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1720 ANONYMOUS - Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid.

Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid.

Maker:		ANONYMOUS
Date:		Amsterdam, 1720
Colored:		Uncolored.
Size:		365 x 250 mm / 14.4 x 9.8 inches
Condition:		2° (365 x 250mm). [2 blank] pp. , 79 copper-engraved plates and maps, most double-page and a few folding on 73 pages. Contemporary gilt-paneled mottled calf, covers with central gilt, the inner panel with floral corner pieces, spine gilt and decorated with floral tool in each compartment , raised spine, with red morocco label. With book plate of Buijnsters-Smets.

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AN EARLY ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, showing the shocking effects of the “ South Sea Bubble” in France, England and Holland, and placing John Law (1671-1729), with his Mississippi company scheme, squarely at the center of the disastrous chain of events.
This copy has 61 copper-engraved plates and maps, most double-page and a few folding on 58 pages.
This book is located in Zwijndrecht (The Netherlands) and can be seen or collected during regular business hours.

The text provides the charters of important companies floated in various Dutch cities during the period of bubble fever, and the plates expose the principals of these companies to merciless ridicule.

"The combination of such prosaic data with the numerous satirical engravings, with the reprint of comedies and satires, and with a description of bubble playing cards offers the student a unique historical document, the like of which was not thrown up by the speculative manias in either France or England" (Cole, The Great Mirror of Folly… An Economic-Bibliographical Study, p.1).

The Tafereel is perhaps an essential factor in the slow development of modern corporate organizations. "Against the joint-stock manner of business arrangements were thrown the fears engendered by this popular portrayal of the downfall of the 'windnegotie.' Possibly a mere book was really an economic force" (Cole, p.20).
'The engravings, which illustrate the rise and fall of the great speculation, are full of humor; many are exceedingly ludicrous, and some very obscene… The number of plates in copies varies from 60 to 74" (Sabin).

Including a portrait Jan Law and the AFBEELDINGHE van't zeer vermaerde Eiland GEKS-KOP. gelegen in de Actie-ze, ontdekt door Mons.r Laurens, werende bewoond door een verzameling van alderhande Volkeren. die men dezen generalen Naam (Actionisten) geest.

One of the most famous cartographic curiosities; The island of Madhead: showing a man's head, wearing a fool's cap, with bell, but with the ears of a jackass.
Cartographic features are given punning names such as the River Bubble, the Island of Despair and the town of ‘Madmandam’. Principal names within the map: QUINQUEPOIX: capital of the island, named after the headquarters of the Compagnie in the Rue Quimquempoix, Paris. R: de Seine, R. de Teems & R. de Maas: the principal rivers of the three major countries involved: the Seine (Paris), the Thames (London) and Meuse (Amsterdam). R: de Bubbel: Bubble River Z.Z. have: South Sea Haven, alluding to the English South Sea scheme. M. have: ie Mississippi haven.

Provenance : With the bookplate of Buijnsters-Smets, an impassioned Dutch book collector and author of books on the Dutch book trade.

The item is located in Zwijndrecht (The Netherlands) and can be seen or collected during regular business hours.
Read more about Speculative bubbles - The First financial crisis.

Reference: Goldsmiths' 5879. Howes G442. Kress 3217. Sabin 28932.

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