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Palestine – The Creation of the British Mandate

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£ 2 000
Auction dateClassic
28.04.2021 11:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 519389
Lot 98 | Palestine – The Creation of the British Mandate
Palestine – The Creation of the British Mandate
Final Drafts of the Mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine for the Approval of the Council of the League of Nations. [Cmd. 1500.] [Sold with:] – Mandate for Palestine. [Cmd. 1708.] [Sold with:] – Franco-British Convention of December 23, 1920, on points connected with the Mandates for Syria and the Lebanon, Palestine and Mesopotamia. [Cmd. 1195.] [And:] – Agreement between His Majesty's Government and the French Government respecting the boundary line between Syria and Palestine from the Mediterranean to El Hammé. [Cmd. 1910.] London: HMSO, 1921-1923.
Rare Command Papers laying the foundations for the creation of the British Mandate of Palestine., key documents in the region’s history. These papers define Palestine as the area on both sides of the river Jordan, while in the later version, Cmd 1785 (see following lot), regions east of the river became Trans-Jordan: a major distinction for local communities and in the history of Jordan. The third-named work established the northern border of Palestine. The second item is principally a reply to Cardinal Gasparri, and discusses Article 14 of the Mandate concerning the existing rights to Holy Places and religious buildings within Palestine. Khalidi & Khadduri not recording the first-named; 1537, 1535, 1648.

4 volumes, octavo (335 x 215mm [Cmd 1195], 245 x 155mm and 235 x 145mm [Cmd 1910]). 13pp, 8pp, 4pp. and 14pp. with 3 folding maps (light soiling and wear, the second work with punch-hole, and inked shelf-mark on the verso of last leaf). Self-wrappers, stapled (staples rusting, fourth work disbound and inserted in modern wrappers with clear mylar cover).
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