![SOUTH SEA BUBBLE -- Het Groote tafereel der dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den jaare MDCCXX. [Amsterdam: D. Onder de Linden], 1720 [?but later]. 2° (398 x 248mm). Title printed in red and black, folding engraved 'Register' of the plates, 74 engraved plates and maps, 44 double-page and 15 folding, some with letterpress text (occasional light spotting or browning, a few small rustholes to text, a few small single plates mounted). Contemporary Dutch mottled and panelled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments (extremities lightly rubbed, corners a little bumped).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/CSK/2007_CSK_05136_0272_000(014341).jpg?w=1)
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SOUTH SEA BUBBLE -- Het Groote tafereel der dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den jaare MDCCXX. [Amsterdam: D. Onder de Linden], 1720 [?but later]. 2° (398 x 248mm). Title printed in red and black, folding engraved 'Register' of the plates, 74 engraved plates and maps, 44 double-page and 15 folding, some with letterpress text (occasional light spotting or browning, a few small rustholes to text, a few small single plates mounted). Contemporary Dutch mottled and panelled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments (extremities lightly rubbed, corners a little bumped).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS CELEBRATED SATIRICAL WORK ABOUT THE 'MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE' AND ITS INSTIGATORS JOHN LAW AND ANTOINE CROZAT. '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 [whose portrait appears as the third plate] and the Mississippi Company [between 1718 and 1720] and the imitations of it in Holland, with fatal results. Not a few of the scenes here depicted have been reproduced in the New York Exchange. The engravings, which illustrate the rise and fall of the great speculation, are full of humor; many of them are exceedingly ludicrous, and some very obscene. They are finely engraved on copper, and are accompanied with full descriptions in prose and poetry' (Sabin).
Goldsmiths' 5879; Kress 3217 ('there are various reasons for believing that the actual date of first publication was later than 1720'); Sabin 28932. Sabin notes the number of plates can vary from 60 to 74 although the Kress copy contains 85 plates. For this reason, this copy is sold not subject to return.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS CELEBRATED SATIRICAL WORK ABOUT THE 'MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE' AND ITS INSTIGATORS JOHN LAW AND ANTOINE CROZAT. '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 [whose portrait appears as the third plate] and the Mississippi Company [between 1718 and 1720] and the imitations of it in Holland, with fatal results. Not a few of the scenes here depicted have been reproduced in the New York Exchange. The engravings, which illustrate the rise and fall of the great speculation, are full of humor; many of them are exceedingly ludicrous, and some very obscene. They are finely engraved on copper, and are accompanied with full descriptions in prose and poetry' (Sabin).
Goldsmiths' 5879; Kress 3217 ('there are various reasons for believing that the actual date of first publication was later than 1720'); Sabin 28932. Sabin notes the number of plates can vary from 60 to 74 although the Kress copy contains 85 plates. For this reason, this copy is sold not subject to return.
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