The Egyptian Bourse

by Samir Raafat
Forewords by Prince Abbas Hilmi and Youssef Boutros Ghali
Hardcover| Limited Edition | 114 pages | 54 illustrations | 30×40 cm | English | 2014 | ISBN 9789775864161

The rise and fall of the Egyptian Bourse from ‘the sale of the century’ of Egypt’s Suez Canal shares by Khedive Ismail in 1875 to the Free Officers coup of 1952.

In this large-format album, images of choice stock and bond certificates issued by companies registered in the Egyptian Bourse will delight scripophilists, notaphilists, and economists, and anyone interested in early twentieth-century Egyptian financial history and the aesthetic beauty of these collectors’ items.