Collection of Official Publications – British Mandate for Palestine – Reports for The League of Nations, Editions ...

Collection of Official Publications – British Mandate for Palestine – Reports for The League of Nations, Editions of the Palestine Blue Book, Two Consular Reports from Palestine on the Eve of World War I, and More
An important collection of booklets and books, mostly official publications of the British Mandate government and its departments, and some published by research institutes and various bodies, documenting the development of Palestine under the British Mandate. Jerusalem, London [and elsewhere?], 1914 to late 1940s. English; some Hebrew and Arabic.
In the collection: • Two reports published on the eve of World War I ( June-July 1914) by the British consulates of the Jerusalem district and of the Beirut district (which included Northern Palestine), part of the series "Diplomatic and Consular Reports". • Annual reports submitted to the League of Nations during the years 1921-1938 (consecutive issues), documenting, year by year, the development of the country in a variety of fields – the post and telephone, roads and trains, the settlement, economy and commerce, education, medicine, preservation of holy sites, and more. • A trilingual dictionary, Arabic-Hebrew-English, for common given names and names of places and sites, 1931. • A detailed list of public officials in Palestine, including a history of the public and military services. 1931. • The Palestine Blue Book – a comprehensive annual report submitted to the British Colonial Office regarding the financial and managerial situation of the country. Two booklets from 1933 and 1938. • And more.
Approx. 65 books and booklets. Some of the booklets appear in more than one copy. Size and condition vary.