Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Palestine & Near East – Seven Volumes of Issues – 1926-1933 – Many Photographs – Lithographic Advertisements Designed by Ze'ev Raban

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Palestine & Near East – Economic Magazine. A Fortnightly for Trade, Industry & Agriculture. Tel-Aviv, 1926-1933. English. Seven volumes.
Seven volumes of Palestine & Near East – Volume 1: issues 1-12, 1926; Volume 2: issues 1-18, 1927; Volume 3: issues 1-24, 1928-1929; Volume 4: issues 1-22, 1929-1930; Volume 5: issues 1-24, 1930-1931; Volume 6: issues 1-24, 1931-1932; Volume 7: issues 1-22, 1932-1933. Some double issues.
Some issues are dedicated to tourism, the census of the Yishuv, trains in Palestine, public works, settlement plans, Tel-Aviv, citrus fruit, the Palestine and Near East Exhibition, and more. With contributions by leaders and public figures such as Ussishkin, Dizengoff, Weizmann and Rupin alongside researchers such as Vilnay, and many others.
The issues include many advertisements, maps, illustrations and photographs. Five issues include color lithographs – an advertisement for "Jaffa" oranges and an advertisement for "'Lord' Jaffa Oranges", both designed by Ze'ev Raban (the "Jaffa Oranges" advertisement appears in four different issues; the"'Lord' Jaffa Oranges" advertisement appears in five different issues). The logo of the magazine was designed by Pesach Ir-Shai.
7 volumes (146 issues). Size and condition vary.
British Mandate for Palestine, Illigal Immigration, British Detention Camps, The Israeli War of Independence, the State of Israel
British Mandate for Palestine, Illigal Immigration, British Detention Camps, The Israeli War of Independence, the State of Israel