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RARE report on the value of secular real estate in Israel owned by former residents of German nationality or extraction by Karl Brandt (1899-1975), Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Food Research Institute at Stanford University. After being appointed Professor of Agriculture in the University of Berlin in 1929 and Director of the Institute for Agricultural Market Research, Brandt left Nazi Germany in 1933, he took up residence in the United States as Professor of Agricultural Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York and from 1938 Professor of Agricultural Economics at Stanford University. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Heidelberg and the Justus von Liebig Prize by the University of Kiel, and was the only American member of the French Academy of Agriculture and one of the few persons of German birth ever to receive the Order of Merit, France`s highest award for civil service. Contains many b&w photographic plates. 280x210mm. XII+307 pages. Grey cloth Hardcover with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Cover and spine somewhat stained and rubbed. Cover corners and spine edges bumped. Front cover bottom corner and spine hinge edges peeling. Spine upper edge worn. Several first pages bottom corner slightly wrinkled. Few pencil underlinings and Several tiny pen marks near text of pages 12-13, 15-16, 35, 45, 53, 80-82, 107, 122 and 268. Traces of erased pencil underlinings on some pages. Some pages bottom edge slightly bumped or slightly stained (no damage to text). Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare report on German property in Israel, written by a major authority in the field, is in good condition.