Jerusalem: The City Plan; Preservation and Development During the British Mandate 1918-1948 by Henry Kendall, His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1948, 123pp, cloth, 10 x 12", 4to

Fair condition.  Wear and staining to front and rear boards.  Title in gilt on front board and spine.  Tips are bumped.  Wear to headcap and tail.  Illustrated endpapers.  Toning and age-staining throughout textblock.  Pocket on rear pastedown for fold-out map.  Illustrated.  Please see photos.

Mandatory Palestine was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.  After an Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire arose during the First World War in 1916, British forces drove Ottoman forces out of the Levant.  The United Kingdom had agreed in the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence that it would honor Arab independence in case of a revolt but, in the end, the United Kingdom and France divided what had been Ottoman Syria under the Sykes-Picot Agreement - an act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs.  Another issue was the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which Britain promised its support for the establishment of a Jewish "national home" in Palestine.  Mandatory Palestine was then established in 1920, and the British obtained a Mandate for Palestine from the League of Nations in 1922.