Map of Palestine, 1926 (colour litho)

Palästina-Wirtschafts-Atlas. Berlin: Orient-Verlag, [1926]. 30 colour-printed maps and charts, four of which folding, together with contents leaf. (Contents leaf fractionally creased at head.) Original cloth-backed card portfolio, embossed title in blue on upper cover (one flap neatly repaired along fold, extremities faintly browned). FINE COPY of the second edition of this extremely scarce atlas with attractive graphic design. Trietsch was born in Dresden, Germany, before moving to New York, where he studied Jewish migration. In 1895 he proposed the Jewish colonization of Cyprus. Later, in 1897, he attended the First Zionist Congress at Basel, Switzerland, where he was one of only four Americans in attendance and the only American delegate. Sometime in the early 20th century Trietsch moved back to Germany and settled in Berlin. There, he published material, such as the present lot, to promote the Zionist cause and emigration to Palestine. He himself settled in Palestine in 1932. ONLY ONE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION AND ONE COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION CAN BE TRACED IN INSTITUTIONS (Kiel and Vienna respectively). The maps and charts cover Jewish workers in Palestine, Jewish land ownership in Palestine, population density of Palestine, overview of Jewish industries in Palestine, Palestine imports and exports, Jewish capital investment in Palestine, etc.