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PALESTINE -- MANDATE REPORTS TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
PALESTINE -- MANDATE REPORTS TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS Report on Palestine Administration . July, 1920-December 1921[-1922 and 1923 [Colonial No. 5] ]. [Continued as:] Report by His Britannic Majesty's Government on The Palestine Administration, 1923 [Colonial No. 9]. [Continued as:] Report ... on the Administration Under Mandate of Palestine and Transjordan for the year 1924 [Colonial No. 12]. [With:] Appendices to the Report ... for the year 1924 [Colonial No. 17]. [And:] Report of the High Commissioner on the Administration of Palestine 1920-1925 . [Colonial No. 15]. [Reports continued as:] Report ... to the Council of the League of Nations ... for the year 1925 [Colonial No. 20] [-1926 [Colonial No. 26], 1927 [Colonial No. 31], 1928 [Colonial No. 40], 1929 [Colonial No. 47], 1930 [Colonial No. 59], 1931 [Colonial No. 75], 1932 [Colonial No. 82], 1933 [Colonial No. 94], 1934 [Colonial No. 104], 1935 [Colonial No. 112], 1936 [Colonial No. 129], 1937 [Colonial No. 146], 1938 [Colonial No. 166]. London: HMSO, 1922-1939. 21 volumes bound in 12, 8° (240 x 150mm). 13 folding maps and diagrams, a number of which colour-printed. (Occasional faint spotting.) First 10 reports bound in in one contemporary cloth-backed vol. (one front wrapper preserved), the remainder in original olive-green printed wrappers (vol. for 1936 worn and lacking lower wrapper, last leaf torn and chipped with a few letters lost from edition line, vol. for 1938 with lower wrapper detached and spine rubbed, others with faint dogearing). Provenance : a made-up set with the first vol. with bookplate and stamps (one cancel stamp) of Newcastle upon Tyne Public Libraries -- Government of Palestine treasury stamps on 1932, 1934, 1937 and 1938 vols -- Hebrew stamp on report for 1936. COMPLETE RUN OF MANDATE REPORTS. With the transformation of OETA into a civil authority in 1920, one of Herbert Samuel's obligations as Britain's first High Commissioner of Palestine (see lot 364) was to file reports to the Colonial Office on the operations of the new civil administration. The first three reports in the present lot detail the work of this new regime. Later, when Britain was granted the Mandate for Palestine and Trans-Jordan in 1922, these reports were adapted for the Council of the League of Nations. They cover the finances and taxation, customs and trade, law and legislation, education, public health, public transport and immigration. The later reports detail the various security problems and sectarian strife in the Mandate, covering the establishment of the Palestine Gendarmerie, its transformation into the Palestine Police Force, the introduction of military units and sources and causes of violence. These reports came to an end with the beginning of the Second World War; COMPLETE SETS ARE EXTREMELY RARE IN COMMERCE. Kahlidi & Khadduri 1569, 1633, 1641-3 and 1647. Sold as a periodical, not subject to return.