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-12800-1-42 & BG-12800-1-43
Price: 335 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1886
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 29 × 40 cm (11.4 × 15.7 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Original folding lines. Minor wear and foxing, please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-12800-1-42 & BG-12800-1-43

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

A set of two original lithograph plates of the pelvis of Dinoceras mirabile, an extinct herbivorous mammal, from Othniel Charles Marsh's monograph on the Dinocerata, volume 10 of the Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, published in 1886. Both are printed in gray-black on cream paper, lettered "Dinoceras mirabile, Marsh" beneath the image, and are double-page plates with a central fold.

The first sheet shows the pelvis in two views, with the sacrum and the broad flaring blades of the ilia seen from above and from the front. The second is a more complete study: the pelvic girdle seen head on with its large open ring, a separate view of the sacral vertebrae at the top, and the two hip bones drawn singly in side view at the left and right. Small reference letters mark the anatomical features discussed in Marsh's text.

The artist is named at the lower left and the lithographer, E. Crisand of New Haven, at the lower right. The plates are typical of the high standard of illustration in Marsh's monograph.

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