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THE NATURE AND USES OF MONEY AND MIXED CURRENCY, with a History of the Wickaboag Bank by Walker, Amasa (1799-1875) - 1857

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THE NATURE AND USES OF MONEY AND MIXED CURRENCY, with a History of the Wickaboag Bank by Walker, Amasa (1799-1875) - 1857

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

by Walker, Amasa (1799-1875)

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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. Congressman from Massachusetts from 1862-63. [see: Joseph Dorfman's "The Economic Mind in American Civilization," (NY: 1946)].

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  • Publisher Crosby, Nichols & Company, 117 Washington Street
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  • Date Published 1857

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by WALKER, Amasa

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Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Company,, 1857. First edition, derived from Walker's articles published in Hunt's Merchant Magazine between June and September 1857, which explained the reasons for financial panics; the United States was then enduring a series of bank runs. The articles ensured Walker (1799-1875), then lecturer in political economy at Harvard, came to be seen as an expert on the subject. He later played a prominent role in the revision of laws pertaining to banking and the issuing of paper money, and published further books on economics, which did much to shape American economic thought. Octavo. Original purple watered cloth, covers panelled in blind, front cover lettered in gilt. Recent withdrawal label from Bowdoin College Library to front pastedown, their earlier blindstamp to title page and p. 56. Sunned at extremities. A good copy.
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