"Economic Atlas of Palestine" – Davis Trietsch – Berlin, 1926

"Economic Atlas of Palestine" – Davis Trietsch – Berlin, 1926
[Palästina Wirtschaftsatlas (Economic Atlas of Palestine), by Davis (David) Trietsch. Berlin: Orient, 1926]. German.
Thirty plates in color (four of them folded), with a variety of sketches, graphs and maps containing much information about Palestine and the Jewish people (historical borderlines of Palestine, concentration of population, population density and growth, employment, immigration, industry, import and export, and more).
David (Davis) Trietsch (1870-1935), editor, writer and Zionist activist, born in Germany, was a member of the Zionist General Council and a member of the democratic faction in the World Zionist Organization (an oppositional faction in the Zionist Organization which introduced an alternative to Herzl's ideas). He dedicated a considerable part of his time to the question of Jewish settlement and suggested to settle Jews in Cyprus as an alternative to the Uganda Scheme. He also translated and published poetry and prose, edited the journals Ost und West‏ and Palästina, authored the annual Palästina Handbuch and was one of the founders of the Jüdischer Verlag publishing house.
Enclosed is a table of contents leaf from the "Atlas of the Jewish World" (Atlas der Jüdischen Welt) – another atlas published by Trietsch in Berlin in 1926 which featured several plates that were also featured in the Economic Atlas of Palestine.
[30] loose plates, 38X25 cm. to 75X25 cm. Without the table of contents and the original portfolio (enclosed is a table of contents leaf from the "Atlas of the Jewish World"). Good condition. Some stains (mostly minor and to margins). Minor creases. Two small open tears to one map. A tear to edge of one plate.