Auction house Safra & Saifa is pleased to invite you to participate in our upcoming auction -
Palestine, Zionism and Judaism, ancient books, travel books, Hebrew language, original manuscripts,
Meir Ariel, Shaul Tsernikhovsi, Meir Wieseltier and others, autographs, engravings and maps
Here are some rare and special items
*William Hurd – A New Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs of the Whole World – London, Late 18th Century – Many Engravings
* Album - Landscapes in the Holy Land and Syria - with hand-colored engravings - London 1823
*A Set of Hand-Colored Maps – Planning the Construction of Ports in Haifa and Jaffa – Early British Mandate in Eretz Israel
*הארסט וועסעל דער נאצישער קדוש - A rare publication that came out in Warsaw against the backdrop of Nazi atrocities against Jews after the murder of Horst Wessel
* Meir Wieseltier - Poem - Tiyul BeEyona – Limited Edition – Dedication to Nahoum Cohen and signed by the poet
*Fancy edition - Dictionary of the Bible , edited by Sir William Smith, London 1863 - 3 volumes.
*Jacob Steinhardt - 2 drawings in pencil, plate for etching, the engraving
*Jerusalem - ancient map, 1565
and more others
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LOT 41:
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Start price:
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3,800
Buyer's Premium: 23%
VAT: 17%
On commission only
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A Set of Hand-Colored Maps – Planning the Construction of Ports in Haifa and Jaffa – Early British Mandate in Eretz Israel
At the end of World War I (the Sykes-Picot Agreement), a question arose regarding the location of a port that would best serve the economic and political interests of the mandate government.
In those days there were two ports in Israel.
1. Jaffa Port The port that was most active in the country and through which most goods and all passengers passed
2. In Haifa - there was only a small pier.
After examining both options, and even though the port of Jaffa was much more active than the dock in Haifa, the British Colonial Office decided to prefer Haifa Bay in order to create a territorial continuum from the eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf and establish in Haifa a point of departure for the oil pipeline line from Iraq.
The merchants of Jaffa revolted against the decision and established the "Committee for the Construction of the Port of Jaffa" headed by the Zionist agronomist and businessman Shmuel Tolkovski and with the approval of High Commissioner Herbert Samuel.
The members of the committee asked to conduct a professional survey at their expense and Samuel did not object.
Therefore, in the second half of 1920, the committee established contact with a Dutch company from Rotterdam called Boss Dordrecht (or: Bos) and an engineer on its behalf, A. Van Koninsberg (Van Koninsberg) arrived in Israel.
The maps before us are the maps made by the Dutch company and they show the plan for the development of the ports in Jaffa and Haifa.
10 maps show the plan to expand the port in Jaffa and 9 the plan to establish the port in Haifa.
The maps were printed on high-quality and particularly thick papers, suitable for watercolor painting, and all the phases of the port's construction planned in delicate, accurate and particularly beautiful watercolors were added to them (the quality of the paper meant that the colors were kept in bright tones and the maps were kept almost intact).
19 maps 74*56 cm.
The cylinder - height - 59 cm
Radius - 14 cm
A few stains. On the upper margins of the Haifa port maps are attached (new) adhesive papers, which were used to hang the maps.
Good general condition
*The item was displayed in the Haifa Museum
