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Nathaniel Paine on Early Massachusetts Currency

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Nathaniel Paine on Early Massachusetts Currency
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Paine, Nathaniel. (REMARKS ON THE EARLY PAPER CURRENCY OF MASSACHUSETTS. READ BEFORE THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, APRIL 25, 1866). (Boston: American Antiquarian Society, April 1866). 8vo, disbound. Pages 25-90; 1 lithographic plate, 3 lithographic text illustrations. In homemade card covers. Very good or so. Harry Bass's copy, ex July 14-15, 1972 Katen Bradfield sale, lot 1370. The first appearance in print of this well-researched essay. A very rare limited edition with photographic illustrations was subsequently issued. Appended is a most interesting List of Books and Pamphlets, in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society, at Worcester, which refer to the Colonial or Continental Paper-Currency of the United States. Thirty works are listed, dating from 1714 to 1866. Not in the Fuld Library sales. Sigler 1974. Ex Bass Sale 4 (Kolbe Sale 80), lot 462.