Online Auction 31 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Part I
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence – London, 1939 – With a Map of the Ottoman Administrative Districts in Syria and Palestine
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Correspondence between Sir Henry McMahon His Majesty's High Commissioner at Cairo and the Sherif Hussein of Mecca: July 1915-March 1916, Presented by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament by command of His Majesty. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1939. English.
Official publication of the correspondence between Henry McMahon (1862-1949), the British High Commissioner in Egypt, and Sharif Hussein bin Ali (1853-1931), the Emir of Mecca, from the years 1915-1916. The correspondence amounted to an unofficial negotiation between the British and bin Ali, who saw himself as the representative of the Arabs and sought to establish a united Arab kingdom in Greater Syria. In return for their support in establishing an Arab kingdom, the British demanded bin Ali's assistance in launching an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
This booklet includes an English translation of the original correspondence in Arabic (submitted to the British Parliament by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom). At the end of the booklet, a color folding map of "pre-war Turkish administrative districts comprised in Syria and Palestine", which according to the discussed agreement was designated for the Arab kingdom.
18 pp. + [1] folding map. Fair condition. Stains, including many dampstains (some dark). Creases and some tears. Left edge of the map cut diagonally.
Official publication of the correspondence between Henry McMahon (1862-1949), the British High Commissioner in Egypt, and Sharif Hussein bin Ali (1853-1931), the Emir of Mecca, from the years 1915-1916. The correspondence amounted to an unofficial negotiation between the British and bin Ali, who saw himself as the representative of the Arabs and sought to establish a united Arab kingdom in Greater Syria. In return for their support in establishing an Arab kingdom, the British demanded bin Ali's assistance in launching an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
This booklet includes an English translation of the original correspondence in Arabic (submitted to the British Parliament by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom). At the end of the booklet, a color folding map of "pre-war Turkish administrative districts comprised in Syria and Palestine", which according to the discussed agreement was designated for the Arab kingdom.
18 pp. + [1] folding map. Fair condition. Stains, including many dampstains (some dark). Creases and some tears. Left edge of the map cut diagonally.
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Jewish Underground Movements, Jewish Immigration, British Detention Camps in Cyprus
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Jewish Underground Movements, Jewish Immigration, British Detention Camps in Cyprus