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To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, is humbly offer'd a state of South-Sea stock, and a means to restore credit.
Date: 1720?]- Books
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A proposal for payment of the publick debts, For Relief of the South Sea Company, And for Easing the Nation of the Land and Malt Taxes. Founded On the Nature and Excellency of the Constitution of the Government of Great Britain. By Sir Humphrey Mackworth.
Mackworth, Humphrey, Sir, 1657-1727.Date: [1720]- Books
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A proposal for payment of the publick debts, For Relief of the South Sea Company, And for Easing the Nation of the Land and Malt Taxes. Founded On the Nature and Excellency of the Constitution of the Government of Great Britain. By Sir Humphrey Mackworth.
Mackworth, Humphrey, Sir, 1657-1727.Date: 1720- Books
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A proposal for payment of the publick debts, For Relief of the South Sea Company, And for Easing the Nation of the Land and Malt Taxes. Founded On the Nature and Excellency of the Constitution of the Government of Great Britain. By Sir Humphrey Mackworth.
Mackworth, Humphrey, Sir, 1657-1727.Date: [1720?]- Books
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A proposal for payment of the publick debts, For Relief of the South Sea Company, And for Easing the Nation of the Land and Malt Taxes. Founded On the Nature and Excellency of the Constitution of the Government of Great Britain. By Sir Humphrey Mackworth.
Mackworth, Humphrey, Sir, 1657-1727.Date: [1720]- Books
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Sir Humphry Macworth's proposal: Being a New Scheme offer'd For the Payment of the Publick Debts, for Relief of the South-Sea Company, and for easing the Nation of the Land and Malt Tax. Founded On the Nature and Excellency of the Constitution of the Government of Great Britain.
Mackworth, Humphrey, Sir, 1657-1727.Date: [1720?]- Books
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A dialogue: or, a familiar discourse, concerning Sir Humphry Mackworth's proposal for payment of the publick debts, for relief of the South-Sea Company, and for Easing the Nation of the Land and Malt Taxes, founded on the Nature and Excellency of the Constitution of the Government of Great-Britain. Between a noble lord, an old member of Parliament, an Eminent Merchant, a Learned Lawyer, a Country Gentleman, a Master Weaver, a notable Broker, all met together Accidentally on Purpose in Exchange-Alley; and occasioned by the Hawkers coming among them with the following Cry, Here is a New Proposal, a New Scheme, for Payment of Publick Debts, for Relief of the South-Sea Company, &c.
M. C.Date: [1720]- Books
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Dr. Houstoun's memoirs of his own life-time. Containing, among other curious particulars, during upwards of thirty years travels, an account of I. The Scotch settlement at Darien. II. The great Advantages accruing to Great Britain from an Incorporated Union of the Whole Island. III. The Rise and Progress of the Royal African and Assiente Companies. IV. The Rise and Fall of the grand South Sea Bubble, &c. in 1720. V. The Conduct of the Spaniards, and Manner of their Trade in the West Indies. VI. The secret Expedition thither in 1740. Vii. Some Anecdotes of the Government of Jamaica, with the Characteristicks of its Inhabitants. Viii. The Importance of Cape-Breton to the British Nation. IX. An Essay on Genius and Education. Collected from the Author's Original Manuscripts, and Publish'd by Jacob Bickerstaff, M. A.
Houstoun, James, approximately 1690-Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Pictures
A personification of the South Sea Company, with people showing the effects of its collapse. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812068iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The performance of a play representing the Dutch share price boom of 1720: Bombario blows bubbles before Princess Quinquenpoix. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812285iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
John Law, the author of the financial crisis of 1720, rides in a triumphal chariot before the "sentinel of the Mississippi". Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812311iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
People ruined by the Dutch financial crisis of 1720 enter the city of Vianen. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812341iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
People ruined by the Dutch financial crisis of 1720 go by carriage to the cities of Vianen and Culemborg to seek refuge from creditors. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812368iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Death as an allegory of the Dutch financial crisis of 1720-1721. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720]Reference: 816096iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The tribulations of investors in the Dutch share boom of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812466iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
John Law as Don Quixote with Bombario as Sancho Panza. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812234iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The English coffee house in Amsterdam, with people trading shares; with vignettes showing the rise and fall of the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812076iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Investors in the Dutch share boom of 1720 are incited by Jupiter, judged by Apollo, punished by Hercules, and deported to Hades. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812445iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
John Law, the instigator of the Dutch share boom of 1720, lies collapsed with his head in the lap of 'Madame Compagnie' (the Mississippi Company). Etching by and after Philibert (Filibert) Bouttats, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812497iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Bombario riding on a pig, representing deformity of trade in the Dutch share boom of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 814376iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The map of an island in the form of a fool's head; representing the Dutch financial crisis of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 814545iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Bombario as Aesop mocks monkeys eating cabbage, who represent investors in the Dutch share boom of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 814377iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A portrait of John Law ("Mr Quinquenpoix") is crowned by a fool and attended by figures representing aspects of the Dutch share boom of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 2535481iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The English coffee house in Amsterdam: dealers conversing and raving during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811589iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The Old Exchange in Amsterdam: dealers offer share certificates for sale during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811510iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.