Jun 07, 2017 - Sale 2450

Sale 2450 - Lot 381

Price Realized: $ 91
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
(MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE.) Missisippi of 't Wydbefaamde Gouldland de Inbeelding der Windnegotie. Engraving with two columns of verse in Dutch below. 5 3/4x7 1/4 inches images size, 14x10 1/4 inches sheet size. Very light foxing, mounting tape to edges of verso. Amsterdam, 1720

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Leaf from "Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid...", a Dutch book satirizing the rise and fall of the Mississippi and South Sea bubbles. The scene is of the promising landscape, centered on the Mississippi River, with corner vignettes of a doomed investor.