Het Groote Tafereel Der Dwaasheid. Vertoonende De Opkomst, Voortgang En Ondergamg Der Actie, Bubbel En Windnegotie, In Vrankryk, Engeland, En De Nederlanden, Gepleegt In Den Jaare MDCCXX. [Translation: The Great Mirror of Folly, Showing the Rise, Progress, and Downfall of the Bubble in Stocks and Windy Speculation, Especially in France, England , and the Netherlands in the Year 1720.
Amsterdam: 1720.
Rubricated title, 25, (1), 52, 31, 10 pages + 74 copper engraved plates, 58 folding, including 3 maps (2 folding) and 1 plate laid in. Bookplate of Dutch writer Jan Te Winkel pasted on upper corner of title page. Light dampstain on the top margin of some plates. Folio, full contemporary mottled calf, elaborately gilt spine and covers, black leather spine label, rubbed at corners and bottom of spine. Amsterdam: 1720. Very good(+).
Contemporary Dutch account of the Mississippi Land bubble. A renowned monument for the speculative mania of 1720: The great mirror of folly, showing the rise, progress, and downfall of the bubble in stocks and windy speculation in France, England, and the Netherlands. It constitutes a collection of mostly satirical plates on the operations of John Law in France and the South Sea Bubble in England, together with the text of the charters of speculative companies in Holland and a number of satyrical plays and comedies published during the bubble. The first text-part reprints the charters of some 30 speculative companies of commerce, navigation and assurance' established or at least projected in Holland between June and October 1720. The following parts contain comedies and poetry published during the mania, an explanation of the large print with playing cards known as April-kaart'. The book is divided into six sections, with no general table of contents. The first part contains the articles of various Dutch companies. The second section consists of comedies and farces; the third part, poems, often containing street language; the fourth part, descriptions of playing cards satirizing speculators; the fifth part, four letters to "N.N."; and the sixth section, chiefly pictures. A.H. Cole, The Great Mirror of Folly (Boston, 1949); Kress 3217; Sabin 28932.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good(+)
Edition: First
Language: Dutch
Price: $11,000.00
Item #297394