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WAERMONDT & GAERGOEDT. Eerste T'Samen-spraeck Tusschen Waermondt Ende Gaergoedt, Nopende de opkomste ende ondergang van Flora. --Tweede T-Samen-spraeck. -- Register van de Prijsen der Bloemen. -- Troost-Brief, aen alle Bedroefde Bloemmisten. -- Floraes Sotte-Bollen. Amsterdam: Cornelis Danckaertz, 1643. 5 parts in one volume, 8° (136 x 87mm). (Small wormtrack in final leaves affecting a few letters, 2 ll. shaved at edge with slight loss.) Later boards.
WAERMONDT & GAERGOEDT. De drie t-Zamenspraeken tusschen Waermondt en Gaergoedt ... tweden Druck. Haarlem: Johannes Marshoorn, 1734. 8° (157 x 95mm). 1 folding engraved plate. (A few leaves lightly dampstained, small repair to title touching 2 letters.) 19th-century red leather-backed boards (scuffed).
--And two other volumes, being another copy of each edition. The second copy of the 1734 edition contains a plate different from the first.
RARE. These fictitious conversations between Waermondt & Gaergoedt arose in the aftermath of the tulip frenzy in the Netherlands in the early 17th-century. Once the domain of the aristocracy in their exoticism, tulips had become increasingly popular, so that by the 1630s more and more people were entering the trade as merchants. Prices tripled by 1636 and speculation in the tulips was rife, resulting in paper, rather than bulbs, being the means of trade. The great crash came in 1637, and the poor, who had been particularly attracted to this apparent route to easy wealth, suffered the most. These conversations satirize the trade, pointing out its pitfalls and offering condolences to those who fall under its spell, and they are thus a virtual exposé of those heady years. The 1734 edition contains an image in reverse of Pieter Nolpe's (1613/14-1652/53) famous allegory of the tulip trade, entitled Floraes Gecks-Kap and depicting Flora seated on an ass with tulip merchants dealing within a huge fool's cap. Nolpe's drawing was sold in our Amsterdam saleroom in 1989; it was first published as an engraving in 1637. (4)
WAERMONDT & GAERGOEDT. De drie t-Zamenspraeken tusschen Waermondt en Gaergoedt ... tweden Druck. Haarlem: Johannes Marshoorn, 1734. 8° (157 x 95mm). 1 folding engraved plate. (A few leaves lightly dampstained, small repair to title touching 2 letters.) 19th-century red leather-backed boards (scuffed).
--And two other volumes, being another copy of each edition. The second copy of the 1734 edition contains a plate different from the first.
RARE. These fictitious conversations between Waermondt & Gaergoedt arose in the aftermath of the tulip frenzy in the Netherlands in the early 17th-century. Once the domain of the aristocracy in their exoticism, tulips had become increasingly popular, so that by the 1630s more and more people were entering the trade as merchants. Prices tripled by 1636 and speculation in the tulips was rife, resulting in paper, rather than bulbs, being the means of trade. The great crash came in 1637, and the poor, who had been particularly attracted to this apparent route to easy wealth, suffered the most. These conversations satirize the trade, pointing out its pitfalls and offering condolences to those who fall under its spell, and they are thus a virtual exposé of those heady years. The 1734 edition contains an image in reverse of Pieter Nolpe's (1613/14-1652/53) famous allegory of the tulip trade, entitled Floraes Gecks-Kap and depicting Flora seated on an ass with tulip merchants dealing within a huge fool's cap. Nolpe's drawing was sold in our Amsterdam saleroom in 1989; it was first published as an engraving in 1637. (4)