Presumably these colonists were attached to that enterprise. A number of photographs include Abraham Lyons their dragoman translator and guide the only person actually here identified by name. Lyons is recorded as a Jerusalem based dragoman in Baedeker's <em>Palestine and Syria Handbook for Travellers</em> 1867 and in "Letter from Jerusalem" in <em>The Rockland Co Journal</em> vol.xxxiii May 1883 "dragoman Lyons" is described as a "Christian Israelite".<br />The photographs are in good condition with only a few faded.</p> hardcover
1933LBEG60X1NJ1QLondon: His Majesty's Stationary Office 1933. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 4to in 16s. With two folding maps showing parts of the Palestine territory that had been surveyed in detail. Detailed report to the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations regarding the British controlled Mandate of Palestine. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I the Empires territories in the Middle East were divided between Great-Britain and France with the exception of the newly created Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and ruled as mandates on behalf of the League of Nations. The Mandate of Palestine was one of the territories governed by Great-Britain on behalf of the League of Nations and the British government had to produce an annual report of the territorys government for the League of Nations. The first proper report was produced in 1924 and they were produced every year thereafter until 1938. The reports contain extensive information on the region at that specific period describing the economy politics judicial system public health technological works and religious matters. The growing unrest in the Arab population and its strife for independence which would lead to the 1936-1939 revolt against British rule is already clearly visible in the report.In very good condition. Binding slightly worn and with a few folds.l National voices in Jordan: the street and the state p. 247. His Majesty's Stationary Office, unknown
1940228911940. An early Zionist cigarette card photo album during the British Mandate period documenting Jewish paramilitary forces settlement defense athletics and infrastructure development in Mandatory Palestine likely produced in the 1930s-1940s as an educational and propaganda tool. The images illustrate the development of defense forces collective agricultural settlements and youth training movements that formed the institutional foundation of Jewish state building in the region.<br /> <br /> British Mandatory Palestine c. 1940s. 200 black-and-white silver gelatin photographic cigarette cards mounted in original printed album with Hebrew captions and descriptions. Folio. Original illustrated stiff wraps featuring a soldier in a sun helmet scanning the horizon rifle slung over his shoulder. A rare Zionist cigarette card photo album documenting the military security and athletic institutions of the Yishuv the Jewish community in pre-state Palestine during the British Mandate period. The album serves as both propaganda and educational material designed to instill national pride and discipline among the Jewish population particularly youth involved in the Haganah the Palmach and other proto-military defense organizations. The imagery and text emphasize the dual ethos of physical preparedness and self-defense alongside agricultural labor and nation-building. The album consists of photographic cigarette cards depicting key aspects of Zionist security forces settlement defense and sporting achievements in Mandate Palestine. The first sections focus on military training featuring members of the Jewish Settlement Police Notrim Jewish auxiliary police under the British and early paramilitary forces. Uniformed men in sun helmets keffiyehs or British-style caps are shown patrolling rural roads manning watchtowers practicing marksmanship and training in hand-to-hand combat. The inclusion of women in certain images suggests their role in auxiliary units foreshadowing the integration of women in the Israeli military. Several images capture women in agricultural labor construction and fishing industries highlighting their integral role in building and sustaining early Jewish settlements particularly within the kibbutz movement. Additionally photographs of women in aviation training including piloting gliders showcase early efforts to integrate them into technical and military fields.<br /> <br /> A later section transitions into the "Wall and Tower" Homa U'Migdal settlements-strategically built fortified agricultural outposts constructed overnight to establish a Jewish presence in contested areas. Photographs show men and women erecting wooden watchtowers carrying supplies and working cooperatively to secure land under hostile conditions. These images capture the pioneering spirit of the Yishuv where defense and agriculture were inseparable components of state-building. The final third of the album focuses on athletics reflecting the Zionist ideal of the "New Jew"-physically strong self-sufficient and ready to defend the homeland. Included are images of Jewish sports leagues fencing boxing wrestling weightlifting and track and field with a notable photograph of a female athlete wearing a "Ramah" Maccabi shirt symbolizing Jewish participation in international sports and the Maccabiah Games. The album also features aviation imagery including early Jewish pilots training in gliders an essential precursor to the formation of the Israeli Air Force.<br /> <br /> Covers show mild wear with minor foxing and wear to spine. Interior pages exhibit mild creasing to margins pages and photographs clean. Some cigarette cards are slightly lifting at the edges but all appear present. Overall very good condition. A visually rich artifact of Zionist history this cigarette card album offers rare photographic documentation of Jewish military organization settlement defense and athletic prowess during a crucial period leading to Israeli statehood. Complete or near-complete examples of such albums are scarce and highly sought after. unknown
1930188559Jerusalem: Matba'at D r al-ayt m al-S r yah 1930. The Hope Simpson Report First Arabic edition of Sir John Hope Simpson's groundbreaking report with only two other copies traced at the American University of Beirut and the National Library of Israel. It was published in the same year as the English edition. After a successful career as a diplomat and politician Simpson 1868-1961 was sent to the British Mandate of Palestine subsequent to the 1929 riots to chair a British commission addressing Jewish land settlement and Zionist policies. The report discusses Palestine's natural conformation and climate the impact of Jewish land ownership on the economy and the resulting widespread unemployment among the Arab population which was a cause of unrest. It also addresses demographic changes and public health services including anti-malaria prophylaxis as well as irrigation projects the types of land and its ownership present in Palestine and legislation concerning Bedouin land rights. A pivotal observation is the economic imbalance between the Jewish settlers and the Arab population. The report concludes that "there is at the present time and with the present methods of Arab cultivation no margin of land available for agricultural settlement" and that "it is impossible to give. a reliable estimate of the number of families who could be accommodated in Palestine if the whole country were adequately developed". Quarto. Original blue wrappers wire-stitched as issued. Corners a little bumped spine creased front cover sunned with couple of ink drops and marks towards outer margin contents toned but clean: a very good copy. unknown
1947ABC_48432London: printed by the Printing and Stationery Services M. E. F. 1947. Original printed orange/brown paper wrappers. 8vo. With one folding map and four folding tables. Rare military guide to Palestine issued by the British military intelligence for use during the British Mandate. The present copy was stamped by the 1st Batallion Irish guards which was stationed in Palestine after the Second World War to perform internal security duties there. The work offers a description of the history government population topography water resources railways climate health and trade of the country. Also included are a folding map of the Palestinian railways and four folding tables with graphs about the weather. The first edition of the handbook was issued in April 1944. The present copy is the third and final edition which was revised and brought up-to-date with the situation in May 1947. As the handbook was "restricted" and therefore likely published in limited numbers any edition of it is very rare. We have only been able to find one other copy in sales records of the past hundred years and WorldCat only records two copies in libraries.With a blue stamp at the head of the front wrapper "Captain education officer 1st Battalion Irish Guards" and again at the foot of the first page. The edges and corners of the wrappers are somewhat scuffed. The leaves are slighty creased throughout with brown stains on pp. 7-13 and 31 slightly affecting the text. Otherwise in good condition.l Jisc 1 copy; WorldCat 1114861975 2 copies. printed by the Printing and Stationery Services, M. E. F., unknown
170448770Amsterdam Franciscus Halma 1704. Folio. 455 x 29 cm. Contemp. full blindtooled Dutch vellum. Raised bands. Spine ends with tears some cracking along fronthinge but not loose. Vellum at frontcover a bit soiled. Egraved titlepage Coxis del. ianen fecit. Printed titlepage in red/black with an engraved vignette. 15119511 pp. 1 engraved plate with portrait and coat of arms. 4 large folded engraved maps. Light yellowing to margins of textleaves but maps and text fine and clean. 3 of the maps engraved by F. Halma. <br/><br/><em>The maps are the Francois Halma reissues of Sanson's maps from 1683. </em> hardcover
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1930213451930. Dubek Cigarettes photographic album of British Mandatory Palestine produced in the 1930s-1940s documents the development of Jewish agricultural settlements industry security organizations and cultural institutions within the Yishuv during the late Mandate period. The album presents a visual narrative of Zionist nation building through images of collective agricultural labor industrial production settlement construction and educational life. Such imagery circulated widely in the interwar and wartime decades as part of broader efforts to promote Jewish settlement in Palestine and to demonstrate the institutional capacity of the Yishuv to sustain a modern society. The photographs therefore document a formative phase in the development of Jewish communal infrastructure and social organization prior to the establishment of the State of Israel.<br /> <br /> Dubek Cigarettes. Album of British Mandatory Palestine. Palestine: Dubek Cigarettes circa 1930s-1940s. Hebrew language cigarette card album containing 200 black and white photographic cards mounted within printed pages accompanied by Hebrew captions and descriptions. The photographs depict agricultural labor associated with kibbutz communities including images of women harvesting crops working in fisheries and participating in factory production. Additional cards document industrial development such as textile production citrus agriculture and export and cigarette manufacturing. Several sections show security and defense activity including Jewish guards patrols and fortified settlements associated with protective measures adopted by Jewish communities during the Mandate period. Other photographs highlight infrastructure including bridges roads water towers and public buildings along with educational and cultural institutions such as libraries schools and youth activities. Scenes of public gatherings and celebrations further emphasize the formation of communal identity within the Jewish population of Palestine.<br /> <br /> During the final decades of British administration in Palestine Jewish settlement expanded through organized agricultural collectives urban development and new infrastructure projects supported by Zionist institutions. Visual publications such as cigarette card albums functioned both as educational materials and as popular visual media presenting the progress of Jewish settlement and economic development. Images of collective labor fortified communities and modern infrastructure illustrate the practical and ideological foundations of the Yishuv's political aspirations during the Mandate era. Folio album in original illustrated stiff wrappers with string binding containing 200 mounted cigarette cards with printed Hebrew captions. Moderate wear to covers with edge rubbing toning and light soiling; interior pages show mild foxing with cards largely well preserved a few slightly lifting but present. Overall good condition. The album offers a substantial photographic record of Jewish settlement activity and institutional life in Mandatory Palestine during the decades preceding Israeli statehood. unknown
1939184044London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1939. I am empowered in the name of the Government of Great Britain to give the following assurances First edition representing the first official publication of the deeply contentious McMahon-Hussein correspondence which cast a shadow over the future of Palestine for decades. The British Government released the full letters during the St James's Palace Conference in response to mounting pressure over the precise wording of McMahon's commitments. Shortly after the release a committee was formed to examine the precise implications of the letters. It concluded that "His Majesty's Government were not free to dispose of Palestine without regard for the wishes and interests of the inhabitants of Palestine". British representatives on the committee maintained that Palestine was excluded from McMahon's commitments but agreed that "the language in which its exclusion was expressed was not so specific and unmistakable as it was thought to be at the time" p. 10. Octavo pp. 18. With colour folding map. Original printed self-wrappers wire-stitched as issued. 15 March 1939 ownership mark of Harold Meek 1922-2016 architectural historian typed at head of title page. Light toning and creasing: near-fine. unknown
1938PALESTIN010092His Majesty's Stationery Office London. 1938. First edition. Royal octavo. 310 pages. Thirteen maps the first being opposite page 53 the next ten folded and tipped in at the rear the final two folded and tipped onto rear endpaper. Originally issued in blue wrappers with the last two maps in a pocket. Recently rebound in blue cloth not retaining the original wrappers. This report was commissioned by the Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to supersede and thereby bury the Peel Report which had found the Mandate to be unworkable and had set out partition boundaries. Woodhead duly dismissed the idea of partition.Staining tea to inner margins of first 20 pages. Some creasing to edges and corners of maps. Very good. His Majesty's Stationery Office, London. hardcover
195125321<p><b>AMERCAN CHRISTIAN PALESTINE COMMITEE.</b>Scrapbook compiled by Harrison Fry Religion Editor of the Philadelphia <i>Evening Bulletin</i> one of the twenty-two tour participants. April 1951. Items glued or stapled to several pages with additional papers laid in. In green leatherette boards rules and decorations in yellow. 120 pp. 9½ x 11¾ x 1 in. </p><br /><p>The <b>American Christian Palestine Committee</b> ACPC was created in 1946 by merger of the American Palestine Committee 1931-1946 and the Christian Council on Palestine 1942-1946. Its purpose was to educate American Christian leaders about the post-Holocaust need for a Jewish state to publicize the new states' accomplishments to fight anti-Semitism and to support the country's existence. Over 20000 Christian leaders mostly Protestants were members. The ACPC sponsored seminars published educational materials created a speaker's bureau and conducted study tours taking religious leaders and journalists to Israel and adjoining Arab lands.</p><p>This scrapbook documents a trip from March 31 - April 28 1951. Its goals include making a "comprehensive study of Arab-Israel problems" including finding "suggested solutions for the resettlement of these tragic victims of the Arab-Israel War of 1948." The tour visited Israel Jordan and Lebanon and was the first ACPC group to visit to Palestinian refugee camps.</p><p>The group met Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion; Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Foreign Minister Achmed Tooqan; Rabbi Jaacov Herzog son of the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem; and American Ambassador to Israel Monnet Davis as well as other government and university officials and mayors. Early items in the scrapbook are typed copies of their itinerary including stops in Beyrouth Beirut Jerusalem Tel Aviv Haifa and Nazareth; a list of participants with their affiliations; and memoranda. It also includes airline tickets postcards hotel reservations including the King David Hotel and ephemera. Of particular interest is a printed pamphlet with basic information about the Knesset that includes Fry's notes of the group's meeting with Ben-Gurion 1886-1973. After about two weeks in the Middle East Fry also briefly visited Rome Paris and London. He used his notes for an article in the Philadelphia <i>Evening Bulletin</i>.</p><p>The scrapbook collects printed ephemera that illustrate Israel presented itself including a large color "tourist guide map" of Tel-Aviv 13½ x 9½ in. a 24- x 17-inch folding color "motor map" of Israel laid in with their route highlighted in red and with tourist information on each city on the verso; and a small program for a production of "Carmen" by the Hebrew National Opera. Other items include a Vocabulary for Visitors to Israel; and the post-return typed or handwritten letters Fry received including messages of friendship from other tour attendees.</p><p>Black-and-white photographs include an 8 x 10-inch photo of the group of travelers boarding their PanAm plane; a 5 x 7-inch photo of them at the Mosque of Omar; a photograph of settlers at the "future site of 'Kfar Truman'"; and photographs of the group at other sites that they visited such as the Garden of Gethsemane.</p><p><b>Excerpts:</b></p><p>Harrison W. Fry "People of Israel and Neighboring Nations Hope for Peace Despite Border Quarrels" <i>Evening Bulletin </i> Philadelphia April 22 1951</p><p>"<i>In Jerusalem—which means City of Peace—there is much talk of peace. In the Arab countries of Lebanon and Jordan there is more talk of co-operation than of hate. It may be a hopeful index. But no one agrees as to where it will start…</i> <i>if you look carefully there is the desire for peace down at the grass roots among Arabs living as displaced persons in caves and tents and among Israelis living under an austere program.</i>"</p><p>Harrison W. Fry "Ben-Gurion Wants U.S. Help to Bring Peace in Near East" <i>Evening Bulletin</i> Philadelphia April 25 1951</p><p>"<i>Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion of Israel would welcome the good offices of the United States in establishing peace in the Near East. Israel and the Arab states are now operating under an uneasy armistice with frequent border incidents</i>… <i>The shaggy white-haired leader of the modern miracle that is the State of Israel interrupted conferences in connection with the meeting of the Knesset Israel's Parliament now in session to greet the members of the American Christian Palestine Committee study group of which the writer is a member. With all the frankness of a long-time friend he talked of Israel's plans and problems and answered questions with a refreshing frankness free of diplomatic double talk.</i>"</p><p>Harrison W. Fry "Architects of New Israel Are Building Up from Soil" <i>Evening Bulletin</i> Philadelphia April 27 1951</p><p>"<i>In the valley of the Armageddon the old Biblical plains of Esdraelon the scene of many ancient victories and disasters of the Jews the modern Jews won their first victory of the land in the early twenties when the drained the malarial swamps. Today the valley is a Garden of Eden of fragrant orange citrus and olive groves and garden crops—a delight to the eyes after days of traveling in the eroded dust-storm swept Arab lands to the east of Israel… In the Hula Lake section north of the Sea of Galilee and Capernaum where Christ performed his miracles the Jews are today performing modern miracles by reclaiming further swamp areas.</i>"</p><p>Harrison W. Fry "Debris of Intolerance Bears Fruit of Freedom in Israel" <i>Evening Bulletin</i> Philadelphia May 2 1951</p><p>"<i>In a cave on Mt. Zion ancient citadel of Jerusalem are the ashes of thousands of Jewish martyrs to Nazi intolerance—a symbol of 6000000 who so perished. About them are the sacred scrolls desecrated by the Nazis. One of these had been made into a house coat by a Nazi who apparently did not read Hebrew because it bears on its back the warning that the Lord will wreak vengeance upon those who persecute his people… Atop a tower on this hill which borders no-man's land in the uneasy truce with the Arab kingdom of Jordan an Israeli soldier keeps vigil above these shrines that appeal for peace and tolerance. The Jews have put the terrible evidence of intolerance underground and are building a new tomorrow. They want to talk of peace in the Near East the whole refugee problem including the Arabs.</i>"</p><p>Carl Herman Voss to Members of ACPC Study Tour May 11 1951</p><p>"<i>I want to express appreciation for the cooperative spirit all of you manifested on the Tour. You were really a wonderful crew! Thanks too to all of you once again for the lovely Menorah and plate for Hanukkah with which you surprised me during our last evening together in Israel</i>."</p><p>"Assignment Well Covered" <i>Jewish Exponent</i> May 11 1951</p><p>"<i>Harrison W. Fry seasoned newspaperman and religious editor of the</i> Evening Bulletin<i> did a splendid job in reporting and interpreting the events in Israel as he observed them during his two weeks' tour of the country at the invitation of the American Christian Palestine Committee. His articles that have appeared in the</i> Evening Bulletin <i>during these past few weeks have given the readers of the</i> Bulletin <i>a clear insight into some of the problems concerning the country and the manner in which the Government and the people of Israel are grappling with these problems.</i>"</p><p>Carl Hermann Voss to Harrison Fry July 6 1951</p><p>"<i>I did have a chance to hear from my friends that you have given some excellent reports since you returned from the Middle East and that you were as stimulated and thrilled by the trip as was I… I was a bit disappointed not to have your assent to our reiterated invitation to be listed among the speakers for the Club Program Service the speakers' bureau of the American Christian Palestine Committee but I presume that compelling reasons determined your decision. Won't you still reconsider We would look upon your addition to the list of speakers for Club Program Service as a real boon for the ACPC.</i>"</p><p>Memo of Harrison W. Fry to Walter Lister n.d.</p><p>"<i>Judge Levinthal called me late yesterday to say that he and some of his friends were thinking of nominating me as a member of a small party of Christian clergymen from all parts of the United States who are being sent expenses paid to visit Palestine and get first had information of conditions there. Would I accept if the full committee approved. Had I been to Palestine.</i>"</p><p>"<i>I told him the prospect thrilled me as I had never been to Palestine. I told him that Fry disassociated form The Bulletin did not mean anything and much as I would like to go on my own I felt I should not unless the matter was cleared through The Bulletin.</i>"</p><p><b>Harrison W. Fry</b> 1892-1973 was born in Pottstown Pennsylvania and married Laura V. Umstead 1894-1967 in 1918. He entered journalism before World War I with the <i>Public Ledger</i> and then served as religion and education editor for the Philadelphia <i>Evening Bulletin</i>for forty-two years. Fry interviewed every president from Theodore Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman. He served as a charter member and later president of the Education Writers Association in 1948-1949 and was a founding member of the Religion Newswriters Association in 1949.</p><p><b>Carl Hermann Voss</b> 1911-1995 was a Congregational minister who served in Brooklyn; Pittsburgh; Raleigh North Carolina; and Saratoga Springs New York. During World War II he founded and led the Christian Council on Palestine before becoming one of the founding members of the American Christian Palestine Committee.</p><p><b>Louis E. Levinthal</b> 1892-1976 received three degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia County from 1937 to 1959. He was president of the Zionist Organization of America from 1941 to 1943 and special adviser for Jewish affairs to the postwar European Command in 1947-1948. He served as chairman of the board of governors of Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1962 to 1968.</p><p>Starting in 1951 the group's activities were opposed by the pro-Arab American Friends of the Middle East later proven to be funded in part by the CIA. The ACPC wound down in the early 1960s when the Israeli embassy and consulates took over the task.</p> hardcover
1939N4645Jerusalem: Government Printer 1939. First Edition . Half Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. Some 12000pp for the 14 volumes. HEBREW LANGUAGE. Each colume with owner's stamp on the firtst page MODAI ADVOCATES -TEL AVIV Some spotting on edges and front end papers. A few pages loose. General minimal wear. UNIFORM HALF CLOTH BINDING. A VERY GOOD COPY OF THIS RARE OFFFICIAL PUBLICATION FO THE PALESTINE MANDATE. <br/> <br/> Government Printer hardcover
1942N4644Jerusalem: Government Printer 1942. First Edition . Half Cloth. Very Good. 8vo . Some 1400pp to 2000pp for each year. Half cloth binding. Each volume with owner's stamp at the first page only MODAI ADVOCATES TEL AVIV The two volumes for 1944 have a spelling mistake on the spine for the word "Palestine". Some mild spotting on end papers and some spines. One volume with some more spotting on end paper One volume with ear endpaper margins with minimal loss. Please see photographs- ENGLISH TEXT WITH A FEW HEBREW PAGES. A VERY GOOD AND RARE COLLECTION OF THIS OFFICIAL MANDATORY PALESTINE PUBLICATION <br/> <br/> Government Printer hardcover
1938182152London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1938. First edition of this press summary "Not to be published or broadcast in any form in this country or abroad before 4 p.m. G.M.T. on Wednesday 9th November." The two maps show the workings of two proposed partition plans including that favoured by the majority of the partition commission: the creation of northern and southern mandates and the carving out of Jewish and Arab states in the centre. Of the 3775 copies printed none are recorded in institutional libraries the full report being much more common. Octavo pp. 12. With 2 folding maps outlined in red. Original self-wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover lettered in black red embargo notice on laid-down label. Staining at staples as usual map coming away from lower staple: near-fine. This summary not in Khalidi & Khadduri 1656 for the full report. unknown
1872016537London: James Nisbet & Co. 1872. Book. Hardcover. First Edition. 18cm x 12.5cm. Sturdily rebound using original deep-orange spine label and cloth boards with gilt chinese emblem yin yang now on verso and with textured brown endpapers and black buckram spine. 124pp. Appendix pages 121-124 in Hebrew. Errata slip tipped-in explaining that the Chinese characters on the title-page form the name of the city Kae Fung Foo and that the chinese emblem on the outside cover signifies the active and passive principles of nature. Rubbing to covers and spine label affecting gilt lettering; light foxing to text block. Text block clean and very solid. James Nisbet & Co. Hardcover
1939186857London: Issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine 1939. Second impression of the Jewish Agency's response to the publication of the McMahon Letters correspondence purportedly showing Britain agreeing to Arab independence including over Palestine prior to the Balfour Declaration. The agency interpreted the letters as confirmation that Palestine was always treated separately and not included in territory to be granted to the Arabs. The McMahon Letters were published by the British Government early in 1939 in an attempt to clarify Britain's historical position. This response cites substantiating documents including government statements and T. E. Lawrence's 18 November 1922 draft preface for Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The colour map emphasizes that Palestine amounts to only one per cent of territory under Arab rule. The second impression was published the same year as the first. Octavo pp. 20. With colour folding map of "Arab Territories and Palestine" text on verso. Original printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover lettered in black. A hint of soiling to wrappers and light stain at foot of contents. A very good copy. unknown
1933176262Likely Palestine: Palestine Goverment c.1933. Sole edition traced in only one Middle Eastern library issued at the opening of Palestine's new "lynchpin in the entire regional system of sea and land communications" Herbert & Sosnovsky p. 51. By 1936 the harbour was handling almost one million tons of goods per year. Construction of the harbour began in 1929 under the direct supervision of the Government of Palestine and 115 acres were dredged to allow for an entrance 600 feet in width. The main line of the Palestine Railways was also diverted onto reclaimed land affording new opportunities for trade in fruit and other agricultural commodities. Guest of honour at the opening ceremony was Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope 1874-1947 High Commissioner for Palestine. The copy in the Middle East is held at the National Library of Israel. WorldCat records a further nine including one in the UK British Library. Landscape quarto pp. 30. With 17 photographic half-tones 2 colour harbour plans. Original grey card wrappers sewn with brown ribbon through punch holes as issued front cover lettered in gilt. Lightly worn and creased a few chips and small closed tears all marginal except one touching title of second plan. A very good copy. Gilbert Herbert & Silvina Sosnovsky Bauhaus on the Carmel and the Crossroads of Empire: Architecture and Planning in Haifa During the British Mandate 1933. unknown
1884N4440aLondon: Palestine Exploration Fund 1884. First Edition . Original Cloth. Very Good. 4to. VII542pp. Plans and illustrations. Spine with some discoloration. Head and tail of spine with some expert repair. First pages and occasional few other pages with some light foxing. A VERY GOOD AND FRESH COPY of this RARE FIRST EDITION. - Important work on the exploration of Jerusalem. additional shipping fees will apply due to the size and weight of this book > Total of $ 100.00 for Northern America total of $ 60.00 to Europe <br/> <br/> Palestine Exploration Fund hardcover
193047228Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Publishing House 1930. First edition. Softcover. poor to vg. Quartos. Vol.1: 100pp. Vol.2: 68pp. Vol.3: 92pp. Vol.4: 109pp. Vol.5: 96pp. Vol.6: 120pp. Vol.7: 175pp. 2. Photo-illustrated tanned wrappers with dark blue or black lettering on the covers. Pages uncut and unopened. The full and conclusive text of the historically important Shaw Report aka the Shaw Comission Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929 consisting of the commission's findings regarding the events and causes of the infamous 1929 Palestine Riots. The text of these volumes was taken from transcripts appearing in the reports of three major newspapers in Palestine - Davar Haaretz and The Palestine Bulletin now the Jerusalem Post in addition to other submitted documents. The commission which investigated and held hearings from October - December 1929 was chaired by Sir Walter Shaw the highly regarded British jurist and included three other members British politicians Henry Snell 1865-1944 Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris 1888-1956 and Henry Bucknall Betterton 1872-1949. The final page of the last volume credits the text to these four men. The front cover of the first volume shows Betterton and Shaw in suits. It scarce to find the complete set of these publications.<br /> <br /> Text in Hebrew.<br /> <br /> Most wrappers with with some minor to light chipping rubbing and/or creasing to extremities as well as foxing to the edges. Most of the images on the covers are unaffected. Vol.1 with cover detached but present. Foxing to edges of book blocks. Interior with some sporadic minor to light water stains to pages. Most pages clean and bright. Book blocks tight overall. These copies seem to have never been read as they for the most part contain unopened pages. Wrappers in poor to very good interiors in good to very good condition overall. Hebrew title: דין וחשבון ×ž×œ× : מעבודת ועדת החקירה ×”×¤×¨×œ×ž× ×˜×¨×™×ª ×‘×™×¨×•×©×œ×™× ×”×—×œ ×ž×™×•× 24 ב×וקטובר 1929<br /> Alternate: ועדת החקירה. Tel Aviv Publishing House unknown
1884784161884. Hardcover. Very Good. Uniformly bound in old 1/2 leather marbled boards with leather backstrips and corners. Original wrappers not bound in. 21cm. Some foxing mostly on page edges and at beginning and end of volumes. Old price written heavily on verso of free endpapers. An attractive set. Quarterly Statement was first issued in 1869 to inform their supporters about the ongoing work undertaken or supported by the organization. The original first series apparently consisted of only eight numbers. Our set contains the first 56 quarterly issues of the "New Series." The first volume also contains an 80p. plus a folding map work titled: "The Exploration of Palestine" A Brief Statement of the Principal Work Accomplished by the Exploration Fund from Its Foundation to December 1870. hardcover
