Author: Rosenthal, Eric.
Title: On Change Through the Years. A History of Share Dealing in South Africa.
Description: Flesch Financial Publications (1968). Blue cloth boards. 271pp illustrated oblong 4to. Ownership inscription. faded around spine. a G+ copy in the original plastic transparent dustwrapper (rubbed & slightly shrunken as often). contents excellent Did you know of the Pretoria Stock Exchange, or the Potchefstroom Sock Exchange? Not to mention two more exchanges in Barberton!. Tells the story from 1291 when the very first Joint Stock Company was founded in Genoa with the aim of besting the merchants of Venice on the basis that a sailing route around Southern Africa should be more profitable than the overloaded caravan trails then taking goods to Europe from Asia.

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