South Sea Bubble.- Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, Vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang

South Sea Bubble.- Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, Vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie ..., title in red and black, 71 engraved plates and maps only (including map of Louisiana), of which 55 folding, 3 with tears and neat repairs verso, 5 with splits to folds, 5 with short tears, occasional marginal spotting, 2 ff. with tiny rust-holes affecting odd letter, pencil signature to early blank, bookplates, contemporary calf, gilt lozenge to centre of boards, gilt borders with crowns at inner corners, rubbed and mottled, neat old repairs to spine extremities, bumping to corners, [Goldsmith 5879; Kress 3217], folio, [Amsterdam], 1720 [but later].*** An early edition of "The Great Mirror of Folly", made up of "various pieces in prose and verse which together with the prints, pertain to the speculative period in Holland coincident with the 'Mississippi bubble' in France." (Kress)This work is notoriously difficult to date as various titles, all dated 1720, were used throughout the subsequent print runs. Sabin also notes that copies can contain anywhere between 60 and 74 plates, although the Kress copy contains 85.Provenance: Bookplates of R. Kirk, Greenmont and Otto Orren Fisher.