[AANDELENHANDEL Great mirror of folly]

[AANDELENHANDEL Great mirror of folly]
The great scene of folly, showing the rise, progress and fall of Action, Bubble and Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, England, and the Netherlands, committed in the Year MDCCXX.
In-folio, [1] + [1 blank] + [8] + 25 + [1] + 52 + 31, [1 blank], 9 pp. Title in red and black. With 45 (of 47) satirical engravings of which many are double and foldable. The first three sheets loose, margins of 2 sheets too short. Bound in half calf leather, loss of paper on the shelves
First edition of a famous important and much sought work, being a collection of texts and plates satirizing the Englishman John Law, his Mississippi Company, and the international land and trading speculation in worthless shares of the South Sea Bubble of 1719-1720, which resulted in an international scandal. Later editions had more engravings. Ref. Sabin 28932, Muller, Historie prenten II p.103-124, Atlas van Stolk dl 4., pp. 233 et seq.
[Amsterdam]
for the Offspring
1720 Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.