Set of 3 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Laticeps by Marsh, 1886

1886 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Set of 3 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Laticeps by Marsh, 1886

Name: Set of 3 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Laticeps by Marsh, 1886
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12800-1-11 +2
Price: 335 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1886
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 23 × 29 cm (9.1 × 11.4 in)
Condition: Fair. General age-related toning. Shows some creasing, mainly in upper left corner. Minor wear and foxing, please study images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-12800-1-11 +2

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 three original lithograph plates showing the skull of Dinoceras laticeps, an extinct horned 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. The plates are printed in gray-black on cream paper, lettered "Dinoceras laticeps, Marsh" below the image, with the sheets turned to a landscape format.

The first plate shows the skull in profile, with the high crest and the heavy bony protuberances of the head, and the second the skull seen from above, its broad flat roof and rough surfaces carefully shaded. The third combines a smaller side view of the skull with a larger view from above, including individual bones and horn cores drawn separately in fine line.

The lithographer and artist are named at the lower corners of the sheets. Marsh's monograph on the Dinocerata is counted among the best illustrated American scientific works of its century, and its lithographs show the strange anatomy of these animals with great clarity.

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