?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
South Sea Bubble. Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid.
[Amsterdam]: [no printer], 1720.
First edition, folio, title page printed in red and black, illustrated with a total of seventy-four (of seventy-six) plates, including one bound as frontispiece, including full page and folding satirical plates, some with verses, maps, a set of playing cards, all mocking those sucked into the South Sea Bubble controversy; bound in handsome full Dutch calf elaborately paneled with sponge-decorated compartments, gilt ruling and corner tools, and large gilt central lozenge, head of spine chipped with loss, otherwise an attractive binding, 15 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.
"Of the volume's significance in economic literature there can be no doubt. [...] In neither [England nor France] did there appear such a stout and extravagant piece as this Dutch volume. Constituted of folio size, its bulk is made up largely of satirical plates. [...] No two specimens, even of approximately the same actual issue date, are exactly the same." (cf. Cole's The Great Mirror of Folly, an Economic-Bibliographical Study, 1949.
