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1928218675Jerusalem : ""Darom"" 1928. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in contemporary leather-backed boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and worn as with age. Bumped corners. Pages bright and clean internally with just some scattered foxing around the prelims. Minor library marks. Remains quite well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 0 pages; Description: 1v. various paginations: maps plans plates; 23cm. Subjects: Palestine -- Israel -- Near East -- Archaeology -- Antiquities -- History -- Jewish studies. Notes: Now known as the Israel Exploration Society IES. Added title page and list of contents in English. Language: Hebrew. Jerusalem : ""Darom"" hardcover
19399383Jerusalem Palestine Oriental Society 1939. 1st Edition . Soft cover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. 126 plus plates I-XI; 129-338 plus plates XII-XXX. Text figures. Original printed wrappers frayed chipped. In a very good internal condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Each volume comprises of two issues. Previously in a university library with some stamps to that effect. Z-5 OUT <br/> <br/> Jerusalem, Palestine Oriental Society paperback
19389382Jerusalem Palestine Oriental Society 1938. 1st Edition . Soft cover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Two volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. 148 plus plates I-XXIII; 149-308 plus plates XXIV-XLIX including folding frontispiece printed in colour. Text figures. Original printed wrappers frayed one back missing. In a very good internal condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Each volume comprises of two issues. Previously in a university library with some stamps to that effect. Z-5 OUT <br/> <br/> Jerusalem, Palestine Oriental Society paperback
1968402706London : Onigma 1968. 1st edition. Softcover. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 320 pages 26 cm chiefly illustrated. Notes: Anthology of news articles. Advertisements. Subjects: Israel - Palestine; Conflict; War; Anthologies; Holy Land; Judaism; Israel Military History; News Anthologies. London : Onigma paperback
22255'Darlington 21/7mo July 1853'. See Sams's entry in the Oxford DNB. 4pp 12mo. On a bifolium the second leaf of which has had a rectangle almost amounting to half cut away from the bottom. The text of the letter is complete but the priced list of the prints and drawings on the last page lacks the lower half. A long letter closely written. Signed 'J. Sams.' Aged worn and lightly stained but nevertheless in passable condition. The recipient saluted as 'Esteemed Friend' is not named. In the first paragraph Sams is at pains to explain his bookselling practice as founded on plain dealing: 'I have been from home to York & other places & this is the first day I have had here since thine came. I regret the circumstance fearing it may cause to suppose I have been inattentive ot the request sent. As a rule the wish is to put all as cheap as may be & not take back. One great difficulty as to return is especially of a fine work likely to be noticed as this people have remarked last word underlined the book not seeing it as usual suppose it sold & gone even if they are not so informed. Consequently to see it come back again they suppose somethg. sic is the matter & the sale of the work afterwards; is probably much injured. Sometimes also some injury arises in carriage two ways.' But to a much respected customer I will look carefully among my plates & try to accommodate – tho' the risk at which I have made free to hint is very considerable.' He continues at equal length in the same idiosyncratic tone regarding his plan to 'forward a collection of fine & curious coloured prints all of which have their original marks but I should have said a number are coloured drawings'. After sending respects to 'thyself & daughter' he signs 'in haste J. Sams.' The reverse of the second leaf carries a list of fourteen of the prints and drawings with prices most marked with pencil crosses to indicate that they are desired. A fifteenth entry ends abruptly indicating that the bottom part of the list has been cut away. 'Darlington 21/7mo (July) 1853'. unknown
22242Both from Darlington. 15 and 17 August 1847. See Sams's entry in the Oxford DNB. Two letters providing an interesting glimpse of the practicalities of Victorian antiquarian bookselling. Both letters 3pp 12mo and bifoliums addressed on reverse of second leaf with broken seals and postmarks to 'Godfrey Meynell Esqre at Mr Stamp's Surgeon Seaton Carew nr Hartlepool.' Both addressed to 'Respected Frd.' In fair condition aged and worn. ONE: 15 August 1847. He begins by explaining that he was 'from home in the city of Durham' when Meynell's letter came. Sams explains the pricing of two items in his catalogue beginning with: 'The reduced price to give satisfaction that the rare Chaucer 1542 folio was put at was £2. 15s. 6d tho' it was considered modest at a guinea more 3. 13. 6'. The second book 'the Anglo Poetica' 'has not a word said for binding therefore it is to be taken as in old binding for when in Russia they carefully state it & when extra bd neat &c. But the present is very neat in the original oak bds covered with leather a state generally quite prized.' He discusses the cost of delivery: 'The carriage I do not suppose will be above a shilling which is the price to York much further than Seaton. However as perhaps the gentleman to whom I now write may be a customer hereafter I have determined to sustain the further loss tho' not intended to go at the least under the £2. 15s. 6 & on receing a line saying the exact mode by which this work is to be sent & whether by coach or merchant train the post order can be enclosed in the letter it shall be very carefully packed & sent as may be pointed out.' He ends with the information that 'a gentleman I saw at Durham since I have been away spoke to me about this very work & it seems likely he will call abt. It when this way at not less than 3£. or 3. 3s. Had it not the little injury it is supposed it wd. be well worth even 5£. now.' TWO: 17 August 1847. Begins: 'Thine has come to hand - the rare edition of Chaucer has been gone thro' leaf by leaf & it seems quite difficult to collate for the paging is very often wrong but the catchwords prove nothing to be wanting. Yet we fear 1 or 2 leaves are wanting in the interior quite perfect at beginning & end tho' difficult to ascertain as clearly as could be wished.' Sams is 'striving to leave for the Metropolis' the following day '& time being exceedingly precious so close attention has not been given to the looking over the book as could otherwise.' He suggests a price of £2 15s for 'this rare book which is remarkable in having the original first & second titles as well as last leaf &c & also for being in the original oak bds neatly covered with embossed leather'. He ends: 'I think of keeping it apprehending it wd. bring that or more at auction even.' A postscript concerns catalogue orders and ends: 'The christn. name is Joseph -'. In another hand Meynell's beneath the address on the reverse of the second leaf is an eight-line note on the faults in a book the Chaucer beginning: 'In the prologue at least 2 leaves are wanting that is from verse 505 to 715 -'. Both from Darlington. 15 and 17 August 1847. hardcover
19489385Jerusalem Palestine Oriental Society 1948. 1st Edition . Soft cover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Royal octavo. Pp. 188 2. Plus 21 plates. Text figures some in the form of additional folding plates. Original printed wrappers bit edge frayed; old institutional stamp to title. In a very good internal condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Comprising of 4 issues in one volume. Z-5 OUT <br/> <br/> Jerusalem, Palestine Oriental Society paperback
19961040315.24Mosby St. Louis 1996. 2nd ed. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to hardcover. No dj. Vg condition. Ex-lib stamp on endpaper & top edge of text-block only markings board extremities bumped contents bright & clean binding tight. xv 413 p. illus. 16 p. of plates some color. Mosby, St. Louis hardcover
1910053731The Ottoman Empire: Ottoman Directorate of Mapping. c. 1910 1910. No Binding. Very Good. Original lithograph map with brown white and blue tons. 81x57 cm. In Ottoman script Old Turkish with Arabic letters. All toponyms are in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic. Scale: 1:500000. Shows Mediterranean shores on the north Bahr-i Lût i.e. the Dead Sea Aqaba Bay areas of Arabic tribes in very detail in addition special huge lands like 'Al-Hism Land'. Also it shows holy places antiquities fortresses rivers; and Turkish Sanjaks Qazas Nahiyes Qariyes based on the Ottoman administrative system. Cartographer is not indicated but it's composed for military purposes in the last period of the Imperial Ottoman especially for showing Arabian tribes spreading over vast areas in its period just before World War 1 date of the printing of this map such as 'Houtat Tribe'. A very detailed and attractive map of Palestine and Quds area and their topography. Following the Muslim conquest of Palestine in 636-640 several Muslim ruling dynasties succeeded each other as they wrestled control of Palestine: the Rashiduns; the Umayyads who built the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem; the Abbasids; the semi-independent Tulunids and the Ikhshidids; the Fatimids; and the Seljuks. In 1099 the Crusaders established the Kingdom of Jerusalem in Palestine which the Ayyubid Sultanate conquered in 1187. The Crusaders failed to retake Palestine despite further attempts. The Egyptian Mamluks took Palestine from the Mongols who had conquered the Ayyubid Sultanate in 1260. The Ottomans captured Palestine in 1516 and ruled it until Egypt took it in 1832. Eight years later the United Kingdom intervened and returned the region to the Ottomans. Considerable demographic changes happened during the 19th century and with the regional migrations of Druze Circassians and Bedouin tribes. The emergence of Zionism also brought many Jewish immigrants from Europe and the revival of the Hebrew language. Arabs in Palestine both Christian and Muslim settled and Bedouin were historically split between the Qays and Yaman factions. These divisions had their origins in pre-Islamic tribal feuds between Northern Arabians Qaysis and Southern Arabians Yamanis. The strife between the two tribal confederacies spread throughout the Arab world with their conquests subsuming even uninvolved families so that the population of Palestine identified with one or the other. Their conflicts continued after the 8th-century Civil war in Palestine until the early 20th century and gave rise to differences in customs tradition and dialect which remain to this day. Beit Sahour was first settled in the 14th century by a handful of Christian and Muslim clans hamula from Wadi Musa in Jordan the Christian Jaraisa and the Muslim Shaybat and Jubran who came to work as shepherds for Bethlehem's Christian landowners and they were subsequently joined by other Greek Orthodox immigrants from Egypt in the 17th-18th centuries. Due to the legacy of the Ottoman period the ethnic origins of some rural and urban Palestinians are either Albanian Circassian or from other non-Arab populations. <br/> <br/> [Ottoman Directorate of Mapping]., [c. 1910] unknown
191212077AB1912. 4th edition. Leipzig Baedeker 1912. 16 : 11 cm. C 458 pages. With 20 maps 56 planes and a folded panorama of Jerusalem. Red original-cloth. Rare edition complete with all the maps and plans. - First 100 pages in the upper right corner with small water-stain otherwise a good copy. hardcover
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
1952193208Cairo: Matba'a Fa'wad 1952. First edition of this report on the activities of the Arab Higher Commission for Palestine. Formerly the organization representing Palestinian interests during the British Mandate it continued to operate after the Nakba from Cairo and Beirut until the creation of the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1964. Its activities in the early 1950s focused on the consequences of the Nakba the forced emigration of Arab Palestinians and the arrival of the Israeli settlers with chapters also devoted to Gaza. Several illustrations show images of Jerusalem at that time. The final tables provide financial details on expenditures for humanitarian and military aid and for publications. Quarto 240 x 170 mm. With 3 folding tables 23 half-tone photographic illustrations 1 folding. Text in Arabic. Original printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued. Ink stamp of the Arab Higher Commission for Palestine on title page and following leaf. Extremities a bit rubbed a couple of chips on wrapper edges minor loss at foot of spine a few lower outer corners creased contents toned: a very good copy. 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
#[33365]'s Gravenhage J. Belinfante 1835. Original boards with title label to spine. XVI152 pp. With library stamp of Bibliotheek Financiën. - The civil institutions following the Holy Scripture. 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
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
1145419321.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1357544375.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1929187341London: Office of the Chief Rabbi 1929. First edition of the Chief Rabbi's prayers following the 1929 Hebron massacre in Palestine in which 67 Jews were killed issued as an order of service for synagogues. The massacre was a seminal moment prompting the creation of the Haganah paramilitary organization which became the core of the Israel defence Forces. Along with other riots that year the massacre led to the Shaw Commission which recommended restricting further Jewish immigration to Palestine. Octavo bifolium. Text in Hebrew and English. Creased and a little soiled. A 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
a22018Paris 1936. Numero Special des Cahiers Juifs. In French. Natural resources kibbutz labor tourism agriculture industry. Octavo 444pp. photos foldout map wraps. A few library stamps in text. VG light wear. Scarce. . paperback
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
1019807113.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
B9781019807118Hardback. New. hardcover
1938182153London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1938. First separate edition of this short but consequential statement on the findings of the Palestine Partition Commission rejecting the commission's proposals to create independent Arab and Jewish states. "The political administrative and financial difficulties involved. are so great that this solution of the problem is impracticable. His Majesty's Government will therefore continue their responsibility for the government of the whole of Palestine" p. 3. Octavo bifolium pp. 4. Light toning staple offsetting near central fold: near-fine. unknown
