THE NATURE AND USES OF MONEY AND MIXED CURRENCY, with a History of the Wickaboag Bank

by Amasa Walker

$225 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Boston, MA : Crosby, Nichols & Company, 117 Washington Street, 1857. First edition. 23 cm. 83 pp. printed orange wrappers, soiled with chipping along spine. Uncommon. Son of a blacksmith, lacking a college education, Amasa Walker was a self educated businessman. He became a Jacksonian, and an abolitionist who was part of the Underground Railroad and a founder of Oberlin College. He served in both the Massachusetts House and Senate and was a U.S.

• Binding: Wrappers

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