Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomste, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in ... MDCCXX. [Amsterdam: D. Onder de Linden], 1720. 2° (391 x 250mm). Engraved frontispiece (defective), portrait of John Law and 72 plates, many double-page and/or folding (many plates torn with loss, some waterstaining). Contemporary Dutch mottled calf gilt (slightly rubbed, head and foot of spine defective). 'This great Theatre of Folly, representing the origin, progress, and downfall of the South Sea Bubble in France, England and Holland, is an exceedingly curious collection of emblematical plates and caricatures on the scheme of J. Law and the Mississippi Company and the imitations of it in Holland, with their fatal results. Not a few of the scenes here depicted have been reproduced in the New York Exchange ... The number of the plates in copies varies from sixty to seventy-four', Sabin 28932; Goldsmiths' 5879; Kress 3217. Sold not subject to return.