Description: Title: The Mississippi Bubble: a Memoir of John Law.Author: Adolphe Thiers.Translator: Frank S. Fiske.Publisher: James G. Gregory, New York.Publication Date: 1864Format: hardcover; blind stamped; gilt titles on spine.Length: 338 pagesSize: approximately 5 1/2" by 7 3/4"Description: Adolphe Thiers' (1797-1877) classic biography of the Scottish economist John Law (1671-1729), who served as Contrôleur Général des Finances of France during the regency of Louis XV. The Mississippi Company was a corporation holding a business monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies. In 1717, the Mississippi Company received a royal grant with exclusive trading rights for 25 years. The rise and fall of the company is connected with the activities of the Scottish financier and economist John Law. Though the company itself started to become profitable and remained solvent until the collapse of the bubble, when speculation in French financial circles and land development in the region became frenzied and detached from economic reality, the Mississippi bubble became one of the earliest examples of an economic bubble.”Provenance: According to an inscription on the first front-facing end paper, this book once belonged to Bruce T. McCully. McCully was a professor of history at the College of William and Mary from 1940-1974. His area of expertise and research was on Virginia Colonial Governor Francis Nicholson.Condition: The binding is intact, but there is weakness at the hinges and in the text block. The cover is faded, worn, bumped, and stained. The spine is faded and frayed at the top and bottom. The pages are darkly toned. Page 87 has a tear (see photo). There are occasional pen or pencil markings/notations.
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