LAST ITEM HELD MATCHING THIS TITLE STATED:

Publisher Heinemann. London Edition 1, 1968 hardcover with dustjacket. D/j. is price clipped, light wear to edges, faded along spine, now protected in clear wrap. Tan boards have gilt title and trim on spine with dark blue title surrounds, in very good condition. owners name on endpaper. Portrait frontis and black/white photographs through text. Text clean and bright, binding firm. Few dynasties have experienced more dramatic changes of fortune than the Sassoons, long known as Ôthe Rothschilds of the EastÓ. After centuries as bankers to successive Ottoman rulers and leading citizens in Baghdad, the year 1829 saw the clan suddenly faced with extinction- and the young David Sassoon was forced to flee his ancestral home. In a single generation against the turbulent background of the Opium Wars, he founded a spectacular trading empire based on Bombay with branches straddling Europe and the far East