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Description
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with the reprint of comedies and satires, and with a description of bubble playing cards offers the student a unique historical document, the like of which was not thrown up by the speculative manias in either France or England" (Cole, The Great Mirror of Folly… An Economic-Bibliographical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 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 collectors couple 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.
Reference: Goldsmiths' 5879. Howes G442. Kress 3217. Sabin 28932.
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