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FIRST INTERNATIONAL STOCK MARKET CRASH (MISSISSIPPI 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. 71 (instead of 74) satiric engraved plates, including many double-page or folding. [2], 25, [1]; 52; 31 [i. e., 29]; 8; 10 pages; lacks the engraved plate list. 5 parts in one volume. Folio, 392x239 mm, 18th-century gilt-panelled mottled calf with arabesque centerpiece on covers; minor dampstaining along top edge of some plates, clean tear in plate 51. handsome copy. [Amsterdam?], 1720
first edition; later issue, with part 5 in 10 pages and plate 65 (the sheet of playing cards) in the second state titled Pasquins Windkaart. The most elaborate publication inspired by the economic events of 1720, this work primarily satirizes Dutch manifestations of the speculative mania that led to the Mississippi Bubble in France and the South Sea Bubble in England. The regular complement of illustrations consists of 74 plates. This copy lacks plates 9, 27, 34, 38, 44, 73, and 74, and has plates 2, 3, 4, and 6 from the supplementary series found in some copies. Alden 720/114; Cole, The Great Mirror of Folly, pages 23-35.
