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SOUTH SEA BUBBLE Het groote Tafereel der dwaasheid, FIRST EDITION, [Amsterdam, 1720] image 1
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SOUTH SEA BUBBLE Het groote Tafereel der dwaasheid, FIRST EDITION, [Amsterdam, 1720] image 3
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SOUTH SEA BUBBLE
Het groote Tafereel der dwaasheid, FIRST EDITION, [Amsterdam, 1720]

20 November 2024, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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SOUTH SEA BUBBLE

Het groote Tafereel der dwaasheid, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 70 engraved plates (most double-page, some folding), 2 laid down, a few leaves with marginal tears, one bound before the title torn, occasional toning and spotting, near contemporary mottled calf gilt, rubbed with small loss at foot of spine [Kress 3217; Sabin 28932], folio (395 x 245mm.), [Amsterdam, 1720]

Footnotes

FIRST EDITION OF THE CELEBRATED SATIRICAL WORK ABOUT THE 'MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE'. "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). Sabin notes the number of plates can vary from 60 to 74.

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