Sepher HaTe'udot.

AUCTION 46 | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art

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Lot 170

(ISRAEL, STATE OF)

Sepher HaTe'udot.

Stapled to title-page, Typed Postcard Signed by President Yitzchak Ben-Zvi and his wife Rachel Yanna'it--Ben-Zvi, on letterhead of the President of the State of Israel. Crisp, clean copy. Original printed wrappers, lower portion of spine frayed. Sm. folio

Jerusalem: Raphael Chaim Hakohen 1949

Est: $500 - $700

Collection of State Documents issued from the time of the establishment of the Va'ad Le'umi in the immediate aftermath of the British conquest of Eretz Israel, until the formal establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The note from President Ben-Zvi, dated 19 Menachem Av, 1959, is addressed to Peretz Carmeli in recognition of his defense of Jerusalem thirty years earlier during the riots of August 1929 ("Me'ora'ot Tarpa"t)