Description
BILINGUAL ENGLISH AND HEBREW EDITION. RARE Palestine directory and handbook with extensive information on the land`s history, geography, judicial regime, agriculture, trade, industry, towns and colonies, itineraries for tourists, statistical tables, government institutions and senior official municipalities, foreign consuls, Zionist institutions, local Jewish institutions, institutions of health, education, colonisation, promotion of trade and industry, professional associations, charitable institutions, list of industries banks, offices and merchants, list of advocates, physicians, engineers and other professions. Contains a fold-out map of central and northern areas of Israel, and several advertisement pages between the different sections of the directory/handbook. 240x170mm. [10+80+46+72] pages in English. [88+76+132+72] pages in Hebrew (& ca. 40 unpaginated pages). Dark-blue quarter-cloth rebound Hardcover. Both English and Hebrew original covers pasted on rebound boards. Original covers rubbed and dirty/slightly stained. Cover edges yellowing. Cover corners rubbed. Advertisement pages pasted on endpaper. Two unpaginated advertisement pages detached from binding and have chipped and/or tattered edges and corners. Two unpaginated advertisement page edges tattered. Previous owner`s name written in pen on Hebrew side front whitepage upper corner. Some pages bottom corner slightly wrinkled. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare and comprehensive Palestine directory and handbook for 1926 is otherwise in good condition,
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