Set of 2 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh '1886'

1886 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Set of 2 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh '1886'

Name: Set of 2 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh '1886'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12800-1-8 & BG-12800-1-9
Price: 280 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1886
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 29 × 23 cm (11.4 × 9.1 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear and foxing, please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-12800-1-8 & BG-12800-1-9

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 the molars, lower jaw and teeth of Dinoceras mirabile, an extinct genus of herbivorous mammal, original lithographs from volume 10 of Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Othniel Charles Marsh's Dinocerata, published in 1886. Each plate is printed in black on a cream sheet and lettered "Dinoceras mirabile, Marsh" beneath the figures, with a plate number at the upper right.

The first plate shows a row of teeth in side view, with the crowns of the upper molars set out below in two parallel rows seen from the chewing surface. The second plate shows rows of molars from above and from the side, and the lower jaw in profile, with its rising hinge at the right and the toothrow set along the upper edge. Each figure is numbered, and the shading brings out the cusps and ridges of the crowns. 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 the teeth were central to his study of the order.

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