Thiers, Adolphe
Author of The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir Of John Law. To Which Are Added, Authentic Accounts Of The Darien Expedition, And The South Sea Scheme, 1864.
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1864The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir Of John Law. To Which Are Added, Authentic Accounts Of The Darien Expedition, And The South Sea Scheme
Thiers, Adolphe. THE MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE: A MEMOIR OF JOHN LAW. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, AUTHENTIC ACCOUNTS OF THE DARIEN EXPEDITION, AND THE SOUTH SEA SCHEME. Translated and edited by Frank S. Fiske. New York: James G. Gregory, 1864. 12mo, original green pebbled cloth, gilt. 338 pages. Very good or better. The English translation of Thiers’s 1826 biography and analysis of Law and the schemes he developed in promotion of his economic theories. Scarce. Ex Charles H. Bell Library, with his bookplate; later in the library of the New Hampshire Historical Society, also with their bookplate.
