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PALESTINE – ARAB REBELLION – Three maps showing British military operations during the Arab Rebellion. 1936-1939. Military and police operational maps used during the Arab Rebellion, with contemporary annotations relating to the deployment of the Royal Ulster Rifles. 2nd Battalion RUR arrived in Palestine on 28 November 1937. At this time, the Arab Rebellion was underway, and in September 1937, the British declared martial law. The battalion was responsible for central and northern Palestine, including the important towns of Jenin and Nablus, around which most Arab terrorist activity was focused. The other map in the lot gives extensive detail on the locations of the Jewish Settlement Police at this time. SURVEY OF PALESTINE. [Jerusalem: c.1937]. Folding chromolithographic map of northern Mandate Palestine to the scale of 1:100,000, printed on 6 sheets, dissected, and mounted on linen, forming two separate sections (northern section 666 x 752mm at greatest extent; southern section 750 x 790mm), the scales and keys cut out and remounted. The map over-inked in different colours with 3 main areas labelled 'Tarcol' (centred on Tulkarem), 'Nabcol' (centred on Nablus) and 'Jencol' (centred on Jenin) each denoting the area of responsibility for units of the 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles during the Arab Revolt; 2 RUR positions, pill boxes and police posts are demarcated on the northern section. This map is quite plainly a hastily organised operations map composed of sheets from the second state of the Survey of Palestine's 1:100,000 mapping. This map was produced in 4 formats; these sheets are from the 'provisional' format, printed in 4 colours only as opposed to the 'full' 7 colour map, designed for quick production due to the pressure of the Arab rebellion and the need for accurate cartography. The northern section of map is intriguing, as it shows pencil annotations extending across the border into Lebanon and Syria. Dov Gavish, A Survey of Palestine under the British Mandate , 1920-1948, (London, 2005) pp. 219-239. LIFSHITZ, F. Map of Palestine showing land in Jewish ownership . Palestine Land Development Co. Ltd. [Jerusalem:] 1938. Second edition, folding chromolithographic map of Mandate Palestine to the scale of 1:250,000 (sheet 1000 x 63mm). With colour-printed areas denoting Jewish land ownership, this over-painted with 10 different colours each denoting the area of responsibility for a company of Jewish Settlement Police, together with ink and pencil lines demarcating three different police districts, with a large key to this effect in the Mediterranean Sea, just touching title cartouche.