Israel as Health Resort
SHARNOPOLSKY, Samuel. Guide to Palestine. Palestine - Land of Health Resorts. ~i~Tel Aviv, "Hashachar". [c. 1931].
8vo. Original cloth, illustrated and lettered in gilt; pp. [iv], 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, ff. [ii], 29, [1], pp. 16, 16, 11, [5], 16, [16], 16, 16, 16, 15, 16, 16, [iv]; highly illustrated throughout, cloth a little marked, printed on varying paper stock of different colours (light marginal toning); a very good copy.
A bilingual Hebrew and English guidebook for Eretz Yisrael as destination of immigration and as health resort. Sharnopolsky had been involved in health resorts in Odessa up to his Aliyah in 1927. In Mandate Palestine he promoted health facilities and spas mostly in and around Tel Aviv. Both parts of the book, the English and the Hebrew one open with illustrated essays on leading Zionists. As often the case with these books the illustrated advertisements can be very interesting as well and sometimes even amusing.
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