Palestine: Blue Book 1932.

$750.00

Item Number: 146826

Jerusalem: Printing and Stationary Office, 1932.

Original printing of this record of the movement of money in Palestine during the calendar year of 1932. Quarto, original wrappers, rebacked, illustrated with tables. In good condition with rubbing, dampstaining, and a few losses to the extremities, dampstaining, institutional stamps to the title page and rear free endpaper.

After the First World War, the League of Nations assigned a Mandate for the British administration of the territories of Palestine and Transjordan, which had previously been part of the Ottoman Empire for four centuries. In Palestine, the Mandate required Britain to put into effect the 1917 Balfour Declaration's "national home for the Jewish people" alongside the Palestinian Arabs, who composed the vast majority of the local population. Currently, Israeli settlements exist in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.