Confusion de Confusiones.

VEGA, Joseph de la.

$750.00

Item Number: 146553

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Printing Office, 1957.

Harvard Kress Library printing of this introduction of English readers of Joseph de la Vega’s ‘Confusion of Confusiones.’ Royal octavo, original wrappers with paper label, frontispiece of ‘Scene of Confusion,’ the interior of The Stock Exchange at Amsterdam as it looked in the seventeenth century. In very good condition with some rubbing.

Joseph de la Vega was a Sephardic Jewish merchant in diamonds, financial expert, moral philosopher and poet, residing in Amsterdam. Vega's work 'Confusion de Confusiones' was the first study written about the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and its participants, the shareholders, helping to lay the foundations for modern fields of technical analysis and behavioral finance.