London: James Nisbet and Co., 1876. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original gold and black-stamped cloth. All edges gilt. Remarkable work compiling fifty-four stunning color plates of wild flowers of the Holy Land, drawn and painted after nature. Each illustration is captioned in English, French, German and Latin. All plates..... More
Berlin: Hilfscomité der rumänischen Juden in Palestina, 1904. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 16pp. Original green wraps with black lettering in decorative framing on cover, protected by modern mylar. Laid in preprinted money order form for donations to the committee. Report on the activities of the Relief Committee and accounting for..... More
Walter de Gruyter: 1973, Berlin. Hardcover. Elephant folio. 173pp. 53 large folding maps. Volume in paper wrappers along with maps in hardcover shell. The most descriptive geographic study and atlas of the city of Jerusalem over the course of its history. Includes all maps, charts and diagrams. Text in Hebrew..... More
Jerusalem: The Rural Settlement Department of the Jewish Agency/ The Jewish National Fund, ca. 1960s. First edition. Softcover. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated [32 pages]. Pink illustrated staple-bound wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. This promotional brochure is a survey of the Arava (Arabah) region in southern Israel. The wrappers..... More
NP [Jersusalem?]: Keren Kajemeth Lejisrael, 1925. First edition. Softcover. Duodecimo. 5 1/4 x 3 1/2". [35 pages]. Illustrated wrappers in tan and black, with tower on the front cover. An illustrated Jewish calendar and promotional booklet in German (with some Hebrew) for the year 5686 (1925-1926), issued by the Jewish..... More
New York: Federation of Palestine Jews of America, (1933). Softcover. 8vo. 160pp. Original tan paper wrappers. A collection of articles and poems on Jewish settlement in Palestine during the 1930s by leading figures of early 20th century American Orthodoxy such as Hirsch Manischewitz and Yechiel Michel Charlop. Also includes ads..... More
Jerusalem: Maglat Yosef, [1939]. First edition. Softcover. Duodecimo. 48pp. Original tan-beige staple-bound wrappers, with black lettering on the covers. The work discusses the establishment of some of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, during the so called "Old Yishuv" of the Ottoman period..... More
[Palestine]: n.d. [1940s?]. Softcover. Octavo. Unpaginated [32 pages]. Tan paper wrappers, with handwritten text on the front cover. This unique original manuscript was created by student named Adina Wiseman as a record of her class’s trip to the Jezreel Valley region in northern Israel. Text throughout written (in mostly cursive)..... More
Haifa: S. Adler, 1935. Hardcover. Quarto. Half black cloth over paper-covered boards, silver inlay with Hebrew lettering on front cover. Expertly rebacked. Rare publication illustrated with 20 mounted reproductions in heliogravure of landscapes and laboring inhabitants of the 'New Palestine' in 1935. Photographs in various sizes, measuring 3 1/2" x...... More
Jerusalem: Boulos Afif, [ca. 1935]. Softcover. Thin octavo. 5pp. [5]. Illustrated pink and black printed wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. This engaging illustrated color map of Jerusalem dates from the mid 1930s during the British Mandate Period. The map, as well as the illustrations on the front..... More
London: Charles Knight and Co., 1844. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VIII, 624, VI, [2], [625]-777, [1], CCCCXXXVIIIpp. Uncut. Original gold and blind-stamped cloth with gold lettering on spine. Illustrated with 500 in-text engravings. Includes bibliographical references and index. Moderate ge wear and discoloration on binding. Sunning to spines. Signature of..... More
Jerusalem: Ir David Foundation, n.d. Hardcover. Large octavo. 9 unpaginated leaves. Housed in a decorative tan paper slipcase.Finely bound in full modern brown leather with blind-stamped decorative motifs on the covers and spine. All edges of the book block in gilt. This beautifully-produced photo album was originally presented as a...... More
Jerusalem: Hebrew Teachers College, 1938 (5698). First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 12pp. [2] 12pp. (in Hebrew pagination). Tan printed textured paper wrappers, with small illustration and lettering in black. Originally founded in Jerusalem in 1914, by educator, Hebrew scholar, and community leader David Yellin (1864-1941), the institution was one of the..... More
Rome: Luciano Morpurgo, 1930. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original printed wrappers with gold-stamped lettering on spine and front wrap, and illustration laid on front cover. Remarkable photographic work on the people and the land of Palestine, exquisitely illustrated with 265 photogravures. Each photograph is captioned in English and German..... More
Lake Success: 1947. Softcover. Large 4to. Original tan paper wrappers with emblem of the United Nations on front wrapper. A collection of documents related to the United Nations partition plan of Palestine in 1947, which led to the establishment of the State of Israel. Volume I consists of the report..... More
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1837. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 400pp. Original decorated brown pebbled leather with elaborate gilt and colored tooling. All edges gilt with yellow endpapers. Enlarged fourth edition of Rev. Michael Russell's combination travelogue and history of Palestine. This work exemplifies 19th century English Protestant fascination with the..... More
Tel-Aviv: Society for the Establishment of Health resorts in Palestine, ca. 1928. Softcover. Oblong octavo. 42,[2],iiil,pp. Original illustrated wraps protected by modern mylar. Rare booklet looking at health resorts in late 1920's Palestine. "The varied climatic conditions of the whole of Palestine which stretches in its whole length along the..... More
London: The Religious Tract Society, ND (ca 1875). First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 223, [1]pp. Original black and gilt-stamped full cloth, with gold lettering on spine and front cover. All edges gilt. Dentelles. Engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece. Decorative title-page. Illustrated headpieces. Decorative initials. A remarkable account of a journey through the Holy..... More
Frankfurt/Main: Geschäftsleitung Schaare Zedek, 1917. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 24pp. Original stapled tan wraps with black lettering in decorative frame on cover, protected by modern mylar. Title page with decorative frame. Report from the 13th to the 15th year. Tipped-in message encouraging donations, printed to orange paper slip. Verso of..... More
New York: The Palestine Arab Refugee Office, [1960]. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. 16pp. Original staple-bound blue printed wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. A republication of British Command Paper No. 6873, detailing the activities of the major Jewish insurgency and paramilitary groups during the later period of..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 640pp. Index. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original dust jacket with very minor edge wear. Illustrated with 20 pages of photographs and a map. Front free endpaper signed by Moshe Dayan. A detailed autobiography by this..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1851. Hardcover. 4to. 196 pp. Richly tooled full (red) leather with beveled gilt edges. 18 b&w illustrations protected by tissue guards. Travelogue from Egypt through the Holy Land, Jerusalem, Nazareth and Galilee, including Syria (Damascus), Lebanon (Baalbec). Some foxing on first and last pages..... More
Jerusalem: Jüdischer Nationalfond Jerusalem, 1923. Third revised. Softcover. Small Quarto. 96pp., 6 plates, 1 folding map. Original light orange wraps with black lettering in decorative framing on cover, protected by modern mylar. No OCLC records. Revised edition of this publication, published after the mandate for the construction of a national..... More
Warsaw: Altnajland (Altnayland), [ca. 1920]. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. [1] 64pp. Tan printed wrappers with black lettering on the covers. This Hebrew textbook containing an illustrated geography of Palestine at the time, was created and written by Polish-born scholar and teacher Abraham Shalom Kamenetzky (1874-1943). Laid in loose at the..... More
Vienna: Jüdischer Nationalfond, 1905. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 13pp. Original gray wraps with black lettering in decorative border on cover, protected by modern mylar. Printed by the printing house "Industrie", Vienna. Five OCLC entries. Report on the Jewish National Fund collections from 1903 to 1905 with an overview of activities..... More