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178921651bordeaux 1789 1 feuillet plié en deux sur papier velin bleuté ligné, préimprimé en noir et manuscrit à l'encre brune sur les 3 premières pages, avec en tête un timbre fiscal en noir "Bordeaux Extraordinaire", fait à bordeaux, le 24 Avril 1789, signature manuscrite : Mainguy, HUISSIER OU SERGENT ROYAL DE LA COUR DE LA BOURSE DE BORDEAUX,
176027720PARIS Chereau 1760 une vue d'optique en couleurs, GRAVÉE A L'EAU-FORTE ET AQUARELLE SUR PAPIER DE FORMAT: 42 x 27 cm., 1760 Paris CHEREAU Editeur,
1791254901791 In-8, broché, couverture papier moderne, 43 p., 4 tableaux sur 2 planches dépliantes. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, [mars 1791].
1777432731777. Guide to the Pre-Revolutionary Commercial Court of Bordeaux France. Cour de la Bourse Bordeaux. Chappuis Jean Compiler. Instruction Generale sur la Jurisdiction Consulaire avec un Recueil des Edits Declarations Lettres-Patentes du Roi & Arrets de Parlement Donnes en Faveur de Messieurs les Juge & Consuls de la Cour de la Bourse Commune des Marchands de la Ville de Bordeaux. Ensemble l'Etablissement de deux Foires Franches & le Nom de Tous les Bourgeois qui ont ete Juges & Consuls Depuis l'Installation de la Cour de la Bourse Jusqu'a Present. Bordeaux: Chez Jean Chappuis 1777. iv 537 11 pp. Quarto 9-1/2" x 7-1/4". Contemporary tree calf gilt frames to boards raised bands gilt ornaments and lettering piece to spine marbled edges and endpapers. Moderate rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends and corners joints just starting. Several light scuffs and some worm holes to calf covering boards occasional worming to margins with negligible loss to text crack to text block between front free endpaper and following leaf. Attractive woodcut head-piece and tail-pieces. Occasional dampstaining to head and foot of text block early annotations to front endleaves interior otherwise clean. A solid copy of an uncommon title. $250. Later edition. Published by order of the Commercial Court of Bordeaux this book is a collection of laws relating to its jurisdiction compiled from the Coutume of Bordeaux completed 1527 legislation of the local Parlement and royal edicts. Texts of related documents are included as well. Also a procedural guide it is an invaluable guide to the regulation of trade in one of France's most important commercial centers during the final decade of the Bourbon monarchy. This appears to be a reissue of a book published in 1710. No copies of this edition on OCLC or KVK. This edition not in Goldsmiths' or the British Museum Catalogue. unknown books
1751025780Ch. Ant. Jombert, Paris 1751. 2te corrigierte und erweiterte Auflage Halbleder Gut
17205138<p><em>The World's first Global Stock Market Bubble Illustrated</em></p><p>STOCK MARKET - THE GREAT MIRROR OF FOLLY. Het groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid.The great mirror of folly showing the rise progress and downfall of the bubble in stocks and windy speculation especially in France England and the Netherlands in the year 1720 being a collection of all the terms and proposals of the incorporated companies. with prints comedies and poems published by various amateurs scoffing at this terrible and deceitful trade. n.p. Amsterdam after 1720.</p><p>Folio pp. ii 25 1 52 26 29-31 thus complete 1 8 10 engraved frontispiece Muller plate No.1 title printed in red and black Cole version 2 text in double columns and 74 engraved plates 2 of them in duplicate mostly double-page and/or folding including maps portraits playing cards broadsides; text a little browned due to paper quality some foxing; plates generally clean and crisp one plate cropped at foremargin with loss of text but not to image; contemporary full mottled panelled calf spine gilt in compartments sides with rich gilt decoration head and tail of spine repaired corners strengthened; a good copy.</p><p>The classic rare literary and pictorial satire on John Law's 'system' and the wild speculation in stocks at that time. As part of Law's well-conceived plan to finance the French national debt funds were raised a portion of which was invested in the 'Compagnie d'Occident' which was given rights to exploit trade in Louisiana and Canada. The underlying plan was sound but unprecedented wild speculation sent the share price rocketing to unrealistic levels. Inevitably the 'bubble' burst; the Company was bankrupted and many investors ruined and the 'Système Law' unfortunately discredited. Law himself had foreseen the developments and had withdrawn funds from the French scheme to invest in the British South Sea affair which was being set up at that time. This 'bubble' also burst in 1720.</p><p>'Rarely does a single volume combine in itself so much economic interest. in neither of these countries France and England however did appear such a stout and extravagant piece as this Dutch volume' Cole p. 1.</p><p>Each copy of this work is unique. The number of plates varies from 60 to 90 though generally around 70 and the order of the text and the plates differs from copy to copy. The present copy has the regular plates 1-23 25 28 30-51 53-68 70 - 73 with 36 and 37 bound in twice in different places as well as the supplementary plates 1 2 4 and 5. This includes the very uncommon 'Register of all the prints' first issue with 47 prints listed and a further one added in ink and a fascinating portrait of Madame Law.</p><p>In addition to the vivid portrayals of the 'wind-trade' and stock market frenzy the double-page folding plate with playing cards known as Aprilkaart 65 and the Magic card 73 are particularly appealing. The special feature of this copy is the etched portrait of Madame Law but not with the usual richly decorated border of scrolls foliage fruits and flowers but surrounded by Callot style figures of dwarves. This border has been used on another print in the collection of de Koninklijke Bibliotheek Den Haag see BM 1868-0808-9693.</p><p>Arthur H. Cole The Great Mirror of Folly 1949; Sperling The South Sea Company 205; Kress 3217; Goldsmiths 5879; Sabin 28932; Lipperheide 3550; see Goetzmann et al The Great Mirror of Folly Finance Culture and the Crash of 1720 2013.</p>
