Set of 3 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh '1886'

1886 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Set of 3 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh '1886'

Name: Set of 3 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh '1886'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12800-1-36 +2
Price: 335 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-12800-1-36 +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 of the limb bones 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. The sheets are printed in gray-black on cream paper, each with its plate number at the upper corner.

All three are lettered "Dinoceras mirabile, Marsh" beneath the image. The first plate arranges small carpal and related bones in a grid of twelve views; the other two show the long, heavy metacarpals and phalanges, each bone drawn from several angles and numbered for reference in Marsh's text. Delicate stipple and hatching model the rough fossil surfaces.

The drawings are signed by the artist at the lower left and by the lithographer E. Crisand of New Haven at the lower right. Marsh's Dinocerata volume was one of the grandest illustrated works to come out of nineteenth-century American paleontology, and its plates remain highly regarded as scientific lithography.

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