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-12800-1-39 & BG-12800-1-54
Price: 225 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-12800-1-39 & BG-12800-1-54

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 phalanges 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 finger and toe bones are arranged in columns and rows of numbered figures, with the same bone drawn from several sides so that its shape can be compared. The small, blocky bones of the feet, from broad first phalanges to the small terminal ones, are shaded to show their surfaces. 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 plates of his monograph document the skeleton of Dinoceras bone by bone.

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