Antique Print of Caribbean Coral & Fossils - Geological Lithograph Pair, 1888

Name: Antique Print of Caribbean Coral & Fossils - Geological Lithograph Pair, 1888
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14171-1 & BG-14171-2
Price: 405 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1888
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 27.7 × 18.8 cm (10.9 × 7.4 in)
Condition: Good. Both plates are in very good original condition for their age. Light and even age toning to the paper throughout. Minor scattered foxing visible, primarily in the outer margins.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: The West Indies
Reference: BG-14171-1 & BG-14171-2

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Fossils and rock structures from the Dutch West Indies, a matched pair of original lithographed plates from Karl Martin's Bericht uber eine Reise nach Niederlandisch West-Indien, published at Leiden by E. J. Brill in 1888. The plates are headed "K. Martin, Niederlandisch West-Indien" and numbered "Tab. I" and "Tab. II", and they are printed in gray on a tinted ground.

Plate I shows numbered fossil specimens drawn at natural size: large pointed teeth, a curved fragment of bone, small teeth and shell-like forms, and a pair of ribbed bivalve shells at the lower right. Plate II shows fragments of coral and limestone with enlarged details of their internal structure, including honeycombed cells, concentric growth rings and fine grids, with some figures marked as magnified. The numbers beside each figure key the specimens to the text of the report.

Martin, a professor of geology at Leiden, traveled in the Dutch islands of the Caribbean and in Suriname, and his report was a scientific account of their geology. The plates are working illustrations of the material he collected, from the fossil-bearing limestones of the islands.

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