Set of Two Antique Geological Cross-Section Chromolithographs, 1888

1888 · Views & Engravings

Set of Two Antique Geological Cross-Section Chromolithographs, 1888

Name: Set of Two Antique Geological Cross-Section Chromolithographs, 1888
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12867-25, -26
Price: 720 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1888
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 21.5 × 32 cm (8.5 × 12.6 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Good antique condition with age-related toning, occasional spotting, handling marks and minor marginal wear consistent with age. Plate I shows a vertical central fold and some light creasing and staining. Please examine the photographs carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-12867-25, -26

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

Two plates of geological cross-sections, original chromolithographs from "Naturgeschichte des Mineralreichs für Schule und Haus", published in 1888 by J. F. Schreiber at Esslingen near Stuttgart. The set is Plates I and II of the geology section, in the fourth improved edition of the work by Dr. Friedrich Rolle.

Plate I is an idealized section through a slice of the Earth's crust. Colored strata stack up in successive geological periods, folded and broken by faults, with intrusive masses and volcanic vents rising through them. A vertical sequence at the left accompanies the main diagram, and the key below is lettered in German.

Plate II groups eight smaller sections of named landscapes, each lettered with its own legend. They include the Harz, the Thuringian Forest, the Erzgebirge, the Riesengebirge, the Black Forest and the Eisack valley in South Tyrol, together with a north to south section of Vesuvius and a section across the land between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario at Niagara Falls.

Apart from the Niagara section, the subjects are European, so the pair is chiefly of interest for the history of geological teaching in the later nineteenth century.

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