تقرير اللجنة الملكية لفلسطين [Report of the Royal Commission to Palestine]. Jerusalem, [1937]. Arabic.
Arabic translation of the report of the Peel Commission, the royal commission of inquiry that was established in 1936 subsequent to the great Arab revolt in Palestine. The report contains nine (folding) maps of Palestine – a map depicting the settled areas of the country, a map depicting Jewish-owned lands, a map depicting the administrative borderlines of Mandatory Palestine, a map depicting the partition plan of the Peel Commission and more.
The Peel Commission, headed by Lord William Robert Peel, came to Palestine in November 1936 in order to study the reasons for the great Arab revolt and recommend a solution for the Jewish-Arab conflict. In July 1937, after holding dozens of meetings and taking statements from both parties, the Commission published its conclusions and introduced the first partition plan of Palestine.
15, 528 pp + 9 folding maps, 24 cm. Good condition. Foxing. Open tears to spine and tears to edges of cover (one of them reinforced with tape). The front cover is detached. The back cover, to which eight maps are stapled, is partly detached (a long tear along the spine).