4 Tulip mania

‘Semper Augustus,’ a tulip painted by Jacob Isaacsz van Swanenburch of Leiden (1571-1638), one of Rembrandt’s first teachers in the 1620s. This 116-page catalogue was used in the tulip speculation mania that swept the Netherlands at the end of 1636. Just before the crash of 1929, Posthumus wrote that the tulip mania closely resembled the modern economic boom: increased money supply, new economic and colonial opportunities, and a brilliant and energetic class of merchants.

Book of tulips
Jacob Isaacsz van Swanenburch (122 drawings) and Adriaen Jansz. van Witvelt (ca 1581-1638), 16 drawings
Book of 116 sheets, held together in a 19th century binding, 30 x 20

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