Author: MITSUI GOMEI KAISHA -
Title: The House of Mitsui. A record of the Three Centuries: Past history and present enterprises. Orig. edn.
Description: Tokyo, Mitsui Gomei Kaisha, 1933. Small 8°. Orig. boards, title in black type on front boards. 74pp. frontispiece (portrait), 3 other portraits, all with original tissue-guards, ills. on 23 black/white plates after photographs, mainly depicting office-buildings of the conglomerate,1 coloured plate after an original wood-block print (Mitsui Shops in Yedo, by Hiroshige, and a fold. coloured plate, after an original woodblock print (the First Modern Mitsui Building Erected in 1872), table of contents and illustrations, statistics and tables in text of finance nature. The founding, history and development of the Mitsui Gomei Kaisha (Mitsui Partnership Company), one of the oldest and largest japanese conglomerates (:) finance and banking, mining, warehouses and department stores, life-insurance and other holdings. Very interesting for the economic development of Japan. (boards somewhat spotted and soiled, spine-ends damaged, paper a little browning, NO signs of brittleness however).

Keywords: japan history commerce economy banking mitsui gomei kaisha conglomerate finance banking mining ttrade far east asia