Antique Paleontology Print of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh, 1886

1886 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Paleontology Print of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh, 1886

Name: Antique Paleontology Print of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh, 1886
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12800-1-56
Price: 505 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1886
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 29 × 42.5 cm (11.4 × 16.7 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, original folding line. Minor wear and foxing, please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-12800-1-56

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

The skeleton of Dinoceras mirabile, an extinct genus of herbivorous mammal, an original lithograph from volume 10 of Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Othniel Charles Marsh's Dinocerata, published in 1886. The plate is printed in black on a large sheet, with the title "Dinoceras mirabile, Marsh" lettered beneath the figure and a plate number at the upper right.

The skeleton is drawn in side view, facing left. The broad, flat skull with its bony horns is carried low, the rib cage is drawn in outline with the individual ribs clearly separated, and the limbs end in short, broad feet. A faint ghost outline of the animal's body can be seen behind the bones. The draughtsman's name appears at the lower left and the lithographer's credit, New Haven, at the lower right.

Marsh was professor of paleontology at Yale, and Dinoceras belongs to the group of large Eocene mammals that he described from the western United States.

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