15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 56
 

56

MacKay, Charles Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. Richard Bentley, 1841. 8vo (3...

MacKay, Charles
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. Richard Bentley, 1841. 8vo (3 vols). Half leather over marbled boards by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle; 4 plates (lacking plate of John Law, that of Paracelsus bound in its place suggesting it was lost at point of binding, also lacking half-titles). First edition.
Mackay's still popular work on the epidemic nature of crowd psychology. With chapters on tulipomania, the South Sea Bubble, witch-mania and alchemy this engaging and lively account of history's greatest acts of delusion is still depressingly relevant.

Sold for £750
Estimated at £300 - £500


 

. Binding scuffed and rubbed, some variable toning, spotting, foxing etc internally but very good bar lacking plate.

 


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