Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

71 c (ECONOMICS.) Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de Opkomst,Voortgang en Ondergang der Actie, Bubbel, enWindnegotie, inVrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gepleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX. 72 engraved plates, comprising 68 (of 74) engraved plates from the main series and 4 from the supplementary series. [2], 25, [1]; 52; 31 [i. e., 29]; 8; 9 pages. 5 parts in one volume. Folio, 390x242 mm, contemporary Dutch mottled calf gilt-tooled to panel design of concentric historiated and floral rolls around large center lozenge with drawer handle and ornamental tools in corners, rebacked; occasional browning and marginal stains on text leaves, most plates clean, text at bottom of plate 1 torn off and restored in facsimile on laid paper, scattered repairs or marginal restoration on other plates not affecting images or text, main series plates 26 and 29 and supplementary plates 2-4 trimmed and mounted.Armorial bookplate of GeorgeWeare Tracy. [Amsterdam?], 1720 [2,000/3,000] first edition ; second state of the title and plate 65. The most elaborate publication inspired by the economic events of 1720, this work primarily satirizes Dutch manifestations of the speculative mania that led to the Mississippi Bubble in France and the South Sea Bubble in England. The regular complement of illustrations consists of 74 plates; this copy has duplicates of plates 14, 48, and 63, and lacks 5, 7, 13, 35, 46, 68, 70, 71, and 74. It also has plates 2, 3, 4, and 6 from the supplementary series found in some copies. Alden 720/114; Cole, The Great Mirror of Folly, pages 23-35. 70 c (ECONOMICS.) Child,Josiah,Sir. A New Discourse ofTrade . . . Second Edition. [48], 238, [2] pages, including final blank. 8vo, 155x94 mm, early 19th-century sheep, spine worn, front joint partly cracked; moderate foxing at beginning and end. Embossed stamp of the library of Grove City College on title, accession number on next leaf, bookplate and deaccession stamp on front pastedown, and date due slip and card pocket on rear endpapers. Wing C3861. London: Sam. Crouch et al., 1694 [200/300] 71