Statistical Handbook of Jewish Palestine, 1947

Printed by "Hauman" Press, Jerusalem, with bilingual English/Hebrew title pages. Original Mandatory Palestine price of "950 Mils" printed on the dust jacket confirms this as a genuine period copy, sold before the founding of the State of Israel in May 1948. An official statistical compilation by the Jewish Agency's Department of Statistics, published the same year as the UN Partition Plan vote, covering immigration, population, agriculture, trade, and labor data used to make the demographic and economic case before UNSCOP. Currently the only known copy for sale anywhere; held otherwise only in a small number of academic research libraries, including Stanford and via HathiTrust. Dust jacket present but used: foxing and staining to front and rear panels, chipped and torn corners, edge wear consistent with the period paper stock. Jacket complete and intact, not detached, artwork still bright. Text block sound with age toning only.