Author: William N. Goetzmann [ed]; Catherine Labio [ed]; K. Geert Rouwenhorst [ed]; Tomothy G. Young [ed]; Robert J. Shiller
Title: The Great Mirror of Folly Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720
Description: New Haven , Yale University Press , 2013. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first edition of this work on the crash of 1720 with a foreword by American economist Robert J. Shiller, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, second printing. Illustrated throughout with monochrome and full colour vignettes. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. This work was edited by a host of specialists in the field of economics and includes a foreword by American economist and author Robert J. Shiller. This work provides a comprehensive study of Europe's first stock market crash in 1720 with the main focus being on the anonymous Dutch work titled 'Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid (The Great Mirror of Folly). The work in focus, published in 1720, was a unique and informative record of the financial crisis and it's culture effects. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. The wrap is excellent with only slight marks. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Fine . Ill.: None stated. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: First edition Illustrated Finances Economics Illustrated Crash of 1720 Europe None stated


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