Merchant Pioneers: The House Of Mosenthal By Dolores Fleischer And Angela Caccia
Merchant Pioneers: The House Of Mosenthal By Dolores Fleischer And Angela Caccia
Hardcover
ISBN 0868500720
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers Ltd 1983 First Edition.
Used – Near Fine. This book is in mint condition. The Dust Jacket has some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
Through this sequence of fascinating biographies runs a constant thread; the belief in liberty, tolerance and a free society. The book is deeply researched but presented with a lightness of touch and a wealth of contemporary illustrations. Its publication marks the 150th anniversary of the landing at the Cape of Good Hope in 1833 of Joseph, the first pioneer of the family.
Presented by Dennis Mosenthal, Jonathan Ball, foreword by Harry Oppenheimer, chapters on places both local and international, appendicies, family trees, select bibliography, periodicals, directories and handbooks, newspapers, collections, papers ans records, archives, museums and other institutions, selected index, 356 pages, condition: very good.
Joseph Mosenthal arrived at the Cape in 1833 and within two decades had built a trading empire that spanned southern and south-central Africa.
This book is the story of that empire.
