[BRITISH MANDATE]. SAMUEL, Herbert.
Palestine. Report of The High Commissioner of the Administration of Palestine, 1920-1925.
London, The Colonial Office, 1925.
Herbert Samuel was appointed to the position of High Commissioner on the 1st of July 1920, before the Council of the League of Nations approved a British mandate for Palestine; he served in this role until June 30, 1925. Samuel was the first Jew to govern the historic Land of Israel in 2000 years; he officially recognised Hebrew as one of the three official languages of the land, and his appointment was warmly welcomed by the Zionist movement.
8vo (24.5 x 15.4 cm); original printed paper wrappers with some browning to edges; front cover leaf detached, small marginal folds and tears to wrappers. [3], 4-59 pp.
Stock code 106322
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Palestine. Report of The High Commissioner of the Administration of Palestine, 1920-1925.
[ZIONISM].
Zionisten-Congress in Basel
1898.
The First Zionist Congress Official Protocol, a key document of early Zionist history.
£750.00
SZYK, Arthur.
Visual history of Israel.
1948.
Colour lithograph signed by Arthur Szyk, printed in New York in 1948.
£300.00
MONTEFIORE, E.L.
[Portrait of Sir Moses Montefiore].
1819.
Portrait etching of Sir Moses Montefiore, created by his relative Eliezer Levi Montefiore - a businessman, etcher and gallery director born in the West Indies.
£600.00
HERZL, Theodor.
The Congress Addresses of Theodor Herzl.
1917.
First English edition of this collection of six addresses by Herzl to the Zionist Congresses.
£1,250.00
[BRITISH MANDATE].
Two Proclamation Posters.
1 September 1929.
The posters were the British Mandatory authorities' first response to the 1929 riots, featuring a sweeping accusation against the Arabs for initiating the violence (an accusation they retracted just hours later).
£1,950.00
SZYK, Arthur (illustrator); COHEN, Samuel (composer).
Hatikvah Music Box.
[c. 1948].
Wooden music box playing 'Hatikvah' with Szyk's colour lithograph titled 'The visual history of Israel', from the 'Visual history of nations' series, to its front. The series of nine works dating from 1945 to 1949 was commissioned by Kasimir Bileski (1908-2005), a Canadian philatelist and entrepreneur.
£800.00