Buy this book on-line George Reinhart : Volkart Brothers: In commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the foundation: 1851 - 1926Winterthur, Switzerland: Volkart Brothers, 1926
Hardback, first edition, very good condition,10x7 inches , no dust-jacket, publisher's original peach clothboards with peach blocking to silver spine - lightly mottle stained all over and bumped at edges, 81 pages, internally clean tight and bright, two light pencil annotations in the margins, good quality b/w photo illustrations, 2 coloured maps (world map showing branches and affiliates, map of india showing branches and factories)----- A history of the famous Swiss trading house (since 1989 renamed Volcafe by the ERB group), which operated in India, Ceylon (Galle), Singapore, China (Shanghai) and Japan (Osaka). In 1851 two brothers, Salomon and Johann Georg Volkart, founded Volkart Brothers Winterthur (Switzerland) and Bombay (India). The main purpose of this company was to engage in trade of cotton, coffee and industrial goods between Europe and the Indian subcontinent.. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of George Reinhart : Volkart Brothers: In commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the foundation: 1851 - 1926. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri rari, libri antichi, incunabula, used books and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |