Mishpat HaKotel [“The Trial of the Wall - Report of the International Committee on the Western Wall.”]

AUCTION 70 | Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autographed Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 275
(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Mishpat HaKotel [“The Trial of the Wall - Report of the International Committee on the Western Wall.”]

Photographic plates. Hebrew text. pp. 164. Ex-library, browned. Original pictorial boards, stained and worn, spine damaged. Sm. 4to.

Tel Aviv: 1931

Est: $300 - $500
Following the 1929 riots, the British Mandate authorities set up an international committee of inquiry to resolve “the question of the rights and claims of the Jews and the Moslems with regard to the Wailing Wall.”