Antique Paleontology Print of the Teeth of a Dinoceras Lucare by Marsh

1886 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Antique Paleontology Print of the Teeth of a Dinoceras Lucare by Marsh

Name: Antique Paleontology Print of the Teeth of a Dinoceras Lucare by Marsh
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12800-1-10
Price: 170 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1886
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 29 × 42 cm (11.4 × 16.5 in)
Condition: Fair. General age-related toning. Original folding line. Shows some creasing, mainly in upper left corner. Minor wear and foxing, please study images carefully.
Reference: BG-12800-1-10

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 teeth of Dinoceras lucare, a large extinct mammal from the Eocene, in a double-page original lithograph from Othniel Charles Marsh's monograph on the Dinocerata, volume 10 of the Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, published in 1886. The sheet is printed in gray-black on cream paper, with "Plate IX" at the upper right and the lettering "Dinoceras lucare, Marsh" below the image.

The composition is dramatic. At the left the great curved upper canine, drawn at full size, sweeps down from a fragment of the jaw; to the right the upper cheek teeth are shown from the side, and beneath them a row of lower molars is drawn from above, their folded grinding surfaces and the surrounding bone modeled in fine stipple. Small letters mark the features named in the text.

The artist is credited at the lower left and the lithographer, E. Crisand of New Haven, at the lower right. The sheet carries a central vertical fold where it was bound into the volume.

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