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![DUTCH ALBUM OF ENGRAVINGS AND BROADSIDES, many collected in Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, Amsterdam: D. Onder de Linden and others, c.1720 [or later].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01584_0220_000(dutch_album_of_engravings_and_broadsides_many_collected_in_het_groote044218).jpg?w=1)
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DUTCH ALBUM OF ENGRAVINGS AND BROADSIDES, many collected in Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, Amsterdam: D. Onder de Linden and others, c.1720 [or later].
2° (368 x 255mm). 59 engraved plates, many folding or double-page, and a few leaves of letterpress. (Some plates trimmed by the binder, some window-mounted or with margins extended, some with wear at edges, some spotting.) Later vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (some warping, light soiling). Provenance: Edward Hailstone (bookplate, bought at his sale, February 1891, by:) -- A.H. Bright (bookplate, pencilled acquisition note).
A collection of striking engravings recording the first banking crash, and documenting the shocking effects of the South Sea Bubble in France, England and Holland, and placing John Law and his Mississippi company scheme squarely at the centre of the disastrous chain of events. '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' (Sabin). Cf. [for the 1720 edition]: Goldsmiths' 5879; Kress 3217; Sabin 28932.
2° (368 x 255mm). 59 engraved plates, many folding or double-page, and a few leaves of letterpress. (Some plates trimmed by the binder, some window-mounted or with margins extended, some with wear at edges, some spotting.) Later vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (some warping, light soiling). Provenance: Edward Hailstone (bookplate, bought at his sale, February 1891, by:) -- A.H. Bright (bookplate, pencilled acquisition note).
A collection of striking engravings recording the first banking crash, and documenting the shocking effects of the South Sea Bubble in France, England and Holland, and placing John Law and his Mississippi company scheme squarely at the centre of the disastrous chain of events. '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' (Sabin). Cf. [for the 1720 edition]: Goldsmiths' 5879; Kress 3217; Sabin 28932.
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