Young America in Wall-Street.

£300 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

George Francis Train (1829-1904) was an eccentric American businessman and traveller. He is most well-known for (most likely) inspiring Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days and its protagonist Phileas Fogg, as Train accomplished a similar feat in 1870. The present work provides an overview of American finance of the time.

• Year: 1857

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