?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(INVESTMENT SCHEMES.) 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. 71 engraved plates, most double-page or folding. Folio, 16x10 inches, contemporary mottled calf with gilt rules and central lozenge, boards detached, i.e. in need of binding; light edge wear and small tears, a few engravings clipped and laid down as issued. [Amsterdam, 1720]
Profusion of engraved broadsides pictorially reproaching several disastrous economic events of 1720, primarily satirizing the Dutch speculative mania that led to the Mississippi Bubble in France and the South Sea Bubble in England. Collation varies, but presently a large collection. Of note are maps of Louisiana and the Mississippi River valley, and the "Very Famous Island of Madhead".
