The Commercial Guide of The Land of Israel, 1st Year, 1st Issue. [Tel Aviv? February, 1938].
A guide to businesses and commerce, government and national institutes, community committees, associations, factories, publishers, libraries, food stores, doctors, attorneys and other professionals Including business addresses and sometimes telephone numbers.
“Appearing once a week” is written at the top of the issue, but we do not know of any more issues.
[6] pages, 69 cm. Fair condition. Thin paper. Tears at folding lines, few stains.

The Palestine Agudath Netaim - Memorandum and Articles of Association. Jerusalem, 1921.
A booklet of the Agudat Netaim Association’s regulations, whose purpose was to establish agricultural settlements in Eretz Israel with private capital investments. The list of its members includes Aaron Eisenberg (the company manager and one of the founders of Rehovot), Ze’ev Gluskin, Betzalel Yaffe, Meir Dizengoff and others. On the cover, Eisenberg’s handwritten signature. English
34 pages, 22 cm. Fair condition, detached cover, foxing.

A leaf about the scrolls of Shapira, the wadi where they were supposedly found and Hebrew inscriptions in the vicinity.
Moses Wilhelm Shapira (1830-1884), an antiquities collector and dealer who lived in Jerusalem in the second half of the 19th century. He was known as a purveyor of fake artifacts as a result of two famous cases – he faked a collection of Moabite earthenware, and scrolls that were supposedly discovered in the Dead Sea region in 1883. The scrolls contained a similar version (with minor differences) of the Book of Deuteronomy. Tests carried out by The British Museum researchers and other researchers, reached the conclusion that the scrolls were forged. The scrolls were announced to be fake, Shapira left London and in 1884, he committed suicide.
23.5X18 cm. in passé-partout 35X29 cm. Good condition.

Annual – Palestine Exploration Fund, three volumes (annuals) published by the fund. London, 1911-1915.
Volumes summarizing the years: 1911, 1912-1913, 1914-1915. Contains articles on archeology , with many photographs and diagrams.
The third annual includes the study The Wilderness of Zin, by C. Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence . The British defense minister urged the fund to publicize this report as soon as possible to convince the Turks that the British operations in the Negev are only archeological, the opening remark of the annual that was published in the beginning of 1915, shows that the two authors were recruited into the army at the end of 1914 and were placed in Egypt for special missions.
3 volumes, 28.5 cm. Good condition. Foxing in the first and last leaves. Minor damage to covers.