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Antique Conchology Prints, Greenland Bivalves and Modiolaria Shells, 1842
£455 ($605, €540)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1842
- Size
- 21.7 × 14 in (55 × 35.5 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Condition report: Good impression with original hand coloring. Wide margins with light age toning and scattered foxing, mainly in the outer sheet, leaving the images clear and vibrant. Plate mark visible.
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Section
- Fish and shells
- Reference
- f_46526342
- Colour
- Hand coloured
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.
Two plates of Arctic shellfish from Paul Gaimard's Voyage en Islande et au Groenland, published in Paris in 1842, original hand-colored prints. They are sold as a pair of sheets: one lettered "Bivalve du Groënland" with the Linnaean name Astarte groenlandica, and one of various Modiolaria.
The first plate shows the Greenland cockle in several views, with small specimens in rows at the top, a shell with its fleshy foot extended in the middle, and the large paired valves, inside and out, at the bottom. The second plate arranges a series of Modiolaria species, including M. modiolus, M. discors, M. laevis and M. pisum, in rows by size, from the large mussel at the top to tiny specimens below, shown from several angles.
Gaimard's expedition of 1835 was sent to find the lost Arctic expedition of Jean de Blosseville and became a survey of Iceland and Greenland. The shell plates were drawn by Louis Bévalet and lithographed by J. Bernard in Paris.
